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ARAM Mayhem patch notes

ARAM Mayhem-specific changes from Riot, kept here as an easy build-planning reference.

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Patch 26.16

ARAM: Mayhem

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What Riot is targeting

  • Fighters get two new Gold Augments: Upgrade Sundered Sky and Upgrade Ravenous Hydra.
  • Nature is Healing and Nightstalking were updated to give them clearer roles and more satisfying gameplay.
  • A bug was fixed where Jayce, Nidalee, and other form-swapping champions could keep melee stats from range-form Augments.

Champion balance

  • Locke — Damage dealt: 100% → 105%; damage taken: 100% → 95%; tenacity: 0 → 20.

Augment changes

  • Skilled Sniper and Quest: Bang Bang — snipe range: 700 → 600.
  • Soul Eater — new second-Augment bonus health: 300.
  • Nightstalking — new movement speed during the buff: 40%.
  • Snowbomb — new 30% larger radius and increased knockup duration.
  • Shark Bait — base damage: 80–300 → 120–350; missing-health damage: 20% → 30%.
  • Critical Missile — per-missile damage: 15–85 → 15–65.
  • Chain Reaction — Prismatic → Gold.
  • Nature is Healing — each bush now has its own entry-only cooldown; new heal: 40–300 + 15% missing health; cooldown: 20 seconds.
  • Upgrade Sundered Sky — new 5-second per-target item cooldown and 9% missing-health healing.
  • Upgrade Ravenous Hydra — spells now apply its cleave with no cooldown; new life steal: 18%.