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Frozen Heart (League of Legends)Frozen Heart (League of Legends)
Frozen Heart (Teamfight Tactics)Frozen Heart (Teamfight Tactics)
Frozen Heart (Wild Rift)Frozen Heart (Wild Rift)

Frozen Heart is a legendary item in League of Legends icon League of Legends.

Recipe

Frozen Heart item
Frozen Heart
2500 Gold 2500 (600 Gold 600)
Warden's Mail item
1000 Gold 1000 (400 Gold 400)
Glacial Buckler item
900 Gold 900 (250 Gold 250)

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

Gold efficiency

  • Frozen Heart's Frozen Heart's base stats are 114.4% gold efficient.

Similar items

Map-Specific Differences

Arena icon Arena differences edit
  • Armor changed to 100.
  • Attack speed slow changed to 25%.

Strategy

  • Frozen Heart Frozen Heart is best suited for champions that want durability to survive and ability haste and mana to cast their spells.
  • The passives for the aura and damage mitigation can also be used as a counter against champions that need to attack to deal damage.
  • Champions that engage into the middle of a fight can spread the aura to all nearby enemies and gain great value out of the attack speed slow.

Old icons

Trivia

  • The attack speed debuff affects all units.
  • Frozen Heart's Frozen Heart's old icon is the same icon used to represent a Citrine gem in the popular MMO World of Warcraft. In that game, the gem appears orange.
  • The item's description "Warning: Do not thaw!" is a reference to the item Eye of Skadi from the mod DotA: Allstars, whose description contains exactly the same line.
  • Frozen Brain Frozen Brain was a seasonal item for the 2010 Harrowing celebration that temporarily replaced Frozen Heart. It had the same stats and effect as Frozen Heart, just with a different name and appearance.
  • Pentakill's second volume, Pentakill II: Grasp of the Undying, named its eighth track after this item.
  • Frozen Heart is the only item that can reduce attack speed.
Freljord Crest icon

Media

Patch History

V14.5
  • Total cost increased to 2500 Gold 2500 from 2400 Gold 2400.
    • Combine cost increased to 600 Gold 600 from 500 Gold 500.
  • Armor reduced to 65 from 70.
V14.2
  • Total cost increased to 2400 Gold 2400 from 2300 Gold 2300.
    • Combine cost increased to 500 Gold 500 from 400 Gold 400.
V14.1
  • Total cost reduced to 2300 Gold 2300 from 2700 Gold 2700.
    • Combine cost reduced to 400 Gold 400 from 800 Gold 800.
  • Armor reduced to 70 from 90.
V13.17
  • Bug Fix: Snowflake VFX no longer appears above nearby affected non-champions.
V13.11
  • Bug Fix: No longer sometimes generates monster aggro.
V13.8
  • Maximum damage reduction on affected damage instances reduced to 20% of the total damage from 40%.
V12.20
  • Total cost increased to 2700 Gold 2700 from 2500 Gold 2500.
    • Combine cost increased to 800 Gold 800 from 600 Gold 600.
  • Armor increased to 90 from 80.
  • Rock Solid base damage reduction reduced to 5 from 7.
V11.24
  • Bug Fix: Winter's Caress no longer improperly counts as being in-combat.
Unknown patch
  • Undocumented: Now only triggers on the first damage instance for every cast instance, preventing increased effectiveness against single attacks with multiple instances such as Ashe's Ashe's Ranger's Focus Ranger's Focus, Camille's Camille's Precision Protocol Precision Protocol or Zeri's Zeri's Burst Fire Burst Fire.
    • This can now result in lower effectiveness against these attacks due to the maximum reduction becoming 40% of said first damage instance.
V11.19
  • Bug Fix: Winter's Caress no longer activates while dead if the item is purchased while dead.
V11.11
  • New Effect: Now has a base basic damage reduction of 7.
  • Basic damage reduction health ratio reduced to 3.5 per 1000 health from 5.
  • Attack speed slow increased to 20% from 15%.
V11.8
  • Armor increased to 80 from 70.
V11.3
  • Total cost reduced to 2500 Gold 2500 from 2700 Gold 2700.
    • Combined cost reduced to 600 Gold 600 from 800 Gold 800.
  • Armor reduced to 70 from 80.
V10.23
  • Updated icon.
  • New:
    • Recipe: Warden's Mail Warden's Mail + Glacial Buckler Glacial Buckler + 800 Gold 800 = 2700 Gold 2700.
    • Stats: 80 armor, 400 mana, 20 ability haste.
    • Unique Passive - Winter's Caress: Reduces the attack speed of nearby enemies by 15%.
    • Unique Passive - Rock Solid: Reduces incoming damage from basic attacks by 5 per 1000 maximum health, capped at 40% of the attack's damage.
    • Limited to 1 Frozen Heart.
  • Old:
    • Recipe: Warden's Mail Warden's Mail + Glacial Shroud Glacial Shroud + 800 Gold 800 = 2700 Gold 2700.
    • Stats: 110 armor, 400 mana, 20% cooldown reduction.
    • Unique Aura: Cripple icon Cripples nearby enemies' attack speed by 15% (700 range center-to-center).
V10.2
  • Armor increased to 110 from 100.
V7.21
  • Armor increased to 100 from 90.
V7.12
  • Combine cost increased to 800 Gold 800 from 700 Gold 700. Total cost is still 2700 Gold 2700.
V6.22
  • Combine cost reduced to 700 Gold 700 from 800 Gold 800.
    • Total cost reduced to 2700 Gold 2700 from 2800 Gold 2800.
V6.9
  • New item icon.
    • Old item icon : [1].
V6.3
  • Combine cost increased to 800 Gold 800 from 700 Gold 700, due to Warden's Mail Warden's Mail cost reduction.
V5.22
  • Total cost increased 2800 Gold 2800 from 2600 Gold 2600.
V5.16
  • Total cost increased 2600 Gold 2600 from 2450 Gold 2450.
  • Armor reduced to 90 from 100.
V4.20
  • Total cost reduced to 2450 Gold 2450 from 2600 Gold 2600.
V4.5
  • Combine cost increased to 650 Gold 650, up from 550 Gold 550.
  • Total cost reduced to 2600 Gold 2600, down from 2900 Gold 2900.
  • Armor increased to 100 from 95.
  • Aura attack speed reduction reduced to 15% from 20%.
V3.10
  • Cost reduced to 2900 Gold 2900 from 3000 Gold 3000 (combine cost unchanged).
V3.02
  • Combine cost increased to 550 Gold 550 from 400 Gold 400 (total cost unchanged).
  • Armor increased to 95 from 90.
V3.01
  • Item cost reduced to 3000 Gold 3000 from 3100 Gold 3100.
  • Combine cost reduced to 400 Gold 400 from 500 Gold 500.
V1.0.0.152
  • Item cost increased to 3100 Gold 3100 from 2775 Gold 2775.
  • Combine cost reduced to 500 Gold 500 from 650 Gold 650.
  • New recipe: Warden's Mail Warden's Mail + Glacial Shroud Glacial Shroud
  • Armor reduced to 90 from 99.
  • Mana reduced to 400 from 500.
  • Cooldown reduction is no longer unique.
V1.0.0.111
  • Recipe cost reduced to 650 Gold 650 from 800 Gold 800.
  • Cooldown reduction reduced to 20% from 25%.
V1.0.0.82
V0.9.22.16
  • Recipe cost increased to 425 Gold 425 from 400 Gold 400.
July 10, 2009 Patch
  • Combine cost reduced to 425 Gold 425 from 525 Gold 525.
June 6, 2009 Patch Added
  • High Tier - Armor / Mana item with
  • 25% cooldown reduction.
  • Unique aura: 25% attack speed reduction.

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