Patch Notes & Release Updates

Stay up to date with the latest League of Legends ARAM Mayhem changes, including champion balance updates, augment modifications, and gameplay adjustments for each patch.

Current Patch: 26.1
Patch 26.1 - ARAM Mayhem - Enchanter Buffs & Critical Strike Overhaul
Released: January 8, 2026
Latest

Highlights

  • Major enchanter buffs: Ivern, Janna, Milio, Nami, Renata, and Sona all buffed
  • Global critical strike damage increased from 175% to 200%
  • Snowball Roulette demoted from Prismatic to Gold tier
  • Quest: Steel Your Heart now properly multiplies future stacks by 3x
  • Quest: Urf's Champion Golden Spatula significantly buffed

General Changes

Critical Strike

Base critical strike damage increased from 175% to 200% for all champions (with Infinity Edge: 215% → 230%)

ADC Adjustments

Many ADC abilities had their crit scaling and AD ratios adjusted to compensate for the global crit damage increase

Augment Changes

Snowball Roulette

  • Augment Tier: Prismatic → Gold

It's Killing Time

  • Now only stores damage from the augment owner, not all sources

Flashy

  • Changed from refreshing 1 charge every 180s to refreshing all 3 charges every 120 seconds

Quest: Steel Your Heart

  • Fixed to properly multiply future stacks by 3x after quest completion (not just stacks at time of completion)

Quest: Urf's Champion

  • Golden Spatula Attack Damage: 60 → 90
  • Golden Spatula Ability Power: 80 → 110
  • Golden Spatula Movement Speed: 5% → 10%
  • Golden Spatula Immolate Range: 300 → 400

Champion Balance Changes

Ivern
  • Offense Damage Dealt: 95% → 100%
  • Shielding Shielding Done: 80% → 100%
Janna
  • Offense Damage Dealt: 95% → 100%
  • Defense Damage Taken: 105% → 100%
  • Healing Healing: 90% → 100%
  • Shielding Shielding: 95% → 100%
Karma
  • Ability RQ Bonus Damage: 40/90/140/190 → 40/100/160/220
Milio
  • Healing Healing: 95% → 100%
  • Shielding Shielding: 90% → 100%
  • Stats Ability Haste: -10 → 0
Nami
  • Offense Damage Dealt: 95% → 100%
  • Defense Damage Taken: 105% → 100%
Renata
  • Offense Damage Dealt: 95% → 100%
  • Shielding Shielding: 80% → 100%
Sona
  • Ability W Heal Ratio: 20% → 30%
  • Ability W Shield Ratio: 20% → 25%
  • Ability Q Cooldown: 10s → 8s

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Ultimate's Awakening buff bar displaying incorrect Ability Haste
  • Added cooldown tracker for Ultimate Awakening
  • Fixed Executioner not working with Rengar's basic abilities
  • Fixed Orbital Laser ground damage doing incorrect damage to minions
  • Fixed Orbital Laser tracking damage dealt to minions incorrectly
  • Fixed Gold Rend failing to function if your ally also takes it
Patch 25.24 - ARAM Mayhem - Arena Prismatic Augments & New Items
Released: December 3, 2025

Highlights

  • New Prismatic Augments from Arena: Earthwake, Orbital Laser, Trueshot Prodigy, Cerberus, Pandora's Box, and Stackosaurus Rex
  • Ultimate Awakening reworked with 30 AH on ult and basic ability reset after casting
  • Two new items: Hextech Gunblade and Sword of Blossoming Dawn
  • Bonus crit chance above 100% now grants Adaptive force
  • Multiple augment buffs and bug fixes

General Changes

New Feature

Some new Prismatic Augments are limited to 1-2 players per game to prevent stacking visual chaos

Critical Strike

Bonus crit chance above 100% now grants 75% of that crit chance as Adaptive force if you don't already have a crit conversion

Portals

Bloom hexgate selection radius reduced to match size of object to reduce accidental clicks

New Items

Hextech Gunblade

80 AP, 40 AD, 10% Life Steal, 10% Spell Vamp. Active: Shock an enemy champion for 175-253 (+30% AP) magic damage and 25% slow for 1.5 seconds (60s cooldown)

3000 gold A classic item returns to ARAM Mayhem!

Sword of Blossoming Dawn

45 AP, 200 Health, 12% Heal & Shield Power, 15 Ability Haste. Passives: Gain 1.2% Attack Speed per 1% Heal & Shield Power. On-hit: Heal the lowest-health nearby ally for 15-40 (+10% bAD)(+7% AP)

2350 gold Great for enchanters who want to support their team with on-hit healing

Augment Changes

Earthwake

  • NEW: Dashing or blinking causes you to leave behind a trail that detonates after a short delay, dealing 70-210 (based on level) (+125% bonus AD)(+60% AP) physical damage per explosion
  • Enemies can only be affected once every 0.5 seconds from all cast instances
  • Deals 70% damage to minions
  • Limited to 2 players per game

Orbital Laser

  • NEW: Replace your non-flash summoner with Orbital Laser
  • On Active: Call upon an orbital laser to fire down on target location after 2.5 seconds, immediately dealing true damage equal to 25% of target's maximum health then up to 360-600 (based on level) magic damage over 3 seconds
  • Deals 70% damage to minions
  • Limited to 1 player per game

Trueshot Prodigy

  • NEW: Damaging enemies over 700 units away casts an Ezreal R in their direction
  • Barrage deals 100-350 (+80% bonus AD)(+60% AP) magic damage to enemies it passes through
  • 15 second cooldown (overall, not per target)
  • Limited to 1 player per game

Cerberus

  • NEW: Gain the Hail of Blades and Press the Attack Keystone Runes
  • Hail of Blades: First 3 attacks have massively increased Attack Speed (140% melee, 80% ranged)
  • Press the Attack: Hitting 3 attacks against same enemy deals burst damage (120-360 based on level) and increases your damage by 15% until you leave combat

Pandora's Box

  • NEW: Transmute all of your augments into random Prismatic augments

Stackosaurus Rex

  • NEW: When you gain permanent stacks of an ability, gain 75% more

Ultimate Awakening

  • REWORKED: Gain 30 ability haste on your ultimate
  • After casting your ultimate, reset all your basic ability cooldowns and gain 300 ability haste on basic abilities for 15 seconds
  • 20 second cooldown

Empyrean Promise

  • Cast Range: 1600 → 2000

Feel the Burn

  • Cast Range: 600 → 800
  • Changed from target cast to self cast (no longer need to select a target)

Upgrade Zhonya

  • Zhonya's Cooldown: 90 → 45 seconds

Snowball Upgrade

  • Base Slow Amount: 40% → 50%
  • Base Damage: 100 → 200

Slow and Steady

  • 1% Attack Speed Conversion: 0.75 AD → 1 AD

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Self Destruct did not make enemies Airborne
  • Fixed Self Destruct's tooltip syntax
  • Fixed a bug where Spiritual Purification was not clear on the damage dealt to nearby enemies
  • Fixed a bug where Snowball Roulette's tooltip was not stating its intended function
  • Fixed a bug where Snowball Roulette did not function while having the Biggest Snowball Ever Augment equipped
Patch 25.23 - ARAM Mayhem - Augment Improvements & Stat Anvil
Released: November 18, 2025

Highlights

  • New Item: Stat Anvil - Spend extra gold at level 9 to boost stats
  • Silver augments appear less frequently in first round
  • No more back-to-back silver augments in rounds 1 and 2
  • Portal interaction changed to click teleport
  • Major augment mechanical updates for better engagement

General Changes

Augment Distribution

Silver Tier augments will now appear less frequently in the first round of augment choices

Augment Distribution

It's now no longer possible to get silver augments back to back for the first and second rounds

Portals

Koeshin's Crossing Portals have been changed from touch to teleport to traditional click to teleport with an instant cast time (applies to both ARAM and Mayhem)

Economy

Passive XP/Gold values have been modified to prevent games from ending a little too soon

Minions

Double Super minions have been removed to prevent some late-game stalling

New Items

Stat Anvil

New consumable item that lets you spend extra gold in the late game to boost your stats. Silver, Gold, and Prismatic Anvils are available. Each Anvil comes with a hat!

Available at level 9 for 750 gold each Shardholder Value Shard is not included

Augment Changes

Blunt Force

  • AD: 15% → 20%

Gash

  • Additionally gain 50% Attack Speed

Lightning Strike

  • Attack Speed Requirement for Bonus: 4 → 3.5

Protein Shake

  • Base Heal and Shield Power: 20% → 25%
  • Armor and Magic Resist Conversion Rate: 30% → 35%

Self Destruct

  • NEW: Every 25 seconds, attach a bomb to yourself that explodes dealing damage and knocking up enemies

Snowball Roulette

  • NEW: Cast a random harmful Summoner Spell on your target when your snowball hits an enemy target
  • NEW: Cast a random beneficial Summoner Spell on yourself when you take your snowball dash

Steel Your Heart

  • Stack requirement: 350 → 300

Repulsor

  • NEW: When dropping below 35% health, knock back enemies and slow them for 90% for 1.5 seconds (25 second cooldown or refresh on death)

Urf's Champion

  • Takedowns required: 22 → 18

Champion Balance Changes

Cho'Gath
  • Defense Damage Taken: 100% → 95%
Maokai
  • Defense Damage Taken: 110% → 100%
  • Offense Damage Dealt: 85% → 95%
Nasus
  • Offense Damage Dealt: 90% → 100%
Nautilus
  • Defense Damage Taken: 110% → 100%
  • Offense Damage Dealt: 95% → 100%
Seraphine
  • Stats Ability Haste: -20 → 0
Skarner
  • Defense Damage Taken: 100% → 95%
  • Offense Damage Dealt: 100% → 105%
  • Ability E Cooldown: 22/21/20/19/18 → 18/17/16/15/14
Tahm Kench
  • Defense Damage Taken: 105% → 100%
Thresh
  • Defense Damage Taken: 105% → 100%
Volibear
  • Ability E Shield Amount: 11% Max Health → 14% Max Health

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Get Excited can be triggered if your clone died
  • Fixed a bug where Neeko does not lose attack range when she disguises as melee champion and pick Draw Your Sword
  • Fixed a bug where champions in zombie status can get extra augment when they have Augment Cheating
  • Fixed a bug where Viego can sell items when possessing other champions when he has Augment Cheating
  • Fixed a bug where Augment Cheating is restoring resources other than mana and energy
  • Fixed a bug where Vampirism with Zilean R will cause champions to revive with 0 health and be non-attackable by enemies
  • Fixed a bug where Gangplank with Infernal Conduit can have 0 cooldown on his E spell
  • Fixed a bug where Zac can deal damage with Circle of Death when he transforms into his passive blobs
  • Fixed a bug where Upgrade Collector let Collector execute people under 15% health
Patch 25.22 - ARAM Mayhem - Augment Balance & Bug Fixes
Released: November 6, 2025

Highlights

  • Fixed ranged champions missing global health bonus
  • Major augment balance adjustments
  • Numerous augment bug fixes
  • Kayle ranged bug with Draw Your Sword fixed

General Changes

Bug Fix

Fixed ranged champions missing their global health bonus in the mode

Augment Changes

Draw Your Sword

  • Attack damage bonus: 35% → 30%
  • Health bonus: 35% → 30%
  • Life steal: 25% → 20%
  • Bug fix: Kayle no longer remains ranged after equipping

Dual Wield

  • Total attack speed: 25% → 20%
  • Removed duplicate tooltip text regarding on-hit effects

Empyrean Promise

  • Heal and shield power: 10% → 15%
  • Cooldown: 40s → 30s

Biggest Snowball Ever

  • Displacement now properly categorized as airborne effect (bug fix)

Dawnbringer's Resolve

  • Fixed issue where effect would trigger repeatedly with certain damage sources

About ARAM Mayhem Patch Notes

Our LoL ARAM Mayhem patch notes provide comprehensive coverage of all balance changes from official Riot Games patch notes. We extract and highlight only the ARAM Mayhem specific changes, including champion adjustments, augment modifications, item additions, and gameplay tweaks.

Each patch brings new opportunities to dominate the Howling Abyss. We track all changes to help you stay ahead of the meta with the latest champion builds, augment strategies, and tier list updates.

Source: Official League of Legends Patch Notes from leagueoflegends.com