Patch 26.21 lands on October 21 and takes 14 augments out of ARAM Mayhem. Dropkick, DropBear, High Roller and Fan the Hammer are all on the list. Riot showed five new ones on October 5. The 26.21 PBE build has those five and 30 more.
ARAM Mayhem Augments
Patch 26.21 Changes
Live October 21Patch 26.21 lands on October 21 and takes 14 augments out of ARAM Mayhem. Dropkick, DropBear, High Roller and Fan the Hammer are all on the list. Riot showed five new ones on October 5. The 26.21 PBE build has those five and 30 more.
Riot's own preview only covered the new five. The removals come from the 26.21 PBE build, where all 14 are gone from the augment files. They're the same 14 that leaked on Reddit this week, and nothing else is missing.
The 14 Augments Leaving
Each name links to the augment's page on our ARAM Mayhem site. "Top three" means it ranks among the three best augments on that champion's page.
Executes champions at low health, heals you, and punts the body into its teammates for an explosion that scales with your armor and magic resist.
Who loses it: Top-three pick for Ornn, Shyvana, Illaoi, Urgot, Gnar, Poppy, Sejuani, Sett, Sion and four more.
This is the biggest loss for frontliners. Thirteen champions have it in their top three, and every one of them is a tank or a bruiser.
When you die, Tibbers spawns on your corpse, stuns everyone nearby for half a second and chases your killer. He carries all of your augments.
Who loses it: Top-three pick for Amumu, Blitzcrank, Malphite, Nunu & Willump, Thresh, Udyr, Karthus, Rammus and 15 more.
Twenty-three champions put it in their top three, more than any other augment on this list.
Enemies dying near you can drop Stat Anvils.
Who loses it: Top-three pick for Sivir, Senna, Smolder, Twitch, Ezreal, Tahm Kench.
Riot already cut its anvil drops twice, once without a patch note in 26.18 and again in 26.19 (we covered that in why High Roller feels useless now). It still sits in the top ten for 133 champions, which says more about how generic it was than how strong.
Attacking a champion fires five extra bolts, once per direction every 8 seconds. Bolts can crit and apply on-hit at 20%.
Who loses it: Top-three pick for Vayne, Akshan, Bel'Veth, Gnar, Quinn.
Vayne loses the most here. Kiting in a circle kept her volleys coming, and every bolt stacked her Silver Bolts [W] (her Mayhem build leans on it).
Gives 25% crit chance, and every crit fires magic-damage missiles.
Who loses it: Top-three pick for Akshan, Aphelios, Ashe, Corki, Kindred, Quinn, Twitch, Yunara, Caitlyn, Draven and 14 more.
That's 24 champions, most of them marksmen. No other Gold augment leaving in 26.21 comes close.
Burns and damage over time on champions generate gold.
Who loses it: Top-three pick for Aurelion Sol, Karthus, Malzahar, Rumble, Shaco, Teemo, Udyr, Annie and nine more.
Smolder was already locked out of it in 26.14.
Takedowns explode for 15% of nearby enemies' current health and leave a 60% slow behind.
Who loses it: Nobody's top three. It's a top-ten pick for Jayce, Hwei, Anivia, Nidalee, Aurora and six more.
Takedowns spill coins worth 15 gold each that your whole team can pick up.
Who loses it: Nobody's top three. Top ten for Soraka, Yuumi, Ashe, Ezreal, Qiyana and 12 more.
You heal for 15% of any healing done near you, doubled when it's an enemy healing.
Who loses it: Top ten for Bard, Cassiopeia, Ornn only.
Entering brush gives you 20% more damage for 2 seconds, refreshed while you stay in it.
Who loses it: No champion has it in their top ten.
Grants 100 ability haste that only works on your ultimate, at 50% more effect.
Who loses it: Top ten for Teemo and nobody else.
A summoner spell that drags everyone in an area into another realm for 8 seconds, where you get bonus health, damage and size.
Who loses it: No champion has it in their top ten.
Feed the Poro Snax that spawn around you to unlock Poro Charge, a summoner spell that sends waves of poros at the enemy team.
Who loses it: No champion has it in their top ten.
Turns 40% of your crit chance into ability haste.
Who loses it: No champion has it in their top ten. Gangplank, Twitch, Twisted Fate, Udyr rate it highest.
Champions Hit Hardest
Three groups lose two of their top-three picks at once.
- Tanks: Sion, Galio, Rammus, Sett lose Dropkick and DropBear together. Ornn, Poppy and Sejuani lose Dropkick from their top three.
- Crit carries: Vayne, Akshan, Quinn and Bel'Veth lose both Critical Missile and Fan the Hammer. Twitch, Sivir lose Critical Missile and High Roller.
- Burn and on-death champions: Karthus, Amumu, Udyr, Singed, Shaco had Combusting Interest and DropBear in their top three. Both are gone.
Look up any champion on our ARAM Mayhem builds page to see what moves up once these are out of the pool, or check the ARAM Mayhem tier list.
The Five New Augments Riot Showed
Riot previewed these five on October 5. The details come from the PBE build.
Get Jinxed
GoldGives you a summoner spell that puts you on a steerable rocket. You're invulnerable and untargetable for the ride, and it explodes on the first enemy champion, structure or wall it hits. The longer it flies, the harder the hit and the wider the blast.
Totentanz
PrismaticAnother summoner spell, A Dance with Death. You blink forward and can't die for 5 seconds. Get a takedown in that window and you heal, blink back to where you started and get part of the cooldown refunded. Miss, and you die when it ends.
Salvation
GoldDrop below 50% health and it fires on its own: magic damage and a knockback on enemies around you, plus a big heal for every ally in a wide area. The PBE file gives it a 90-second cooldown.
Brass Blast
GoldHands you a trumpet to charge for up to 1.5 seconds (you're slowed 10% while charging). Releasing it knocks back every enemy in a cone and deals more magic damage the longer you charged.
BEES!!!
GoldEvery few seconds, your next ability hit on a champion throws a beehive at them. The swarm spreads to every enemy champion nearby, slows them 20% and deals magic damage over 2 seconds. Bees apply on-hit effects too.
The Other 30 on the PBE
Riot hasn't shown these yet, but they're in the 26.21 PBE build alongside the five above. "Ability augment" means it's tied to one of your champion's abilities, the same way Overloaded or Warding Weapon work now.
Prismatic
| Augment | What it does |
|---|---|
| Big Shot | Bonus attack damage and crit damage, and a share of your attack speed converts into more crit damage. |
| Bouncing Bees | A quest. After you cast an ability, your next attack bounces to the nearest enemy. Bouncing onto champions levels it up for 30 AD and one more bounce per level. |
| Group Hug | Ability augment. Heals and shields from that ability also land on two other allies. |
| Mosh Monster | Ability augment. Casting it gives bonus health and slows nearby enemies 50%. Takedowns grow both, and takedowns during the cast count triple. |
| Third Times the Harm | Every third attack on a champion within 4 seconds deals max-health true damage plus a stacking bonus (half as much for ranged champions). |
Gold
| Augment | What it does |
|---|---|
| Arcane Axiom | When a champion you hit in the last 3 seconds dies, you get 15% to 30% of your ultimate's cooldown back. |
| Armored Impact | After a cast, your next attack deals bonus physical damage based on your armor to everything around the target. Its area grows with your armor too. |
| CRIMSON COBALT | Ability augment. That ability marks champions, and attacking a marked target deals magic damage and cuts the ability's cooldown. |
| Double Time | Hit a champion with two different abilities within 4 seconds for bonus magic damage based on your mana. Each trigger also adds 25 max mana. |
| Enchanting Butterflies | Healing or shielding allies builds butterflies, and your next hit on an enemy champion fires the whole swarm for adaptive damage. |
| Heavy Is the Crown | 10 AD, 25 AP and 10% more bonus AD, AP and attack speed, for 10% move speed. Every takedown adds 4% stats and takes 2.5% more speed, down to half. Dying costs you half the stacks. |
| Jeweled Bracelet | Ability augment. That ability can crit, and you get 25% crit chance. |
| Recoil | Ability augment. That ability deals 25% more damage and knocks you backward. |
| Sap Magic | Every few seconds your next attack deals bonus physical damage and heals you. Casting abilities shortens the wait. |
| Still Here | 2% attack speed and 0.35% lifesteal for every 1% of health you're missing. |
| Take'em Down Down Down | Attacks and abilities stack on enemy champions. Hit one carrying five stacks to consume them for missing-health magic damage, and heal off it. |
| The Boom and the Bass | After a cast, your next attack within 6 seconds comes out faster, deals bonus magic damage and gives a burst of move speed. |
| Tickle Monster | Converts your attack damage into attack speed, and your attacks deal bonus magic damage on-hit. |
| Upgrade Stormsurge | Stormsurge's Squall detonates in an area for max-health magic damage, marking every champion in the blast. Comes with 500 gold. |
| Weapon of Destiny | Your first legendary item can't be sold, and it gains 200 gold worth of stats every time a champion you damaged in the last 3 seconds dies. |
Silver
| Augment | What it does |
|---|---|
| Blue Barrier | Part of the mana you spend comes back as a short shield. |
| Flow of Spirit | Ability augment. Casting it gives 60% to 120% attack speed for 4 seconds. |
| Fruitify | Takedowns burst into fruit that restores health and mana (or energy, fury and the rest). |
| Gift of the Drowned | Converts bonus health into lethality, plus some flat lethality. |
| Hands off the Talent | Attacks fired from beyond 75% of your range deal bonus physical damage on-hit. |
| Lich Brain | A flat chunk of ability power. |
| Lonely Warrior | 15% attack speed, 10 armor and 10 magic resist for every enemy champion near you. |
| No Mana, No Problem | Mana from items converts into ability power, with some bonus ability power on top. |
| Sound Barrier | Shields you put on anyone also give decaying move speed and Ghosted for 1.5 seconds. |
| Ultimate Recursion | Ultimate haste, so your ultimate comes back sooner. |
That's 35 in and 14 out, so the pool comes out 21 augments bigger. Heavy Is the Crown and Weapon of Destiny both grow with takedowns, which makes them the closest thing to a High Roller replacement. Get Jinxed and Totentanz each take up a summoner spell slot, the same way Dimension Shift and Poro Stampede did.
New augment details from the Patch 26.21 PBE build (October 8, 2026) and Riot's October 5 preview. Champion ratings from our ARAM Mayhem augment pages.
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