Ravenous Hydra is a legendary item in League of Legends.
Recipe
Cost Analysis
Gold Value
- 70 attack damage = 2450
- 20 ability haste = 1000
- 12% life steal = 642.6
- Total Gold Value = 4092.6
Gold efficiency
- 124.02% gold efficient. base stats are
Similar items
Notes
- Cleave deals default damage, and thus will not trigger spell effects.
- Ravenous Crescent deals area damage, and will trigger spell effects in contrast to Cleave.
- Cleave is not blocked by spell shield.
- Cleave does not trigger on attacks against structures.
- Cleave will trigger even if the basic attack does not deal damage, such as if the target is invulnerable.
- Cleave's damage benefits from life steal at 150% effectiveness.
- Ravenous Crescent is an auto-targeted effect.
- Ravenous Crescent's cast breaks stealth.
- Ravenous Crescent has a cast time equal to the user's attack windup.
Map-Specific Differences
Old icons
Trivia
- Ravenous Hydra is based (probably) on Yggdra Union's Bandits weapon.
- This item is very similar to the DotA item Battle Fury.
- Along with Hydra, a many-headed beast.
- They also build from five headed dragon goddess in the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPG. , which shares its name with the
and , Ravenous Hydra borrows its namesake from the
Media
Patch History
- Ravenous Crescent life steal effectiveness increased to 150% from 100%.
- Bug Fix: Ravenous Crescent range indicator is now properly offset from the center by 100 units, matching the hitbox.
- Cast time now shifts to be equal to the caster's attack windup time if it would be lower than the usual cast time.
- Bug Fix: Cast time now properly uses attack windup values.
- V14.1 - January 12th Hotfix
- Lifesteal increased to 12% from 10%.
- Cast time changed to champion's auto attack windup from 0.2 seconds.
- New:
- Recipe: + + + 100 = 3300.
- Stats: 70 attack damage, 20 ability haste, 10% life steal.
- Unique Active - Ravenous Crescent: Deal 100% AD physical damage to enemies within a 450 radius in front of you (10 second cooldown).
- Unique Passive - Cleave: Damaging basic attacks deal ( 40% AD / 20% AD) physical damage to other enemies within 350 units of the target.
- Limited to 1 Cleave item.
- Old:
- Recipe: + + + 200 = 3400.
- Stats: 65 attack damage, 25 ability haste, 10% life steal.
- Unique Passive - Cleave: Damaging basic attacks and ability damage from abilities deal ( 40% AD / 20% AD) physical damage to other enemies within 350 units of the target damaged. Can only hit each target once per attack or ability, and may only trigger once every 10 seconds from the same cast.
- Unique Passive - Carnivorous: Gain 0.5 bonus attack damage whenever you kill a minion, doubled for kills against champions, large monsters, and large minions. This effect stacks up to 40 times, for a total of 20 bonus attack damage. Lose 60% of stacks upon death.
- Limited to 1 Hydra item.
- Bug Fix: Cleave now triggers correctly.
- Ability haste increased to 25 from 20.
- Life steal increased to 10% from 0%.
- Omnivamp reduced to 0% from 10%.
- New Effect: Damage dealt by Cleave now benefits from life steal.
- V12.23 - December 14th Hotfix
- Cleave damage AD ratio reduced to ( 40% AD / 20% AD) from ( 50% AD / 25% AD).
- Stacks lost upon death increased to 60% from 50%.
- Removed: No longer grants 0.1% omnivamp per stack of Carnivorous.
- Cleave damage AD ratio reduced to ( 50% AD / 25% AD) from ( 60% AD / 30% AD).
- Bug Fix: Selling the item and undoing that action now properly preserves the acquired stacks.
- Bug Fix: No longer loses the Cleave effect after 2500 seconds (~41 minutes) of being purchased.
- V12.22 - November 17th Hotfix
- Total cost increased to 3400 from 3300.
- Carnivorous bonus attack damage per stack reduced to 0.5 bonus attack damage from 0.6.
- Attack damage reduced to 65 from 70.
- Cleave AD ratio changed to ( 60% AD / 30% AD) from 60% − 12% (based on distance) AD.
- New Unique Passive - Carnivorous: Gain 0.6 bonus attack damage and 0.1% omnivamp whenever you kill a minion, doubled for kills against champions, large monsters, and large minions. This effect stacks up to 40 times, for a total of 24 bonus attack damage and 4% omnivamp. Lose 50% of these bonuses upon death.
- Updated icon.
- Attack damage increased to 70 from 65.
- Removed: Cleave no longer works against structures.
- The tooltip now also mentions this.
- New Effect: Cleave now only triggers once every 10 seconds within the same cast instance.
- Removed: Cleave no longer triggers from spell damage by items.
- Bug Fix: (Regarding the above) Cleave now behaves more consistently across similar abilities.
- Omnivamp reduced to 10% from 15%.
- Undocumented: Effect is now affected by the on-hit modifiers of , , and .
- Updated icon.
- Now purchaseable on ranged champions.
- Updated icon.
- New:
- Recipe: + + + 100 = 3300.
- Stats: 65 attack damage, 15% omni vamp, 20 ability haste.
- Unique Passive - Cleave: Abilities and basic attacks deal 60% − 12% (based on distance) AD physical damage to other nearby enemies. Can only hit each target once per attack or ability, and doesn't trigger off periodic damage.
- Limited to 1 Hydra item.
- Old:
- Recipe: + + + 400 = 3500.
- Stats: 80 attack damage, 18% life steal, 100% base health regeneration.
- Unique Passive: Life steal applies to 50% of Cleave and Crescent's splash physical damage.
- Unique Passive - Cleave: Basic attacks deal (20% to 60% AD) physical damage to units around your target – (20% AD near the edge).
- Unique Active - Crescent: Deals (60% to 100% AD) physical damage to units in front of you – (60% AD near the edge) (10 second cooldown).
- Lifesteal increased to 18% from 12%.
- Crescent radius increased to 450 units from 400.
- Crescent center point is now at the champion's basic attack range (up to 200 units), instead of 125 units in front of the champion.
- V10.4 - February 21st Hotfix
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where and could use its active effect from range.
- Attack damage increased to 80 from 75.
- Removed: Can no longer be swapped with for free.
- New Recipe: + + + 1100 = 3600
- Removed: Can no longer be purchased by ranged champions.
- New Effect: You can now freely exchange and .
- New item icon.
- New Effect: Cleave and Crescent damage scales linearly with distance from scales in three damage 'stages'.
- New Effect: Now grants +100% base health regen.
- Removed: +15 health regeneration per 5 seconds.
- V1.0.0.152 Added
- Recipe: + + 400 = 3500
- +75 attack damage, +15 health regen per 5 seconds, +10% life steal.
- Passive: Damage dealt by this item works with life steal.
- Unique Passive - Cleave: Your attacks deal up to 60% of your attack damage to units around your target - decaying down to 20% near the edge.
- Unique Active - Crescent: Deals up to 100% of your attack damage to units around you - decaying down to 60% near the edge (10 second cooldown).
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