Blade of the Ruined King

For other uses, see Blade of the Ruined King (disambiguation).

For the Teamfight Tactics item, see Blade of the Ruined King.

For the Wild Rift item, see Blade of the Ruined King.

Blade of the Ruined King edit
Stats
+40 attack damage
+25% attack speed
+10% life steal
Passive
Unique – Mist's Edge: Basic attacks deal ( 10% / 6%) of the target's current health bonus physical damage on-hit, with a minimum of 15 against all units and a maximum of 60 against minions and monsters.
Unique – Siphon: Basic attacks on-hit against enemy champions apply a stack for 6 seconds, stacking up to 3 times. The third stack consumes all stacks to deal 40 − 150 (based on level) bonus magic damage on-hit and slow the target by 25% for 2 seconds, while also granting you 25% bonus movement speed for the same duration (20 second cooldown).
Limitations
Limited to 1 Blade of the Ruined King.
Recipe
+  +  +  425
Cost	3200
Sell	2240
ID	3153
Availability
SR
HA
Menu
Fighter Marksman Attack Damage Attack Speed Movement Life Steal & Vamp
Keywords
brk bork botrk mist

Blade of the Ruined King is a legendary item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Blade of the Ruined King 3200 ( 425)
		Vampiric Scepter 900 ( 550) Long Sword 350
		Recurve Bow 1000 ( 400) Dagger 300 Dagger 300
		Pickaxe 875

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 40 attack damage =  1400
• 25% attack speed =  625
• 10% life steal =  375
• Total Gold Value =  2400

• 15 on-hit physical damage = 375
  • Total Gold Value = 2775

Gold Efficiency*

• Blade of the Ruined King's base stats are 86.72% gold efficient.
• Blade of the Ruined King can become gold efficient if the passive grants a minimum of 32 on-hit damage (This can be achieved if target's current health is 320 or higher for melee, or 533.33 or higher for ranged).

Similar items

Bloodthirster

Guinsoo's Rageblade

Wit's End

Notes

• Mist's Edge and Siphon deal proc damage, and thus will not trigger spell effects.
• Siphon is not blocked by spell shield.
• The bonus damage dealt by Mist's Edge applies  life steal.
  • Siphon's bonus damage does not.
• Because on-hit effects apply their damage before the basic attack's damage, Mist's Edge's damage will calculate off of the current HP of the target before the attack damage is dealt.
  • Siphon deals damage before Mist's Edge on its triggering attack, reducing Mist's Edge potential damage slightly.
• Siphon will not grant the bonus movement speed if the slow was not applied.
• The  movement speed buff stacks additively with other percentage movement speed buffs.
• While Siphon is on cooldown, the user may still apply a stack to enemy champions, but not stack higher than 1.
  • If the effect comes off cooldown while already attacking an enemy, it will thus be triggered from the next 2 attacks only.
• The user may have stacks applied to multiple champions simultaneously, but obviously only trigger the effect once upon reaching 3 stacks against one of the targets.

Strategy

• This item is often built as a form of "anti-tank" item used to counter health-stacking champions (or champions that scale well in health) such as Shen, Dr. Mundo, Volibear, Zac, and Taric.
• Blade of the Ruined King can be seen as a soft defensive item, as its Syphon passive offers high utility. Depending on the situation, it can be used to lock down a target, evade skillshots, or most importantly, improve kiting.
• Champions who are highly dependent on basic attacks ( Master Yi, Jax, Tristana, etc.) often build this item due to the attack speed, lifesteal, and the passive that helps boost their autoattacks.
• Champions with an attack speed steroid like Master Yi, Quinn, Xin Zhao, Nocturne or champions with on-hit effect abilities like Shyvana, Warwick, Renekton, Yasuo, Yone can synergize well with Blade of the Ruined King, making better use of the passive.
  • Champions that autoattack and deal true damage also benefit from the passive on Blade of the Ruined King, as the best counter to true damage is to build health
    • However, being able to constantly autoattack is still the foremost criteria. Prime examples are Olaf, Irelia or Master Yi.
  • AD Casters can also consider picking this item up as a side item for extra damage and sustain vs HP targets, but only if they have abilities that directly synergize with auto attacks via applying on-hit effects (e.g. Renekton's Ruthless Predator, Jax's Empower and Wukong's Crushing Blow). *** Even then, a majority of users of this item also often combine it with the likes of a Spellblade-proc'ing item such as Trinity Force.
• Thornmail and Frozen Heart are strong counters to Blade of the Ruined King; in the former's case, it provides a Grievous Wounds effect that counters BotRK's lifesteal. The latter's case has more armor, has an attack speed slow in the form of an aura, and the Rock Solid Passive that reduces incoming Attack Damage.
  • However, when combined with lethality or any other form of defense-stat bypass, the HP-based damage will punch through easily in most cases against a variety of targets.

Old icons

1st version

2nd version

Trivia

• The Ruined King that this item is named after is Viego, who transformed the Blessed Isles into the undead-dwelling Shadow Isles after his 'grief overcame his reason' and led him to attempt and fail to resurrect his wife.
  • Viego's Blade of the Ruined King is named after this item. Both the item and the ability have almost identical passive effect design.
• The Blade of the Ruined King is based off of the Zweihänder, a german long sword.
• Pentakill's second volume, Grasp of the Undying, named its tenth track after this item.

Media

Trigger VFX

Movement Speed VFX

Old Active VFX

Old Slow VFX

Patch History

V11.7

• Bug Fix: Corrected Siphon damage in game to be consistent with the values in the item's tooltip in the client.

V11.6

• Life steal reduced to 10% from 12%.
• Siphon bonus damage increased to 40 − 150 (based on level) from 40 − 120 (based on level).

V10.24

• Updated icon.
• Total cost increased to 3200 from 3100.
  • Combined cost increased to 425 from 325.
• Attack speed reduced to 25% from 30%.

V10.23

• Updated icon.
• New:
  • Recipe: Vampiric Scepter + Recurve Bow + Pickaxe + 325 = 3100.
  • Stats: 40 attack damage, 30% attack speed, 12% life steal.
  • Unique Passive - Mist's Edge: Deal ( 10% / 6%) of the target's current health bonus physical damage on-hit, capped at 60 bonus damage against minions and monsters.
  • Unique Passive - Siphon: Attacking a champion 3 times deals 40 − 120 (based on level) magic damage on-hit and steals 25% of their movement speed for 2 seconds (20 second cooldown).
  • Limited to 1 Blade of the Ruined King.
• Old:
  • Recipe: Bilgewater Cutlass + Recurve Bow + 700 = 3300.
  • Stats: 40 attack damage, 25% attack speed, 12% life steal.
  • Unique Passive: Basic attacks deal ( 12% / 8%) of the target's current health bonus physical damage on-hit, with a minimum of 15 damage against all targets, and a maximum of 60 damage against minions and monsters.
  • Unique Active: Instantly deal 100 magic damage and slow the target by 25% for 3 seconds, while also increasing your own movement speed by 25% for the same duration ( 550 range) (90 second cooldown).
  • Ornn's Masterwork item: Might of the Ruined King.
    • Stats: 55 attack damage, 40% attack speed, 12% lifesteal.

V10.6

• Undocumented: No longer has its damage capped when attacking clones.

V10.5

• Passive damage for melee champions increased to 12% of the target's current health from 8%.

V10.3

• Might of the Ruined King
  • Bug Fix: Passive no longer stacks with Blade of the Ruined King's passive.

V9.8

• Total cost increased to 3300 from 3200.
  • Combine cost unchanged.

V9.1

• Added to recipe from Might of the Ruined King. Can only be forged by Ornn.

V8.11

• Total cost reduced to 3200 from 3400.
  • Combine cost reduced to 700 from 900.

V8.2

• New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.

V7.17

• Bug Fix: No longer causes The Black Cleaver to apply two stacks per basic attack.
• Bug Fix: Fixed an interaction where energized attacks prevented some movement speed boosts, including Blade of the Ruined King's active and Warwick's Blood Hunt.

V7.12

• Bug Fix: On-hit effect no longer applies a stack of The Black Cleaver.

V7.11

• Life steal reduced to 12% from 15%.

V7.9

• Combine cost increased to 900 from 800.
  • Total cost increased to 3400 from 3300.

V7.5

• Combine cost reduced to 800 from 900.
  • Total cost reduced to 3300 from 3400.
• Attack damage increased to 40 from 25.
• Attack speed reduced to 25% from 40%.
• Life steal increased to 15% from 10%.
• Active damage changed to 100 from 10% of target's maximum health.
• Active damage type changed to magic from physical.
• Removed: Active healing for 10% of target's maximum health.
• On-hit minimum damage increased to 15 from 10.

V6.23

• Passive damage increased to 8% of target's current health from 6%.

V6.12

• Combine cost increased to 900 from 750.
• Total cost unchanged.

V5.22

• Combine cost reduced to 750 from 1000
  • Total cost increased to 3400 from 3200
• Passive's damage dealt reduced to 6% of current health from 8%.

V5.10

• Ranged increased to 550 from 450.

V5.8

• New recipe: Recurve Bow + Bilgewater Cutlass + 700 = 3200
  • Old recipe: Dagger + Dagger + Bilgewater Cutlass + 900 = 3200
• Passive's on-hit effect now benefits from life steal.
• Passive minimum damage cap increased to 10 from 3.

V4.10

• Life steal reduced to 10% from 15%.
• On-hit damage increased to 8% of current health from 5%.
• Active: Damage reduced to 10% maximum health from 15% maximum health.
• Active: Movement speed steal reduced to 25% from 30%.

V4.1 - April 2nd Hotfix

• Bugfix: Fixed an exploit with Blade of the Ruined King's active.

V3.10a

• Active range reduced to 450 from 550.
• Active cooldown increased to 90 seconds from 60.
• Added to the Crystal Scar.

V3.10

• Active haste/slow duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.

V3.04

• Combine cost increased to 1000 from 650.
  • Total cost increased to 3200 from 2850.
• Attack damage reduced to 25 from 30.
• Maximum damage dealt to minions and monsters reduced to 60 from 90.
• Active heal amount is now reduced by the target's armor.

V3.03

• New recipe: Dagger + Dagger + Bilgewater Cutlass + 650 = 2850
  • Old recipe: Bilgewater Cutlass + 1000 = 2825
• Attack damage reduced to 30 from 45.
• New Effect: 40% attack speed.
• Life steal increased to 15% from 10%.
• New Unique Passive: Deals 5% of the target's current health in bonus physical damage (max 90 damage vs. monsters and minions) on-hit.
• New Unique Active: Deals 15% of target champion's maximum health as physical damage (min. 100), heals for the same amount, and steals 30% of the target's movement speed for 4 seconds (60 second cooldown).
• Active range increased to 500 from 400.

V3.02

• Attack damage increased to 45 from 40.
• Current health damage increased to 5% from 4%.

V1.0.0.152

• Cost increased to 2900 from 2825.
  • Combine cost reduced to 975 from 1000.
• Passive damage type changed to physical from magical.

V1.0.0.150 Added

• Recipe: Bilgewater Cutlass + 1000 = 2825
• +40 attack damage
• +10% life steal
• Unique Passive: Your attacks deal 4% of the target's current health in magic damage and heals you for half the amount (120 max vs. minions).
• Unique Active: Drains target champion, dealing 150 physical damage plus 50% of your attack damage and healing you by the same amount. Additionally, you steal 30% of their movement speed for 2 seconds.
  • 60 second cooldown.
  • 400 range.

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