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Lich Bane is a legendary item in 
League of Legends.
Recipe
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Cost Analysis
Gold Value
- 80 ability power =
1740 - 10% movement speed = 395
- Total Gold Value = 2135
- Total Gold Value =
Gold Efficiency*
- Lich Bane is 71.17% gold efficient without its passive.
Similar Items
Spellblade VFX
Notes
- Spellblade deals proc damage, and thus will not trigger spell effects.
- Spellblade is not blocked by spell shield.
- The movement speed stat only increases flat movement speed, and will not interact with other percentage increases.
- Spellblade's bonus damage matches the damage type of the triggering attack and in almost all cases this deals physical damage. Exceptions are Camille's Precision Protocol, Corki's Hextech Munitions, Galio's Colossal Smash, Nidalee's Takedown and Sylas' Petricite Burst.
- Spellblade does not benefit from critical strikes.
- Spellblade's bonus damage benefits from life steal, omnivamp, and physical vamp (this one excludes Lich Bane) but not spell vamp.
- The bonus damage does not stack with other Spellblade items ( Sheen, Divine Sunderer, Essence Reaver, and Trinity Force) since they all share a unique passive with the same name.
- Only the more damaging effect is used when multiple Spellblade items are owned at the same time.
- The cooldown starts after the enhanced attack is consumed and consecutive ability casts refresh the duration of the enhanced attack.
- Spellblade will trigger against structures. Divine Sunderer will specifically not deal its maximum health damage against turrets.
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 2.5 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 ability haste, 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 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 Lich Bane is bright purple.
- The particle from
- The same thing will occur with
Old icon
Trivia
Old Item VFX.
- Lich Bane's previous icon appears to be an orange recolor of an alpha item with unknown effects called Zeal and Sheen.
- The current icon appears to be a petricite blade releasing stored magic.
Patch history
- Updated icon.
- AP ratio reduced to 40% AP from 50% AP.
- V10.23 - November 12th Hotfix
- AP ratio reduced to 50% AP from 60% AP.
- Updated icon.
- New:
- Recipe: Sheen + Aether Wisp + Blasting Wand + 600 = 3000.
- Stats: 80 ability power, 10% movement speed.
- Unique Passive - Spellblade: After using an ability, your next basic attack within 10 seconds deals 150% base AD (+ 60% AP) bonus magic damage on-hit (2.5 second cooldown).
- Limited to 1 Lich Bane.
- Recipe:
- Old:
- Recipe: Sheen + Aether Wisp + Blasting Wand + 450 = 3200.
- Stats: 80 ability power, 7% movement speed, 250 mana, 10% cooldown reduction.
- Unique Passive - Spellblade: After using an ability, your next basic attack within 10 seconds deals 75% base AD (+ 50% AP) bonus magic damage on-hit (1.5 second cooldown).
- Recipe:
- Spellblade VFX updated.
- New Recipe: Sheen + Aether Wisp + Blasting Wand + 450 = 3200
- Old Recipe: Sheen + Aether Wisp + 950 = 3000
- Old Recipe:
- Now grants 10% cooldown reduction.
- Movement speed increased to 7% from 5%.
- Combine cost increased to 950 from 850.
- Total cost unchanged.
- Now correctly lists the Spellblade passive as having a 1.5 second cooldown.
- New Recipe: Sheen + Aether Wisp + 850 = 3000
- Old Recipe: Sheen + Blasting Wand + 940 = 3000
- Old Recipe:
- Spellblade base damage changed to 75% base AD from 50.
- Spellblade AP scaling reduced to 50% AP from 75% AP.
- Combine cost increased to 940 from 880.
- Total cost unchanged.
- New Recipe: Sheen + Blasting Wand + 880 = 3000
- Old Recipe: Null-Magic Mantle + Sheen + Blasting Wand + 950 = 3470?
- Old Recipe:
- No longer grants magic resistance.
- Mana reduced to 250 from 350.
- Movement speed reduced to 5% from 7%.
- Passive's on-hit magic damage changed to 50 + 75% AP magic damage from 100% AP physical damage.
- Particle effects have been updated.
- Now displays its cooldown on the item itself rather than with a buff.
- Fixed a bug where the cost was inadvertently increased and the mana gain lowered.
- "Reservoir" system has been removed. Lich Bane will now strictly respect the cooldown time between procs. The cooldown has been reduced to 2 second delays between procs from 3 seconds.
- Now has an internal cooldown of 3 seconds (but now works with all spells including Lay Waste and Hate Spike).
- Fixed tooltip.
- New Recipe: Null-Magic Mantle + Sheen + Blasting Wand + 950 = 3465?
- Old Recipe: Amplifying Tome + Sheen + Blasting Wand + 710 = ?
- Old Recipe:
- Movement speed reduced to 7% from 8%.
- Ability power reduced to 80 from 100.
- Magic resistance increased to 32 from 0.
- Ability power reduced to 100 from 110.
- Movement speed reduced to 8% from 10%.
- Unique effect no longer stacks with Sheen's effect.
- Passive now unable to crit.
- May 9, 2009 Patch Added
- Lich Bane: High tier legendary Ability Power / Mana item (which uses Sheen) with Unique passive: 100% chance when an ability is used that your next physical attack deals +Ability Power bonus damage.
- Recipe: Amplifying Tome + Sheen + Blasting Wand + 710 = ?
- +110 ability power
- +10% movement speed
- +350 mana
- Unique passive: 100% chance when an ability is used that your next physical attack deals +Ability Power bonus damage.
- Recipe:
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