Rabadon's Deathcap

For the removed Masterwork item, see Rabadon's Deathcrown.

Rabadon's Deathcap edit
Stats
+130 ability power
+130 (+50) ability power
+180 ability power
Passive
Unique – Magical Opus: Increase your ability power by 30%.
Limitations
Limited to 1 Rabadon's Deathcap.
Recipe
+  +  1200
Cost	3600
Sell	2520
ID	3089
Availability
SR 5v5
SR 5v5
HA ARAM
HA ARAM
Nexus Blitz
Nexus Blitz
Arena
Arena
Menu
Mage Ability Power
Keywords
banksys dc dcap hat

Rabadon's Deathcap is a legendary item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Rabadon's Deathcap 3600 ( 1200)
		Needlessly Large Rod 1200
		Needlessly Large Rod 1200

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 130 ability power =  2600
• Total Gold Value =  2600

• 39 ability power (from passive) = 780
  • Total Gold Value = 3380

Passive Gold Value

• 30 ability power (for every 100 ability power) = 600

Gold efficiency

• Rabadon's Deathcap's base stats are 93.89% gold efficient.
• Rabadon's Deathcap gold efficiency due to Magical Opus is further increased by 16.67% for every 100 ability power obtained from other sources.

Similar items

Shadowflame

Zhonya's Hourglass

Banshee's Veil

Mejai's Soulstealer

Notes

• Rabadon's Deathcap by itself grants 169 ability power due to the increase from Magical Opus.
• Magical Opus's ability power multiplier stacks additively with Infernal Might.
  • Magical Opus stacks recursively with other sources of ability power.

Map-Specific Differences

Arena differences ^edit

• Ability power changed to 70.

Strategy

• Rabadon's Deathcap is most suited for champions that have effects that scale with ability power (such as abilities, items, and runes), especially those with higher ratios.
• Rabadon's Deathcap is best purchased after having acquired a high amount of ability power.
  • This is because the item does not provide anything other than ability power in contrast to other items which provide unique bonus effects.
    • Those items may scale with and also grant ability power, thus Rabadon's Deathcap becomes more valuable as it will make those items even more effective due to its large increase in the stat.
• Given a situation where the user can purchase Rabadon's Deathcap or Void Staff, the choice between the two is highly dependent on the champion's ratios.
  • Rabadon's Deathcap becomes a better purchase if the user would gain more damage from the large increase in ability power due to having high ability power ratios. Otherwise, Void Staff is more optimal of a purchase as its passive will increase overall magic damage dealt in spite of ability power ratios.
• While it has the potential to be the single best source of ability power in the game, Rabadon's Deathcap is rarely purchased first, as its passive ability requires other ability power items to have maximum effectiveness, thus at low ability power it loses a lot of its potential cost effectiveness. It has the most difficult recipe of any item in the game. In addition, other items provide unique passives beyond a statistic that may prove to be much more useful than only gaining ability power. These facts render the item ineffective or even detrimental to build earlier in the game, where the arms race for useful purchases at convenient timings is the most important.

Old icons

1st version

2nd version

Trivia

• Upon applying a Ornn's Masterwork upgrade to a Rabadon's Deathcap owned by Ornn or Aurora, the item will transform into a Witch's Hat. The upgraded item will have a new icon and a caption that reads: "'Friend.' Yes, it is a funny word. Yet perhaps I understand its purpose."
  • It is also called Rabbitdon's (Deathcap), or weirding witch hat in the game files.
• This item resulted from a separation of the offensive and defensive abilities of Zhonya's Ring. This is the offensive item, while Zhonya's Hourglass is its defensive counterpart.
• It was originally named Banksy's Deathcap in the Patch Day Preview. This is a tribute to David 'Banksy' Banks, a Riot Games Inc. Director of Platform Engineering.
• The image artwork would seem to be based on the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter franchise. There are eyes and a mouth-like band visible on the hat, very similar to the Sorting Hat.

Patch History

V14.19

• Combine cost increased to 1200 from 1100.
  • Total cost unchanged.
• Ability power reduced to 130 from 140.
• Magical Opus bonus ability power reduced to 30% from 35%.

V14.11

• Can no longer be upgraded to Rabadon's Deathcrown.

V14.1

• Ability power increased to 140 from 120.
• Magical Opus ability power reduced to 35% from 40%.
• New Masterwork item: Rabadon's Deathcrown.
  • Stats: 190 ability power.

V13.10

• Magical Opus ability power increased to 40% from 35%.

V11.6

• Total cost reduced to 3600 from 3800.
  • Combine cost reduced to 1100 from 1300.

V10.24

• Updated icon.

V10.23

• Updated icon.
• New:
  • Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Needlessly Large Rod + 1300 = 3800.
  • Stats: 120 ability power.
  • Unique Passive - Magical Opus: Increase your ability power by 35%.
  • Limited to 1 Rabadon's Deathcap.
• Old:
  • Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Needlessly Large Rod + 1100 = 3600.
  • Stats: 120 ability power.
  • Unique Passive: +40% ability power.
  • Ornn's Masterwork item: Rabadon's Deathcrown.
    • Stats: 175 ability power.

V9.1

• Rabadon's Deathcrown
  • Total cost reduced to 3600 from 4600.
    • Combine cost reduced to 0 from 1000.
  • Can now only be obtained if Ornn forges the item (for himself or for another ally).

V8.4

• New Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Needlessly Large Rod + 1100 = 3600.
  • Old Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Blasting Wand + Amplifying Tome + 1265 = 3800.
• Unique passive ability power increased to 40% from 35%.
• Rabadon's Deathcrown total cost reduced to 4600 from 4800.

V7.17

• Added to recipe from Rabadon's Deathcrown.
  • Recipe: Rabadon's Deathcap + 1000 = 4800.
  • Stats: 175 ability power.
  • Unique Passive: +35% ability power.
  • Only available while Ornn is on your team. Limited to one Master Craftsman item.

V5.22

• Total cost increased to 3800 from 3500.
  • Combine cost increased to 1265 from 965.

V5.13

• New Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Blasting Wand + Amplifying Tome + 965 = 3500
  • Old Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Blasting Wand + 840 = 3300
• Bonus ability power increased to 35% from 30%.

V4.1

• New Effect: Tooltip now displays the amount of ability power gained from its unique passive.

V3.02

• Total cost increased to 3300 from 3200.
  • Combine cost increased to 840 from 740.
• Bonus ability power increased to 30% from 25%.

V1.0.0.152

• Total cost reduced to 3200 from 3600.
  • Combine cost reduced to 740 from 1140.
• Ability power reduced to 120 from 140.
• Bonus ability power reduced to 25% from 30%.

V1.0.0.151

• Removed from Crystal Scar.

V1.0.0.121

• Ability power reduced to 140 from 155.

V1.0.0.110

• Total cost increased to 3600 from 3400.
  • Combine cost increased to 1140 from 940.

V1.0.0.109

• Total cost increased to 3400 from 3300.
  • Combine cost increased to 940 from 840.

V1.0.0.108

• Rabadon's Deathcap
  • Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Blasting Wand + 840 = 3300
  • +155 ability power
  • Unique passive: Increases ability power by 30%.

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