Patch 26.16 - ARAM Mayhem 26.16 - Fighter Gold Augments, Tuning, and Bugfixes

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Patch 26.16 - ARAM Mayhem 26.16 - Fighter Gold Augments, Tuning, and Bugfixes
Released: August 11, 2026
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Highlights

  • Two new Gold Augments upgrade fighter items: Upgrade Sundered Sky and Upgrade Ravenous Hydra, giving fighters more sustain in extended teamfights and stronger frontline tools.
  • Nature is Healing and Nightstalking were rewritten for clearer identities, several other Augments were tuned, Chain Reaction dropped from Prismatic to Gold, and Critical Missile lost more missile damage.
  • Locke received Mayhem damage and tenacity modifiers, and 19 bugs were fixed across form-swap melee stats, Archmage refunds, Marksmage empowered attacks, quests, and Augment VFX.

General Changes

Fighter Gold Augments

Riot added Upgrade Sundered Sky and Upgrade Ravenous Hydra so fighters have more ways to heal through long teamfights and hold the front line.

Augment Quality and Tuning

Nature is Healing now heals on bush entry with a per-bush cooldown, Nightstalking gained Move Speed during stealth, and Riot also tuned Soul Eater, Snowblast, Shark Bait, Skilled Sniper, From Downtown, Chain Reaction, and Critical Missile.

Bugfixes

Fixes cover form-swapping champions keeping melee Augment stats in ranged form, Archmage cooldown refunds, Marksmage empowered attacks, quest and revive interactions, and several Augment missile or VFX issues.

Augment Changes

Skilled Sniper

  • •Snipe Range: 700 => 600.

From Downtown

  • •Snipe Range: 700 => 600 (listed as Quest Bang Bang in Riot's notes).

Soul Eater

  • •NEW Second Augment Bonus Health: 300.

Nightstalking

  • •NEW Move Speed During the Buff: 40%.

Snowblast

  • •NEW Radius: 30% larger.
  • •NEW Knockup Duration: Increased (listed as Snowbomb in Riot's notes).

Shark Bait

  • •Base Damage: 80-300 => 120-350.
  • •Missing Health Damage: 20% => 30%.

Critical Missile

  • •Per Missile Damage: 15-85 => 15-65.

Chain Reaction

  • •Tier: Prismatic => Gold.

Nature is Healing

  • •Each bush has an independent cooldown and heals only on entry.
  • •NEW Heal: 40-300 +15% missing Health.
  • •NEW Cooldown: 20 seconds.

Upgrade Sundered Sky

  • •NEW Gold Augment.
  • •NEW Item Cooldown Per Target: 5 seconds.
  • •NEW Missing Health Healing: 9%.

Upgrade Ravenous Hydra

  • •NEW Gold Augment.
  • •NEW Cleave Application: Your spell applies the cleave effect with no cooldown.
  • •NEW Life Steal: 18%.

Champion Balance Changes

Locke
  • Damage Dealt100% => 105%
  • Damage Taken100% => 95%
  • Tenacity0 => 20

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Summoner Cleanse and Summoner Clarity not being pickable in ARAM.
  • Fixed Pursuit of Power affecting Locke P damage after its quest was completed.
  • Fixed Veigar W not triggering Archmage's cooldown refund.
  • Fixed Archmage not refunding Azir W properly.
  • Fixed Marksmage not applying its damage to certain empowered attacks, including Blitzcrank E, Nasus Q, and Trundle Q.
  • Fixed Annie R going on cooldown if the first Tibbers died when having Ultimate Revolution.
  • Fixed champions losing Hellbent cooldown if they have revive passives.
  • Fixed Augment damage stacking Samira P.
  • Fixed Lissandra P consuming gold from Yowch, My Coins!.
  • Fixed Dashing not applying to Lee Sin Q, Kled Q, and Rek'Sai E.
  • Fixed Skilled Sniper not triggering on Vel'Koz's split Q.
  • Fixed form-swapping champions having an incorrect damage ratio for Glass Cannon.
  • Fixed the Scoped Weapon family not adapting the attack range increase when form-swapping champions swap form.
  • Fixed Typhoon failing to fire a missile when no enemy champions are in range.
  • Fixed Infernal Conduit base damage and scaling being higher than the tooltip.
  • Fixed Volibear R's turret-disabling debuff from the Echo Cast version visually refreshing while the duration does not.
  • Fixed Neeko regaining bonus attack speed after exiting disguise when having Purist - Caster.
  • Fixed Bel'Veth E failing to trigger Dropkick's execution.
  • Fixed From Downtown's enemy VFX warning being bigger than intended.
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About ARAM: Mayhem Patch Notes

These patch notes summarize ARAM: Mayhem-related changes. We extract and highlight updates including champion adjustments, augments changes, and gameplay tweaks.

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