(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
On hold for about a week due to time constraints----
Here is the Items project for synchronizing and cleaning up the synergy lists and similar items lists for all of the items for the game. Any input from the community is greatly welcomed in helping sort these out.
Categorize Everything[]
I figured we should first start by putting all the champions and items in specific categories and match them up accordingly. I'm looking for primary roles for these and not 'possible' roles/usages that 'can work out because you tried it once in a game and didn't feed.' Feel free to suggest other roles/setups that I may have overlooked. All of the basic items will be overlooked for this project because they all provide singlular stats and are simply the foundation of the higher level items that we are looking into. Consumables, Advanced, and Legendary Tier items are the focus.
Roles[]
- Pure AP: These champs are best when stacking as much AP and Magic Penetration as possible. The items for this role serve this purpose. Good examples are
Heimerdinger, 
Karthus, 
Katarina, 
Rabadon's Deathcap, Mejai's Soulstealer, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Void Staff. - Pure AD: These champs have great AD scaling and look for the most out of their AD ability scaling. They deal primarily physical damage but don't particularly look for AS or crit. Examples could be Renekton, Caitlyn, Tristana, B. F. Sword, The Bloodthirster, Last Whisper.
- Crit/Attack Speed: This is for those who like to stack zeals and/or PDs. Examples would be Tryndamere, Twisted Fate, Master Yi, Zeal, Phantom Dancer, Infinity Edge.
- Attack Speed/AP hybrid: Champions that benefit from the combination of attack speed and AP and the items that provide this. Teemo, Twisted Fate, Kog'Maw, Malady, Nashor's Tooth, Wit's End.
- AD/AP hybrid: Champs that work well with both attack damage and AP combined. Jax, Kayle, Nidalee, Guinsoo's Rageblade, Hextech Gunblade.
- Beefy AD: Champs that require some beef to them to maintain their presence and kill targets. Usually AD scaling champs that need items that give damage and survival. Udyr, Irelia, Renekton, Frozen Mallet, Wriggle's Lantern, Stark's Fervor, Trinity Force.
- Tank/Tanky: Tank champs and their favorite items. Rammus, Shen, Amumu, Randuin's Omen, Frozen Heart, Force of Nature, Warmog's Armor, Aegis of the Legion.
- Support: Champions that fill the support role and items that help them do it. Sona, Taric, Soraka, Soul Shroud, Will of the Ancients, Shurelya's Reverie.
Sub-Roles[]
This is for minor roles or usages as well as roles that don't necessarily fit into a specific champion role.
- Lifesteal/Spellvamp: Items that benefit any attack damage champion (lifesteal) or mage/caster (spellvamp) should you so chose to get them. Vampiric Scepter, Hextech Revolver, Stark's Fervor.
- Mana/Mana Regen: Items that offer significant mana regen and champions that benefit a lot from them because of toggle mana abilities, spammable high cost abilities, or simply because of a small mana pool. Amumu ( Despair), Anivia ( Glacial Storm), Rod of Ages, Tear of the Goddess, Chalice of Harmony.
- Situational: A category for items that generally are not particularly good, unless under a certain situation(s) OR are good but shine extra well under certain situations. Madred's Bloodrazor (HP stacking team), Thornmail (AD heavy team), Sword of the Divine (enemy Jax).
Similar Items Vs Synergy[]
Part of this project will be sorting out the similar items and synergy lists. A good example would be 
Morello's Evil Tome and 
Deathfire Grasp. They would go under similar items since they both provide the same stats (at different amounts) with the only difference being Deathfire's USE. Comepare that with 
Phantom Dancer and 
Infinity Edge; they do not provide the same stats except for crit, however they work together very well to provide high damage output. Those two would be under each others' synergy lists.
Now the fun part is defining 'similar items' because you can list the elixirs together because they all server the same function yet provide completely different stats. The same can be said about the snowball items. Because of this, I propose we should list both 'types' of similar items but distinguish between them.
Matchmaking[]
Once we get all the champs and items put into roles, we then match them together. I'm sure there is going to be some overlap between champ roles and items, but thats what this project is set out to do. Map this stuff out and clean up the confusion.
Items[]
Physical Offensive Items[]
Attack Speed[]
- Berserker's Greaves - Nothing Special.
- Stinger - Nothing Special.
- Sword of the Divine - Best when used against Jax or anybody with Ninja Tabi.
- Wit's End - On hit effect, best with more attack speed. Usefull against low mana champs.
- Zeal - Attack speed + crit, best when combined with AD items. Great on Tryndamere.
- Madred's Bloodrazor - On hit effect, best used against high HP/low MR teams or on champs with multihit abilities like Warwick and Renekton.
- Phantom Dancer - Attack speed + crit, best when combined with AD items. Great on Tryndamere.
- Stark's Fervor - Aura item, good in AD heavy teams.
- Youmuu's Ghostblade - All of the favorable AD stats on 1 item, a must have for melee AD champs.
Attack Damage/Armor Pen[]
- Bilgewater Cutlass - Builds into an AD/AP hybrid item.
- Infinity Edge - High AD that goes great with more crit chance.
- Last Whisper - Best used against high armor targets.
- Madred's Razors - Jungler's go to item, builds into free wards.
- Sword of the Occult - Snowball item best used on champs that can escape/survive combat.
- The Black Cleaver - Best with good attack speed.
- The Bloodthirster - Best on champs that can farm creep waves.
- The Brutalizer - Builds into Ghostblade.
- Madred's Bloodrazor - On hit effect, best used against high HP/low MR teams or on champs with multihit abilities like Warwick and Renekton.
- Youmuu's Ghostblade - All of the favorable AD stats on 1 item, a must have for melee AD champs.
Crit Chance[]
- Avarice Blade - Gold/5 an crit, get for Gangplank and Tryndamere.
- Executioner's Calling - Useful against teams with healers.
- Infinity Edge - High AD that goes great with more crit chance.
- Zeal - Attack speed + crit, best when combined with AD items. Great on Tryndamere.
- Phantom Dancer - Attack speed + crit, best when combined with AD items. Great on Tryndamere.
Lifesteal[]
Magic Offensive Items[]
- Fiendish Codex
- Haunting Guise
- Hextech Revolver
- Kage's Lucky Pick
- Mejai's Soulstealer
- Rabadon's Deathcap
- Sorcerer's Shoes
- Void Staff
- Deathfire Grasp
- Morello's Evil Tome
- Will of the Ancients
Mana/Mana Regen[]
Defensive Items[]
- Aegis of the Legion
- Force of Nature
- Glacial Shroud
- Guardian Angel
- Heart of Gold
- Kindlegem
- Leviathan
- Mercury's Treads
- Ninja Tabi
- Quicksilver Sash
- Sunfire Cape
- Thornmail
- Warden's Mail
- Warmog's Armor
- Banshee's Veil
- Randuin's Omen
- Shurelya's Reverie
- Spirit Visage
- Soul Shroud
Hybrid Items[]
- Atma's Impaler (Defense + Physical Offense)
- Catalyst the Protector (Defense + Mana)
- Guinsoo's Rageblade (Magic + Physical Offense)
- Hexdrinker (Physical Offense + Defense)
- Malady (Magic + Physical Offense)
- Phage (Physical Offense + Defense)
- Philosopher's Stone (Defense + Mana Regen)
- Rylai's Crystal Scepter (Magic Offense + Defense)
- Sheen (Physical Offense + Mana)
- Tiamat (Physical Offense + Mana Regen)
- Zhonya's Hourglass (Defense + Magic Offense)
- Archangel's Staff (Magic Offense + Mana/Mana Regen)
- Frozen Heart (Defense + Mana)
- Frozen Mallet (Physical Offense + Defense)
- Hextech Gunblade (Physical Offense + Magic Offense)
- Lich Bane (Physical Offense + Magic Offense)
- Manamune (Physical Offense + Mana/Mana Regen)
- Nashor's Tooth (Physical Offense + Magic Offense)
- Rod of Ages (Magic Offense + Mana + Defense)
- Trinity Force (Physical Offense + Defense)
- Wriggle's Lantern (Physical Offense + Defense)
Consumables[]
- Elixir of Fortitude
- Elixir of Agility
- Elixir of Brilliance
- Health Potion
- Mana Potion
- Oracle's Elixir
- Vision Ward
- Sight Ward
Other[]
Champions[]
Sorted based on optimizing each champion's kit. Going off of main build types, not gimmicky builds.
Physical Offensive[]
Attack Speed[]
Attack Damage/Armor Pen[]
Critical Chance/Damage[]
Magic Offensive[]
Ability Power[]
- Anivia
- Annie
- Cassiopeia
- Evelynn
- Fiddlesticks
- Heimerdinger
- Karthus
- Kassadin
- Kennen
- LeBlanc
- Lux
- Malzahar
Cooldown Reduction[]
Defensive/Bulky[]
Hybrid/Multi Build[]
- Akali - AP burst or hybrid sustained damage.
- Cho'Gath - AP mage, tank or AP/tank.
- Evelynn - AP burst or AD sustained damage.
- Ezreal - AP or AD.
- Jax - AP/AD hybrid.
- Katarina - AP or AP/AD hybrid.
- Kayle - AP/AD hybrid.
- Kog'Maw - AP snipe/burst or AD carry.
- Mordekaiser - Tanky or AP mage.
- Nidalee - AP support/nuke or AP/AD hybrid cougar form.
- Nunu - AP mage, tank or AP/tank.
