Warden's Mail

Warden's Mail edit
Stats
+40 armor
Passive
Unique – Rock Solid: Every first incoming instance of post-mitigation basic damage per cast instance is reduced by 15, with a maximum of 20% reduction each.
Recipe
+  +  400
Cost	1000
Sell	700
ID	3082
Availability
SR 5v5
SR 5v5
HA ARAM
HA ARAM
Nexus Blitz
Nexus Blitz
Builds into
Frozen Heart Randuin's Omen
Menu
Tank Armor

Warden's Mail is an epic item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Warden's Mail 1000 ( 400)
		Cloth Armor 300
		Cloth Armor 300

Builds Into

Frozen Heart
Randuin's Omen

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 40 armor =  800
• Total Gold Value =  800

Gold efficiency

• Warden's Mail's base stats are 80% gold efficient.

Similar items

Chain Vest

Bramble Vest

Strategy

• Rock Solid affects all sources of basic attack damage (including non-champions such as turrets) and will greatly reduce the damage output against units that attack rapidly or multiple units attacking you (e.g. Urgot's Purge and minions).

Old icons

1st version

Trivia

Patch History

V14.19

• Rock Solid damage base reduction increased to 15 from 5.
• Removed: Rock Solid damage reduction no longer scales with 3.5 per 1000 maximum health.

V13.8

• Maximum damage reduction on affected damage instances reduced to 20% of the total damage from 40%.

Unknown patch

• Undocumented: Now only triggers on the first damage instance for every cast instance, preventing increased effectiveness against single attacks with multiple instances such as Ashe's Ranger's Focus, Camille's Precision Protocol or Zeri's Burst Fire.
  • This can now result in lower effectiveness against these attacks due to the maximum reduction becoming 40% of said first damage instance.

V11.12

• Bug Fix: Fixed the tooltip to properly count blocked damage from the Rock Solid passive.

V11.11

• New Effect: Now has a base basic damage reduction of 5.
• Basic damage reduction health ratio reduced to 3.5 per 1000 health from 5.
• Tooltip now shows how much Rock Solid damage has been blocked.

V10.23

• Updated icon.
• New:
  • Recipe: Cloth Armor + Cloth Armor + 400 = 1000.
  • Stats: 40 armor.
  • Unique Passive - Rock Solid: Reduce incoming damage from basic attacks by 5 per 1000 maximum health, capped at 40% of the attack's damage.
  • Builds Into: Frozen Heart, Randuin's Omen.
• Old:
  • Recipe: Cloth Armor + Cloth Armor + 400 = 1000.
  • Stats: 40 armor.
  • Unique Passive - Cold Steel: When hit by basic attacks, cripples source's attack speed by 15% for 1 second.
  • Builds Into: Frozen Heart, Randuin's Omen, Thornmail.

V7.14

• Added to recipe for Thornmail.

V6.3

• Total cost reduced to 1000 from 1100.
  • Combine cost reduced to 400 from 500.

V5.22

• Armor reduced to 40 from 45.

V5.16

• Total cost increased to 1100g from 1050.
  • Combine cost unchanged.

V4.20

• New Recipe: Cloth Armor + Cloth Armor + 450 = 1050
  • Old Recipe: Chain Vest + 280 = 1000
• Armor reduced to 45 from 50.

V4.18

• Attack speed reduction increased to 15% from 10%.

V4.10

• Attack speed slow on being hit reduced to 10% from 15%.

V4.5

• New Recipe: Chain Vest + 280 = 1000
  • Old Recipe: Cloth Armor + Cloth Armor + 400 = 1000

V4.2

• Fixed a bug where Tibbers, Voidlings, and Spiderlings were not being affected by the slow.

V3.10

• Passive slow duration reduced to 1 second from 1.5.
• Cost reduced to 1000 from 1100.

V3.04

• Attack speed reduction reduced to 15% from 20%.

V1.0.0.152

• New Recipe: Cloth Armor + Cloth Armor + 500 = 1100
  • Old Recipe: Chain Vest + Rejuvenation Bead + 400 = 1350
• No longer grants health regen.
• Passive slow changed:
  • Movement speed slow removed; now only slows the attacker's attack speed.
  • Chance to slow increased to 100% from 20%.
  • Attack speed slow amount reduced to 20% from 35%.
• Added to item recipe for Frozen Heart.

V1.0.0.107

• Armor reduced to 50 from 60.
• Health regeneration per 5 reduced to 20 from 25.

V1.0.0.96

• Fixed a bug where Warden's Mail was not slowing attack speeds.

V1.0.0.82

• Recipe changed: Cloth Armor removed.
• Armor reduced to 60 from 81.

July 10, 2009 Patch

• Slow reduced to 35% from 40%.

June 12, 2009 Patch

• Movement and attack speed debuff increased to 60% from 50%.

May 29, 2009 Patch

• Movement and attack speed debuff increased to 50% from 40%.

May 23, 2009 Patch

• Reworked
• Warden's Mail proc no longer deals damage and stuns for 1 second; it now slows movement and attack speeds by 40% for 3 seconds.

May 15, 2009 Patch

• Stun modified to 1 second to all units from 0.5 seconds against ranged units only.
• Fixed a bug that caused Warden's Mail to get bonus damage from ability power.

Alpha Week 5

• Warden's Mail 30% chance to take half damage changed to a 20% chance on being hit to deal 40 damage and stun the attacker for 1 second (0.5 seconds if ranged).

Alpha Week 2

• Passive ability changed.

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