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Bloodthirster is a legendary item in League of Legends.
Recipe
Cost Analysis
Gold Value
- 55 attack damage =
1925
- 20% critical strike chance =
800
- 20% life steal =
937.5
- Total Gold Value =
3662.5
Gold efficiency
Similar items
Notes
Strategy
- The shield can be very easily stacked up prior to fights by farming minion waves, allowing the wielder to constantly overheal.
- Bloodthirster is a good defensive option when under lane pressure or poke damage, as it allows the wielder to shield from damage and heal back when hurt.
- Ichorshield works at the same time as , resulting in doubled shielding (respecting their respective caps).
Old icons
Background
Unearthed near the marshes of Kaladoun, the Bloodthirster is thought to have belonged to a powerful soulstealer named Frax Van Itt. The wielder of this dangerous weapon is forever bound to the blade and its thirst for the blood of others.
Trivia
- Crystal Scar and the Twisted Treeline. was Bloodthirster's counterpart on the
- Bloodthirster is among a number of items that had the word "The" removed from their names in patch V9.19. It was previously known as The Bloodthirster.
- Pentakill's second volume, Pentakill II: Grasp of the Undying, named its seventh track after this version of the item.
Media
Patch History
- Undocumented: Passive effect renamed to Ichorshield from Blood Barrier.
- New Effect: Tooltip now tracks damage blocked by Blood Barrier.
- Updated icon.
- New:
- Recipe: + + +
600 =
3400.
- Stats: 55 attack damage, 20% life steal, 20% critical strike chance.
- Unique Passive - Blood Barrier:
Life steal from basic attacks can now overheal you, converting the excess
healing into a
shield that absorbs up to 50 − 350 (based on level) damage and slowly decays if you haven't dealt or taken damage in the last 25 seconds.
- Limited to 1 Bloodthirster.
- Recipe: + + +
- Old:
- Renamed Bloodthirster from The Bloodthirster.
- Attack damage increased to 80 from 75.
- Added to the Twisted Treeline.
- Available on Howling Abyss
- Life steal increased to 20% from 15%.
- Life steal is now Unique.
- Shield strength reduced to 50-350 from 50-440.
- Decay time increased to 25 seconds from 15.
- V4.10 Rework
- Combine cost increased to
1150 from
850.
- AD increased to 80 from 70.
- Life steal increased to 15% from 12%.
- Passive: removed.
- New Unique Passive: Your life steal effects can overheal you, converting the excess healing into a shield. The shield can block from 50 to 450 damage, based on champion level, and decays if you have been out of combat for 15 seconds.
- V3.14 - November 26th Hotfix
- Combine cost reduced to
650 from
900.
- Base attack damage increased to 70 from 60.
- Passive maximum stacks reduced to 30 from 40.
- Maximum attack damage from stacks is now 30, down from 40.
- Maximum life steal from stacks is now 6%, down from 8%.
- Life steal reduced to 12% from 15%.
- Life steal per stack reduced to 0.2% from 0.25%.
- Now only loses half stacks on death rather than all of them.
- Now shows you in its tooltip what the current stats on its passive are.
- Life steal increased to 15% from 10%.
- Damage cap reduced to 40 from 60.
- Life steal cap reduced to 10% from 15%.
References
List of Items
- Starter items
- Potions and Consumables
- Trinkets
- Distributed items
- Boots
- Basic items
- Epic items
- Legendary items
- Mythic items
- Ornn's Mythic item upgrades
- Champion exclusive items
- Minion and Turret items
- Removed items