Will of the Ancients

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Will of the Ancients
Availability	Common
Tier	Legendary
Stats	+80 ability power +10% cooldown reduction
Passive	Unique: Abilities instantly heal for 15% of raw damage dealt, including physical, magical and true damage. Area of effect abilities only heal 5% for every unit affected.
Menu	Magic > Ability Power Magic > Cooldown Reduction
Cost	2300g (300g)
Sell	1610g
Code	3152

Will of the Ancients was a legendary item in League of Legends.

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 80 ability power = 1740
• 10% cooldown reduction = 300
• 15% "spell vamp" = 412.5
  • Total Gold Value = 2452.5

Gold efficiency

• Will of the Ancients was 106.63% gold efficient, without the resistance ignoring part of its passive.

Similar Items

Morellonomicon

The Bloodthirster

Hextech Gunblade

Strategy

• Will of the Ancients was very useful with ability power-based champions that have abilities requiring health costs (e.g. Mordekaiser) as the healing could help mitigate these costs.
• Will of the Ancients and Spirit Visage were a great item combination, as Spirit Visage could further boost Will of the Ancients' healing effect.
• Cooldown- or energy-based champions, such as Katarina and Kennen, could also make use of Will of the Ancients for the sustainability as they can spam their abilities more willingly than mana-based champions.
• This item was removed because it was very rarely purchased on most AP champions, since it was better to build other raw AP items to try to burst down an enemy as fast as possible and they didn't had time to sustain. In addition, most AP champions have AoE damage, meaning the sustain was too small to make this item worth purchasing. On the very few champions it was purchased, it was known to cause balancing issues. In particular, Vladimir forced this item to be balanced around his very existence, since he had WotA as his core item and could abuse it very well.
  • No actual replacement to this item has been made ( Vladimir has been reworked and rebalanced around the fact that Will of the Ancients do not exist). However, there are currently two items that come close, named Death's Dance and Hextech Gunblade. The former is an AD item. The latter is an AD/AP hybrid item both heal from any damage source, including true damage; however, the later is not abused by AP champions like Vladimir because it is significantly more expensive, has a worse build path for them, has wasted stats for them (like the AD), and lacks cooldown reduction.

Patch History

V6.9

• Removed from the game.

V5.22

• Total cost reduced to 2300 from 2500.
  • Combine cost reduced to 300 from 480.

V5.13

• No longer grants 20% spell vamp.
• New Passive: Your abilities heal you for 15% of the damage dealt (calculated before your opponent's resistances) (5% for AoE).

V4.5

• New Recipe: Hextech Revolver + Fiendish Codex + 480 = 2500
  • Old Recipe: Hextech Revolver + Faerie Charm + Faerie Charm + 440 = 2000
• Ability power increased to 80 from 50.
• Removed: 10 mana regeneration

V3.14

• New Recipe: Hextech Revolver + Faerie Charm + Faerie Charm + 440 = 2000
  • Old Recipe: Kage's Lucky Pick + Hextech Revolver + 585 = 2550
• Removed: Spell vamp aura.
• New: Grants 10 mana regeneration and 10% cooldown reduction.

V1.0.0.154

• New Recipe: Kage's Lucky Pick + Hextech Revolver + 585 = 2550
  • Old Recipe: Blasting Wand and Hextech Revolver + 440 = 2500

V1.0.0.139

• New Recipe: Blasting Wand and Hextech Revolver + 440 = 2500
  • Old Recipe: Hextech Revolver‎ + Amplifying Tome‎‎ + 465 = 2100

V1.0.0.133

• Spell vamp reduced to 20% from 25%.

V1.0.0.115

• Spell vamp increased to 25% from 20%.

V1.0.0.108

• Ability power increased to 50 from 40.

V1.0.0.106

• No longer grants aura while the holder is dead.

V1.0.0.105

• Total cost reduced to 2400 from 2700.
  • Combine cost reduced to 465 from 765.
• Spell vamp increased to 20% from 15%.

V1.0.0.94(b)

• Will now grant double bonus to the holders if multiple members of a team have the item, like all other aura items.
• Clones will no longer grant a double bonus to the aura holder. Clones with aura items otherwise interact the same with other champions.

V1.0.0.86 added

• Recipe: Hextech Revolver‎ + Amplifying Tome‎‎ + 465 = 2100
• +40 ability power.
• Unique Aura: Gives nearby allied champions +30 ability power and +15% spell vamp.

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