Steel Shoulderguards

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Steel Shoulderguards edit
Stats
+4 attack damage
+50 health
+50% base health regeneration
+ 2 per 10 seconds
Passive
Unique – Spoils of War: Grants a charge every 35 seconds, up to 3 charges. Basic attacks can consume a charge to execute minions below ( 50% / 30%) of their maximum health. Killing a minion by any means with a charge grants you and the nearest allied champion kill gold. These effects require an allied champion to be nearby. Receive diminishing gold from excessive minion kills.
Unique – Quest: Earn 500 using this item to upgrade to Runesteel Spaulders, gaining the Warding active with 3 wards in stock.
Limitations
Limited to 1 Support / Jungle item.
Recipe
Cost	400
Sell	160
ID	3854
Availability
SR 5v5
SR 5v5
Menu
Tank Supporter Attack Damage Health & Regeneration
Keywords
Support Gold Economy

Steel Shoulderguards was a starter item in League of Legends. It was exclusive to Classic Summoner's Rift 5v5.

Cost Analysis

Gold efficiency

• Steel Shoulderguards' base stats were <span class="basic-tooltip" style="border-bottom:1px dotted gray;cursor:help;" title="">% gold efficient.
• Without Spoils of War, Steel Shoulderguards becomes gold efficient in 11 minutes and 40 seconds.
• Assuming Steel Shoulderguards' user kills the most valuable minions available, Spoils of War provides:
  • 14.28 per 10 seconds to the user, while also sharing that same gold with the lane partner.
  • Between 15 and 25 minutes, this is increased to 19.14 per 10.
  • After 25 minutes, this is futher increased to 25.71 per 10.

Similar items

Relic Shield

Spectral Sickle

Spellthief's Edge

Notes

• Quest's reward is only granted if the user has not been in combat within the last 5 seconds.
• Spoils of War's execute against minions counts as a minion kill for the allied champion that was granted the kill gold.
• "Receive diminishing gold from excessive minion kills":
  • Before 5 minutes, increasing your creep score by 10 or more (from killing minions) in the last 5 minutes reduces gold from minion kills by 80%.
    • After 5 minutes, the limit is increased to 20 creep score and gold from minion kills is instead reduced by 50% − 80% (based on creep score).

Map-Specific Differences

Nexus Blitz differences ^edit

• This item and its associated upgrades are disabled.

Strategy

• Steel Shoulderguards is typically purchased by supports who would prefer to assist their lane partner rather than harrass the opposition.
• Steel Shoulderguards' execute can give supports the ability to assist laners that lack wave clear or who intend to aggressively push lane.

Old icons

1st version

2nd 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, Spectral Sickle, Spellthief's Edge, and Steel Shoulderguards are a set of items available since Season Ten that were designed for Support.

Media

Charge VFX

Execute VFX

Grant Gold VFX

Sound Effects

Spoils of War Triggered

• ▶️   Passive SFX
• ▶️   Passive SFX
• ▶️   Passive SFX

Quest Complete

• ▶️   Passive SFX

Patch History

V14.1 - Removed

• Removed from the game.
• Replaced by World Atlas.

V13.20

• Attack damage increased to 4 from 3.
• Health increased to 50 from 30.

V13.4

• Health regeneration increased to 50% from 25%.

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.

V11.16

• Bug Fix: Refunding or selling it before purchasing and activating Relic Shield no longer causes buffs for both items to appear in the buff bar.

V11.3

• Disabled on Ultra Rapid Fire.

V10.24

• Updated icon.

V10.23

• Updated icon.
• Spoils of War charge generation reduced to 35 seconds from 45.
• Limited to 1 Support or Jungle item.

V10.1

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

V9.23 - Added

• Cost: 400.
• Stats: 30 health, 3 attack damage, 2 per 10 seconds.
• Unique Passive - Spoils of War: Grants a charge every 45 seconds, up to 3 charges. Basic attacks can consume a charge to execute minions. Melee basic attacks execute minions below 50% of their maximum health and ranged basic attacks below 30% of their maximum health. Killing a minion by any means with a charge grants you and the nearest allied champion kill gold. These effects require an allied champion to be nearby. Receive diminishing gold from excessive minion kills.
• Quest: Earn 500 using this item to upgrade to Runesteel Spaulders, gaining the Warding active with 3 wards in stock.
• Limitations: Limited to 1 Jungle or Gold Income item.

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