Blade of the Ruined King is a finished item in League of Legends.[1]
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 29 on-hit damage (This can be achieved if target current health is 362.5 or higher).
Might of the Ruined King is a finished item in League of Legends.[1] 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).
Similar Items
Notes
Item VFX
- 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.
- The passive damage is not factored into critical strikes, as it is an on-hit effect.
- The passive damage applies life steal, but unlike normal life steal it is affected by Heal Power.
- Spirit Visage increases the heal from the bonus damage twice, for 69% (1.3 × 1.3), instead of 30%. This only happens 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 effects skills like Shyvana, Warwick, Renekton, Yasuo 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).
- Champions that autoattack and deal true damage also benefit from the passive on
- Randuin's Omen 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 also provides health and the two actives mostly mitigate each other. The latter's case has more armor and also has its attack speed slow in the form of an aura.
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.
- The sword was gifted to the king's champion, Ledros, before the Ruination. Its in-game appearance is how it appeared as wielded by Ledros' spirit: damaged, corroded, and glowing with spectral energy.
- With the start of the preseason of Season 3 Madred's Bloodrazor was removed and was replaced by Blade of the Ruined King.
Patch history
- 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.
References
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- Starter items
- Potions and Consumables
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Start a Discussion Discussions about Blade of the Ruined King
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Does blade of the ruined king procs on Judgement hits?
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If it's applying FM's slow then that's a bug, as it's an on-hit effect and should not be applied. {{iis|The Black Cleave...
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I see. It's probably just an impression that it applies Frozen Mallet's slow. Thank you for taking your time to answer these doubts.
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Blade of the ruined King and chilling smite
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they both steal movement speed but how does it work? do they stack or no -
Interesting question, actually. BotRK's Notes section states that the active doesn't actually "steal" movement speed; inst...
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