Increases in League of Legends Swarms are powerful upgrades that can change the course of battles with their various bonuses. Given how difficult it is to survive endless waves of enemies, you need every bonus you can get.
Swarm Augments come in a variety of forms, with some offering defensive capabilities while others provide a significant damage boost. Even if you’ve selected high-tier champions from our tier list, combining them with the right Augments is essential to maximizing their potential. Don’t worry, you don’t need to try out every Swarm Augment to decide which ones are best. We’ve ranked the best ones to give you a head start.
Best Augments in League of Legends Swarm
Choosing the best augments for your playstyle and champion can have a positive impact on your power level in Swarm.
Level S
- Card Collector: Increases damage dealt by five percent for each keycard retrieved after Augment is activated.
- Cross country: Grants five damage, 10% health, and 10% area size per 10,000 units covered.
- Ram Runner: Provides a 10% speed boost and increases damage proportionally by one percent based on movement speed changes.
- Mission Critical: Improves critical states (10% chance, 30% damage) at the cost of 20% reduced non-critical damage.
- Big hitter: Trades 30 Skill Haste for a 50% damage increase.
- Elite Bomber: Increases damage of elite monsters by 30% and turns defeated elites into timed explosives.
- Mastodon: Start with 20 armor points and convert each armor point into a 0.5% damage bonus.
- Experienced Fighter: Increases XP gain by 10% and provides brief 2% damage and speed boosts when collecting experience orbs.
A level
- Armor in place: Stacks temporary armor (4 per hit, up to 40) for five seconds when taking damage, and regenerates with each subsequent hit. Stacks disappear when their duration ends.
- Ball-Mania: Sacrifices 20% damage to increase the number of projectiles every six levels.
- Critical extension: Increases the size of the area by one percent for five seconds on a critical hit, with unlimited stacking potential.
- Ebb and flow: Cycle capacity is accelerated between -50 and +125, with a shift of 22 every two seconds.
- Glass cannon: Amplifies damage by 40 percent while reducing total health by the same percentage.
- Larger than life: Increases size by 30%, increases health regeneration and total health, but slows movement by 15%.
- Long range : Increases damage by up to 30% based on distance, favoring distant targets.
- Point blank: Increases damage by up to 30% based on proximity, enhancing close-range combat.
Level B
- Bite-sized: Trades 30% size and 20% total health for 20% increased movement speed and 36% ability haste.
- Statistics Circle: Cycles through five different stat upgrades every eight seconds, including speed, ability haste, and area size.
- Death and taxes: Grants a 2% chance for killed enemies to drop gold.
- Regenerative tissue: Enhances the effects of the Health Pack by adding 0.5% maximum health restoration.
- Come get me: Greatly reduces pickup radius, but periodically sucks up all XP and gold on the map.
- Ultimate acceleration: Grants ultimate abilities 100 skill haste.
- With haste: Converts each haste from two abilities into one percent movement speed.
- Accumulator: Restores 0.5% of maximum health for each gold coin collected.
Level C
- Party!: Grants significant stat boosts for eight seconds after upgrading.
- Emotional Support Pet: Increases damage of summoned pets by 150%.
- Jammer size: Randomly adjusts the size of the skill area between -20% and +60% when casting.
- Spray and pray: Increases the number of projectiles by four at the cost of 35% reduced damage.
- Speed up: Starts with a 15 percent speed reduction, but gains 3 percent speed per level up.
- Immovable immolation: Converts health into skill speed while standing still, and resets when moving.
- Metabolic Overdrive: Provides rapid health regeneration at the cost of maximum health.
- Pescatarian: Grants a 25% chance for killed enemies to drop health packs.
- Availability upgrade: Grants a 60 percent duration increase.
Some of these powerful upgrades are available right from the start. But the full arsenal of bonuses is not immediately accessible. To unlock the full set, you must complete various challenges.
For example, some augments may require you to interact with the Trials of Bel’Veth, while others may be tied to mastering certain champions, exploring different maps, or excelling at particular playstyles. Overall, Swarm’s augment system was designed to reward players for their versatility and dedication, so players will gradually expand their augment collection as they explore more of the hit game mode.