CHAMPIONSAurora

CHAMPION · MID

Aurora

Verified across 3 sourcesLast updated · 2026-05-26

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Overview

last updated 2026-05-26

Tier history

5 entries · 3 sources · 3 patches

Patch	Source	Role	Tier	Δ	Date	Notes
7.1e	hellsdevil	mid	S	−1	2026-05-19	—
7.1e	royal	mid	S	=	2026-05-17	—
7.1d	itzstu4rt	mid	S+	·	2026-05-08	—
7.1d	royal	mid	S	·	2026-05-08	—
7.1	hellsdevil	mid	S+	·	2026-05-08	—

Builds

1 source

WR Metaaggregator statspatch 7.1e

WR50.02%PR4.74%BR6.86%

Items (in order)

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Runes

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Source: [[Sources/web-pages/2026-05-26-wrmeta-aurora-build-7.1e|WR Meta]] · sampling: Diamond / Master / Challenger (Legendary tier).

Situational item swaps (explicit):

Stasis Enchant — replaces Protobelt Enchant for survivability against assassins/burst
Oceanid's Trident — when enemy team has heavy shields
Morellonomicon — against healing-reliant champions
Cosmic Drive — for additional mobility and movement speed

Counters / threats: Zoe, Syndra, Irelia, Zed, Ziggs, Diana, Pantheon, Kennen

Commentary

verbatim creator quotes

royalhand-written· Patch 7.1d analysis (Royal)

patch 7.1d

Scope: This section reflects state as-of patch 7.1d per Royal. May be outdated for later patches — see top-level Tier history. "Mel is definitely S tier. She's going to join Aurora, the two new mages. They're both really, really OP. However, I don't think they're as strong as the GOD tier mages, which are Ahri and Ryze." — [[Sources/videos/2026-05-04-royal-tier-list-7.1d|Royal, 7.1d tier list]] (03:55) Why S not GOD: Same framing as Mel — paired as "the two new mages," both strong but capped under Ahri/Ryze.

itzstu4rtauto· Auto-extracted commentary (iTzSTU4RT, 7.1b)

patch 7.1b

Generated by /wr-extract from iTzSTU4RT's patch 7.1b video transcript. Re-running this skill OVERWRITES this section. Promote keepers into your hand-written ## Patch 7.1b analysis (iTzSTU4RT) sections above. Mid "didn't have S+ tier champions before in the mid lane, but now I do. Aurora, I think, is just absolutely disgusting. I think this champion is just crazy in solo Q. The invisibility into how much burst damage you're able to do with Aurora. Her runes didn't change at all either, which I think is very nice." (39:02) "I actually played Nora against Nora support recently which every single time I tried to engage or every single time I time I tried to deal damage, Nora would just use her second ability on me and I just wouldn't be able to do anything. And the thing is with Norah is as soon as you use the second ability, you can time your first ability every single time. And if you time your first ability, the first ability does a crazy amount of damage and then you just have infinite range with your ultimate which you can just use at range and use it to your advantage." (40:32)

itzstu4rtauto· Mid

patch 7.1b·mid

“didn't have S+ tier champions before in the mid lane, but now I do. Aurora, I think, is just absolutely disgusting. I think this champion is just crazy in solo Q. The invisibility into how much burst damage you're able to do with Aurora. Her runes didn't change at all either, which I think is very nice.”(39:02)

“I actually played Nora against Nora support recently which every single time I tried to engage or every single time I time I tried to deal damage, Nora would just use her second ability on me and I just wouldn't be able to do anything. And the thing is with Norah is as soon as you use the second ability, you can time your first ability every single time. And if you time your first ability, the first ability does a crazy amount of damage and then you just have infinite range with your ultimate which you can just use at range and use it to your advantage.”(40:32)

hellsdevilauto· Auto-extracted commentary (hellsdevil, 7.1e)

patch 7.1e

Generated by /wr-extract from hellsdevil's patch 7.1e video transcript. Re-running this skill OVERWRITES this section. Promote keepers into your hand-written ## Patch 7.1e analysis (hellsdevil) sections above. Mid "The best assassin mid laner in the game right now. Uh, Aurora, very strong. I actually coached someone today on Aurora, and she is really, really powerful, but quite difficult to play." (16:18)

hellsdevilauto· Mid

patch 7.1e·mid

“The best assassin mid laner in the game right now. Uh, Aurora, very strong. I actually coached someone today on Aurora, and she is really, really powerful, but quite difficult to play.”(16:18)

Recommended runes

creator-cited rune picks

★ElectrocuteCross-path keystone · 2 mentions

"What your champion is good at and what your champion's goals are. Electrocute, for example, and I'll go deeper into every rune uh after I kind of explain the fundamentals. Electrocute is good for early game burst trading. So, champions like Aurora and AI are great users of electrocute, right? While other burst champions that don't care too much about the early game might go first strike, something like a Cassadin, Grasp of the Undying is something you should take on tanks that are trading a lot." (03:52)
"The AD that you buy afterwards. 20% AP ratio. So, electrocute is a very clear burst rune that you're going to take on burst champions. So, you might think of assassins for the most part, and it's currently competing against dark harvest, which is another rune you go on assassins, conqueror, which you go on like assassins that like longer fights, and first strike, which is also a burst rune that amplifies your burst damage, right? Who likes So, when you're think of electrocute, you're not thinking of it in a vacuum, right? Casten likes electrocute but but first strike meets the criteria of electrocute and then does more for you, right? Uh so who wants to go electrocute? What is electrocute better at than first strike? So electrocute has a way stronger early game, right? Because first strike only amplifies your abilities by um right now it's 7% but they keep buffing and nerfing it all the time, but right now it's 7%. So let's say you're playing Ahri for example, right? And your otak second ability otak combo level one will do by itself let's say 150 damage, right? Getting 7% more damage on the 150 damage is like 10 extra damage, right? by electrocute will give you 40 extra damage level one plus 20% of your amplifying tome which is 25. uh you're actually getting 45 bonus damage level one on Ari. So electrocute will give you way more damage in the early game than first strike. So for a champion that wants to trade early heavily like Aurora and like RA which are the most common examples of electrocute, electrocute makes more sense than first strike. My goal with this is to kind of like help you understand the rune choices of certain champions so you can get comfortable building yourself, right? So why why does someone like Synra prefer first strike or comet or why does someone like Ken prefer first strike? Well, number one, Kasan has a hard time procing First Strike in the laning phase, right? Cyn has an easy time procking First Strike in the laning phase, but they prefer it over Electrocute because those champions scale better than Ari and Aurora, and they're more worried about getting to their late game and amplifying their late game burst damage, where Electrocute and First Strike will do similar damage, but keep in mind that First Strike also gives you all that gold, right? So, First Strike is more of a scaling rune that will help you meet your power spikes as well because it gives you gold throughout the game, while Electrocute is more focused on stronger early game trades. And obviously, it'll depend how good Electrocute is versus First Strike because First Strike used to be 9% damage, right? So, even some champions that usually would prefer Electrocute would go for strike. If they nerf or buff electrocute in the future, then maybe more champions will start going uh electrocute. The champions are kind of in between like they're thinking about it. They're like, "Oh, I like first strike now, but if something change, I'm happy to go to electrocute as well." So, that's something you need to consider. Next up, let's look at Dark Harvest." (14:44)

★First StrikeCross-path keystone · 2 mentions

"So, champions like Aurora and AI are great users of electrocute, right? While other burst champions that don't care too much about the early game might go first strike, something like a Cassadin, Grasp of the Undying is something you should take on tanks that are trading a lot. So, very commonly taken on bruisers, while something like ice is ice overlord might be taken more on junglers that are not constantly trading and are looking for a scrimmage fight, right?" (04:03)
"So, electrocute is a very clear burst rune that you're going to take on burst champions. So, you might think of assassins for the most part, and it's currently competing against dark harvest, which is another rune you go on assassins, conqueror, which you go on like assassins that like longer fights, and first strike, which is also a burst rune that amplifies your burst damage, right? Who likes So, when you're think of electrocute, you're not thinking of it in a vacuum, right? Casten likes electrocute but but first strike meets the criteria of electrocute and then does more for you, right? Uh so who wants to go electrocute? What is electrocute better at than first strike? So electrocute has a way stronger early game, right? Because first strike only amplifies your abilities by um right now it's 7% but they keep buffing and nerfing it all the time, but right now it's 7%. So let's say you're playing Ahri for example, right? And your otak second ability otak combo level one will do by itself let's say 150 damage, right? Getting 7% more damage on the 150 damage is like 10 extra damage, right? by electrocute will give you 40 extra damage level one plus 20% of your amplifying tome which is 25. uh you're actually getting 45 bonus damage level one on Ari. So electrocute will give you way more damage in the early game than first strike. So for a champion that wants to trade early heavily like Aurora and like RA which are the most common examples of electrocute, electrocute makes more sense than first strike. My goal with this is to kind of like help you understand the rune choices of certain champions so you can get comfortable building yourself, right? So why why does someone like Synra prefer first strike or comet or why does someone like Ken prefer first strike? Well, number one, Kasan has a hard time procing First Strike in the laning phase, right? Cyn has an easy time procking First Strike in the laning phase, but they prefer it over Electrocute because those champions scale better than Ari and Aurora, and they're more worried about getting to their late game and amplifying their late game burst damage, where Electrocute and First Strike will do similar damage, but keep in mind that First Strike also gives you all that gold, right? So, First Strike is more of a scaling rune that will help you meet your power spikes as well because it gives you gold throughout the game, while Electrocute is more focused on stronger early game trades. And obviously, it'll depend how good Electrocute is versus First Strike because First Strike used to be 9% damage, right? So, even some champions that usually would prefer Electrocute would go for strike. If they nerf or buff electrocute in the future, then maybe more champions will start going uh electrocute. The champions are kind of in between like they're thinking about it. They're like, "Oh, I like first strike now, but if something change, I'm happy to go to electrocute as well." So, that's something you need to consider. Next up, let's look at Dark Harvest." (14:48)

Absolute FocusSorcery · 1 mention

"Love loves courts. Aurora, yeah, Aurora is a good uh a good example of a decent user of absolute focus as well. I think there's some case to be made for like a sorcery page Aurora. Even though I think most of the time, do people go sorcer? No, they go domination for the most part. and they go they go gathering storm, but I think you should replace this with um cuz they go for like the zombie ward and they want to get both zombie war and sign impact. But I think you can replace gathering storm with with absolute focus. I think it'll be better for most most of the time until the super super late game, right?" (01:48:45)

Patch notes

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