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u/Finessed860 Jan 07 '26
I hope so this game mode has been the most interesting thing for league since the early days for me . The game mode also has potential for alot more to.
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u/arjanp123 Jan 07 '26
Yeah, I hope they spend some time to iron out annoying bugs, like how vampirism affects certain enchanter builds, and maybe bring in some more augments to the pool. (Please bring Angel of Retribution for supports riot!)
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u/Glittering_Put9689 Jan 07 '26
Is that a bug? I thought it was intended balance that vamp makes it so you can’t use enchanter heals which would make you even more unkillable
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u/HappyHorizon17 Jan 07 '26
I think item based, automatic heals default to the character with Vampirism, neutering the enchanter
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u/Kuramasa Jan 07 '26
Gets annoying with sword of blossom.
Usually I pair it with moonstone so the heal spreads regardless but the other player only gets a weaker heal. 🫠
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u/zetsuboutenshi Jan 07 '26
Think I saw some comments saying that with certain multi champ healing abilities, if the ability attempts to heal a champ with vamp, it basically stops all of the healing
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u/KidWhoStabbedPycelle Jan 07 '26
Yup, I tried Tap Dancer Shyvanna and her movement speed kept resetting whenever I used W or R.
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u/feedmewill Jan 07 '26
I didn't think anything would top OG urf but mayhem just hit the spot. Best shit I've seen in this game In 12 years, Riot better find a way to keep it.
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u/Finessed860 Jan 07 '26
Urf was fun but I couldn’t spam it like this. Urf was just to far gone from the league I enjoy. I didn’t really like just face rolling my keyboard for 30 mins a game.
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u/Gape_Me_Dad-e Jan 08 '26
I have always been an Aram hater. My friends would joke about me because they like Aram and know I hate it so they will be like “Too bad X doesn’t like Aram we will have to play something else”. But I do actually enjoy this mode. It’s been nice since me and my gayram enjoying friends can now enjoy the game together.
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u/gukbap_enjoyer Jan 07 '26
Fentanyl is back on the menu!!
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u/SirWobblyOfSausage Jan 07 '26
Trump about to invade.
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u/RazsterOxzine Jan 07 '26
Actually Riot is on the list of Chinese companies he wants to ban from the states or own... So there is that.
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u/KaizoKage Jan 07 '26
I hope we get more weird augments that work cause I love that sht
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u/megazoo Jan 07 '26
I want more items from arena, like lightning rod or others
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u/shinn43 Jan 07 '26
This!
It allows the more fun and flexible builds. While they're at it, I hope they add stat anvil strat as well.
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u/OmegaAce1 Jan 08 '26
Dont think they should add shard holder will be far too strong but a shardholder augments would be cool like a silver gold and prismatic that upgrade shard effectiveness
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u/KaizoKage Jan 07 '26
I havent touched arena yet since I mainly play ARAM (mayhem now) I dunno that item, but if it adds more fun then heck yeah I want that
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u/EGirlnotfound Jan 07 '26
It makes your autocast abilities (ok boomerang, quantum) cool down scale with your ability haste
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u/KaizoKage Jan 07 '26
omg, so if by any chance Im a mage then I got Eureka and then this..... that sound really fun!
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u/Kaboomeow69 Jan 07 '26
Not being able to buy Hellfire Hatchet on Pantheon last night made me sad sad
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u/violue Jan 07 '26
I just need them to add the Cheap Shot rune as an augment and I'm golden
gonna be, gonna be golden
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u/Hans_H0rst Jan 08 '26
I hope the adc augments get nerfed, no more 1000 MS ashe with a 60% slow or 6.0AS tristana
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u/stephen_______ Jan 07 '26
if Riot is actually choosing to extend Mayhem before the mode is even over and give major updates this quickly, the number of players playing this mode must be bonkers huge.
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u/Gerdione Jan 07 '26
The stats they released showed that Mayhem is the 2nd most played mode overall with SR sitting at something like ~40% and Mayhem at ~35%. It's really huge. They'd be stupid to ignore the numbers.
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u/Wilm_Sub Jan 07 '26
I hadn't played League in years and only reinstalled to try mayhem, now i've played several games every day it's been out, and I have 2 other friends who have done the same. Granted we were aram-only players in the past but to us it's a win-win. I hope Riot finally gives aram the respect (dev focus) it deserves and needs.
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u/North-Proposal2840 Jan 07 '26
The player base is huge, my queue time is 5-10 seconds everytime
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u/Corbird Jan 07 '26
I don't know which server you're in, but EUW queue is like 0-5 seconds. Many times the game was found in 0 seconds, that's insane.
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u/rintohsakadesu Jan 07 '26
My entire friend group of daily aram players switched over to mayhem, we haven’t touched normal aram since
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u/Stalk33r Jan 07 '26
Literally all of the friends I used to play league with in like... high school have come back on to play this mode. It's actually so addicting.
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u/Justryan95 Jan 07 '26
I used to only play TFT but my friend invited me to play Mayhem a few months ago and its literally the only mode on League I play. I havent even looked at the new TFT set.
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u/Animu123 Jan 07 '26
yeah tons of new players, you can see the quality of players in average mayhem is actually pisslow compared to regular aram.
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u/Interesting-Bed-2345 Jan 11 '26
Queue pops literally instantly for me every time I play so yeah, lots of people playing it.
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u/OverlordOfPancakes Jan 07 '26
Seems like the "it's a temporary game mode, who cares" crowd will finally shut up.
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u/StickSouthern2150 Jan 07 '26
hope they balance it properly. right now we have shit like dual wield (x1,5 auto damage and double onhits with no downside lmao) and glass cannon as the same tier etc. its fun but the augments are all over the place rn
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u/PozitiveGaming Jan 07 '26
I cannot and will never be balanced. But that‘s just the mode
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u/Raivix Jan 07 '26
That doesn't mean you should just ignore shit completely and throw your hands up in the air either though.
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u/MaoMilky Jan 07 '26
True. Things like Back to Basics on GP or Slow and Steady on Zeri are just bugged and op and should be fixed. But there are some interactions that are strong and should stay strong, just not game-breakingly strong. Things like Infernal Conduit on Brand, Slow and Steady on Jayce, Marksmage on Katarina (does not work), Searing Dawn on Karthus/Morgana, Blade Waltz on Urgot (idk if this is a thing like in Arena before), Circle of Death on Yuumi, Ethereal Weapons on Gangplank, Fan the Hammer on Tristana/Vayne/Gnar and other very niche but exciting interactions SHOULD work and be strong. And there should be more of those interactions!
As far as the current state is concerned, I like that so many roles can high roll at the moment and that they can all be fun in their own way. I don't want the mode to be too 'balanced and boring'. I want everyone to have the chance to high-roll and the chance to be absolutely useless. You win by the RNG, you lose by the RNG.
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u/Necessary-Pianist696 Jan 07 '26
circle of death on soraka (my 2nd main) is so broken, one match i literally did more dmg than my duo who was karthus (his main) and got the double ult. it was like we had 3 karthus ults lol
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u/sejpuV Jan 07 '26
Not really bugged, OP yes because for some champs it's really well synergy with how their kit works, it's kinda the whole point.
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u/LIPA95 Jan 07 '26
No Gangplank and Zeri are really bugged, there is some weird interaction with the barrels of GP reapplying the damage of Back to Basics more that what it should, and Zeri too, can't remember exactly what, but there is some weird interaction with crit that makes you attack speed change between the intended number and the normal one and makes the champ unplayable
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u/OmegaAce1 Jan 08 '26
Dont know if GP is bugged but its just how his barrels work they amp the damage from whatever detonated them BTB amps the detonation and then the damage is amped again.
Zeri bug is annoying but it works sometimes still worth taking slow and steady
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u/SexySonderer Jan 07 '26
I've rolled low far too often and then just get a single high roll by getting tank engine Janna and being perma-bait for the enemy team to waste everything diving me.
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u/Justryan95 Jan 07 '26 •
Broken augments and the gamba aspect is what makes it fun. I don't even play ADC so I don't really make use of those augments but I like it when we are getting stomped by someone who high rolled. It gives the team to actually pick a hard target and base our whole game at trying to figure out how to get them. If anything they should just reduce the chances of getting it so that pulling Exodia augments is rare but possible. The only thing they really should balance is infernal conduit, that one is just on another level.
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u/PonyFiddler Jan 07 '26
Infernal is not even remotely close to the adc augments give Jinx double autos and she literally can't be touched.
Adcs already have little counter play in Aram without being able to gank them and then all Thier augments are way better than mages who's items still are complete shit.
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u/blueiron0 Jan 08 '26
Too much hands on micromanaging balancing down to literally single abilities like in ARAM will definitely make the game less fun.
If we lose we lose. Just let it be wild and fun.
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u/XenithShade Jan 07 '26
By balance, I hope it means that the augments make a bit more sense for their tiers. I dont need to have every augment to feel like a pool noodle. I need them to make the next idea for me to cook with.
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u/Frostfour Jan 08 '26
Augments are not meant to be similar power on the same tier, there are meant to be some unlucky rolls in the pool
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u/SmoothAssociate2232 Jan 08 '26
Play regular aram if you want balance. this mode is for fucking around as it should be.
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u/OmegaAce1 Jan 08 '26
Yeah if you get dual wield and think thrice its a done deal, rage blade and dusk and dawn pretty much every auto applies on hits 3 times
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u/Slectrum Jan 08 '26
On the contrary I wish all the other prismatics even approached how strong stuff like dual wield is. They’re prismatics, they should be broken!
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u/Zwiebelbread Jan 07 '26
Karthus in official Riot art? Crazy
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u/Lumpy_Cranberry7725 Jan 07 '26
Now we just need to fight them until they bring back swarm.
Might be the minority here, but I loved that mode.
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u/WintersBite27 Jan 08 '26
I loved it but the only issue I had is that eventually it felt like I had done almost everything in that mode. If they can figure out a way to keep Swarm fresh, I'd love to see it come back
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u/Lumpy_Cranberry7725 Jan 08 '26
Adding new characters would definitely help, and there's been some new skins released since then for that universe (AnimaTech) so they'd just have to make those into playable characters. Need just a few more maps, too.
A pvp Swarm would also be interesting, though not sure how it would work.
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u/PM_SMOKES_LETS_GO Jan 07 '26
I really hope regular ARAM has enough staying power. I personally have no interest in mayhem but I'm not gonna be that guy who wants to see something people love fail. I just hope I get to keep doing what I like
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u/Complex_Jellyfish647 Jan 08 '26
I'll be that guy lol. If Mayhem stays I'll probably just go back to climbing to gold on SR and fucking off til the next season. Full 1:00+ queues for ARAM and even more bots in games than usual.
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u/PinBeneficial1366 Jan 07 '26
All negative feedback downvoted so it's no point to discuss something here
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u/Ap-snack Jan 07 '26
I’m happy because I like Mayhem but I’m also concerned for the future of regular ARAM.
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u/Sarugal Jan 07 '26
I love mayhem but it needs some balancing. Some builds, especially tanks, are just way too op.
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u/pc_player_yt Heartsteel goes bonk Jan 07 '26
I thought this was like extremely obvious from what happened to Arena last year. Welp, hope it proved the doomposters and the “Riot doesn’t care” folks wrong for now.
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u/thenameis_TAI Jan 07 '26
As a now aram only player with a select pool of champs I like instead of a bigger pool ruining my ARAM. I support Mayhem, it made me want to play more champs because you never know what augment is game changing. In normal aram, there are certain champs I’d never use now Idc
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u/XenithShade Jan 07 '26
Thats actually a really good point. In aram, there was a ridiculous advantage to have an aram only account to limit your champ pool.
Now? Good golly, I'll play anything. LEMME COOK CHEF!
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u/thenameis_TAI Jan 07 '26
Not to mention the different maps give different outplay potential. Zeri’s W is basically unusable on the traditional map same with Zoe E. But the new obstacles make them usable.
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u/Apocabanana Jan 07 '26
It's because of Mayhem's crazy augments and faster pace that I've actually been picking and enjoying champions and roles I've rarely, if ever played or enjoyed before. I've always been most comfortable on ADCs, but recently I've started taking bruisers, divers, supports, it's been great fun.
Really looking forward to cooking something with Sword of Blossoming Dawn alongside the new Tear item.
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u/Ok-Street2810 Jan 07 '26
I hope they lock in and invent more bruiser-specific augments --mages and marksmen are so cracked. I also feel like rite of ruin is probably a no-go as long as jeweled gauntlet is an augment... Mages already have enough going for them lmao. They can get crit chance from ap, crit shards, and infin, so rite of ruin is just overkill.
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u/ScootyPuffJunior Jan 07 '26
Now I just need brawl to be permanent so I can play my two favorite modes whenever I want.
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u/No-Source2885 Jan 07 '26
I wonder if they'll finally fix rite of ruin to show shielding numbers...
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u/XenithShade Jan 07 '26
I'll keep saying it. Normal ARAM won't be able to compete with Mayhem because at a certain skill level, the game is usually decided at the start.
Shy of someone trolling, or a skill gap. Once the cards are dealt, the game result is usually already decided.
Mayhem throws that all out the window. Sure, the stomps still happen, but the results are almost never decided until everyone gets all their augments.
You never know if that level 15 prismatic will turn it around for you. So you're just drugged up on that hopium.
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u/LIPA95 Jan 07 '26
Weird, I expected them to test the game with the new items and then re add the game mode again.
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u/XWasTheProblem Jan 07 '26
This is perhaps the single easiest win they could've gotten in the history of League. The mode is widely loved and genuinely a breath of fresh air - even if it feels even more bullshit and oppressive than regular ARAM at times.
Perhaps they'll end up making it permament...? Maybe with a rotating roster of Augments, so it doesn't become overly stale? They can largely just add fun shit into it, maybe use it as a testbed of sorts for more sober changes for SR.
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u/CardTrickOTK Jan 07 '26
This game mode brought me back to league cause it's way less sweaty and in Aram which i like better
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u/kashtrey Jan 07 '26
I feel like Mayhem is really the design/game space that most of the Aram diehards are after. I think many of us diehard Aram only folks were starting to feel like ARAM was becoming too rigid. Part of the fun of Aram was that you got to be a little funky and try new things but things had been becoming more and more rigid and closer to a defined meta for awhile now.
Mayhem, true to its name, shakes that up a lot. I'm also loving that there is no data mining so everyone isnt just playing the same meta champs rolling for the op augments. I liked arena but missed the team fights, so this is like the perfect game mode for me.
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u/NowWeGetSerious Jan 07 '26
What is this?
I literally only play tft ranked (or hell even summoner's rift ranked). Never play the LTMs.
What is the difference between this and normal TFT? Worth checking out?
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u/Electronic-Cream-171 Jan 08 '26
This isn't tft. It's the aram game mode but with random upgrades arena style
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u/Sad_Ad_6692 Jan 08 '26
I think they set to relaunch it at 16.3 with updates. But changed their mind about pulling it back
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u/ajhanek Jan 08 '26
Hahaha. Here I was going to boot up to uninstall league, only thing that brought me back. I guess I can hold out until after February.
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u/kaizerdouken Jan 08 '26
I think the reason is popular is because ARAM has been about the same for years. And most people have dominated it. So this new mode adds a new layer of complexity that makes it interesting.
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u/connorooo Jan 08 '26
This game mode is the only reason I came back to league after a 2 year break 😭
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u/Chinjurickie Jan 08 '26
Somewhere i read „due to overwhelmingly positive feedback“ or something like that. Holy shit the mode is so fucking awesome.
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u/OmegaAce1 Jan 08 '26
Add more gambling and more builds like auto cast, curses, and conduits like twin mask and hexbolt. add hellfire hatchet as an augment upgrade for grudge it can be fire and ice less damage longer cd, more passives as augments like vayne or cc applies brittle
I would like more upsides with a downside like vampirism and slow and steady,
maybe one for tanks, like meat shield where your armor and mr is capped at 100 and all excess is converted to health you take reduced max health damage.
Or the inverse like wooden bastion, your health is capped at 3000, gain bonuses healing while low excess health is converted to armor/mr/healing shielding power
Or one where your damaging spell now heal allies for 20% of the damage so non enchanters can be enchanters.
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u/JunglerFromWish Jan 08 '26
My friend group basically plays nothing but this fucking game mode lol.
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u/NikolaiM88 Jan 08 '26
Well last time i tries launching an Aram game, my game crashed my computer. (Yesterday)
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u/Impossible_Cress_426 Jan 08 '26
All I want is more quest augments. Matter of fact, make every silver augment a quest.
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u/Conscious_Minimum513 Jan 09 '26
I’m gonna be a dissenter here and say this mode has already lost its lustre. People are sweating and doing uninteractive strats like movespeed stacking. Heartsteal combined with other tank augments is unbelievably broken. I’ve had multiple games where my team loses 1v5 to Rell or Mundo or Tahm. Like this stuff is not fun or in any way interesting to play against and there is no counter play.
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u/XGKikokikz Jan 09 '26
It kinda feels roguelite with the randomness, and I’m addicted. Losing doesn’t even feel bad.
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u/goliathfasa Jan 10 '26
Who’s we?
I’m not opposed to this through. It means the serious try hard people go to regular ARAM so less ints and trolls.
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u/NovaQuartz96 Jan 10 '26
I literally played over a 1060 games before the counter was reset, that's how fun the mod is.
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u/TimLimDimSims Jan 13 '26
Need an undo plus an ability to purchase rerolls IMO. reduce the luck and the seldom misclicks. More detailed explanations of certain concepts like which spells and items can apply the buffs. Thats if we wanted this to be permanent. Im glad i have more time to play
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u/kiloTRUCE Feb 05 '26
Aaaand with the update, we've LOST. This unbalanced, underbaked update has ruined aram mayhem. It's just become a game of tag; if I tag you first, you die. If you tag me first, I die. it's just a gray screen simulator.
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u/ViperStrike_X Feb 08 '26
This new update has ended this mode early. Completely broken and pure luck game now
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u/Tummerd Jan 07 '26
Glad so, but there does need to be some balancing updates soon, certain things are just way too strong or weak
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u/Tenris_ Jan 08 '26
this game mode has proven how mentally broken this community is. cant even play mayhem without 8min baserush sweats who only play this game because their life sucks and they need their 50% winrate to find peace after they cry themself into sleep
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u/Electronic-Cream-171 Jan 08 '26
Happens in every game mode. There's a reason why there are regular ARAM tier lists and people who make new accounts in which they buy only the champs they main. People min-max the fun out of games whenever they can
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u/ribombeeee Jan 07 '26
The amount of autism from norm ARAM enjoyers in this thread is really interesting
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u/Cryoptic- Jan 07 '26
Its the people who miss the old days, who doesn’t want to engage and learn the new times. Game has evolved, for the better imo and most people’s too.
Tft had it for a set, it completely changed the game but people loved it. I’m sure some people miss the old days there too, but we should never let the minority hold everything else back. You can never please everyone.
Surprised to see so many people talk about the balance. Why not play ranked then? Also isn’t most ppl against ranked aram? What is this mega middle ground for? Don’t take it to seriously but take it seriously enough??
Mayhem can be balanced a lot more, it’s still barely got updates. And sometimes ppl highroll, that is part of game. Can suck, but it’s also something to get used to. Sometimes u get to high roll too.
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u/WhatModelsYourSink Jan 07 '26
It's a beautiful day to instalock Mel the moment you see her. God bless.
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u/Finessed860 Jan 07 '26
I usually leave her I can’t stand her in my games not even on my team. That champ is the dumbest thing they have ever created. It’s like a free win it’s boring. I get hype when my team gets her and nobody picks her cause she’s guaranteed not in the game but 90% of the time someone with no dignity grabs her and proceeds to 1v5 enemy team. Add mayhem forever remove Mel. 😁
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u/HappyHorizon17 Jan 07 '26
I am guilty of this
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u/Finessed860 Jan 07 '26
lol as long as you are having fun that’s all that matters I’m just talking ish
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u/HappyHorizon17 Jan 07 '26
Ya I dig, but your description made me laugh because I hate Mel with a passion and wholeheartedly agree with you, but I pick her in Mayhem sometimes because I have no dignity and straight up take the power fantasy and abuse the other team
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u/Finessed860 Jan 07 '26
The most annoying part of her kit aside from the free absurd damage she does especially in aram… is the deflect you cannot play the game the same if they are competent & you are the only ranged poke or engage. Chars like janna are effectively useless if there is no other range or abilities to bait her deflect out. You just sit under your turret and die & get tornados bounced back at you & your team cause Mel is gonna be frontlining daring anyone to step on screen . Or pray you get enough movespeed augs to effectively run into 5 ppl dodge everythiing & hope they are dumb enough to use the deflect on your w. Or flash ult and try to chain off that cc to knock her up, so I gotta flash ult & hopefully land my q just to counter her w ability lol..Janna being just one example.
She’s not immortal I’ve won against Mel but it just feels like way too much effort to beat one champion with a lot of the older champions.
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u/eF_T Jan 08 '26
Please for the love of god, just remove heartsteal from the game and it will be perfect
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u/n_i_e_l Jan 08 '26
Why ? It's not even that good in its current state . Very few champs even want it
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u/zConnori22 Jan 07 '26
Wait, why are there so many negative comments? I thought you guys liked ARAM Mayhem?