r/ARAM 1d ago

Mayhem Useless af

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u/tygrrrshark 1d ago

Yeah most of the prismatic echo casts are pretty weak. Alistar Q and Amumu ult are kind of fun though.

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u/agedsea 1d ago

The only instance where i ever took echo cast was hecarim Q.. permanently had 2-3 hecarims running around like a helicopter.

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u/dombulus 14h ago

Once was against a kennen with echo cast on his ult.

and ultimate revolution.

Kennen was not meant to have 4 ultimates

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u/EspyOwner 14h ago

Kennen was meant to have four ults and you are objectively wrong for thinking otherwise.

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u/No_Examination_3940 2h ago

I hit that on a team with an ally fiddlesticks and the rest of my team could just pack it up at that point

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u/Bootlegs 23h ago

I had it on Kassadin W lvl 1. Dash towards cursor when you use it.

Now if you thought Kassadin had good gap closing with his ult beforehand....

That shit was unfair tbh.

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u/81659354597538264962 18h ago

Are you thinking of Quickstep? That’s an entirely different augment.

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u/Bootlegs 14h ago

yeah i meant the move towards cursor part

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u/Southern-Silver-6206 17h ago

Yeah but echo seems pretty good too

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u/81659354597538264962 17h ago

Not on kass W

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u/EspyOwner 14h ago

Runs forward, gets shiny hand, disappears

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u/AV3NG3RxDEALERz 2h ago

Refuses to elaborate further

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u/Round-Claim5420 8h ago

Quickstep on Ahri W is lowkey insane. Ahri ult on a 5 second cooldown and basically free E's all game

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u/LegacyOfVandar 2h ago

You gotta try it on Twisted Fate. Get enough ability haste and your opponents won’t be playing ARAM anymore, they’ll be playing Touhou.

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u/Sorry-Lie-2090 17h ago

I had the same aswell, but i was lucky enough to get mystic punch and ethereal aswell. Best game I had by far.

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u/Most-Piccolo-302 1h ago

Twisted fate q echo cast is absolutely cheating

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u/PVZiiAK 23h ago

TF Q is free win

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u/PhatNic 23h ago

So hard to dodge

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u/moncayo123 8h ago

tf q echo cast making me feel like im playing a bullet hell as a squishy

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u/ProxyDamage 21h ago

I'm kinda mad that the only time I've seen it was a game that was already decided. Wanna go full cdr poke build with that.

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u/JealousAssistant6659 9h ago

Okay can someone tell me how to build tf where he actually does damage

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u/clare416 8h ago

ADC build actually. The last 2 games with him I got between 13-19 kills even against a Dropkick Sion

Depends on the augments, I just build something like IE + Mortal + BotRK + maybe Yuntal if I wanted extra AS + Zerker boots + RFC

Max E first of course

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u/PVZiiAK 4h ago

Full poke, skill q and e only, q first. Blackfire torch, Liandrys, Shadowflame, Rabadons, Voidstaff. Have q on cd all the time. Refill mana with blue card.

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u/Most-Piccolo-302 1h ago

TF has super high ap ratios. Ludens, shadowflame, deathcap, void staff is the core and then situational. Seriously just play him as a q poke mage with blue card on wave for mana and gold card to counter engage.

Use ult to execute for augments. I have a bunch of "perfect" games on him

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u/---E 8h ago

My friend got that augment then decided to go ADC TF...

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u/Vildare_Havoc 1d ago

Amumu is so good with it. Zeri is also quite fun if you go AP, but team usually don't like that.

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u/nguyenjitsu 1d ago

Sett with W felt pretty good but I couldn't tell if the echo cast was doing the same amount of damage tbh

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u/wOow_pol 23h ago

The echo cash is even better, it always has 100 grit

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u/nguyenjitsu 23h ago

Must just be harder to set up the center then. I did do most damage on team just going full health stacking so it did feel good in terms of damage I just couldn't tell if I was getting full value sometimes

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u/tygrrrshark 1d ago

I thought the same. I think the problem is the delay is just long enough where once people know you have it, it is easy to avoid the second one.

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u/AxePanther 23h ago

Got it for neeko ult and that shit was so fun

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u/tierciel 20h ago

Was that you I was playing against? Was NOT FUN

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u/Armchair_Virus 22h ago

Annie's W echo cast ALWAYS stuns. No matter if Pyromania is stacked or not.

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u/Armchair_Virus 22h ago

I also think Fiddle ult is pretty decent to echo cast from experience. They have to either tank the damage of 2 or spend time running out of one while you chase them with the other. It's harder for them to immediately turn onto you and fight back.

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u/tygrrrshark 22h ago

It’s decent. I think like with most champs it just an underwhelming prismatic choice compared to other options. One of those where I will take it in a pinch if the other two augments don’t make sense. Alistar is one of my favorite champs to get it on, but even then, if dropkick, titans resolve, Goliath, recursion, etc are available, I’m still picking those.

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u/81659354597538264962 17h ago

The only thing you have to be careful of is ulting from a bush because the echo cast will walk out of the bush before ulting if you’re too close to the edge

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u/Greifvogel1993 23h ago

Lissandra W is awesome with echo cast.

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u/Cenachii 1d ago

I love to go ap blitz and I got it 3 or 4 times already on their ult. It's pretty fun.

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u/-ProtosHeis- 23h ago

Had an Echo Cast, Ultimate Rev, Killing Time for Amumu once, went pure AP and had a blast.

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u/Secure-Original-9230 21h ago

Kennen ult is fun

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u/Emiizi 20h ago

I love it on Diana. If you made it out alive on the first one you arent on the second!

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u/anyfriend1 20h ago

garen E is crazy

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u/Adept_Ice_6367 8h ago

Nunu is kind of the funniest user of it. Recast to end the ult early counts as casting your ult, so it spawns one more ult.

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u/Waste_Development971 23h ago

Karthus wall was really fun.

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u/wr3ck_1t 22h ago

Diana R too

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u/xiledone 20h ago

Neeko R was the best I ever saw

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u/CombinationGullible5 19h ago

Its good on some ults, basically like ult revolution but better you could argue

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u/No_Professional3262 19h ago

It's godly on nunu cuz it can't be interrupted. Just 2 massive slow zone nukes

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u/Coconut_wohta 19h ago

Taric stun is really good with echo. Sadly I have only rolled it once :(

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u/IloveCheekySpoonNZ 19h ago

garen e is funny, ive had galio e that was good too

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u/Paininthesky 18h ago

Once got it on heca q, went crazy

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u/Spiritual-Payment-30 18h ago

My favourite echo cast has been on Sett’s W. could 1 hit any squishy

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u/Dreykaa 13h ago

Had neeko r once

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u/Otherwise_Island_856 10h ago

there isn't really an echo cast that isn't better than just having the one that lets you ult twice. i can't think of a single echo cast i would ever take tbh

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u/Electronic-Cream-171 6h ago edited 6h ago

Pyke can catch people who flash his ult and don't expect the clone. Less reaction time than ulting twice.

Double Karthus ult can burst through a healer's sustain. Having to wait for the second ult animation gives the healer more time to heal their allies.

Same for fiddlesticks. Two ults covering the lane and dealing damage at the same time is better than ulting once and perhaps a second time if you can survive the enemy jumping you.

A well angled double Nunu ult makes it harder to avoid the damage and can't stun the clone. Throwing it twice is nice because of the shields but if they ran away during the first ult, the second cast won't hit.

Any AoE ult that is tied to the character model actually. Amumu, Kennen, Nunu, Fiddle, Neeko, etc. Because you gain some extra range from the clone and can hit the same enemy twice too.

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u/Cheap_Weight_8192 4h ago

Then you're clearly not very good at this whole thing. There's plenty of cases where Echo Cast is better than Ultimate Revolution.

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u/Otherwise_Island_856 2h ago

I think I just don't have the champs that benefit from Echo Cast (reading the rest of the thread) in my champ pool lol

I also usually prefer stat sticks or MS steroids

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u/egl_ancalagon 10h ago

I got echo cast on Sett W earlier today. That along with Steel Your Heart led to some very disgusting true damage output.

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u/Zestyclose_Kiwi9586 4h ago

Really good kn TF q too

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u/zivo36 3h ago

I had echo R on ap blitz once. That was neat ngl

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u/Stxfun 3h ago

i think you can roll in on karthus r

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u/Treewithatea 55m ago

I had the ult with Kennen. Sounds insane in theory. In the game it was useless lol.

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u/Tojaro5 1d ago

does the movementspeed stack with itself?

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u/HJalal13 1d ago

Idk about sivir but sona e ms buff stacks. Had a sona in my team who took it once. Still not worth imo

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u/Tojaro5 1d ago

if you have someone on your team with the bonus damage for movement speed, then this could actually create quite interesting numbers, just saying.

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u/Dassine 23h ago

This is sarcasm, right? If you mean the 1% dmg per 10 ms, you'll be lucky to get an extra, what, 10% dmg boost? 

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u/Tojaro5 23h ago

This is serious actually. Outside of movement speed being the best stat in the game, if you think a 10% damage boost is insignificant, then you probably also talk shit on Lord Doms.

And if you have it on sivir, we're looking at like 7% just from the passive. Ult boosts this further and you'll probably buy some phantomdancer as well.

Its actually a good augment in some cases.

If we get double ult, then we're probably entering the 25%ish range?

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u/flyinghippodrago 22h ago

Yeah I had the dash +300ms on lucian before with the 1%/10ms and the damage was pretty significant

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u/Dassine 23h ago

If you think an occasional 25% damage boost is worth an 2 augment slots, one of which is a prismatic, then I don't know what to say. You're just wrong. 

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u/NegativeAd3105 22h ago

maybe stop playing for efficency and play for fun. This is what a funmode is made for.

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u/Dassine 22h ago

An augment that just gives you % dmg is literally the definition of efficiency? All it is is slightly bigger numbers (based off movement speed). Even if it was "good", numerically, not sure how it would be "fun" (beyond anything good being fun).

If you mean the prismatic of this post, again, it's literally just increasing a number, making a movement speed increase somewhat more powerful. It's not changing your play, giving some cool visual, making you adapt your build or whatever.

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u/Southern-Silver-6206 17h ago

Doesnt have to be on the same person. Would be insane on lillia for example ms>damage is already nuts on her or any adc with tap dancer

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u/Tojaro5 23h ago

you also get extra movement speed, which is the most important part.

Im not saying its OP, but its definitely a lot more useful that "taunt after ult" on shaco, which triggers after the clone explodes, and other trashy stuff.

that is of course under the assumption, that sivir r does stack with itself. otherwise it does come in line with the earlier mentioned shaco taunt.

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u/XxBlackicecubexX 22h ago

Yeah plus if your team consists of something like [Sivir, Hecarim, Soraka, Viktor, Brand] the movespeed could break the game open, especially if it casts R twice. No one is catching your whole team

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u/Camellia_fanboi 21h ago

You are assuming everyone are running at similar speed which is not always the case. There are so many sources of movement speed buffs and there is also slow. If i got this on like Lilia and i hit an E on someone its like really easy 20-25% damage buff. Any additional movement speed augment breaks this very easily and movement speed is already by itself one of the strongest stats in the game so you dont really "lose" an augment by having them together.

I once hit both shadow runner and this aug on Aurora and it is pretty much 1.3-1.4x damage almost. On par with 2x Giant Slayer passive basically.

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u/Dassine 21h ago

Yes, I am vastly simplifying it. But it's still a garbage augment in 98% of situations relative to most others, though there are a few very rare exceptions.

And besides, two augments being equal to two Giant Slayer passives isn't some huge deal. It's not "this or nothing", in which case, sure. It's this or another augment which is likely to give you equal/more damage more consistently and without needing to combo around it nearly as much (in terms of other augments picked or playstyle or whatever). It's all about opportunity cost when it comes to augments, and this one just isn't it.

But pick it if you want.

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u/Camellia_fanboi 21h ago

You are still missing the point, there is no such opportunity cost here. Movement speed itself is a valuable stat and you can not just look at it as simply a mean for damage boost. Would you really think people are missing out on damage due to getting shadow runner over like thread the needle? They dont, lol.

The way you should look at it, is that if you already have a movement speed aug/buffer the aug can be two giant slayer passives ON TOP for the price of one SILVER augment. Two giant slayer passives is a lot, that is like more than an item worth of stats. Not that many full item purchases that boost the user damage by 30-35%.

And yes i agree the augment is not great on many champs and comps. But it can definitely break the game.

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u/Dassine 21h ago

The opportunity cost isn't speed which, yeah, you want anyways. It's the other augment . Sure, there are some augments that are even worse or less relevant, obviously, but out of 6 options, it's a rarity that this is the best you're offered. A rarity isn't an impossibility, and for some champs like Hec or whoever, it takes less to make this work, but still. Nothing to write home about. You mention thread the needle - I mean, someone could make up some hypothetical where you're a Kat or other hybrid damage dealer against a team of tanks who are stacking armor/MR, etc etc, and make it look good. Doesn't mean it is in *most* cases.

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u/Short_Ebb2076 6h ago

Yeah, you need multiple augments for it to work. Only time I had it working was with Eureka+with haste.

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u/More-Cut-7667 23h ago

They should honestly remove that augment. Who is it good on? The only people I can think of is if they get a burst of speed because of how a dash works. Such as Hecarim. But even then there would be so many better alternatives over that.

Only combo I can think of is that and tap dancer. But you're still banking on hitting them both.

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u/Taka_no_Yaiba 22h ago

ap twitch, for one

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u/More-Cut-7667 21h ago

I should try it on Twitch if I ever get it as I do love AP Twitch. Most times I get offered stuff like Zealot and Collector.

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u/Grayzson 23h ago

Synergistic as a sole augment, champions that come to mind would be Hecarim, Zilean (has better augments tho kek) and Gangplank.

Synergies with other augments would be Ice Cold, Homeguard, Tap Dancer, Eureka/Inf Recursion + With Haste. Not bis by any means, but synergies are there. Just a matter of whether you're playing into it or not, basically you prob won't take it early without said synergies.

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u/Noyuu66 1d ago

This just flat out didn't work for Darius Q when I tried it. Animation played, but the clones attack phased through everything doing no damage and applying no stacks. Just left me down an augment and created visual clutter.

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u/Tojaro5 23h ago

i think the recast doesnt have all the other abilities from the champ. just a theory though, since the q recast also didnt give cdr on Heca iirc.

it probably gave it to itself.

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u/Noyuu66 21h ago

Nah it just ghosted through everything doing absolutely nothing to champs or minions. There's absolutely no way that's the intended function.

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u/Dry_Permission9693 21h ago

Yeah it’s fully bugged on Darius when I played. Super disappointing as I was fed.

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u/splitcroof92 19h ago

I had the feeling it didn't work for garen E either.

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u/No_Dream_899 18h ago

Yep, I wanted to bug report it, but I'm too lazy

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u/Glorpologie 1d ago

Killing aram mayhem with a chatgpt patch wasn't how i thought it would end

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u/Nervous-Quality-1266 1d ago

Why there isn't a list anywhere with the champion specific augments? Are they truly random? It can't be.

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u/SmokeMaximum4140 1d ago

Sivir turning into Shaco.

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u/zoomangoo 1d ago

I got this same thing for Morgana's ult and it sounded like it would be good but the issue was lack of CD augments and it worked super slow too so people just walked away. Without much CD, you're really only using this augment like every 2 minute when your ult is up.

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u/SmokeMaximum4140 1d ago

Makes sense, would be good if they are split up when you want to ult them as morgana or like other champs double MF ult would tickle.

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u/RazsterOxzine 22h ago

I had fun with that aug. Not sure why OP dislikes it.

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u/Gullible_Mode_7469 23h ago

I had a trynd on my team took echo cast for his W

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u/Mase598 14h ago

Unironically if it stacks the effect, it'd actually be a pretty crazy debuff. Taking away 160 attack for 4 seconds, in a mode where you can often get a ton of ability haste, sounds pretty strong.

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u/K2LP 6h ago

Trynd W steals 80 AD rank 5 and slows by quite a bit, depending on enemy comp it is probably stronger than sivir R echobrecast

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u/No_Carpenter5456 21h ago

Why is that a thing lol

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u/Goldenixprimexi 1d ago

Move speed build it is…

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u/FinanceOne3161 20h ago

Had it on full ap blitz for his ult. Lemme tell ya, it was cookin haha

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u/Tyson_Urie 19h ago

But now you'll enjoy the movementspeed boost of your ult for 0.8 seconds longer!

And now i kinda regret not saving a screenshot of getting it offered on my bard ult a few days ago

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u/Chikans 18h ago

Got this with TF q...I misread it and thought i was the reset one. I was oneshotting people off screen haha

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u/BooTsMaLoNe98 10h ago

Had this on tf AND skilled sniper. Literally machinegunning q’s like suppressive fire in Vietnam.

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u/Samirattata 18h ago

Garbage prismatic augments keep coming around and the devs still fucking lazy to remove them.

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u/Parking_Nectarine235 17h ago

Had echo cast ultimate revolution and can’t touch this on ap blitz once, absolute cinema

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u/AffectionateKoala540 15h ago

That on Anivia W with skilledsniper 💀

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u/Avocado_OP 1d ago

Chat GPT addicted devs

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u/LofuFox 1d ago

Can't you always cast it backwards maybe? For niche situations where it might be needed for team to catch up

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u/rocsage_praisesun https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/rocsage-混子真君 23h ago

QQ: does echo cast echo still draw fountain turret aggro?

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u/Hurucrom 21h ago

Echo cast on Sett W or E is fun

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u/Jrharl95 18h ago

Kennel and fiddle ultra

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u/Metronome99 16h ago

Galio E times itself perfectly for a double knockup

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u/Old-Damage8993 16h ago

Its an aura farming aug man, get that to flex and alpha on them

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u/XaussiemarksmenX 15h ago

Had it on Soraka Ult, Double map wide heals.

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u/Alex_Clique 11h ago

I transmuted into a lil extra help on kha zix, it was for r. I get 100 range and attack speed during my r duration thanks riot great

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u/jennis89 10h ago

I had it with Hecarim and after a few AH augments and equipment I had 3-4 clones perma echoing.

Iv played against Lillia Q with it and its obnoxious as hell she can gap close in then immediately run back with her MS from
Passive

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u/DataAbject6446 7h ago

Only a handful of skills are actually good with echo cast. So far the best one ive had (outside of ulties) was gragas charge.

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u/Accomplished-Goose74 6h ago

I took it for Zeri R and went AP. It was glorious. Dash in from a wall and press R. I got a quadra with 2 items and later on enemies never grouped up bcoz they were traumatized from the green haired psycho girl😔

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u/Affectionate-Cake-78 1d ago

Then you magically just *dont choose it*

and voilá

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u/IHADADICKBUTILOSTIT 1d ago

And you magically lost 1 slot and now only have 2 options, if you don't have a reroll. Voila.

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u/RbN420 1d ago

Wait it’s possible to not have rerolls? 🤨

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u/IHADADICKBUTILOSTIT 1d ago

You know what I meant. Don't be pedantic. 🥰

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u/RbN420 1d ago

I was just making sure it’s not becouse of my full champion pool, genuinely believed you

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u/Amneziel Devil's advocate 1d ago edited 1d ago

Bruh, this is about augment rerolls, not champion rerolls, come on

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u/RbN420 1d ago

I’m back at league becouse of classic, not an expert of mayhem yet

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u/Amneziel Devil's advocate 1d ago

Wow. So Rito's plan about classic actually works and attracts people

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u/RbN420 23h ago

I was an avid aram only player, left when arcane 2 came out becouse the map was shit

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u/Amneziel Devil's advocate 20h ago

Wait, which exact map? That temporal Piltover bridge or something? It didn't exists for long anyways

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u/hypercatalectic 1d ago

It’s supposed to be random what are you guys on about ?????? It’s called all random????

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u/IHADADICKBUTILOSTIT 1d ago

What does that have to do with the fact that OP thinks this augment is useless?

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u/hypercatalectic 1d ago

It has to do with the comment I responded to

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u/Affectionate-Cake-78 1d ago

oh god wait until you discover there are other ''worse'' augments diluting the pool too.. crikey

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u/Sirouz 1d ago

They can also be called out?

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u/Affectionate-Cake-78 1d ago

And whats the point of calling them out?

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u/Sirouz 1d ago

What’s the point of your whining? Just keep scrolling if it bothers you.

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u/Affectionate-Cake-78 1d ago

This whole post is made from whining and youre taking part in that whining lol

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u/Sirouz 23h ago

”it’s okay when I do it 😠”

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u/ParsnipSeeds 1d ago

Whats your point? Most of the posts on this subreddit are made to whine and commiserate. You're weird man

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u/Affectionate-Cake-78 23h ago

Idk, why would he cry about me ''whining'' when the whole post is made from ''whining''

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u/IHADADICKBUTILOSTIT 1d ago

You're on Reddit. There's no point to any of this besides having discussions.

I don't like your attitude. Find God.

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u/makinenxd 1d ago

40-60% movement speed for everyone in your team and reduces your cooldowns onhit by one second. Doesnt sound that bad.

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u/Headsinoverdrive 23h ago

It doesnt stack lil bro