Physical damage

Physical damage is one of the three types of damage in League of Legends. Physical damage is dealt by all basic attacks, and is also dealt by some champion abilities and by some item effects.

Statistics influencing physical damage

Most physical damage is based on the champion's attack damage, but not all damage based on attack damage does physical damage; a small number of champion abilities that deal physical damage can be strengthened with ability power.

Not all physical damage sources benefit from life steal, but most that apply on-hit effects do.

Champion abilities dealing physical that don't proc on-hit effects usually proc spell vamp.

The amount of physical damage received is reduced by a certain percentage based on the target's armor or other damage reducing effects, such as Alistar's Unbreakable Will. The effectiveness of armor can be reduced with armor penetration or reduction.

Items that deal physical damage

• Blade of the Ruined King
• Bloodrazor
• Hunter's Machete
• Iceborn Gauntlet
• Muramana
• Ravenous Hydra
• Recurve Bow
• Runaan's Hurricane
• Serrated Dirk
• Sheen
• Skirmisher's Sabre
• Stalker's Blade
• Tiamat
• Titanic Hydra
• Trinity Force

Champions that only deal physical damage

The following list consists of champions that only deal physical damage (not counting sources other than abilities and basic attacks, such as Ignite, Crest of Cinders or Leona's Sunlight):

• Aatrox
• Draven
• Illaoi
• Kled
• Quinn
• Riven
• Sivir
• Talon
• Tryndamere
• Vi

Champion Abilities

These are champions' abilities that deal physical damage but scale with ability power:

• Akali's Shuriken Flip
• Ezreal's Mystic Shot
• Gnar's GNAR!
• Irelia's Defiant Dance
• Jax's Leap Strike
• Jhin's Dancing Grenade
• Kai'Sa's Icathian Rain
• Lucian's The Culling
• Malphite's Thunderclap
• Miss Fortune's Double Up and Bullet Time
• Quinn's Blinding Assault
• Rek'Sai's Prey Seeker
• Sejuani's Winter's Wrath
• Shaco's Backstab, Deceive and Two-Shiv Poison
• Sivir's Boomerang Blade
• Tristana's Explosive Charge
• Tryndamere's Spinning Slash
• Twitch's Contaminate
• Vi's Excessive Force

Gameplay Elements