Buff Buddies: LoL Arena Augment

Buff Buddies is a silver augment in League of Legends Arena.

Overview

Grants Crest of Cinders and Crest of Insight permanently. This counts as a Burn source.²

Level	Effect
1	Max-level effect: Grants to your allies as well. This also provide a Burn source for each ally.

2026 Season 3 Act 2, all regions

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Full stats on ArenaSweats PagesFrom ranked Arena games tracked by ArenaSweats, updated 6 Nov 2026.

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Since patch 26.13, gaining Red Buff from an ally leveling Buff Buddies counts as a Burn source.⁴

Upgrading Buff Buddies to tier 2 can cause both allies to lose their buffs after a fight while the augment remains in the augment list and takes up a slot; the trigger is unknown.⁵
Red Buff from Buff Buddies is bugged.⁶

Riot patch notes that name Buff Buddies, newest first

Patch	Date	Changes
26.13	23 Jun 2026	Now counts as a burn source when gaining Red Buff from an ally leveling this augment.⁴

Buff Buddies' tooltip was fixed in patch 26.5.⁹ 8x2 duos
Buff Buddies' blue buff boost is great on energy champions, and it is taken for that boost.¹⁰ 8x2 duos
Buff Buddies is nice on Zed and Akali.¹¹ 8x2 duos
Buff Buddies is taken alongside Ice Cold for the Red Buff Burn.¹² 8x2 duos
Buff Buddies counts as a Burn for Pyro.¹³¹⁴ 8x2 duos
Buff Buddies is taken to avoid running out of mana.¹⁵ 8x2 duos

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