Axiom Arcanist rune icon - League of Legends
Win Rate
50.5%
Pick Rate
5.4%

Axiom Arcanist vs Manaflow Band vs Nimbus Cloak

Axiom Arcanist A TierSorceryRow 1
Patch
26.19
Games with rune
24,536
Lane
All Lanes
Tier
All Tiers
Last Updated
Oct 6, 2026 UTC
Methodology
Data Methodology
Your Ultimate has 12% increased damage, healing, and shielding.
(AoE damage is reduced to a 8% increase)

Scoring a takedown on an enemy champion reduces your Ultimate's current cooldown by 7%.
Rune tree
Sorcery · Row 1
Win Rate
50.5%+0.4 vs row avg
Pick Rate
5.4%
Best champion
Karthus · 57.7%
Most played by
Garen
Main lane
Jungle · 30%

Axiom Arcanist vs alternatives

Patch 26.19 · All ranks

You can take only one rune per row. Here is Axiom Arcanist against its 2 row alternatives, on the same champions and overall.

Axiom Arcanist50.5%5.4% PR · 24,536 games
Manaflow Band50.2%23.3% PR · 105,973 games

Played by the same champions, Axiom Arcanist comes out 0.9 points ahead of Manaflow Band (113 shared champion-lanes). Axiom Arcanist and Manaflow Band share a row, so it is a straight either-or choice.

Axiom Arcanist vs Manaflow Band on the same champions

ChampionAxiom ArcanistManaflow BandΔ WR
Soraka · Support53.5% 1,19252.1% 2,891+1.4
Karma · Support49.5% 76449.4% 3,795+0.1
Lux · Support48.8% 54950.1% 10,419−1.3
Milio · Support51.8% 49652.2% 4,418−0.3
Janna · Support47.9% 47252.7% 5,761−4.8
Yuumi · Support52.9% 50148.0% 3,094+4.9
Malzahar · Mid51.7% 43750.9% 6,877+0.8
Teemo · Top50.9% 42852.8% 1,697−1.9
Lux · Mid55.3% 34952.6% 5,231+2.7
Seraphine · Support50.6% 31851.7% 10,373−1.1
Veigar · Mid51.9% 31850.9% 6,414+1.0
Annie · Mid51.7% 1,11554.6% 412−2.9

By lane

LaneAxiom ArcanistManaflow Band
Top51.1% 5,88249.8% 11,039
Jungle50.2% 7,36344.6% 864
Mid50.9% 3,49949.7% 37,712
ADC51.0% 3,65550.4% 11,604
Support49.4% 4,11750.8% 44,694

By game length

Per-minute stats

StatAxiom ArcanistManaflow Band
Damage to champions774721
Healing283190
Damage mitigated819493
Objective damage492246
Kills0.2240.167
Deaths0.2130.208
Axiom Arcanist50.5%5.4% PR · 24,536 games
Nimbus Cloak49.3%4.9% PR · 22,418 games

Played by the same champions, Axiom Arcanist comes out 0.9 points ahead of Nimbus Cloak (56 shared champion-lanes). Axiom Arcanist and Nimbus Cloak share a row, so it is a straight either-or choice.

Axiom Arcanist vs Nimbus Cloak on the same champions

ChampionAxiom ArcanistNimbus CloakΔ WR
Darius · Top50.2% 2,23349.1% 2,718+1.0
Teemo · Top50.9% 42850.6% 496+0.3
Garen · Top51.6% 5,08954.3% 199−2.7
Jhin · ADC51.6% 35353.1% 354−1.5
Nunu & Willump · Jungle52.8% 21447.5% 775+5.3
Darius · Jungle51.9% 20850.0% 578+1.9
Blitzcrank · Support45.7% 16249.5% 2,404−3.8
Vladimir · Mid55.0% 14052.2% 4,061+2.8
Lulu · Support48.7% 19947.9% 349+0.9
Gangplank · Top49.6% 13148.8% 2,853+0.9
Karma · Support49.5% 76449.3% 142+0.2
Milio · Support51.8% 49644.4% 144+7.4

By lane

LaneAxiom ArcanistNimbus Cloak
Top51.1% 5,88248.8% 6,571
Jungle50.2% 7,36348.4% 4,415
Mid50.9% 3,49950.8% 5,024
ADC51.0% 3,65549.5% 2,618
Support49.4% 4,11749.2% 3,783

By game length

Per-minute stats

StatAxiom ArcanistNimbus Cloak
Damage to champions774752
Healing283356
Damage mitigated819827
Objective damage492401
Kills0.2240.204
Deaths0.2130.214

Same-champion difference: for every champion and lane with 30+ games on both runes, the win-rate gap, weighted by the smaller sample. This removes the bias of each rune's champion mix.

Axiom Arcanist and its alternatives

All candidates at a glance. The same-champion column shows how each alternative does against Axiom Arcanist on the champions that take both.

RuneWin RatePick Ratevs this rune (same champions)Shared champions
Axiom Arcanist This rune50.5%5.4%——
Manaflow Band50.2%23.3%−0.9113
Nimbus Cloak49.3%4.9%−0.956
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Axiom Arcanist vs other runes – Patch 26.19

Axiom Arcanist vs Manaflow Band: which is better?

On the same champions, Axiom Arcanist wins 0.9 points more often than Manaflow Band across 113 champion-lane pairs. Across all games: Axiom Arcanist 50.5%, Manaflow Band 50.2%. Axiom Arcanist and Manaflow Band share a row, so it is a straight either-or choice.

Axiom Arcanist vs Nimbus Cloak: which is better?

On the same champions, Axiom Arcanist wins 0.9 points more often than Nimbus Cloak across 56 champion-lane pairs. Across all games: Axiom Arcanist 50.5%, Nimbus Cloak 49.3%. Axiom Arcanist and Nimbus Cloak share a row, so it is a straight either-or choice.