Spellthief's Edge

For the removed Twisted Treeline variant, see Timeworn Spellthief's Edge.

Spellthief's Edge edit
Stats
+8 ability power
+10 health
+50% base mana regeneration
+ 2 per 10 seconds
Passive
Unique – Tribute: Grants a charge every 10 seconds, up to 3 charges. If an allied champion is nearby, damaging abilities and attacks against champions and structures consume a charge, up to one per attack or cast. Consuming a charge grants 20. Receive diminishing gold from excessive minion kills.
Unique – Quest: Earn 500 using this item to upgrade to Frostfang, gaining the Warding active with 3 wards in stock.
Limitations
Limited to 1 Jungle or Support item.
Recipe
Cost	400
Sell	160
ID	3850
Availability
SR
HA
Builds into
Frostfang
Menu
Mage Supporter Ability Power Mana & Regeneration Health & Regeneration
Keywords
Support Economy Gold

Spellthief's Edge is a starter item in League of Legends.

Builds Into

Frostfang

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 8 ability power =  174
• 10 health =  26.67
• 50% base mana regeneration =  250
• Total Gold Value =  450.67

Gold efficiency

• Spellthief's Edge's base stats are 112.67% gold efficient.
• If you damage an enemy champion or structure 3 times every 30 seconds, Tribute grants 20 per 10.
  • Plus 2 per 10 from the item, you can receive a total of 22 per 10.

Similar items

Relic Shield

Spectral Sickle

Steel Shoulderguards

Notes

• Tribute can also trigger if there is a dead ally within range.
• The quest reward can only be obtained after being out-of-combat for 5 seconds.
• On-hit effects will not trigger Tribute (although the triggering attack can).
• "Receive diminishing gold from excessive minion kills":
  • Before 5:00, farming more than 10 CS per 5 minutes reduces gold from minions by 80%.
  • After 5:00, farming more than 20 CS per 5 minutes reduces gold from minions by 50% − 80% (based on CS).
  • This farming penalty is applied before the 10 flat reduced gold from mid lane siege minions before 14:00.

Map-Specific Differences

Ultra Rapid Fire differences ^edit

• This item is disabled.

Strategy

• Because killing minions is discouraged, Spellthief's Edge is best purchased on supports who are able to harass effectively in-lane.

Old icons

1st version

2nd version

3rd version

Trivia

• From V9.23–V10.22, the amount of gold gained with the item was indicated in-game by the Gold Quest tooltip.
• Relic Shield, Spellthief's Edge, and Ancient Coin are a set of items available since Season Four that were designed for Support. They were themed after locations from Runeterra that all incidentally involve a form of physical transcendence.
  • This collection was changed in Season Ten, which includes Spellthief's Edge, Relic Shield, Spectral Sickle, and Steel Shoulderguards.

Patch History

V12.4

• New Effect: For the first 5 minutes of the game, the minion farming penalty is increased: Farming more than 10 CS per 5 minutes reduces gold from minions by 80%. After 5:00, the minion farming penalty remains at: Farming more than 20 CS per 5 minutes reduces gold from minions by 50% − 80% (based on CS).
  • This farming penalty is applied before the 10 flat reduced gold from mid lane siege minions before 14:00.

V11.7

• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where abilities with periodic damage (like Brand's Blaze) would not trigger Tribute.

V11.3

• Disabled on Ultra Rapid Fire.

V10.24

• Updated icon.

V10.23

• Updated icon.
• Tribute gold generated increased to 20 from 15.
• Limited to 1 Support or Jungle item.

V10.15

• Mana regeneration increased to 50% from 25%.

V10.5

• New Effect: Now requires an ally champion (alive or dead) within 2000 units in order to trigger Tribute.

V10.1

• New Effect: Now grants 25% base mana regeneration.

V9.23 - Rework

• New item icon.
• New Effects:
  • Cost: 400.
  • Stats: 8 ability power, 10 health, 2 per 10 seconds.
  • Unique Passive - Tribute: Grants a charge every 10 seconds, up to 3 charges. Damaging abilities and attacks against champions and buildings consume a charge, up to one per attack or cast. Consuming a charge grants 15. Receive diminishing gold from excessive minion kills.
  • Quest: Earn 500 using this item to upgrade to Frostfang, gaining the Warding active with 3 wards in stock.
  • Limitations: Limited to 1 Jungle or Gold Income item. (Even if you consume the Jungle item.)
• Old Effects:
  • Cost: 400.
  • Stats: 10 ability power, 25% base mana regeneration, 2 per 10 seconds.
  • Unique Passive - Tribute: Grants a charge every 10 seconds, up to 3 charges. Damaging spells and attacks against champions and buildings consume a charge, up to one per attack or cast. Consuming a charge deals them 13 bonus magic damage, and if an allied champion is nearby, also grants 11. Before quest completion, killing a minion or non-epic monster pauses Tribute generation and the passive gold generation for 12 seconds per unit slain.
  • Unique Passive - Quest: Earn 500 using this item and upgrade to Frostfang. Reward: Permanently upgrades Frostfang to Eye of Frost and Remnant of the Watchers to Eye of the Watchers, giving them the Warding active with respectively 3 and 4 wards in stock.
  • Limitations: Limited to 1 Jungle or Gold Income item.
  • Builds Into: Frostfang.

V9.6 - March 21st Hotfix

• Bug Fix: Tribute gold is no longer paused when minions are killed if the owner has completed the quest.

V9.3 - February 12th Hotfix

• New Effect: Now requires an ally champion within 2000 units in order to earn gold.
• Tribute gold generated increased to 11 from 10.

V8.15

• Cost increased to 400 from 350.

V8.10

• Now limited to (1 Jungle or Gold Income item) from (1 Gold Income item).

V8.6

• Bug Fix: Pinging the item now displays the correct amount of gold needed to finish its quest.

V8.5 - March 8th Hotfix

• New Effect: Before quest completion, killing minions and non-epic monsters pauses Tribute stack generation and the passive gold generation.
• Removed: Granting Bandit.

V8.2

• Quest gold value reduced to 500 from 750. Still requires to upgrade to Frostfang.
• New Effect: Tribute recharge pause now also applies on non-epic monster kill.
• Tribute pause duration for minion and non-epic monster kill increased to 12 seconds from 8.
• Removed Quest Reward: Tribute is upgraded to Queen's Tribute, giving you 50% bonus movement speed for 1 second (additional stacks extend duration) for each charge consumed.
• New Effect: Quest reward now grants the active Warding with 3 wards in stock.
  • Unique Active - Warding: Consumes a charge to place a Stealth Ward at the target location (600 range), which reveals the surrounding area for 150 seconds. Holds up to 3 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.
• Removed from Twisted Treeline.

V7.23

• Bug Fix: The Bandit passive no longer incorrectly grants gold for nearby minion deaths while you're dead.

V7.22

• New Effect: Grants Bandit.
• New Effect: Bandit counts toward the quest goal.
• Quest gold required to upgrade increased to 750 from 650.
• Tribute bonus damage increased to 13 from 10.
• Tribute bonus gold increased to 10 from 8.

V7.20

• Ability power increased to 10 from 5.

V7.18

• Tribute charge generation pause upon killing a minion increased to 8 seconds from 6.

V7.12

• Quest progression VFX displays every third of the way from every fifth of the way toward completion.

V7.10

• New Effect: Killing a minion now only pauses Tribute generation for 6 seconds per minion slain instead of disabling it for 6 seconds per minion slain.

V7.9

• New Effect: Can only trigger Tribute once every 1.25 seconds.
• Removed: Killing a minion disables Tribute for 12 seconds.
• New Effect: Killing a minion stops you from triggering Tribune for 6 seconds per minion slain.
• New Effect: Quest.
  • Quest: Earn 650 using this item and upgrade to Frostfang.
  • Reward: Tribute is upgraded into Queen's Tribute.
    • Queen's Tribute: Spells and basic attacks against champions or buildings deal 15 additional damage, grant 15 and 50% bonus movement speed for 1 second (additional stacks extend duration). This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.

V7.8

• Removed from Howling Abyss.

V6.13

• Killing non-lane minions no longer deactivates Spellthief's Edge's passive. e.g. Zyra's Plants.

V5.22

• Cost reduced to 350 from 365
• Tribute gold increased to 8 from 5.
• Cooldown changed to "3 times every 30 seconds" from "1 charge every 10 seconds, up to 3".

V4.20

• Mana regeneration changed to 25% of base mana regeneration from 2 per 5 seconds.

V4.3

• Ability power reduced to 5 from 10.
• Mana regeneration reduced to 2 from 3.
• Unique Passive - Tribute:
  • Gold per hit increased to 5g from 4g.
  • Now triggers on abilities as well as autoattacks.
  • Now triggers up to three times every 30 seconds, from once per 10 seconds per enemy.
  • Now affects enemy structures.
  • Now deals 10 additional damage on abilities and autoattacks. Damage matches the attack's damage type.

V3.14 Added

• Recipe: 365g
• +10 Ability power
• +3 Mana regeneration
• Unique Passive - Tribute: Autoattacks against enemy champions grant 4 gold, up to once every 10 seconds per enemy. Killing a minion disables this passive for 10 seconds.
• Unique Passive - Gold Income: You may only be in possession of 1 Gold Income item.

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