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- For the removed
Twisted Treeline variant, see Timeworn Spellthief's Edge.
Spellthief's Edge is a basic item in 
League of Legends. It is exclusive to Summoner's Rift.
Cost Analysis
Gold Value
- 8 ability power = 174
- 10 health = 26.67
- 50% base mana regeneration = 250
- Total Gold Value = 450.67
- Total Gold Value =
Gold Efficiency*
- Spellthief's Edge is 112.67% gold efficient without its passive.
- 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.
- Plus
Builds Into
Similar Items
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": Farming more than 20 CS per 5 minutes reduces gold from minions by 50% − 80% (based on CS).
Strategy
- Because killing minions is discouraged, Spellthief's Edge is best purchased on supports who are able to harass effectively in-lane.
Old Icon
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.
- This collection was changed in Season Ten, which includes
Patch History
- Updated icon.
- Updated icon.
- Tribute gold generated increased to 20 from 15.
- Limited to 1 Support or Jungle item.
- Mana regeneration increased to 50% from 25%.
- New Effect: Now requires an ally champion (alive or dead) within 2000 units in order to trigger Tribute.
- 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.
- Cost:
- 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.
- Cost:
- 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.
- Cost increased to 400 from 350.
- Now limited to (1 Jungle or Gold Income item) from (1 Gold Income item).
- 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.
- 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.
- Unique Active - Warding: Consumes a charge to place a
- Removed from Twisted Treeline.
- Bug Fix: The Bandit passive no longer incorrectly grants gold for nearby minion deaths while you're dead.
- 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.
- Ability power increased to 10 from 5.
- Tribute charge generation pause upon killing a minion increased to 8 seconds from 6.
- Quest progression VFX displays every third of the way from every fifth of the way toward completion.
- 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.
- 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.
- Queen's Tribute: Spells and basic attacks against champions or buildings deal 15 additional damage, grant
- Quest: Earn
- Removed from Howling Abyss.
- Killing non-lane minions no longer deactivates Spellthief's Edge's passive. e.g. Zyra's Plants.
- 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".
- Mana regeneration changed to 25% of base mana regeneration from 2 per 5 seconds.
- 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.
References
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- Starter items
- Potions and Consumables
- Trinkets
- Distributed
- Boots items
- Basic items
- Epic items
- Legendary items
- Mythic items
- Minion and Turret items
- Special Game Mode Exclusive items
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