Atma's Impaler

Atma's Impaler is an advanced item in League of Legends.

Recipe

 * (830g)
 * (700g)
 * 825g

Strategy

 * Champions like, , and profit the most from  in terms of damage due to their health-gaining abilities.
 * and synergize, causing him to gain a total of about 6.38% more attack damage than other champions. Example: A champion with 5000 health would gain 100 attack damage. Jax would gain a total of ~106.38 attack damage, and thereby 319.14 health.
 * can be combined with items such as and  to utilise both damage and survivability. These builds are known in the community as "Fratma's" and "Atmog's", respectively.
 * is one of only a handful of items beneficial to an attack-based character that provides armor - the only other items being and its build paths  and, both of which are specialized items (the lantern typically for junglers) and grant considerably less armor than the Impaler. This makes the  a good idea for any attack damage champion faced with a lot of physical damage on the opposing team. Even on a low-health champion like  it will give a moderate amount of attack damage as well as the critical chance and considerably more if health items such as  or  are built.

Trivia

 * It is a reference to the Ultima Weapon (originally called "Atma Weapon") from Final Fantasy VI and subsequent games, a sword which deals damage according to the hero's health.