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Might of the Ruined King was a legendary item in League of Legends. Could only be forged by .
Recipe
Cost Analysis
Gold Value
- 55 attack damage = 1925
- 12% life steal = 450
- 40% attack speed = 1000
- 15 on-hit physical damage = 375
Gold efficiency
Similar items
Notes
- The active is not considered a projectile.
- Life steal applies to the bonus damage even if it's dealt through other items/abilities, such as , and .
- It also benefits from Heal Power.
- The passive damage is not factored into critical strikes, as it is an on-hit effect.
- increases the heal from the bonus damage twice, for 69% (1.3 × 1.3), instead of 30%. This only occurs if the heal comes from life steal.
- The movement speed buff stacks additively with other percentage movement speed buffs.
- Although and Blade of the Ruined King both have a in their recipe, their item actives are considered distinct from one another and will not put each other on cooldown.
Strategy
- This item is often built as a form of "anti-tank" item used to counter health-stacking champions (or champions that scale well in health) such as , , , , and .
- Blade of the Ruined King can be seen as a soft defensive item, as its active offers high utility. Depending on the situation, it can be used to lock down a target, evade skillshots, or most importantly, improve kiting. * Champions who are highly dependent on basic attacks ( , , , etc.) often build this item due to the attack speed, lifesteal, and the passive that helps boost their autoattacks.
- Champions with an attack speed steroid like
- Champions that autoattack and deal true damage also benefit from the passive on Blade of the Ruined King, as the best counter to true damage is to build health
- However, being able to constantly autoattack is still the foremost criteria. Prime examples are , or .
- AD Casters can also consider picking this item up as a side item for extra damage and sustain vs HP targets, but only if they have abilities that directly synergize with auto attacks via applying on-hit effects (e.g. , and ). *** Even then, a majority of users of this item also often combine it with the likes of a Spellblade-proc'ing item such as .
, , , or champions with on-hit effect abilities like , , , , can synergize well with Blade of the Ruined King, making better use of the passive.
- Champions that autoattack and deal true damage also benefit from the passive on Blade of the Ruined King, as the best counter to true damage is to build health
- Grievous Wounds effect that counters BotRK's lifesteal. The latter's case has more armor and also has its attack speed slow in the form of an aura.
- However, when combined with lethality or any other form of defense-stat bypass, the HP-based damage will punch through easily in most cases against a variety of targets.
and are strong counters to Blade of the Ruined King, as both provide armor and an attack speed slow; in the former's case, it provides a
Trivia
- Blade of the Ruined King is named after Shadow Isles after his 'grief overcame his reason' and lead him to attempt and fail to resurrect his wife. , who transformed the Blessed Isles into the undead-dwelling
- With the start of the preseason of Season 3 was removed and was replaced by Blade of the Ruined King.
- Pentakill's second volume, Pentakill II: Grasp of the Undying, named its tenth track after this item.
Patch History
- V10.23 - Removed
- Removed from the game.
- Undocumented: No longer has its damage capped when attacking clones.
- Passive damage for melee champions increased to 12% of the target's current health from 8%.
- Bug Fix: Passive no longer stacks with Blade of the Ruined King's passive.
- V9.1 - Added
- Added to the game.
- Recipe: + 0 = 3200.
- Stats: 55 attack damage, 40% attack speed, 12% life steal.
- Unique Active: Instantly deal 100 magic damage and slow the target enemy champion by 25% for 3 seconds, while also increasing your own movement speed by 25% for the same duration (90 second cooldown; 550 range).
- Unique Passive: Basic attacks deal 8% of the target's current health bonus physical damage on-hit, with a minimum of 15 bonus damage against all targets, and a maximum of 60 bonus damage against minions and monsters.
- Can only be forged by . Limited to one item.
References[]
List of Items
- Starter items
- Potions and Consumables
- Trinkets
- Distributed items
- Boots
- Basic items
- Epic items
- Legendary items
- Ornn's item upgrades
- Champion exclusive items
- Minion and Turret items
- Special Game Mode Items
- Removed items