Lich Bane

Cost Analysis

Similar Items

Iceborn Gauntlet

Nashor's Tooth

Trinity Force

Luden's Echo

Notes

• Spellblade is an on-hit effect and, as such, will proc from abilities that trigger on-hit effects (i.e. Ezreal's Mystic Shot; Gangplank's Parrrley).
•  Spell vamp and  life steal do not heal from the bonus damage.
• The 1.5 second cooldown will not begin after using an ability, but after hitting an enemy with the spellblade-empowered auto attack.
• The bonus damage does not stack with Iceborn Gauntlet, Trinity Force, or Sheen since they all have a unique passive with the same name.
  • Only the more damaging effect is used:
    • 1. Lich Bane: 75% base AD + (50% AP) bonus magic damage.
    • 2. Trinity Force: 200% base AD bonus physical damage.
    • 3. Iceborn Gauntlet: 100% base AD bonus physical damage.
    • 4. Sheen: 100% base AD bonus physical damage.
• The movement speed stat only increases flat movement speed, and will not interact with other percentage increases.

Strategy

• The passive on Lich Bane effectively costs 533 gold, this is equivalent to about 24.5 AP. For Lich Bane to be worth purchasing, the passive must deal more damage than an additional 25 AP would.
• Lich Bane is especially deadly if combined with an AA modifier, such as  Twisted Fate's Pick a Card massively increasing the AP ratio on the ability, and is even more effective if the user can force the use only minding the 1.5 second cooldown.
• Lich Bane scales with base attack damage and ability power while Trinity Force only scales with base attack damage. For some hybrid champions, it may be better to buy Lich Bane because once the champion reaches level 18, it becomes impossible to increase the damage from Trinity Force with items compared to Lich Bane. The proc from Lich Bane far surpasses Trinity Force with a Rabadon's Deathcap alone on the majority of champions, not to mention other AP items.
• Similar to Trinity Force, Lich Bane synergizes well with cooldown reduction, enabling champions to proc the bonus damage as often as possible while minding the 1.5 second cooldown; the 10 second bonus damage buff does not stack. Using two skills in quick succession will not accrue two stacks of bonus damage, but one.
• Unlike Trinity Force, Lich Bane does not necessarily need to be used by champions with high base attack damage to deal the highest damage possible, since Lich Bane is the only Spellblade item that can scale (with AP in its case). Just making sure to stack a lot of AP is enough to ensure that this item will deal relevant damage. However, Lich Bane still deals more damage with higher base AD, due to its base AD scaling.
• When Lich Bane is ready to be used it will be seen on the champion as a purple glow. For example, Kog'Maw will have a glowing mouth, Shaco will have glowing hands, and Master Yi will have a glowing sword. The glow only appears after using an ability.
  • The same thing will occur with Sheen, Iceborn Gauntlet and Trinity Force. You can easily distinguish between Lich Bane buff and that of the other items by looking at the color.
    • The particle from Sheen and Trinity Force is bright red and it leaves a small trail.
    • The particle from Iceborn Gauntlet is bright blue.
    • The particle from Lich Bane is bright purple.
• Only the more damaging is used:
  • 1. Lich Bane
    • 75% base AD + (50% AP) bonus magic damage.
  • 2. Trinity Force
    • 200% base AD bonus physical damage.
  • 3. Iceborn Gauntlet
    • 100% base AD bonus physical damage.
  • 4. Sheen
    • 100% base AD bonus physical damage.

Trivia

• Lich Bane's icon appears to be an orange recolor of an alpha item with unknown effects called Zeal and Sheen.

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