Ravenous Hydra

Ravenous Hydra edit
Stats
+65 attack damage
+15 ability haste
+12% life steal
+65 (+14.29) attack damage
+15 (+16) ability haste
+12% life steal
+79.29 attack damage
+31 ability haste
+12% life steal
Active
Unique – Ravenous Crescent: Deal 80% AD physical damage to enemies within a 450 radius in front of you (10 second cooldown).
Passive
Unique – Cleave: Basic attacks on-hit deal ( 40% AD / 20% AD) physical damage to other enemies in a 350 radius centered around the target.
Limitations
Limited to 1 Hydra item.
Recipe
+  +  +  150
Cost	3300
Sell	2310
ID	3074
Availability
SR 5v5
SR 5v5
HA ARAM
HA ARAM
Nexus Blitz
Nexus Blitz
Arena
Arena
Menu
Fighter Assassin Attack Damage Ability Haste Life Steal & Vamp
Keywords
rav hydra

Ravenous Hydra is a legendary item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Ravenous Hydra 3300 ( 150)
		Tiamat 1200 ( 500) Long Sword 350 Long Sword 350
		Vampiric Scepter 900 ( 550) Long Sword 350
		Caulfield's Warhammer 1050 ( 100) Long Sword 350 Glowing Mote 250 Long Sword 350

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 65 attack damage =  2275
• 15 ability haste =  750
• 12% life steal =  642.6
• Total Gold Value =  3667.6

Gold efficiency

• Ravenous Hydra's base stats are 111.14% gold efficient.

Similar items

Bloodthirster

Blade of the Ruined King

Mercurial Scimitar

Profane Hydra

Stridebreaker

Titanic Hydra

Notes

• Cleave deals default damage, and thus will not trigger spell effects.
• 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 100% effectiveness.
• Ravenous Crescent's damage benefits from  life steal at 100% effectiveness.
• Ravenous Crescent deals area damage and thus will trigger spell effects.
• Ravenous Crescent is blocked by spell shield.
• Ravenous Crescent is an auto-targeted effect.
• Ravenous Crescent's radius is centered offset from the user in the direction they are facing.
• Ravenous Crescent's cast breaks stealth.
• Ravenous Crescent has a cast time equal to the user's attack windup.
  • If Ravenous Hydra's item slot is changed during this cast time, the area of effect spell will not occur.^(bug)
• Ravenous Crescent goes on cooldown at the end of its cast.

Map-Specific Differences

Arena differences ^edit

• Attack damage changed to 55.
• Life steal changed to 15%.
• Ravenous Crescent damage changed to 130% AD.
• New Effect: Cleave now scales with ( 28% / 14%) AP.
• New Effect: Ravenous Crescent now scales with 78% AP.

Old icons

1st version

2nd version

3rd version

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 Profane Hydra and Titanic Hydra, Ravenous Hydra borrows its namesake from the Hydra, a many-headed beast.
  • They also build from Tiamat, which shares its name with the five headed dragon goddess in the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPG.

Media

Cleave VFX

Crescent VFX

Old Cleave VFX

Old Crescent VFX

Sound Effects

Crescent Active

• ▶️   Active SFX
• ▶️   Active SFX
• ▶️   Active SFX
• ▶️   Active SFX

Patch History

V14.19

• Combine cost increased to 150 from 100.
  • Total cost unchanged.
• Attack damage reduced to 65 from 70.
• Ability haste reduced to 15 from 20.
• Ravenous Crescent AD ratio reduced to 80% AD from 100% AD.
• Ravenous Crescent life steal effectiveness reduced to 100% from 150%.

V14.10

• Bug Fix: Increased the indicator's radius to properly match Ravenous Crescent's cast radius.

V14.4

• 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.

V14.2

• 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.

V14.1

• New:
  • Recipe: Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter + Caulfield's Warhammer + 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: Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter + Caulfield's Warhammer + 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.

V13.5

• Bug Fix: Cleave now triggers correctly.

V13.1b

• 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%.

V12.23

• 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.
  • Combine cost increased to 200 from 100.
• Carnivorous bonus attack damage per stack reduced to 0.5 bonus attack damage from 0.6.

V12.22

• 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.

V12.21

• Updated icon.

V12.3

• Attack damage increased to 70 from 65.

V11.18

• Removed: Cleave no longer works against structures.
  • The tooltip now also mentions this.

V11.5

• 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.

V11.3

• Omnivamp reduced to 10% from 15%.

V11.2

• Undocumented: Effect is now affected by the on-hit modifiers of Aphelios' Onslaught, Katarina's Death Lotus, and Urgot's Purge.

V10.24

• Updated icon.

V10.23

• Now purchaseable on ranged champions.
• Updated icon.
• New:
  • Recipe: Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter + Caulfield's Warhammer + 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: Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter + Pickaxe + 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).

V10.5

• 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 Poppy and Rengar could use its active effect from range.

V8.24b

• Combine cost reduced to 400 from 525. Total cost unchanged.

V7.9

• Attack damage increased to 80 from 75.

V6.6

• New Recipe: Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter + Pickaxe + 525 = 3500
  • Old Recipe: Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter + Long Sword + 1050 = 3500

V6.4

• Removed: Can no longer be swapped with Titanic Hydra for free.

V6.1

• Item cost reduced to 3500 from 3600.
  • Combine cost reduced to 1050 from 1100.

V5.22

• New Recipe: Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter + Long Sword + 1100 = 3600
  • Old Recipe: Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter + 600 = 3500
• Removed: Can no longer be purchased by ranged champions.
• New Effect: You can now freely exchange Ravenous Hydra and Titanic Hydra.

V5.16

• New item icon.

V5.7

• New Effect: Cleave and Crescent damage scales linearly with distance from scales in three damage 'stages'.

V4.20

• New Effect: Now grants +100% base health regen.
• Removed: +15 health regeneration per 5 seconds.

V3.6

• Combine cost increased to 600 from 200. Total cost unchanged to 3300.

V3.04

• Item cost reduced to 3300 from 3500.
  • Combine cost reduced to 200 from 400.
• Life steal increased to 12% from 10%.

V1.0.0.152 Added

• Ravenous Hydra
  • Recipe: Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter + 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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