Philosopher's Medallion

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Philosopher's Medallion edit
Stats
+10% cooldown reduction
+50% base health regeneration
+ 5 per 10 seconds
Passive
Unique – Favor: Nearby enemy minions killed by an ally (excluding yourself) will sometimes drop a gold coin that can be picked up to either grant 50 or restore 10% missing mana (minimum 20). Coin can only drop if an allied champion is nearby. Siege minions always drop a coin upon death as long as you did not kill them.
Limitations
Limited to 1 Starter item.
Recipe
Cost	450
Sell	180
ID	N/A
Availability
SR
HA
Menu
Tools>Gold Income Defense>Health Regen Magic>Mana Regen
Keywords
Support Economy Gold Ancient Coin Nomad's Medallion

Philosopher's Medallion was a starter item in League of Legends. It was exclusive to Nexus Blitz.

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 10% cooldown reduction = 266.67
• 50% base health regeneration = 150
  • Total Gold Value = 416.67

Gold efficiency

• Philosopher's Medallion's base stats were 92.59% gold efficient.
• Philosopher's Medallion becomes gold efficient in about 1 gold coin.
• Without Favor, Philosopher's Medallion becomes gold efficient in 1 minute and 7 seconds.

Similar items

Heart of Targon

Nomad's Medallion

Notes

• If the last coin to drop was a gold coin, the next coin will be a mana coin. If the last coin was a mana coin, the next coin will be a gold coin.
• The coin drop rate starts at 0% and increases by 11.11% for every minion that dies (regardless of whether it drops a coin or not). When a minion drops a coin (including siege minions) the chance drops by 33.33%. This value can go below 0%.
  • Because of the way this is done, for every minion wave (with or without siege minion), the average coin drop rate is 2 coins per minion wave.
  • From this, we can determinate the average passive gold value of Favor: 13.33 per 10 seconds.

Trivia

• Philosopher's Medallion is the spiritual return of Philosopher's Stone.

Patch History

V9.3 - February 12th Hotfix

• New Effect: Now only drops mana coins unless an ally champion is within 2000 units.
• Favor gold coin increased to 50 from 45.

V9.1 - January 21, 2019

• Removed from the game since Nexus Blitz is no longer available for play-testing.

V8.24

• Gold per 10 seconds increased to 5 from 3.

V8.16 - Added

• Availability: Nexus Blitz.
• Cost: 450.
• Stats: 10% cooldown reduction, 50% base health regeneration, 3 per 10 seconds.
• Unique Passive - Favor: Nearby enemy minions, killed by any ally other than you, will sometimes drop a coin that can be picked up to either grant 40 or restore 10% missing mana (minimum 20). Cannon minions will drop a coin as long as you don't kill them.

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