Life steal

Life steal (LS) is a stat that restores health to the attacker based on a portion of damage dealt from a basic attack, including attacks that are modified by effects or abilities (such as  Nasus' Siphoning Strike or Spellblade). Life steal works for abilities that apply on-hit effects such as Mystic Shot and Parrrley, but not with item actives (e.g. Blade of the Ruined King). Usually, on-hit effects do not interact with life steal.

Life steal is calculated from the effective damage dealt by the attack after modifiers and mitigation (i.e. armor).

All champions have 0% base life steal, but it can be increased with items, runes, and by some champion abilities.

Gold Value ​

• Life steal has a gold value of 37.5 per point.

Increasing life steal

The following is true life steal. It does not benefit from  Heal Power.

Items

Item	Cost	Amount	Availability
Bilgewater Cutlass Bilgewater Cutlass	1600	10 %	All maps
Blade of the Ruined King Blade of the Ruined King	3300	12 %	All maps
Doran's Blade Doran's Blade	450	3 %	Summoner's Rift
Guardian's Hammer Guardian's Hammer	950	10 %	Howling Abyss
Mercurial Scimitar Mercurial Scimitar	3400	10 %	All maps
Might of the Ruined King Might of the Ruined King	3300	12 %	All maps
Ravenous Hydra Ravenous Hydra	3500	18 %	All maps
Sanguine Blade Sanguine Blade	3100	15 %	All maps
Vampiric Scepter Vampiric Scepter	900	10 %	All maps

• Hunter's Machete
• Maw of Malmortius
• Skirmisher's Sabre
• Spirit Visage
• Stalker's Blade
• The Bloodthirster

Champion abilities

• Lee Sin's Iron Will
• Nasus' Soul Eater
• Olaf's Vicious Strikes
• Sion's Glory in Death

Runes

• Legend: Bloodline
• Revitalize (while below 40% health)

Attack drain

The following effects are similar to life steal. They benefit from  Heal Power.

Items

• Cull
• Death's Dance
• Elixir of Wrath
• Hextech Gunblade
• Spirit Visage

Champion abilities

• Aatrox's Umbral Dash and World Ender
• Aphelios' Severum
• Hecarim's Spirit of Dread
• Olaf's Vicious Strikes
• Trundle's Frozen Domain

Runes

• Conqueror
• Revitalize

Notes

• Life steal stacks additively, and has no cap.
• Spirit Visage's passive is a unique multiplicative increase. For example, if a unit had 10% life steal, the 30% increase would be calculated as: 10% × 1.3 = 13% life steal.
• Life steal will not work against structures and wards.
• Healing reduction effects like Ignite and Varus' Hail of Arrows reduces the health restored by life steal.
• Blade of the Ruined King's bonus damage healing is considered a drain effect, even thought it scales off life steal. This means that the healing is affected by  Heal Power.

See Healing reduction for more information.

Trivia

Last updated: November 20, 2019 - V9.23

• The maximum life steal is reached with Sion at 249.6%.
• Items:
  • 1 The Bloodthirster
  • 4  Sanguine Blade
  • 1 Spirit Visage (Heal Multiplier)
• Runes:
  • Legend: Bloodline
• Buffs:
  • Sion's Glory in Death

• Relevant mathematics:
  • Sion's life steal:
    • Items = 20% + 4 × 15% = 80%
    • Runes = 12% = 12%
    • Buffs = 100% = 100%
    • Life Steal Multiplier = 1.3 = 1.3
      • Sion's life steal = (80% + 12% + 100%) × 1.3 = 249.6% life steal

Last updated: March 23, 2020 - V10.6

• The maximum achievable life steal by a playable champion is 351.351% on Sion. Take note this is not the stat shown in game. It simply states the amount of percentage healing received basic attacks.
• Items:
  • 1 The Bloodthirster
  • 4  Ravenous Hydra
  • 1 Spirit Visage (Heal Multiplier)
• Runes:
  • Conqueror
  • Legend: Bloodline
  • Revitalize (Heal Multiplier)
• Buffs:
  • Sion's Glory in Death
  • Elixir of Wrath

• Relevant mathematics:
  • Sion's life steal:
    • Items = 20% + 4 × 18% = 92%
    • Runes = 15% + 12% = 27%
    • Buffs = 100% + 15% = 115%
    • Heal Multiplier = 1.3 ×  1.05 × 1.1 = 1.5015
      • Sion's life steal = (92% + 27% + 115%) × 1.5015 = 351.351% life steal

Champion statistics

Offensive	Ability power ·  Attack damage ·  Attack speed ·  Critical strike chance ·  Critical strike damage ·  Armor penetration ·  Magic penetration ·  Life steal ·  Spell vamp ·  True damage
Defensive	Heal and shield power ·  Health ·  Health regeneration ·  Armor ·  Magic resistance ·  Tenacity ·  Slow resist
Utility	Cooldown reduction ·  Energy ·  Energy regeneration ·  Mana ·  Mana regeneration
Other	Experience ·  Gold generation ·  Movement speed ·  Range

References