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Lich Bane (League of Legends)Lich Bane (League of Legends)
Lich Bane (Wild Rift)Lich Bane (Wild Rift)

Lich Bane is a legendary item in League of Legends icon League of Legends.

Recipe

Lich Bane item
Lich Bane
3100 Gold 3100 (250 Gold 250)
Sheen item
900 Gold 900 (650 Gold 650)
Aether Wisp item
850 Gold 850 (450 Gold 450)
Hextech Alternator item
1100 Gold 1100 (300 Gold 300)

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

Gold efficiency

  • Lich Bane's Lich Bane's base stats are 102.63% gold efficient.

Map-Specific Differences

Arena icon Arena differences edit
  • Ability haste changed to 20.
  • Movement speed changed to 10%.
  • Spellblade AP ratio changed to 66% AP.

Old icons

References

List of Items

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

Gold efficiency

  • Lich Bane Lich Bane is 81.27% gold efficient, without its passive.
  • For the item to be gold efficient, Spellblade must be worth at least 562 Gold 562 and 1062 Gold 1062 on manaless champions.


Similar Items

Notes

File:Lich Bane effect.png

Lich Bane's effect.

  • The lowest base movement speed in the game is 325. At this speed, Lich Bane Lich Bane grants 16.25 movement speed.
  • The movement speed stat only increases flat movement speed, and will not interact with other percentage increases.
  • Lich Bane's Lich Bane's passive is considered an on-hit effect and, as such, is capable of being applied to skills such as Ezreal's Ezreal's Mystic Shot Mystic Shot and Gangplank's Gangplank's Parrrley Parrrley, which effectively adds a 50% AP ratio to those abilities in addition to their natural AD/AP ratios.
  • The passive's 1.5 second cooldown will not begin after using an ability, but after hitting an enemy with the spellblade-empowered auto attack.
  • Lich Bane Lich Bane scales with base attack damage and ability power while Trinity Force Trinity Force only scales with base attack damage. For some hybrid champions, it may be better to buy Lich Bane Lich Bane because once the champion reaches level 18, it becomes impossible to increase the damage from Trinity Force Trinity Force with items compared to Lich Bane Lich Bane. The proc from Lich Bane Lich Bane far surpasses Trinity Force Trinity Force with a Rabadon's Deathcap Rabadon's Deathcap alone on the majority of champions, not to mention other AP items.
    • The highest Trinity Force Trinity Force is of 278, achieved by Mega Gnar Mega Gnar at level 18. Lich Bane Lich Bane beats it out on Mega Gnar at 347.5 ability power.
  • The passive on Lich Bane Lich Bane effectively costs 562 gold, this is equivalent to about 25.84 AP. For Lich Bane to be worth purchasing, the passive must deal more damage than an additional 26 AP would.
  • Lich Bane Lich Bane does not proc spell vamp nor lifesteal.
  • Lich Bane Lich Bane is especially deadly if combined with an AA modifier, such as  Mordekaiser's Mordekaiser's Mace of Spades Mace of Spades or Twisted Fate's Twisted Fate's Pick A Card 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.
  • Similar to Trinity Force Trinity Force, Lich Bane 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.
  • Lich Bane's Lich Bane's proc can be countered by Jax's Jax's Counter Strike Counter Strike and Fiora's Fiora's Riposte Riposte.
  • The effect by Lich Bane Lich Bane can be seen on the champion as a purple glow. For example, Kog'Maw Kog'Maw will have a glowing mouth, Shaco Shaco will have glowing hands, and Master Yi Master Yi will have a glowing sword, etc. The glow only appears after using an ability.
    • The same thing will occur with Sheen Sheen, Iceborn Gauntlet Iceborn Gauntlet and Trinity Force Trinity Force. You can easily distinguish between Lich Bane Lich Bane buff and that of the other items by looking at the color.
      • The particle from Sheen Sheen and Trinity Force Trinity Force is bright red and it leaves a small trail.
      • The particle from Iceborn Gauntlet Iceborn Gauntlet is bright blue.
      • The particle from Lich Bane Lich Bane is bright purple.

Patch history

V5.2:

  • Combine cost increased to 950 Gold 950 from 850 Gold 850 (Total cost unchanged).

V4.13:

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

V4.5:

  • Combine cost reduced to 850 Gold 850 from 940 Gold 940 (Total cost unchanged).
  • New recipe: Sheen Sheen + Aether Wisp Aether Wisp.

V4.4:

  • Spellblade now deals (+75% base AD)(+50% AP) instead of 50 (+75% AP).

V3.04:

  • Combine cost increased to 940 Gold 940 from 880 Gold 880 (Total cost unchanged).

V1.0.0.152:

  • Item cost reduced to 3000 Gold 3000 from 3470 Gold 3470.
  • Combine cost reduced to 880 Gold 880 from 950 Gold 950.
  • New recipe: Sheen Sheen + Blasting Wand Blasting Wand
  • 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 Lay Waste and Hate Spike Hate Spike).

V0.8.21.110:

  • Fixed tooltip.

June 26, 2009 Patch:

  • Recipe changed: Now requires Null-Magic Mantle Null-Magic Mantle instead of Amplifying Tome Amplifying Tome.
  • Cost increased to 950 Gold 950 from 710 Gold 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:

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

May 29, 2009 Patch:

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

May 15, 2009 Patch:

  • Passive now unable to crit.

May 9, 2009 Patch: Added

  • Lich Bane 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 Amplifying Tome + Sheen Sheen + Blasting Wand Blasting Wand + 710 Gold 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.

References

List of Items

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