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- For the game, see Ruined King
Blade of the Ruined King is a finished item in 
League of Legends.
Recipe
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Cost Analysis
Gold Value
- 40 attack damage =
1400
- 25% attack speed = 625
- 12% life steal = 450
- Total Gold Value = 2475
- Total Gold Value =
- 15 on-hit physical damage = 375
- Total Gold Value = 2850
- Total Gold Value =
Gold Efficiency*
- Blade of the Ruined King is 86.36% gold efficient without the active.
- Blade of the Ruined King can become gold efficient if the passive grants a minimum of 33 on-hit damage (This can be achieved if target's current health is 275 or higher for melee, or 412.5 or higher for ranged).
Might of the Ruined King is a finished item in League of Legends. Can only be forged by 
Ornn. Limited to one 
Master Craftsman item.
Recipe
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Cost Analysis
Gold Value
- 55 attack damage = 1925
- 40% attack speed = 1000
- 12% life steal = 450
- Total Gold Value = 3375
- Total Gold Value =
- 15 on-hit physical damage = 375
- Total Gold Value = 3750
- Total Gold Value =
Gold Efficiency*
- Might of the Ruined King is 113.64% gold efficient without the active.
- The raw stats gained from upgrading Blade of the Ruined King into Might of the Ruined King are worth 900 (15 attack damage and 15% attack speed).
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Notes
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- The active is not considered a projectile.
- Life steal applies to the bonus damage even if it's dealt through other items/abilities, such as Guinsoo's Rageblade, Runaan's Hurricane and Double Up.
- It also benefits from Heal Power.
- It also benefits from
- The passive damage is not factored into critical strikes, as it is an on-hit effect.
- Spirit Visage increases the heal from the bonus damage twice, for 69% (1.3 × 1.3), instead of 30%. This only occurs if the heal comes from life steal.
- The movement speed buff stacks additively with other percentage movement speed buffs.
- Although Hextech Gunblade and Blade of the Ruined King both have a Bilgewater Cutlass in their recipe, their item actives are considered distinct from one another and will not put each other on cooldown.
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 active 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
- 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, as both provide armor and an attack speed slow; in the former's case, it provides a Grievous Wounds effect that counters BotRK's lifesteal. The latter's case has more armor and also has its attack speed slow in the form of an aura.
- 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.
Trivia
- Blade of the Ruined King is named after Kalista's uncle, the king of The Argent Throne of south-western Valoran who transformed the Blessed Isles into the undead-dwelling Shadow Isles after his 'grief overcame his reason' and lead him to attempt and fail to resurrect his wife.
- With the start of the preseason of Season 3 Madred's Bloodrazor was removed and was replaced by Blade of the Ruined King.
- Pentakill's second volume, Grasp of the Undying, named its tenth track after this item.
Patch history
- Undocumented: No longer has its damage capped when attacking clones.
- Passive damage for melee champions increased to 12% of the target's current health from 8%.
- Might of the Ruined King
- Bug Fix: Passive no longer stacks with Blade of the Ruined King's passive.
- Total cost increased to 3300 from 3200.
- Combine cost unchanged.
- Added to recipe from Might of the Ruined King. Can only be forged by Ornn.
- Total cost reduced to 3200 from 3400.
- Combine cost reduced to 700 from 900.
- Combine cost reduced to
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
- 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.
- Bug Fix: On-hit effect no longer applies a stack of The Black Cleaver.
- Life steal reduced to 12% from 15%.
- Combine cost increased to 900 from 800.
- Total cost increased to 3400 from 3300.
- Total cost increased to
- Combine cost reduced to 800 from 900.
- Total cost reduced to 3300 from 3400.
- Total cost reduced to
- 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.
- Passive damage increased to 8% of target's current health from 6%.
- Combine cost increased to 900 from 750.
- Total cost unchanged.
- Combine cost reduced to 750 from 1000
- Total cost increased to 3400 from 3200
- Total cost increased to
- Passive's damage dealt reduced to 6% of current health from 8%.
- Ranged increased to 550 from 450.
- New recipe: Recurve Bow + Bilgewater Cutlass + 700 = 3200
- Old recipe: Dagger + Dagger + Bilgewater Cutlass + 900 = 3200
- Old recipe:
- Passive's on-hit effect now benefits from life steal.
- Passive minimum damage cap increased to 10 from 3.
- 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.
- Active range reduced to 450 from 550.
- Active cooldown increased to 90 seconds from 60.
- Added to the Crystal Scar.
- Active haste/slow duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
- Combine cost increased to 1000 from 650.
- Total cost increased to 3200 from 2850.
- Total cost increased to
- 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.
- New recipe: Dagger + Dagger + Bilgewater Cutlass + 650 = 2850
- Old recipe: Bilgewater Cutlass + 1000 = 2825
- Old recipe:
- 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.
- Attack damage increased to 45 from 40.
- Current health damage increased to 5% from 4%.
- Cost increased to 2900 from 2825.
- Combine cost reduced to 975 from 1000.
- Combine cost reduced to
- 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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