By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Boots · Summoner's Rift
Armored Advance — What Plated Steelcaps Become
1,200gold
Deal damage to empower your heals and shields
Armored Advance is what Plated Steelcaps upgrade into: 35 Armor, 45 Move Speed, 10% less damage from attacks, and Noxian Endurance, a physical shield after a champion hits you. Patch 26.3 reworked that shield to 100–200 by level plus 8% of bonus Health. Its stat block returns 103.3% of the 1,200-gold price.
What it grants
- 35 Armor
- 45 Move Speed
Passives
- Plating: Reduces incoming damage from Attacks by 10%.
- Noxian Endurance: (0s)After taking physical damage from a Champion, gain a physical shield for 5 seconds.
Armored Advance at a glance
Armored Advance is a boots item on Summoner's Rift that costs 1,200 gold: Plated Steelcaps plus 0 gold. It grants 35 Armor and 45 Move Speed and the Plating and Noxian Endurance passives. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 103.3% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
0
on top of 1 component, for 1,200 in total.
Builds into
Nothing — this is a finished item.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 1.1%
- Win rate
- 50.5%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 7,172
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Mid100.0%
Reach for it when
- Versus heavy AD
- Map pressure
Gold efficiency
103.3%1,240 gold of stats for 1,200
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
4th of 14 items Riot tags Armor, by this measure. Nearest: Death's Dance 116.7%, Frozen Heart 116.0%, Steel Sigil 102.3%, Chain Vest 100.0%.
- 35 Armor · 20g each, from Cloth Armor
- 700g
- 45 Move Speed · 12g each, from Boots
- 540g
Armored Advance balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Armored Advance in 1 patch. The latest is patch 26.3, published 2026-02-03.
Patch 26.32026-02-03
- Noxian Endurance Shield10-120 (based on level 1-18) (+ 7% max HP)to100-200 (based on level, scaling begins at level 9) (+ 8% Bonus HP)
Why, in Riot's words
When we updated the mid lane quest boots we wanted to make sure that champions had the option to pick items that strongly suited them. We did not want to let early defensive purchases trivialize their competition, as mid lane is a home of many assassins. So in this patch we're adjusting the upgraded versions of Mercury's Treads and Plated Steelcaps to make them weaker anti-burst options for champions who aren't buying any other durability items. These changes represent a tuning close to the end of last season, but with numbers that are more readily apparent at first glance, as no one can acquire these boots at level 1, and the prior max HP ratio carried most of the shield's value, even to squishies.
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Quick answers about Armored Advance
- How much does Armored Advance cost?
- 1,200 gold in total — Plated Steelcaps plus 0 gold.
- What is Armored Advance built from?
- Plated Steelcaps (1,200), plus 0 gold to combine.
- What does Armored Advance build into?
- Nothing — Armored Advance is a finished item.
- What stats does Armored Advance give?
- 35 Armor and 45 Move Speed.
- What does Armored Advance's Plating passive do?
- Reduces incoming damage from Attacks by 10%.
- What does Armored Advance's Noxian Endurance passive do?
- (0s)After taking physical damage from a Champion, gain a physical shield for 5 seconds.
- Where can you buy Armored Advance?
- In Summoner's Rift — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Armored Advance sell for?
- 840 gold, against 1,200 to buy.
- Is Armored Advance gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 1,240 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 1,200 — 103.3%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.