u/more_underscore

At this point there needs to be a major balance patch for Mayhem because too many of the augments are useless now, and augment sets are currently the dominant path for achieving broken builds. The mode is starting to feel very stale with the same augments and could use some fresh gameplay.

• Balance buffs pass
  • Hecarim does not need four significant balance buffs in Mayhem. ADCs do not warrant having buffs at all with how powerful/consistent their augment choices are. Lux does not need 10% nerfs anymore (see Swain). NERF MEL. A handful buffs/nerfs have carried over from regular ARAM that don't make sense for Mayhem. But champs like Bard, Evelynn, Leblanc, Ziggs, Xerath, Brand, etc. definitely are warranted to still retain theirs.
• Grievous wounds buff to ~55% healing reduction for full build items or "vampire hunter" antiheal augments
  • Antiheal currently feels so underwhelming for how prevalent healing/draintanking is.
• Add tenacity to augments for fighters/bruisers/assassins
  • Adding tenacity for fighters/bruisers/assassins that ranged can't abuse to some augments would be extremely useful to shift the meta away from ranged dominant teams most games.
• Augment selection pool rework
  • It makes no sense that Malzahar is getting ADC augments and improved Hubris because his W voidlings have AD scaling. Bruiser/fighter augments are so inconsistent and underwhelming most of the time. Hwei and Morgana are spammed with shield/support augments (not that they are bad champs in the slightest). I'm sure at one point it was cute to try off-meta build, but there is little incentive to that won't piss off your entire team.
• Augment sets nerfs
  • High roller (and transmute augments)
  • Stackosaurus
  • Snowday
• Augment set buffs
  • Make it rain
• Augment nerfs
  • Vampirism (ranged only)
  • ??? (Or just delete it. Nobody likes using this and it's so game-warping and annoying).
  • Biggest snowball ever
  • Celestial body
  • Critical missle
  • Draw your sword (swap lifesteal for resistances)
  • Dropkick
  • First-aid kit
  • Goredrink (ranged only)
  • Pinball
  • Shrink engine (honestly just take it out of Stackosaurus augment set like tank engine)
  • Slow and steady (or delete, this has way too many abuse cases)
  • Void rift
  • Rework adc augments to not give so much free crit to delay how quickly they come online as hyper carries
• Augment buffs
  • Adamant
  • Blade waltz
  • Keystone augments (Cerberus, Symphony of War, Demon's Dance, Impassable, Keystone Conjurer). It actually might be interesting to add a Keystone Master prismatic augment that gives you every keystone rune or something far more enticing. There is so much potential here that feels LAZY.
  • Crack open that egg
  • Crit 'n cast
  • Cruelty
  • Don't blink
  • Earthwake
  • Empowered by the faithful
  • Fey magic
  • Final city transit
  • Firebrand
  • Firefox
  • Frost wraith
  • Goldrend
  • Hextech soul
  • Holy fire
  • Juiced
  • Kill secured
  • Leg day
  • Mighty shield
  • Nightstalking
  • Poltergeist
  • Purist
  • Repulsor
  • Searing dawn
  • Self destruct
  • Sonic boom
  • Speed demon
  • Spiritual purification
  • The brutalizer (delete/replace)
  • Tormentor
  • Trueshot prodigy
  • Upgrade immolate
  • Weighted popoffs
  • Witchful thinking (delete/replace)

It's actually bonkers ??? healing got buffed and is even more of a problem than chili oil ever was. I picked ??? on Renata and was healing 900+ per ping, to the point a fully built Samira couldn't kill me 1v1 in an extended chase. I've never seen it lose unless both teams had the aug, and its scaling is basically a team-wide warmogs. It's gotten to the point people have gone afk multiple times now because it's picked and they don't want to deal with it and ruins otherwise competitive games.