Spell vamp (SV) is a defensive stat which converts a percentage of the damage from either champion abilities or item actives into health. Spell vamp will apply to any source of ability damage, which generally excludes most on-hit effects and attack modifiers.
The heal is calculated from damage after being reduced by enemy defense, such as magic resistance, armor or champion damage reduction.
Gold Value
- Spell vamp has a gold value of
Template:Gold value math/var per point.
Increasing spell vamp
The following grants true spell vamp, or increases the strength of true spell vamp. It does not benefit from 
Heal Power.
Items
Champion abilities
Runes
Revitalize (while below 40% health)
Increasing ability drain
The following is similar to spell vamp, but isn't spell vamp. It benefits from Heal Power.
Items
Champion abilities
Abilities using ability drain do not have a penalty for area of effect damage, unless stated otherwise.
- Aatrox's Umbral Dash and World Ender
- Hecarim's Spirit of Dread
- Morgana's Soul Siphon
- Olaf's Vicious Strikes
- Rhaast's The Darkin Scythe
- Trundle's Frozen Domain
Single Abilities Drain
- Aatrox's Deathbringer Stance
- Fiddlesticks' Drain
- Trundle's Subjugate
- Vladimir's Sanguine Pool and Hemoplague
- Warwick's Jaws of the Beast and Infinite Duress
Runes
Notes
- Spirit Visage's passive will increase your self-healing (in this case spell vamp) by 30% multiplicatively. So if you had 20% spell vamp before, you will now have 26% spell vamp (not 50%) (20% × 1.3 = 26%).
- Abilities with natural spell vamp have their own spell vamp fully stacking with items, runes and masteries that provide spell vamp.
- Spell vamp applies to all types of damage: magical, physical and true.
- There is a common misconception it only applies to magic damage. This is incorrect.
- Spell vamp applies to nearly everything that isn't classified as an auto-attack. This includes most abilities, but also includes activated item effects (e.g. Hextech Gunblade).
- On-hit damage modifiers (e.g. Siphoning Strike, aka "bonus" or "additional" damage), on-hit damage over time (e.g. Seastone Trident and Toxic Shot) and abilities that apply on-hit effects (e.g. Parrrley and Mystic Shot) are classified as auto-attacks, and will not apply spell vamp. Any physical damage dealt will trigger life steal, while any magic and true damage dealt trigger neither life steal nor spell vamp.
- A list of champion abilities on-hit effects that trigger spell vamp can be found here.
- On-hit damage modifiers (e.g.
- Area of effect (AoE) spells only apply a third of the listed spell vamp.
- Fox-Fire's projectiles are classified as single-target, and will apply 100% of your spell vamp.
- Abilities with both single-target and multi-target effects, such as Lay Waste, will apply spell vamp depending on which effect occurs. In that, full spell vamp against a single target; or a third against multiple targets.
- Single target abilities that apply splash damage will apply full spell vamp to the original target, and a third to the splash damage. For example, Conflagration with Blaze.
- Damage over time abilities (DoT) apply full spell vamp (e.g. Brand's Blaze and Malzahar's Malefic Visions).
- Does not work with the reflected damage of Thornmail. It does, however, work with the reflected damage of Molten Shield and Defensive Ball Curl.
- Healing reduction effects such as Ignite and Morellonomicon reduce the health restored by spell vamp. See healing reduction for more information.
Calculations
Spell vamp is multiplied by total spell damage to determine the amount of health restored. Area of effect spells only heal one-third the normal amount.
- Example: Dealing 300 single-target damage with 10% spell vamp will heal for 30. Dealing 300 area of effect damage with 10% spell vamp will heal for 10 for each enemy affected.
Trivia
Last updated: September 9, 2019 - V9.17
- The maximum achievable true spell vamp by a playable champion is 57.2% on Lee Sin.
- Spellvamp:
- Buffs:
- Healing Multiplier:
- Relevant mathematics:
Last updated: September 9, 2019 - V9.17
- The maximum achievable spell vamp by a playable champion is 207.97205% on Aatrox. Take notice this is not the stat shown in game. It's just the % amount of healing you get from ability damage.
- Ability Drain:
- Healing Multiplier:
- Heal Power:
- Relevant mathematics:
See also
| Offensive |  Ability power ·  Attack damage ·  Attack speed ·  Critical strike chance ·  Critical strike damage ·  Armor penetration ·  Magic penetration ·  Life steal ·  Omnivamp · Physical vamp ·  True damage
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|---|---|
| Defensive |  Heal and shield power ·  Health ·  Health regeneration ·  Armor ·  Magic resistance ·  Tenacity ·  Slow resist
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| Utility |  Ability haste ·  Energy ·  Energy regeneration ·  Mana ·  Mana regeneration  Movement speed ·  Range
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| Other |  Experience ·  Gold generation
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