Season 11 has ended with a bang, and Riot has added a few new items to the game. In this Mobalytics article, we will break down the new items they’ve added and give you a few examples of champions who could work well with them.

Before we begin, these items were added on patch 11.23. Suppose you want to check the patch notes out yourself; head over to the official patch notes. If you’re not interested in reading everything, we broke down the patch changes in our Mobalytics patch notes.

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Season 12: All the New Items

1. Mage Items
2. Tank Items
3. Assassin Items

Mage items

Crown of the Shattered Queen

Crown of the Shattered Queen is an item that is great against assassins or champions with strong all-in. It offers you extra survivability that reduces incoming damage by 75%. This item is a Mythic item and offers AP, health, mana, haste and is built from Lost Chapter, Kinglegem, Amp Tome and 265 gold.

This can be a good item on Twisted Fate, Syndra or Lissandra.

Opinion on this item: This is a very situational item. It gives good stats, but you will only be buying it when the enemy has tons of burst damage. I think that you wouldn’t ultimately pick this item unless the situation calls for it.

Shadowflame

Shadowflame is an offensive item for Mages. This item costs 3000 gold, is built from Hextech Alternator, Needlessly LargeRod and 700 gold. It gives a lot of AP and some health. It is good as it provides magic pen which is based on the enemies current health. It is good against champions with shields.

This can be a good item on Syndra, Leblanc or Evelynn.

Opinion on this item: Let’s face it, there are tons of shielding champions in League right now. This will help you counter them and make you stronger versus them. I think this is an excellent new item.

Tank items

Evenshroud

Evenshroud is an item that is going to be good on tanks. This item will be good on tanky Supports who need to get kills early. Previously, the only viable item was Locket, which was a defensive tool, but this one will help you get kills.

Evershroud is built from Kinglegem, Aegis of the Legion and 300 gold. It gives 200 health, ability haste, armour and magic resistance. It offers decent stats for its cost. However, what you’re buying it for is the extra damage the target will take when you CC them. When you CC a target, they will take more damage for 5 seconds.

This item can be good on any tank Support like Leona, Rell or Nautilus.

Opinion on this item: I think this is a good item for tanks as it offers them a much more effective laning phase. Locket was suitable but didn’t offer much in terms of aggression. This item does, so I like it.

Winter’s Approach

This item can be upgraded as it is built from Tear, Kindlegem, Ruby Crystal, and 1000 gold. It costs 2600 gold and is an item that tanks will buy if they rely heavily on mana and their abilities.

It gives 400 health, 500 mana when upgraded. 15 ability haste, and you gain bonus health which relies on your mana bar.

This item can be good on champions like Maokai, Malphite or Singed.

Opinion on this item: I think it’s an interesting item. I think it will help some champions like Singed as they rely heavily on mana.

Assassin Items

Axiom Arc

Axiom Arc is an assassin item that gives ability haste. This item costs 3k gold, is built from Serrated Dirk, Caulfield’s Warhammer and 800 gold. It provides a lot of AD, haste and lethality.

The Passive of this item refunds your Ultimates cooldown too, which is nice.

This item can be good on champions like Zed, Qiyana and Talon.

Opinion on this item: There weren’t many options in terms of ability haste for Assassins. This item will fill the gap for those who like to play assassin champions in League.

Summary

That’s about it for all the new items in League of Legends. I would highly advise you to check out the official patch notes or the Mobalytics patch notes to see what other items were changed for Season 12.

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The Preseason 2022 video has been released this week with Riot outlining information and news with things we should expect in the very near future. In this Mobalytics article, we will break down everything Riot announced in their latest video and give our initial thoughts and reactions to everything discussed in the video.

1. Review of Previous Champion Releases
2. Champion Clarity
3. Class Diversity
4. Items
5. Runes
6. New Bounty System
7. Dragons
8. Challenges
9. Game modes

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If you want to check the video out for yourselves, here it is!

1. Review of Previous Champion Releases

Riot has launched several champions this season and reworked some too. Champions such as Dr Mundo, Samira and Vex were all released or reworked this year. Riot stated, remarkably, that they know that they launched champions whose kits were busted and overturned, in particular, they noted Dr Mundo’s dominance after his rework.

I think we can praise Riot for actually taking a stance and admitting that some champions were not exactly balanced at the start.

2. Champion Clarity

Champions with complex kits are something Riot makes frequently, however, they occasionally make champions with varying complexity. Something they have always struggled with is clarity and how to play said champions.

Riot’s noted that you shouldn’t really be using the wiki to learn how to play a champion, so it looks like they might start to introduce their own version, or they will make efforts to make it easier to understand a champion’s abilities, how to play them, and how to play against them.

yeah but how do you play this champ btw?

3. Class Diversity

Riot has made huge changes this season that has allowed champions to switch roles and heavily increased the popularity of some champions. For instance, Brand, Morgana and Lee Sin are champions who have seen plays in alternative roles thanks to changes that Riot directly or indirectly made to them.

Riot’s noted that these changes were due to buffs, nerfs and changes to itemisation.

4. Items

2 new Mythic items are coming in the Preseason:

• The first is a tank Support item. It is for champions who like to hard engage, so it sounds like it’ll be good on Leona and Nautilus. It will be good on champions with CC as it increases the damage output from your allies after you CC someone.
• The second Mythic item is for mages. It reduces enemy damage after you’ve been hit. This will be great on mages when laning against assassins or anyone with lots of burst.

There will be 3 new Legendary items in the Preseason:

• A new ability haste Legendary item will be added for assassins this season too. It offers ability haste and reduces their Ultimate’s cooldown on takedowns.
• For tanks, a new Legendary item that grants bonus health that synergises with the amount of mana you have.
• Finally, mages will have a new Legendary item that offers pen and will be good against champions with shields.

5. Runes

Glacial Augment will be getting changed to enhance its slow.

Lethal Tempo will also be getting adjusted to make it more impactful for the champions who can use it.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much to talk about with Runes as Riot didn’t go into too much detail. We will see what happens when the changes hit the PBE soon.

6. New Bounty System

There will be an introduction of a secondary bounty system to work in conjunction with kills. This bounty system works with objectives such as the Baron and Towers. This sounds pretty good on paper, but we will wait to see how strong this change is. We shall see how Riot does it, but I am fearful that this change may be super OP.

This new system is intended to help teams get back into the game after a rough start. In conjunction with player bounties, objectives and towers will be worth more gold and given to the whole team once destroyed.

7. Dragons

2 more Dragons are flying into Summoners Rift. The first Dragon is the Hextech Dragon which gives all allies ability haste and attack speed. The Soul Dragon gives a chain slow which Riot has noted acts similar to Statikk Shiv. Gates will also be introduced with this Dragon, which basically allows you to move across the map via a portal.

The second Dragon is the Chemtech Drake. This Dragon allows you to deal more damage while you’re on low health. The Soul Dragon allows you to have a second chance of life by putting you in a zombie state after dying to potentially get a kill in return. Camouflaged areas of the map will appear once the Dragon has been slain, so look out for hiding enemies!

8. Challenges

There are new challenges coming to League of Legends. Riot discussed things such as roles, game modes, mastery and more. There’s not a lot to talk about for challenges, but hopefully, they will be optional.

9. Game modes

Finally, let’s go over Riot’s game modes. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like we will be seeing any old game modes returning any time soon (like Star Guardian or Ascension) because they’re hard to maintain and update. However, Ultimate SpellBook will be returning soon.

Conclusion

New items and new Dragons coming to the game will bring a fresh new feel to League of Legends. Among some of the buffs and nerfs they will make in the future, the new season looks to be quite promising.

In particular, I’m looking forward to the challenges in conjunction with the Mobalytics challenges. What are your thoughts on Riot’s video and what they have planned for next year? Let us know!

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Did you know that are a ton of differences between ARAM and Summoners Rift? Apart from the super obvious map changes, there are a lot of additional changes to the game mode ranging from items, runes and champion nerfs or buffs.

Did you even know that runes and champions have different numbers in ARAM? Probably not unless you play a lot of ARAM!

In this guide, we’ll be covering all of these changes so be sure to bookmark it as a reference!

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It will now import the latest and best ARAM builds for the champion you’re playing with just one click.

All Major ARAM Differences on Summoners Rift

• ARAM vs Summoner’s Rift
• ARAM General Champion Changes
• ARAM Champion-Specific Changes
• ARAM Rune Changes
• ARAM Item Changes
• ARAM Summoner Spell Changes

Before we begin, I would like to throw out a general disclaimer. Some of the screenshots or graphics we use in this guide may look incorrect. Riot isn’t always consistent with updating the numbers or the UI in the client when it comes to ARAM. So some of the numbers may look slightly off.

ARAM vs Summoners Rift

Unlike Summoner’s Rift, the original LoL game mode, ARAM (“All Random All Mid”) is a simplified alternate game mode that only features one lane.

Everyone gets a random champion (from the champion’s the own plus the free rotation) and play 5v5. There is no bottom lane, no jungle- nothing. Everyone runs it down mid!

Usually, it’s a “for fun” game mode since there isn’t a ranked mode for ARAM and nobody really tries too hard, but you’ll often find some very tryhard players!

To some extent, there is a strategy to ARAM, and while this guide will not break down strong strats to help you win the game, we will go over some major differences between the two game modes that may alter who or how you play the game.

ARAM General Champion Changes

There are a lot of different changes to basically every champion in ARAM. I will break them down shortly, but here are some general, mass changes that affect a ton of different champions.

• • Every champion starts at level 3. This allows you to put points in any or all your basic abilities.
  • After 18 in-game minutes, champions deal bonus damage to structures.
  • Damage from champions at a 1000 range is reduced by 15% (excluding Ultimates and DoT abilities).
  • All champions get +70 summoner spell haste.
  • Each champion restores 0.15% of their maximum mana per second.
  • All outgoing heals are reduced by 50%.
  • Melee champions gain 10 bonus magic resistance.

ARAM Champion-Specific Changes

Aatrox

• Takes 5% less damage.

Akali

• Takes 5% less damage.
• Deals 5% more damage.

Alistar

• Deals 5% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.
• Healing done is reduced by 10%

Amumu

• Takes 5% more damage.

Ashe

• Deals 10% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.

Aurelion Sol

• Takes 5% less damage.

Azir

• Deals 10% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.
• Azir will start the game with one point in his W already.

Bard

• Deals 15% more damage.
• Takes 20% less damage.
• His Passive spawn every 40 seconds instead of 50.

Brand

• Deals 5% less damage
• Takes 10% more damage.

Caitlyn

• Deals 5% less damage

Camille

• Deals 10% more damage.
• Takes 10% less damage.
• Shield strength is increased by 10%.

Corki

• Corki’s first Passive spawns at 5 minutes.
• Package cooldown is reduced to 150 seconds.

Elise

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.

Evelynn

• Deals 10% more damage.
• Takes 15% less damage.

Ezreal

• Deals 5% less damage.
• Takes 3% more damage.

Fiora

• Takes 5% less damage.

Fizz

• Takes 5% less damage.

Galio

• Deals 5% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.

Gangplank

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.
• Gangplank will passively gain 1 Silver Serpent per second. This allows him to get his upgrades faster.

Garen

• Garen’s bonus W resistances changed to 0.5. The number of enemy kills needed to reach the maximum limit is 60.

Gragas

• Takes 3% less damage.

Hecarim

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 10% less damage.

Heimerdinger

• Deals 6% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.

Illaoi

• Deals 5% less damage.

Irelia

• Deals 5% increased damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.

Ivern

• Deals 5% less damage

Janna

• Deals 5% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.
• Healing is reduced by 10%.

Jarvan IV

• Takes 5% less damage.

Jax

• Takes 3% less damage.

Jhin

• Deals 10% less damage.

Jinx

• Deals 5% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.

Kai’Sa

• Deals 5% more damage.

Kalista

• Deals 5% more damage.

Karthus

• Deals 10% less damage.

Kassadin

• Deals 5% more damage.

Katarina

• Deals 10% more damage.
• Takes 10% less damage

Kayle

• Deals 5% less damage.
• Takes 3% more damage.

Kayn

• Deals 5% more damage.

Kennen

• Takes 5% less damage.

Kha’Zix

• Deals 10% more damage.
• Takes 15% less damage.

Kindred

• Deals 10% more damage.
• Takes 15% less damage.

Kled

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 10% less damage.

Kog’Maw

• Deals 10% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.

LeBlanc

• Deals 15% more damage.
• Takes 15% less damage.

Lee Sin

• Deals 8% more damage.
• Takes 10% less damage.

Leona

• Takes 5% more damage.

Lissandra

• Deals 5% less damage.

Lucian

• Deals 3% more damage.

Lux

• Deals 15% less damage.
• Takes 10% more damage.

Malzahar

• Deals 8% less damage.
• Takes 8% more damage.

Maokai

• Deals 15% less damage.
• Takes 12% more damage.

Master Yi

• Takes 3% less damage.

Miss Fortune

• Deals 8% less damage.
• Takes 8% more damage.

Morgana

• Deals 6% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.

Nami

• Takes 5% more damage.
• Healing is reduced by 5%.

Nasus

• Takes 5% more damage.
• Q stacks increased to 6 on minions and 24 on a kill.

Nautilus

• Deals 5% less damage.
• Takes 8% more damage.

Nidalee

• Deals 10% more damage

Nocturne

• Deals 10% more damage.
• Takes 10% less damage.

Nunu & Willump

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.

Olaf

• Takes 5% less damage.

Ornn

• Deals 10% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.
• Forging an item puts his Passive on a 2 minute cooldown.

Pyke

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 10% less damage.

Qiyana

• Deals 10% more damage.
• Takes 15% less damage.
• For Terrashape (her W), the Health Relic grants her the River Element.

Quinn

• Deals 8% more damage.
• Takes 8% less damage.

Rammus

• Takes 5% less damage.

Rek’Sai

• Deals 10% more damage.
• Takes 12% less damage.

Rell

• Deals 5% less damage.

Renekton

• Takes 5% less damage.

Rengar

• Deals 8% more damage.
• Takes 8% less damage.

Riven

• Deals 3% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.

Rumble

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.

Ryze

• Deals 8% more damage.
• Takes 10% less damage.

Sejuani

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 8% less damage.

Senna

• Deals 3% less damage.

Seraphine

• Deals 15% less damage.
• Takes 15% more damage.
• Shielding is decreased by 20%.
• Healing is down by 20%.

Sett

• Deals 5% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.

Shaco

• Deals 5% more damage.

Shyvana

• Takes 5% less damage.
• For her Passive, she gains bonus armor and magic resistance whenever her team kills siege minions or super minions, or when she is healed by a health relic.

Sion

• Deals 8% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.

Sivir

• Deals 15% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.

Skarner

• 5 Skarner Spires spawn on the map.

Sona

• Deals 15% less damage.
• Takes 15% more damage.
• Shielding is reduced by 20%.
• Healing is down by 20%.

Swain

• Deals 5% less damage.
• Takes 10% more damage.

Sylas

• Takes 5% less damage.

Syndra

• Deals 5% more damage.

Tahm Kench

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 10% less damage.

Taliyah

• Deals 5% more damage.

Talon

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.

Teemo

• Deals 10% less damage.
• Takes 10% more damage.

Thresh

• Each soul counts as 2 rather than 1 for his Passive.

Trundle

• Healing is reduced by 5%.

Tryndamere

• Deals 10% more damage.
• Takes 15% less damage.

Udyr

• Deals 10% more damage.
• Takes 10% less damage.
• Shielding is reduced by 10%.

Varus

• Deals 5% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.

Veigar

• Deals 5% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.

Vel’Koz

• Deals 5% less damage.

Vi

• Deals 5% less damage.

Viego

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.

Viktor

• Deals 5% less damage.
• Takes 5% more damage.

Volibear

• Takes 5% more damage.

Warwick

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.

Xerath

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.

Yasuo

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.

Yone

• Deals 3% more damage.
• Takes 3% less damage.

Yorick

• Deaths required for a grave is changed to 5.

Yuumi

• Deals 3% more damage.

Zed

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.

Ziggs

• Deals 18% less damage.
• Takes 18% more damage.

Zoe

• Deals 5% more damage.
• Takes 5% less damage.

Zyra

• Deals 6% less damage.
• Takes 6% more damage.

For a full list of champion changes, check out the ARAM Lol Wiki. It breaks down everything all the changes to every champion in the game in a lovely table.

Rune Changes

Some Runes have different numbers on ARAM, and some Runes can’t be picked at all. Here are all the Rune differences between Howling Abyss and Summoners Rift.

Precision Tree

Triumph

• Healing changed to 6% of your missing health.
• Bonus gold equals to 10 rather than 20.

Presence of Mind

• Mana and energy restoration changed to 10% of maximum mana and 10% maximum energy.

Find up to date Caitlyn Builds and Runes for ARAM by checking out Caitlyn’s champion page.

Domination Tree

Electrocute

• Cooldown changed to 15-10 seconds (based on the champions level).

Dark Harvest

• Damage per soul changed to 2.

Taste of Blood

• The cooldown is at a flat 15 seconds.

Zombie Wards and Ghost Poro

• You cannot take these two Runes in ARAM. They will switch automatically to Eyeball Collection.

Need more tips and tricks for Ahri? Check out Ahri’s champion page.

Sorcery Tree

Nullifying Orb

• The cooldown is changed to a flat 30 seconds.

Waterwalking

• You cannot take Waterwalking on ARAM. It will be automatically exchanged to Scorch.

Gathering Storm

• Bonus stats are given every 6 minutes instead of 10.

Do you want some Janna tips to “…leave you breathless?!” Check out Janna’s champion page.

Resolve Tree

Grasp of the Undying

• Melee bonus health changed to 10.
• Ranged champions bonus health changed to 6.

Demolish

• Damage changed to 50.
• The health ratio is changed to 20% of maximum health rather than 35% max health.

Conditioning

• Cooldown reduced from 12 minutes to 8.

Overgrowth

• Bonus health per stack changed to 5.
• Additional bonus health threshold changed to 80 minions or monsters.

Squish squish learn more about Zac with Zac’s champion page. We have a ton of tips that will help you on ARAM and Summoners Rift.

Inspiration Tree

Magical Footwear

• Boosts granted at 8 minutes rather than 12.
• Time reduced per takedown is 30 seconds.

Perfect Timing

• The cooldown changed to 4 minutes. This is a buff as Perfect Timing (without any kill reductions) is at 14 minutes.

Minion Dematerializer

• Cooldown changed to 120 seconds rather than 180 seconds like they’re on Summoners Rift.

Interested in learning Senna’s best builds and Runes for ARAM? Check out Senna’s champion page.

ARAM Item Changes

There are not many different item changes in ARAM. They are mostly exactly the same. But here are the notable differences between ARAM and SR.

Balanced or Disabled Items

Archangel’s Staff

• Each charge consumed generates 50% more mana.

Dark Seal and Mejai’s Soulsteaer

• These items are disabled in ARAM.

Manamune

• Each charge consumed generates 50% more mana.

Tear of the Goddess

• Each charge consumed generates 50% more mana.

Warmog’s Armor

• Healing per second changed from 5% of maximum health to 5% of missing health.

Guardian Angel

• Item is disabled on ARAM.

ARAM-Exclusive Items

Guardian’s Blade

This image and ones similar are taken from the LOL Wiki page.

• Gives AD, haste and health.

Guardian’s Hammer

• Gives AD, health and life steal.

Guardian’s Horn

• Gives health and health regen. Its passive blocks small amounts of incoming damage.

Guardian’s Orb

• Gives AP, and health. It also restores mana every 5 seconds. For champions with no mana, it restores health instead.

Poro-Snax

• Feed a Poro causing it to grow in size.
• A note from PicklePants- feed the Poro, thanks.

ARAM Summoner Spells Changes

Clarity

• Restore 50% of your maximum mana, and 25% to nearby allied champions.

Mark/Dash

• Throw a snowball in a target direction which deals damage and marks the enemy. You can reactive this ability and dash towards the target.

Conclusion

That about rounds up all the major differences between Summoners Rift and ARAM. Are you surprised about how many major differences there are between SR and Howling Abyss?

As you can see, there are a lot of changes that make theoretically strong ARAM champions really weak.

If you’re interested in more ARAM content, let us know in the comments below!

Thanks for reading! Be sure to check back in the future for updates to our list of ARAM changes. To see all ARAM builds, head to our Champion Pages.

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When it comes to climbing in League of Legends, you must give yourself the best chance of winning the game before actually getting into the game itself. One way you can do this is by ensuring you have the best possible Runes, Summoner Spells and item build in mind.

In this Mobalytics guide, we will discuss how you can research item builds for your favorite champion and how to find the best build for them.

The topics we’ll be covering:

• What is a build?
• Why researching builds is important
• How to research builds
• How to learn from pro builds
• Recognizing different options for different champions
• Situational items

What is a build?

Firstly, we need to understand what is meant by the term “build”. Traditionally, a build refers to the items your champion buys throughout the game and the order in which you buy them.. These include Starting items such a Doran’s Blade, Epic items like Bami’s Cinder, or Mythic items like Moonstone Renewer.

However, it’s not just the items you buy that make up a build. It’s also the runes and Summoner Spells that make up a build. Runes like Guardian and Summoner Spells like Flash or Heal are also factors for building your champion. Some champions can take different runes and Summoner Spells depending on your playstyle or the matchup.

Rell build.

While you cannot change your choice of Summoner Spells or runes in-game like you can with your itemization (unless you’ve taken Spellbook/Omnistone), taking the best runes and Summoners for your champion will help you win the game.

Why researching builds is important

Having an optimal setup will increase your chances of winning games as you will be building items or taking resources into the game that empower and synergize with your champions kit.

If you take things that don’t offer you the best chances of winning the game, you’re going to struggle from the get-go. For example, taking incorrect runes can make all the difference during the laning phase.

Also, if you’re buying the wrong items, you may be doing more harm than good and for instance, buying items that are not needed until the late game will not help you during the laning phase. Rabadon’s Deathcap isn’t a good first item!

How to research builds

There are many different ways you can do your research to find the best build for your champion. Honestly, there are many websites and resources that provide builds for every champion in the game. But, you need to be careful about blindly copying every site, make sure that your source is trustworthy.

Starting off, you’re on the Mobalytics blog so we’ll naturally begin with our own tool recommendations!

• Head to our Champion Pages to find builds for every champion, based on stats such as popularity and win rate.
• If you have the Mobalytics Desktop App, you can get the builds from the Champion Pages auto-imported every game so you never have to worry about taking the wrong runes.
• By using our Pro Builds section within the Champion Pages, you can find builds used by pro players and one-trick ponies. This can be a good way to find builds before they become popular.

Other tools:

• Check out guides that are made from high ELO one tricks rather than the guides created by lower-level players in places like Mobafire.
• Look for Youtube guides of your favorite champion, but they can be hit or miss. Watch out for clickbait builds that are meant for entertainment.
• Sites like Lolalytics can be useful but the site isn’t exactly friendly to new players and is better for more experienced players.

How to learn from pro builds

Checking out what pro players are building for your main champions is also a good idea. Learning from the pros is a great way of improving as a whole, so it makes sense to copy their builds too.

Head over to Mobalytics new pro builds section of your favorite champion and see what pros are building for that champion. If we head over to the Kai’Sa pro build page, we can see what matchup they were in, and what runes, Summoner Spells, and items they were taking too.

If we click on a build, we can also see the breakdown of what items they brought during the game and when. This can be helpful if you’re not sure when you should buy certain items and in what order.

Finally, we can also see the skill order they took in this game. Now, for the most part, champions don’t take different skill orders, but in certain matchups, you may wish to.

For these particular cases, try out the matchup search feature to see how top players handle different matchups.

Recognize different choices for different champions

Some champions have multiple rune setups and different builds. For example, Janna can take either Arcane Comet, Guardian, or Summon Aery.

Janna Aery build

In these cases, it’s good to understand the matchup and what to expect from it and take the most appropriate rune set up according to the matchup you’re in. For example, if you’re against a Leona as Janna, you could take the Guardian keystone rather than Arcane Comet which would be more of an offensive option while Aery provides a middle ground option that gives a bit of offense and defense.

To understand what the best rune or build set up is when you have many options, ask yourself a few questions. “What does the enemy laner want to do?”,  “Am I able to utilize this keystone?”,  “Will we win this matchup if I take this keystone?” Once you’ve asked those questions, you should try to take the rune that answers most of those questions.

Janna Comet build

It’s okay though, you will need to experiment with each build setup to know what to take in the future. So don’t worry if you make a mistake and take a non-optimal setup at first, just remember for next time! Like we said before though, you could just take a standard setup and do perfectly fine against the enemy if you don’t wish to customize your runes.

Situational items

Situational items are very impactful in League of Legends. Every champion has a traditional build or set of builds that they can go, but sometimes you need to go against what websites or creators suggest to increase your chances of winning the game.

In the current state of League of Legends, there are tons of healing across the map. If the enemy team has a lot of healing, you need to buy items that will increase your chances of killing them which can be done by purchasing items that apply grievous wounds to cut down on their healing.

Items such as Oblivion Orb or Executioner’s Calling will make dealing with the enemy team easier as they will not get as much healing back in fights. For example, you need to rush Executioner’s Calling against a Senna + Soraka lane in the bottom lane if you want to get kills. If you don’t get this item, then you’ll never be able to kill them.

If you want to know what items are classed as situational items and when you should adjust your build path to accommodate these items, check out our item guides for Season 11.

On the Mobalytics site, you can also see what situational items are suitable for each champion and which will help you if you need to adapt your build path against the enemy.

Ashe situational items.

Things most champions can adapt to:

• Healing reduction (Oblivion Orb/Executioner’s Calling).
• Starting items (Relic Shield/Spelltheif’s Edge).
• Boots (Plated Steelcaps/Mercury Treads).
• Defensive items (Guardian’s Angel/Zhonya’s Hourglass).

Conclusion

Taking good runes, Summoner Spells, and building items that benefit your champion will increase your chances of winning the game. Make sure you take and build things that help your champion and increase your chances of winning the game.

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In a game with over 200 different items and an ever-growing roster of champions, itemization is one of the more challenging aspects to learn as a beginner. At the start, knowing what League of Legends items to buy, and when to buy them is where many players fall flat.

In this beginners guide by PicklePants, we will go over every Support item in the game to help you understand when you should and shouldn’t buy them.

Because there are 3 main Support playstyles, we will discuss what items are viable for each of the utility, tank and mage Supports, while providing a few examples along the way.

The Basics

Before we move on, it’s important to discuss the terminology and provide a little background information. When you first start playing League of Legends, you won’t understand what every item does. This is natural for any game, as nobody expects you to know the ins and outs before playing.

Many players copy the same build path over and over again, and never change their item order. On the other hand, some players don’t buy items, or buy items that are not going to benefit their champion such as AP items on an AD reliant champion. This is where our Mobalytics guide will come in handy. By knowing when to buy each item, you will have an advantage over the enemy who hasn’t fully grasped the concept yet.

Items fall into one of two categories within a build:

Core:
Core items are almost always brought on your champion and syngerize really well with your champ’s kit and what they want to do. As an example, Boots will nearly always be a core item and it’s an expected inclusion.

Situational:
Situational items are not necessarily purchased every game, apart from when you need them. More often than not, situational items will be reactive to what the enemy has. For example, if the enemy has lots of AP damage, you should buy magic resist.

Essentially, every Support item will fall in one of these categories depending on the champion you’re playing.

Support Pre Game Builds

If you stumbled upon this article in search of how to build your Support champ, you’re in luck. Our free Pre Game tool gives you a build curated by our high-ELO experts right before your match begins.

This is Janna’s build, skill order and rune setup. Find more information about Janna or any champion’s build by checking out our champion pages.

If you’d like to try the Pre Game, just click here to sign up for an account! It’s quick and easy, and there are a ton of other useful tools within the Pre Game feature itself and the rest of our platform. Now, on to the rest of our adventure through Support items.

Starting Items for Supports

From left to right: Spelltheif’s Edge, Spectral Sickle, Steel Shoulderguards, Relic Shield.

There are 4 starting options for the Support, and each is designed to be taken by specific champion archetypes that can benefit from it. Each of the items provides gold income and allow you to eventually gain wards via completing a quest.

Spellthief’s Edge

Spellthief’s Edge is an item that is taken on AP Supports or champions who can deal damage. It provides AP, health, mana regeneartion and gold.

If you’re in a matchup you can play aggressively and poke, Spellthief is your item.

It is the most challenging and difficult Support item to stack as it relies on the player to be proactive in lane. For example, making sure to consume all of it stacks whenever possible and minimizing the downtime between gaining stacks.

You can have a maximum of 3 stacks which can be consumed by dealing damage through auto attacks, abilities or hitting a tower. Make sure to consume them as often as possible.

Examples of champions who benefit: Janna, Zyra, Brand.

Steel Shoulderguards

This item should be purchased on champions that will be building tank as it provides health, health regeneration, gold and attack damage. It is very similar to Relic Shield except it gives AD not AP.

If you have available stacks, you should auto attack and last hit the minion. The priority goes as follows: cannon minion, melee minion then ranged minion. I would prioritize the first two and never last hit a ranged minion with this item as it gives little to no gold for your quest.

Examples of champions who benefit: Braum, Thresh, Pyke

Relic Shield

The next Support item is the Relic Shield. This is an item that is purchased on champions that will be building primarily tank, or who are tanky in general as it provides health, health regeneration, AP and a little bit of sustain.

The quest for this item requires the user to earn 500 gold through last hitting minions (you share gold with your laner). You will find that there are orbs that float around your champion to tell you how many minions or stacks you can take. You can also check how many you have available to you by looking just above your ability bar.

If you have available stacks, you should auto attack and last hit the minion. The priority goes as follows: cannon minion, melee minion then ranged minion. I would prioritize the first two and never last hit a ranged minion with this item as it gives little to no gold for your quest.

Examples of champions who benefit: Janna, Alistar, Nautilus.

Spectral Sickle

The final Support item provides AD, health, mana regeneration and gold. It is usually taken on AD Supports who like to trade often and deal damage.

This item is basically an AD version of Spelltheif’s Edge. You should look to harass and auto-attack the enemy whenever you have 3 available stacks on this item to make the most of its gold income and to complete your warding quest quickly.

Examples of champions who benefit: Senna, Ashe, Pyke.

Multiple options

You may have noticed we used Janna as an example twice when suggesting who benefits from an item. Janna is a prime example of a champion that works with multiple starting items. This is just one example of a champion who can take more than one starting item.

Since you’re limited to one, you will need to pick the item that is going to help you the most during the laning phase. For example, if you’re in a good matchup and able to trade frequently, take Spellthief’s Edge. If you’re in a poor matchup where you’re unable to hit the enemy, take something different.

Complete (finished) items for Support

Completed items are items that no longer need upgrading and have reached their final form. They cost quite a bit but are cheaper for Supports compared to any other role. Because we can’t cover every champion or playstyle, we’re going to go over some of the more popular items that a Support can take.

There is a range of different Supports with different item builds, we will only go over items that are more commonly found on Supports and are not unique to each champion. For example, we won’t be talking about Pyke because he is a fringe case that can be built full AD. If you’re wanting to learn specific item builds, stay tuned because we will touch on that subject later on.

Ardent Censer

Ardent Censer is a core item for many utility or healing and shielding Supports. Ardent Censer gives AP, increased healing and shielding power and mana regeneration.

If you give an ally a heal or a shield, they will gain extra attack speed for a few seconds.

Examples of champions who benefit: Janna, Lulu, Nami.

Chemtech Putrifier

Chemtech gives AP, ability haste and mana regeneration. It’s Passive also applies grievous wounds. If you deal magical damage to an enemy champion, they’ll have reduced healing briefly. If you heal or shield an ally champion, their next auto on an enemy champion will apply grievous wounds.

This item is great on champions who have healing or shielding tools.

Examples of champions who benefit: Janna, Soraka, Nami.

Imperial Mandate

Imperial Mandate is a great item that allows you and your allies to deal damage. It gives AP, health and ability haste. It also gives mana regeneration.

Using CC tools on an enemy marks them, and when an ally autos or deals damage to them, the mark will detonate and deal extra damage.

This is a Mythic item, which grants all other Legendary items additional ability power.

Examples of champions who benefit: Zyra, Nami, Seraphine.

Knight’s Vow

Knight’s Vow is a good item on tank Supports. This item redirects incoming damage to a chosen ally and forces it to hurt you instead. This item gives health, haste and health regenreation.

Examples of champions who benefit: Nautilus, Thresh, Alistar.

Locket of the Iron Solari

Locket’s active gives your team a large AOE shield. While they’re near you, they also gain extra armor and magic resistance.

Locket gives health, haste, armor and magic resistance.

As Locket is a Mythic item, all your other legendary items provide increased defensive stats to Consecrate (which is the name of the passive that gives your allies extra defensive stats).

Examples of champions who benefit: Alistar, Thresh, Pantheon.

Mikael’s Blessing

Mikael’s is a very situational item. You buy it against teams with a lot of CC. The active removes all CC debuffs apart from knock-ups and suppression from an allied champion.

Mikael’s gives increased healing and shielding power, magic resistance and ability haste. It also gives mana regeneration, which makes it a good item on utility Supports.

Examples of champions who benefit: Janna, Soraka, Lulu.

Moonstone Renewer

Moonstone Renewer provides the user with AP, health, ability haste and mana regeneration. It is a great team fighting item as it offers healing to your allies in fights.

As this item is a Mythic item, it gives all of your other legendary items 5 ability haste.

Examples of champions who benefit: Seraphine, Janna, Lulu.

Redemption

Redemption offers a large AOE heal that can give your allies additional healing and extra protection. It provides vision and deals a small portion of damage to enemies who are hit by it.

Redemption makes your heals and shields stronger, it also gives you health and mana regeneration. Finally, it gives you some health too.

Examples of champions who benefit: Soraka, Karma, Seraphine.

Shurelya’s Battlesong

Battlesong offers AP, health, ability haste and mana regeneration.

This items active gives you and your allies a large decaying movement speed buff while also empowering some of their next outgoing damage sources.

As Shurelya’s is a Mythic item, it grants all your other legendary items extra movement speed.

Examples of champions who benefit: Alistar, Rakan, Nautilus.

Staff of Flowing Water

Healing or shielding an allied champion grants both of you additional movement speed and extra ability power briefly. This item works great on utility and healing champions as it gives AP, healing and shielding power and mana regeneration.

Examples of champions who benefit: Lulu, Janna, Seraphine.

Vigilant Wardstone

Wardstone gives additional movement speed and ability haste.

This item will allow you to store up to 3 Control Wards. It will also allow you to place more Stealth and Control Wards. This item is not very good but if you intend to get it, you would get it as a last item.

Examples of champions who benefit: Thresh, Alistar, Rakan.

Zeke’s Convergence

Zeke’s gives health, armor, mana and ability haste. It is a good item on champions who have lots of CC tools as it will allow you to deal extra damage to targets that have been immobilized by yourself.

This item is good on tanks who have CC tools.

Examples of champions who benefit: Thresh, Nautilus, Alistar.

Support items Tips and Tricks

Here are some tips for itemization as the Support:

• Learn to adapt.
  • Adjust your item build whenever you need to. While our build paths or item suggests are a good basis to go by, make sure you adapt to whatever circumstance you’re playing in. For example, if the enemy has lots of AP damage- purchase Mercury Treads.
• Make sure to purchase Control Wards.
  • You should always purchase a Control Ward whenever you can and place it somewhere on the map. Also, make sure that you buy them consistently throughout the game.
• Prioritize Control Wards over items (in the late game).
  • Unless you’re going to complete or buy a much needed advanced item, instead of purchasing and filling up your item slots, save it for Control Wards. This will make warding objectives and taking Baron much safer.

How to find the right build for Support

If you’re struggling to find an appropriate build path for your champion. You have a few options available to you:

• Trial and error
  • Just play the game and try to find an appropriate build path yourself by seeing what works well on your champion.
• Copy the build from the Pre Game
  • As we mentioned at the top of the article, in the Pre Game, you can see what we recommend to build on your champion and when. This is useful as you can just launch it automatically before every game and get a build without having to search prior to the game starting.
• Research Summoner Profiles
  • If you want to keep track of your own builds in your match history and study the builds of any summoner, our Summoner Profile feature for your LoL match history is your go-to tool.
• Try Probuilds on the champion’s page
  • This is another great option because pro players are really smart and do a lot of mathematical equations and research to work out what fits best and when. E.g. Ezreal probuilds.
• Try out some of the recommended items.
  • Each champion in the game has a dedicated list of items that Riot recommends to build. Give some of them ago and see what tickles your fancy.

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As part of the massive Preseason revamp to the League of Legends Item Shop, a lot of the older items that weren’t revamped were removed. They have removed these items for many reasons, but mostly because they overlap with new items or since they weren’t bought very often.

With some of the items that have been removed, we will discuss a similar item that has could be brought as a replacement. Take note that the recommended replacement items are not 1-to-1, but will be similar.

If you want to know about all the other new items Riot have implemented for Season 11, check out our other Season 11 item articles where we’ve broken down all the new items.

Adaptive Helm

• Adaptive Helm is not returning under a new name in Season 11. Helm was a rather niche item and only really worked against enemies who were AP, did damage over time, and was only able to be purchased on a select few champions.

Possible replacement item:

• Spirit Visage– Gives health, magic resistance, health regen, and ability haste.

Athene’s Unholy Grail

• Athenes was removed as a whole. It was basically a must-have item for every healing/shielding Support and as Riot wants to improve build paths, it had to be removed.

Possible replacement item:

• Staff of Flowing Water– Gives AP, healing and shielding power and mana regen.

Frozen Mallet

• Frozen Mallet wasn’t purchased by a lot of champions and will not be returning in Season 11. It was too niche and didn’t really fit most champions.

Possible replacement item:

• Blade of the Ruined King- Gives AD, attack speed, and life steal. Will provide extra movement speed too.

Hextech GLP-800

• Hextech GLP will return as a Mythic Item under the name of Everfrost. However, unlike Hextech GLP, it will be used as more of a defensive tool rather than a pick tool like Hextech was.

Possible replacement item:

• Everfrost: Gives AP, health, mana, and ability haste. Active will slow enemies in a cone.

Hextech Gunblade

• Hextech Gunblade was only purchased on champions who wanted to one-shot enemies. It was not a viable option for almost all champions in the game, so this item’s getting removed.

Possible replacement item:

• Riftmaker- Gives AP, health, ability haste, and omnivamp.

Spellbinder

• Spellbinder will not be making an appearance in 2021. It was too niche, hard to use, and was only really brought on Vladimir and a few other champions. Not too much to say about it really

Possible replacement item:

• Rabadon’s Deathcap– Gives AP.

Statikk Shiv

• Riot has noted that Shiv’s lightning effect was either underwhelming or too strong. They found this item hard to balance which made it one of the factors as to why they canceled this item for Season 11.

Possible replacement item:

• Runann’s Hurricane– Gives AD, attack speed, critical strike, and movement speed. Active makes your auto attacks focus nearby champions.

Twin Shadows

• Twin Shadows offered a lot to people who went Glacial, but it didn’t offer anything else to anyone else. It will not make a return in 2021.

Possible replacement item:

• Everfrost: Gives AP, health, mana, and ability haste. Active will slow enemies in a cone.

Some of these items will return under a new name. If you want to see if any one of these items has returned under a new name, check out our new item guides. We’ve broken down all the new Mythic and Legendary items, so it’s worth giving them a quick look over.

We will now discuss some of the items that were reworked rather than removed. These items are still in the game, but their names have changed. All of the items are now Mythic items instead of Legendary items.

• Ludens Echo > Luden’s Tempest
• Liandry’s Torment > Liandry’s Anguish
• Hextech Protobelt-01 > Hextech Rocketbelt
• Sunfire Cape > Sunfire Aegis
• Righteous Glory > Turbo Chemtank
• Iceborn Gauntlet > Frostfire Gauntlet
• Shurelya’s Reverie > Shurelya’s Battlesong

These previously completed items are now Mythic items. Their name has remained the same.

• Duskblade of Draktharr
• Trinity Force
• Locket of the Iron Solari

Thank you for reading, we hope you enjoyed this breakdown of the older items that were removed or replaced for Season 11. To find other guides related to the new Season 11 items, head here.

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You’ve probably heard by now that the big change for this offseason was a massive revamp to the Item Shop.

So far, we’ve covered all the new Legendary items along with the Mythic Items for  ADCs, Assassins, Bruisers, Mages, and Supports.

In this guide, we’ll be covering all the older items that were adjusted or revamped for the new season.

If you want to know about all the other new items Riot has implemented for Season 11, check out our other Season 11 item articles where we’ll be breaking down all the new additions.

Before we move on, let’s talk about one of the biggest changes to items which is the new haste stat. Haste is replacing cooldown reduction – overall it’s similar to CDR as it allows you to use your abilities more often.

However, it doesn’t have a cap and you can buy as much haste as you like. Riot’s goal with this was to create greater flexibility with builds and how champions can use their abilities.

Many of the items we will talk about in this guide have haste, so keep an eye out!

Rapid Firecannon

• Total cost for this item has increased.
• Because of the increase, the total attack speed has increased.
• But as Riot wanted to change crit strike, they’ve reduced the amount of crit strike chance it gives.

Stormrazor

• Total cost is down.
• So is the amount of attack damage it gives.
• The attack speed this item provides has been completely gutted.
• Gives less critical strike chance.

Mercurial Scimitar

• The total cost of this item has gone down.
• The build path has changed from QSS, Vampiric Scepter and Pickaxe to QSS, Cloak of Agility and Pickaxe.
• The AD this item provides has been decreased.
• The magic resistance you get from this item is also down.
• However, this item now gives some critical chance.
• This item no longer gives any form of lifesteal.
• The active has changed slightly. Instead of removing all disables, it now removes all disables excluding airborne.

Runaan’s Hurricane

• The total cost has heavily increased.
• The build path has changed from Zeal and 2 Daggers to Pickaxe, Zeal and a Dagger.
• It now gives 25 AD.
• The amount of crit strike you get has been reduced.
• It now gives less movement speed.
• The bolt damage is overall stronger.

Rylai’s Crystal Scepter

• The total cost has increased.
• The build path has changed slightly. It now consists of Blasting Wand, Giant’s Belt and an Amplifying Tome whereas before it was a Blasting Wand, Amp Tone and a Ruby Crystal.
• It still gives 90 AP.
• The amount of health this item gives has increased.
• It will now slow the enemy more.

Nashor’s Tooth

• There has been no change to the item’s total cost.
• But the build path has changed. Before it was a Stinger and a Fiendish Codex. Now it consists of a Recurve Bow, Blasting Wand and an Amplifying Tome.
• Gives 100 AP instead of 80.
• The attack speed stays the same at 50%.
• Unfortunately, this item no longer provides any cooldown reduction.
• The AP ratio for the on-hit damage has increased slightly.

Bloodthirster

• The cost is down.
• Build path has been adjusted from BF Sword, Vampiric Scepter and a Long Sword to BF Sword, Cloak of Agility and Vamp Scepter.
• Overall AD damage is down.
• But this item now gives crit strike!

Edge of Night

• The total cost is the same as before.
• Build path has been changed from Serrated Dirk, Pickaxe and a Ruby Crystal to Serrated Dirk, a Long Sword and a Ruby Crystal.
• The amount of AD damage this item gives is down.

Youmuu’s Ghostblade

• This item now costs more gold.
• The build path has changed. It is now built from Serrated Dirk and a Pickaxe rather than Serrated Dirk and a Warhammer.
• The amount of AD you get from this item has been reduced.
• Youmuu’s Ghostblade no longer gives any cooldown reduction.

Umbral Glaive

• The total cost of this item has increased.
• This item is no longer built from Serrated Dirk and 2 Long Swords. Instead, it’s a Serrated Dirk and Caulfield’s Warhammer.
• This item’s total AD has increased.
• It now gives 15 ability haste instead of 10% cooldown reduction.

Guardian Angel

• Gives less attack damage.
• Still provides 40 armor.
• Same Passive.

Warmog’s Armor

• The total cost has increased.
• It now gives 10 ability haste instead of 10% cooldown reduction.
• For its Warmog’s Heart Passive, it now gives 5% max health per second instead of 2.5% max health every half second.

Spirit Visage

• The total cost has increased slightly.
• It now gives 40 magic resistance instead of 55.
• The item now gives ability haste instead of cooldown reduction.
• Your healing and shielding will be increased by 25% whereas before it was just your healing.

Dead Man’s Plate

• The cost of this item hasn’t changed.
• But the build path has changed from Chainmail Vest and Giant’s Belt to Winged Moonplate, Ruby Crystal and a Chainmail Vest.
• The total health this item provides has increased.
• But it gives less armor overall.
• It now gives 5% movement speed.

Ardent Censer

• The total cost of this item is unchanged.
• The build path is now Forbidden Idol and a Blasting Wand instead of Forbidden Idol and an Aether Wisp.
• It no longer gives cooldown reduction or movement speed.
• However, it does give 100% base mana regen instead of 50%.

Redemption

• The total cost has increased.
• The build path has swapped from a Crystalline Bracer and a Forbidden Idol to Kindlegem and Forbidden Idol.
• The healing and shielding power has doubled.
• It now gives 15 ability haste instead of 10% CDR.
• It no longer gives any bonus health regen.
• But the base mana regen has doubled.
• It no longer deals damage to minions or gets 3x stronger from healing and shielding power.

Mikael’s Blessing

• The name has changed from Mikael’s Crucible to Mikael’s Blessing.
• The cost has increased.
• The build path has changed from Chalice and Forbidden Idol to Forbidden Idol and a Negatron Cloak.
• It gives more magic resistance.
• It gives 15 ability haste instead of 10% CDR.
• Its new active removes crowd control debuffs apart from airbourne and suppression. It also gives a small heal.
• The Harmony Passive has been removed and it no longer grants bonus health regeneration that was equal to mana.

Mejai’s Soulstealer

• It is now more expensive.
• No longer gives you mana.
• But it does give you some health.

Zhonya’s Hourglass

• Zhonya’s is much cheaper now.
• But it does give less ability power.
• It gives 10 ability haste instead of 10% cooldown reduction.
• Zhonya’s Hourglass has the same active.

Banshee’s Veil

• Banshee’s Veil is a lot cheaper and has been slashed by 500 gold.
• The build path has changed from Fiendish Codex and a Null Magic Mantle with Blasting Wand to Fiendish Codex and Verdant Barrier.
• The amount of AP it provides is down.
• You will get less magic resistance in total.
• It no longer gives 10% CDR. It now gives 10 ability haste.

Rabadon’s Deathcap

• The total cost has increased.
• It now gives +35% AP multiplier instead of +40%.

Here are all the Legendary items in the game that have received some changes. Most of the items we will talk about here have had their effects (passive or active) changed among other things like costs and damage.

Mortal Reminder

• Mortal Reminder no longer grants any armor penetration.
• It is now built from Zeal.
• The Grievous Wounds has seen some improvement. Auto-attacking 3 times in a row to an enemy champion will increase the Grievous Wounds to 60% from 40%.

Guinsoo’s Rageblade

• The on-hit damage is now based on critical strike chance. However, you cannot crit the enemy with this item.
• It will no longer allow you to stack your attack speed.
• It no longer gives AD, AP or any penetration stats.

Phantom Dancer

• No longer has the lifeline Passive (if you took damage that would put you below 30% max health- you would gain a shield).
• The effect of this item has changed. Basic attacks grant Ghosting and extra movement speed. If you auto-attack 5 times, you will gain bonus attack speed too.

Lord Dominik’s Regards

• This item now provides 20% crit strike chance!
• Deals additional damage against targets who have lots of health.

Essence Reaver

• Essence Reaver is now built from Sheen and brings with it Sheen’s effects. Your next basic attack after using an ability will deal more damage and restore some mana.

Infinity Edge

• The critical strike damage will now scale with the amount of critical strike your champion has.

Manamune

• Manamune gives ability haste.
• You will no longer gain stacks if you use your abilities without hitting a target.
• The amount of mana you need to transform this item has been reduced.

Muramana

• No longer consumes your mana when proc’d.
• The bonus damage now applies to abilities as well as auto-attacks.

Archangel’s Staff

• AP per mana has increased overall.
• Unfortunately, this item no longer refunds mana on cast.
• Doesn’t give ability haste or cooldown reduction.
• If you use an ability and it doesn’t hit a target, you will not get stacks.
• On the plus side, the amount of mana you need to transform this item has been reduced.

Seraph’s Embrace

• The amount of AP you get from your mana pool has increased. However, it will now grant mana per AP.
• It will no longer give you a shield if you try to activate it.
• Does not grant any ability haste, and no more mana refund on cast.

Lich Bane

• The Spellblade effect damage and cooldown have increased.
• Sadly, it no longer gives mana or ability haste.

Blade of the Ruined King

• Movement Speed active is now a Passive instead. This will make the champions who use it faster overall.

Black Cleaver

• Black Cleaver no longer grants movement speed on-hit when you auto-attack an enemy.
• Dealing damage to enemies who are fully shredded (with 6 stacks applied to them) will take an additional 5% missing health damage.

Ravenous Hydra

• The Cleave effect now procs on abilities and ranged basic attacks.
• Instead of this item providing life steal, it now grants Omnivamp.
• The active has been removed.
• It no longer grants health regeneration.

Titanic Hydra

• Titanic Hydra now gives you bonus AD equal to your maximum health.
• The Cleave effect now procs on abilities and ranged basic attacks.
• It no longer grants health regeneration.
• The active has been removed.

Wit’s End

• Now provides movement speed on-hit instead of healing. You will gain 20 movement speed for 2 seconds after auto-attacking someone.

Maw of Malmortius

• The shield you get from Lifeline (when you take AP damage that would put you below 30% health, you gain a shield) has been increased.
• Bonus stats on proccing this item have been removed though.

Death’s Dance

• Omnivamp has been replaced with a Bleed cleanse, movement speed and a heal once you’ve killed an enemy.
• Magic damage is no longer reduced and it is now converted to Bleed.

Sterak’s Gage

• The base shield has been decreased but it now scales with the number of enemies you’re in combat with.
• The tenacity Sterak’s Gage provided has been removed.
• It is no longer a melee only item.
• It will now grant healing based on enemies you’re in combat with.

Randuin’s Omen

• Active now reduces enemy AD and crit damage.
• It also passively reduces the damage taken from all incoming basic attacks and not just critical strikes.
• However, it no longer reduces enemy attack sped when hit.

Frozen Heart

• Now passively reduces damage taken from basic attacks.

Gargoyle Stoneplate

• When activating this item, you will gain a shield that decays over 2.5 seconds.
• Whenever you take damage from an enemy champion, you will passively gain extra armor and magic resistance.

Abyssal Mask

• Immobilizing a champion will make them take increased damage for a brief moment in time.

Thornmail

• The amount of damage THornmail deals is now down.
• If you immobilize a champion, you will apply 60% grievous wounds to them.

Zeke’s Convergence

• If you immobilize an enemy champion, the linked allies’ autos and abilities apply additional damage.

Knight’s Vow

• Now, whenever you’re near your linked ally, you will take more redirected damage.
• Also, if they’re lower than 50% health, you’ll gain bonus movement speed when running towards them.
• No longer grants armor, passive movement speed, or a heal.

Morellonomicon

• If the target is below 50% health, the effect of the grievous wound will be increased.
• Unfortunately, this item no longer gives magic penetration.

Sanguine Blade

• No longer provides life steal.
• Provides physical vamp instead.

To round this guide off, let’s discuss the items that have been “removed” from the game. Basically, Riot reworked these items quite a bit and gave many of them new Passives and new names. Find out what other items have been removed from the game with our All Season 11 Removed Items guide.

Luden’s Tempest (previously known as Luden’s Echo)

• Ludens now costs more gold.
• It gives less AP.
• Empowers your Legendary items with 5 magic penetration.
• Gives 10 ability haste.
• Grants you bonus movement speed after damaging an enemy target.

Liandry’s Anguish (previously known as Liandry’s Torment)

• Cost of this item has risen.
• Is no longer built from Blasting Wand and Haunting Guise. Is now built from Lost Chapter and Fiendish Codex.
• Gives more AP.
• Offers 20 ability haste.
• Gives 600 mana but no longer gives any health.
• It now empowered your other Legendary items with 5 ability haste.
• Liandry’s Passive will now burn enemies causing them to take a lot of damage. This damage ignores their resistances too. This makes this item good against tanks.

Hextech Rocketbelt (previously known as Hextech Protobelt-01)

• This item gives more AP.
• It provides 15 ability haste.
• Overall the item gives less health.
• But its Mythic empowerment provides other Legendary items with 5 magic penetration.
• The build path has changed from Hextech Revolver and a Kindlegem to Hextech Alternator, a Ruby Crystal and Blasting Wand.
• Similar active, but you will gain extra movement speed once you’ve launched your missiles.

Sunfire Aegis (previously known as Sunfire Cape)

• Sunfire Aegis gives 15 ability haste.
• The amount of health this item provides has been increased slightly.
• Overall this item gives less armor but now provides some magic resistance as well.
• The recipe for this item has also changed. It now consists of a Bambi’s Cinder and Aegis of the Legion whereas before it included Bami’s Cinder, Ruby Crystal, and a Chain Vest.
• The cost has increased for this item.
• The Passive for this item has been changed. Taking or dealing damage activates the Passive for 3 seconds. If you deal damage to an enemy champion, you’ll gain a stack. At maximum stacks, your basic attacks explode around you dealing damage to nearby enemies.
• Sunfire Aegis empowered other Legendary items with 5 ability Haste.

Turbo Chemtank (previously known as Righteous Glory)

• Provides 15 ability haste instead of 10% cooldown reduction.
• Gives 25 armor instead of 30 armor.
• Gives less health overall.
• No longer provides base health regeneration.
• Doesn’t provide mana anymore.
• Buying this item empowers your other Legendary items with 5% tenacity and slow resistance.
• Active is basically the same as before.
• Has a new Passive. Dealing or taking damage activates it for 3 seconds. The Passive deals damage to nearby enemies.

Frostfire Gauntlet (previously known as Iceborn Gauntlet)

• Gives 15 ability haste instead of 20% cooldown reduction.
• Provides less armor in comparison to the old item.
  Doesn’t give any mana at all.
• Now provides 350 health.
• Passive will deal damage to nearby enemies once you’ve taken or dealt damage.
• Basic attacks against an enemy create a frost field that slows enemies in it.
• Empowers your other Legendary items with extra health and increased size.

Shurelya’s Battlesong (previously known as Shurelya’s Reverie)

• Provides 20 ability haste instead of 10% cooldown reduction.
• No longer increases your healing and shielding power.
• Shurelya’s now provides more health.
• Provides 50% base mana regeneration instead of 100, and no longer offers any base health regen.
• Empowers your other Legendary items with additional movement speed.
• Its active now gives you extra movement speed but also empowered your next 3 autos or abilities against enemy champions.

Duskblade of Draktharr

• This item gives less AD compared to the old version.
• It now gives 20 ability haste.
• It gives less lethality overall, and the lethality it provides scales with rank.
• Empowers your other Legendary items with ability haste.
• The Nightstalker Passive is very similar to last time, apart from the fact that whenever you get a champion takedown, you will become invisible for 1.5 seconds.

Trinity Force

• Item recipe has changed from Sheen, Stinger, and Phage to Sheen, Hearthbond Axe, and a Kindlegem.
• Now gives 10 ability haste, less AD, less attack speed, and less health.
• Empowers your other Legendary items with 10% extra attack speed.
• Basic attacks will grant extra movement speed. If the target you hit is a champion, you will get extra damage too. This can stack up to 5 times.

Locket of the Iron Solari

• The recipe of this item has changed from Aegis of the Legion and Null-Magic Mantle to Kindlegem and Aegis of the Legion.
• Gives less magic resistance in comparison to before.
• Locket now gives health and ability haste.
• Passively provides nearby allies with bonus armor and magic resistance
• Empowers the rest of your Legendary items with bonus resistances.

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The annual Jungle changes have arrived! In this guide, we’ll be covering the changes to the two main Jungle items, Emberknife (red Smite) and Hailblade (blue smite), as well as the adjustments made to the jungle camps.

Here’s a quick look at what Riot’s motivations and goals were with the offseason changes leading into Season 11:

If you want to know about all the other new items Riot has implemented for Season 11, check out our other Season 11 item articles where we’ll be breaking down all the new additions.

Jungle Items

Emberknife and Hailblade share some properties:

• Omnivamp versus monsters.
  • Omnivamp converts a percentage of all physical, magic, and true damage dealt into health.
• Damage sears jungle mobs when they deal damage providing burn damage over 5 seconds.
• Bonus experience against large camps.
• Additional mana regeneration when in the jungle or river.

Their main differences naturally come from their Smites.

Emberknife

Once you’ve used Smite 5 times, the item is consumed and upgrades your Smite to Challenging Smite.

This Smite allows you to mark a target, deal bonus true damage to them, and take reduced damage from them.

Naturally, it’s the ideal option for duelists, carries, and aggressive invaders.

• Champions who could use this item:
  • Lee Sin
  • Shaco
  • Nidalee

Hailblade

Once you’ve used Smite 5 times, the item is consumed and upgrades your Smite to Chilling Smite. This Smite allows you to deal damage to the enemy and steal some of their movement speed.

Hailblade is a great option for junglers that want to enable their team through utility and CC rather than damage output.

• Champions who could use this item:
  • Amumu
  • Elise
  • Sett

Jungle Camps

Jungle mobs were also slightly adjusted on Patch 10.23. Riot’s main goal is to create pathing diversity and to make the jungle camps more interesting.

The Gromp

• Magic resistance is set to 20 at all levels.
• He now has less health overall.
• “Toad Rage” has been removed which basically empowered his first 3 auto attacks.
• Instead, he now has “Toad Soup” which restores health and mana once you kill him.
• Overall though, Gromp will do more damage in the early game and slightly less damage in the late game.

Blue Sentinel (Blue Buff)

• Magic resistance is set to 20 at all levels.
• Armor is set to 20 at each level.
• Health has been reduced at all stages of the game.
• Blue Buff moves faster now.

Greater Murkwolf (Big Wolf)

• Armor is set to 20.
• The Greater Murkwolf now has magic resistance.
• Slightly less healthy overall.
• But the wolf does move faster now.

Murkwolf (Small Wolves)

• Has no magic resistance.
• Has more health overall.
• Movement speed has increased.

Crimson Raptor (Big Raptor)

• Has 20 armor at all ranks.
• Has 20 magic resistance at all ranks.
• Is healthier overall.
• Has more movement speed.

Lesser Raptor (Small Raptors)

• Overall has more health.
• Has more movement speed.

Red Brambleback (Red Buff)

• Red Buffs armor is set to 20 at all levels.
• The Red Buffs magic resistance is now at 20.
• The health of the Red Buff has been reduced at all levels.

Ancient Krug (Big Krug)

• Armor is set to 20 at all ranks.
• Magic resistance is set to 20 at all ranks.
• Big Krug’s health has been slightly reduced.
• Finally, the movement speed has been increased for the Ancient Krug.

Krug (Smaller Krug)

• Movement speed has been increased.
• The experience you get from killing them has been reduced overall.
• They now give less gold too.

Lesser Krug (Very Small Krugs)

• The Lesser Krug’s movement speed has been increased
• The experience they provide has been overall increased.
• They also now give more gold.

Rift Scuttler (Crab)

• Armor and magic resistance set to 20.
• The Rift Scuttler’s health has been reduced.
• It now spawns with a 60% max health shield. The shield will get broken if you CC the Crab.
• As the shield will disappear if you CC the Crab, it no longer loses its armor and magic resistance once it’s CC’d.
• Finally, killing the Rift Scuttler no longer restores mana or health.

Thankfully there hasn’t been such a huge change this time around for Junglers, but it will definitely take some time to adjust to.

Thank you for reading, we hope you enjoyed this Season 11 jungle breakdown. To find other guides related to the new Season 11 items, head here.

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Wondering how the new assassin Mythic items work? You’ve come to the right place! If you haven’t heard, the biggest change coming to this Preseason is the addition of powerful Mythic items that are part of the new item shop.

Here’s how Mythic items work:

In this guide, we’ll breakdown the assassin Mythics explaining how they work and making recommendations for who you should use them on.

Note that some of these items will work wonders on champions who are in different roles too. There will also probably be other Mythic items that may work for assassins that aren’t listed here s so be sure to experiment!

The items we’ll be covering here are:

• Duskblade of Draktharr
• Eclipse
• Prowler’s Claw

If you want to know about all the other new items Riot has implemented for Season 11, check out our other Season 11 item articles where we’ll be breaking down all the new additions.

Duskblade of Draktharr

Duskblade gives AD, lethality, and 25 ability haste.

When you attack a champion, you’ll deal extra damage and slow them (at 99% it’s almost a root).

The next part is the craziest part of the item – if the champion you damaged dies shortly afterward, the cooldown is refreshed and you’ll become invisible briefly.

• Mythic Passive
  • Grants all other Legendary items 5 ability haste.

Champions who could use this item:

• Talon
• Rengar
• Zed

Eclipse

Eclipse gives AD, lethality, and omnivamp (spell vamp).

If you hit a champion with two sources of damage within a short period of time, you’ll deal extra damage and you will gain shield and bonus movement speed.

By “two sources”, this can be two attacks, two abilities, or an attack and an ability.

• Mythic Passive:
  • Grants all other Legendary items 4% armor pen.

Champions who could use this item:

• Kled
• Camille
• Renekton

Prowler’s Claw

Last but not least, Prowler’s Claw gives AD, lethality, and 10 ability haste.

The item’s active allows you to dash through a target dealing bonus damage.

For the next 3 seconds, you will deal increased damage to the target, allowing you to really hone in on the target you’re focusing.

• Mythic Passive
  • Grants all other Legendary items 5 lethality.

Champions who could use this item:

• Kayn
• Rengar
• Pantheon

Thank you for reading, we hope you enjoyed this assassin Mythic item breakdown. To find other guides related to the new Season 11 items, head here.

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In this edition of our Season 11 new item coverage, we’ll be covering the Mythic items for bruisers and fighters!

These items are:

• Divine Sunderer
• Goredrinker
• Stridebreaker
• Trinity Force

If you haven’t heard of Mythic items, here’s a quick description from the patch notes:

Before we begin, note that CDR has been replaced by haste. Haste is similar to cooldown reduction as it allows you to use your abilities more often.

However, it doesn’t have a cap and you can buy as much haste as you like. Riot’s goal with this was to create greater flexibility with builds and how champions can use their abilities.

Some of the following items will have haste so keep an eye out!

If you want to know about all the other new items Riot has implemented for Season 11, check out our other Season 11 item articles where we’ll be breaking down all the new additions.

Divine Sunderer

Divine Sunderer gives attack damage, health, and 20 ability haste.

After using an ability, your next attack is enhanced and deals more damage based on the target’s max health.

This along with its Mythic Passive makes Divine Sunderer a solid option against tanky enemies.

• Mythic Passive
  • Grants all other Legendary items 5% armor pen.

Champions who could use this item:

• Aatrox
• Renekton
• Pantheon

Goredrinker

Goredrinker gives you AD, health, 20 ability haste, and base health regeneration.

This item’s active is a slash that deals bonus damage to nearby enemies and restores missing health for each champion hit, granting duelists some value in teamfights.

Goredrinker also grants Spite, which provides additional attack damage based on your missing health.

• Mythic Passive
  • Grants all other Legendary items 5 ability haste.

Champions who could use this item:

• Tryndamere
• Kled
• Darius

Stridebreaker

Stridebreaker gives AD, attack speed, health, and ability haste.

The items active allows you to lunge a short distance, dealing damage to enemies and slowing them briefly.

In addition, dealing physical damage grants extra movement speed. Overall, it’s a great choice for champions that want to close the gap and chase their enemies down.

• Mythic Passive
  • Grants all other Legendary items movement speed.

Champions who could use this item:

• Darius
• Garen
• Yorick

Trinity Force

Trinity Force gives AD, attack speed, health, and 10 ability haste. Its main effects are granting move speed when you attack any target and increasing your attack damage if you’re targeting a champion.

It will also grant bonus damage to your next attack after you use an ability, so it’s a good choice for bruisers that wave abilities between their autos often.

• Mythic Passive
  • Grants all other Legendary items 10 attack speed.

Champions who could use this item:

• Jax
• Irelia
• Hecarim.

Thank you for reading, we hope you enjoyed this bruiser/fighter Mythic item breakdown. To find other guides related to the new Season 11 items, head here.

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