Since 16.12, Certain ARAM: Mayhem Champions can no longer be offered Augments that once were common and no one is talking about it. Riot has not acknowledged these changes.

For reference I have 3K+ Mayhem games (dont judge me plz)

Certain champions cannot roll specific augments anymore ever since the recent few patches and removal of aug sets. One EXTREMELY annoying example is Azir, who in arena can enjoy rolling for Duel Wield- but in Mayhem, get fucked. Hes legit locked from the aug. No I dont have API data to show but any rioter can look and verify themselves and see what im saying is true. It was not always like this however, im not sure exactly when they did this for whatever reason… but it is not possible to get on him via normal means.

If anyone can show me a screenshot of Azir with the augment "Duel Wield" (not transmuted) anytime after patch 16.12 (even though im certain its been disabled for far longer), I'll gift you whatever 1820RP of your choosing.

• Another funny example? Did you know "Critical Healing" is still in the game??? The cool part is- the only champ who is even able to roll it/get offered it is Senna!! XD?????????????????
• Another notable/obvious aug you might have previously rolled often in the pass was Jeweled Gauntlet, specificallly on AD assasins like Zed, Talon, Qiyana etc. Also on AD Fighters like Aatrox, Ambessa, Hecarim and more. It was by no means a "rare" augment to hit or some sort of highroll—(no gpt didnt write this, hold this em dash) You'll notice if you play these champs a lot, Jeweled Gauntlet just suddenly doesnt seem to show up anymore. For example i've seen ONE talon who somehow got it, ever since aug set removal patch. I play these champs anytime they're up, never seen it.

There are PLENTY more instances like this with certain augments (Apparentley Morde/Zac can no longer get circle of death/protein shake? Havent personally tested but also haven't seen it either) but im not listing all this.

Unless I cant read or missed something in the patch notes, Riot has not mentioned anything about certain augment appearance rates changing and certain champs being virtually gatekept from hitting augments that were previously common… Why is this a thing now, it sucks ALL the fun and potential wackiness right out of the mode. This has been the worst iteration of mayhem IMO and it isn't close. Every game is the same. ADC's rolling the same crit augs 95% of the time without fail, supports rolling Wee Woo etc. etc. It's unironically getting to the point where you don't even need to press tab anymore to see what augs enemies rolled, and you could argue we're already at this point.

GIVE ME BACK MY FULL CRIT IE JEWELED GAUNTLET AATROX/AMBESSA/KAYN BUILD.

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can we also make vulnerability an actual augment again maybe while we're at it? it feels like Vulnerability & Ethereal Weapons' rarity was somehow swapped. considering ethereal used to be fairly rare, and now every game there seems to be 2+ people hitting it.