Lich Bane

For the Wild Rift item, see Lich Bane.

Lich Bane edit
Stats
+75 ability power
+15 ability haste
+8% movement speed
Passive
Unique – 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 (begins after using the empowered attack) second cooldown).
Limitations
Limited to 1 Lich Bane.
Recipe
+  +  +  550
Cost	3000
Sell	2100
ID	3100
Availability
SR
HA
Menu
Mage Ability Power Ability Haste Movement

Lich Bane is a legendary item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Lich Bane 3000 ( 550)
		Sheen 700
		Aether Wisp 850 ( 415) Amplifying Tome 435
		Fiendish Codex 900 ( 465) Amplifying Tome 435

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 75 ability power =  1631.25
• 15 ability haste =  400
• 8% movement speed =  640
• Total Gold Value =  2671.25

Gold efficiency

• Lich Bane's base stats are 89.04% gold efficient.

Similar items

Divine Sunderer

Essence Reaver

Guinsoo's Rageblade

Nashor's Tooth

Trinity Force

Notes

• The movement speed stat only increases flat movement speed, and will not interact with other percentage increases.
• Spellblade deals proc damage, and thus will not trigger spell effects.
• Spellblade is not blocked by spell shield if applied by a basic attack.
  • It is blocked if the effect is applied by an ability that triggers on-hit effects.
• Spellblade can be blocked (negates the damage, consumes the effect, and places it on cooldown) and dodged (prevents the effect from triggering altogether).
  • Block will prevent Essence Reaver's mana restore, but not Divine Sunderer's heal.
• Spellblade is not affected by critical strike modifiers.
• Spellblade's bonus damage benefits from  life steal, omnivamp, and physical vamp (this one excludes Lich Bane) but not  spell vamp.
• Spellblade's bonus damage does not stack with other Spellblade items since they all share a unique passive with the same name.
  • Other effects will stack however ( Divine Sunderer's heal and Essence Reaver's mana restore).
  • If multiple Spellblade items are owned, the one that will deal its bonus damage is determined by the following order:
    • Divine Sunderer / Trinity Force
    • Lich Bane
    • Essence Reaver
    • Sheen
• Spellblade's cooldown starts after the enhanced attack is consumed and consecutive ability casts refresh the duration of the enhanced attack.
  • If multiple Spellblade items are owned, all of them will be placed on cooldown at the same time after using 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.

Old icons

1st version

2nd version

Trivia

• 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.

Media

Item VFX

Old Item VFX

Patch History

V12.2

• New Recipe: Sheen + Aether Wisp + Fiendish Codex + 550 = 3000.
  • Old Recipe: Sheen + Aether Wisp + Blasting Wand + 600 = 3000.
• Ability haste increased to 15 from 0.
• Spellblade base AD ratio reduced to 75% base AD from 150%.
• Spellblade AP ratio increased to 50% AP from 40% AP.
• Spellblade cooldown reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2.5.

V11.13

• Bonus movement speed reduced to 8% from 10%.
• Ability power increased to 75 from 70.

V11.3

• Ability power reduced to 70 from 80.

V10.24

• 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.

V10.23

• 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.
• 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).

V8.14

• Spellblade VFX updated.

V5.22

• New Recipe: Sheen + Aether Wisp + Blasting Wand + 450 = 3200
  • Old Recipe: Sheen + Aether Wisp + 950 = 3000
• Now grants 10% cooldown reduction.
• Movement speed increased to 7% from 5%.

V5.2

• Combine cost increased to 950 from 850.
  • Total cost unchanged.

V4.13

• Now correctly lists the Spellblade passive as having a 1.5 second cooldown.

V4.5

• New Recipe: Sheen + Aether Wisp + 850 = 3000
  • Old Recipe: Sheen + Blasting Wand + 940 = 3000

V4.4

• Spellblade base damage changed to 75% base AD from 50.
• Spellblade AP scaling reduced to 50% AP from 75% AP.

V3.04

• Combine cost increased to 940 from 880.
  • Total cost unchanged.

V1.0.0.152

• New Recipe: Sheen + Blasting Wand + 880 = 3000
  • Old Recipe: Null-Magic Mantle + Sheen + Blasting Wand + 950 = 3470?
• 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.

V1.0.0.146

• Now displays its cooldown on the item itself rather than with a buff.

V1.0.0.110

• Fixed a bug where the cost was inadvertently increased and the mana gain lowered.

V1.0.0.100

• "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.

V0.8.22.115

• Now has an internal cooldown of 3 seconds (but now works with all spells including Lay Waste and Hate Spike).

V0.8.21.110

• Fixed tooltip.

June 26, 2009 Patch

• New Recipe: Null-Magic Mantle + Sheen + Blasting Wand + 950 = 3465?
  • Old Recipe: Amplifying Tome + Sheen + Blasting Wand + 710 = ?
• Movement speed reduced to 7% from 8%.
• Ability power reduced to 80 from 100.
• Magic resistance increased to 32 from 0.

June 19, 2009 Patch

• Ability power reduced to 100 from 110.
• Movement speed reduced to 8% from 10%.

May 29, 2009 Patch

• Unique effect no longer stacks with Sheen's effect.

May 15, 2009 Patch

• 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.

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