By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Legendary · Summoner's Rift
Blackfire Torch — the Burn That Grows Your AP
2,800gold
Blackfire Torch is a 2,800-gold burn item: damaging abilities apply Baleful Blaze for 3 seconds, and each enemy champion or large monster burning gives you 4% Ability Power. That comes on top of 80 AP, 600 Mana and 20 Ability Haste. The mid lane is where it sells best (52.7%), with junglers next at 26.9%.
What it grants
- 80 Ability Power
- 600 Mana
- 20 Ability Haste
Passives
- Baleful Blaze: Damaging Abilities deals bonus magic damage for 3 seconds.
- Blackfire: For each enemy champion, epic and large monster affected by your
- Baleful Blaze: , gain 4% Ability Power.
Blackfire Torch at a glance
Blackfire Torch is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 2,800 gold: Lost Chapter and Fated Ashes plus 700 gold. It grants 80 Ability Power, 600 Mana and 20 Ability Haste and the Baleful Blaze, Blackfire and Baleful Blaze passives. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 114.3% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
700
on top of 2 components, for 2,800 in total.
Builds into
Nothing — this is a finished item.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 5.8%
- Win rate
- 51.3%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 1
- Games
- 38,109
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top6.1%
- Jungle12.0%
- Mid52.7%
- Bot26.9%
- Support2.2%
Reach for it when
- Long lane phases
- Rotation uptime
Gold efficiency
114.3%3,200 gold of stats for 2,800
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
5th of 25 items Riot tags SpellDamage, by this measure. Nearest: Fiendish Codex 117.6%, Malignance 116.7%, Luden's Echo 112.7%, Archangel's Staff 112.1%.
- 80 Ability Power · 20g each, from Amplifying Tome
- 1600g
- 600 Mana · 1g each, from Sapphire Crystal
- 600g
- 20 Ability Haste · 50g each, from Glowing Mote
- 1000g
Blackfire Torch balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Blackfire Torch.
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Quick answers about Blackfire Torch
- How much does Blackfire Torch cost?
- 2,800 gold in total — Lost Chapter and Fated Ashes plus 700 gold.
- What is Blackfire Torch built from?
- Lost Chapter (1,200) and Fated Ashes (900), plus 700 gold to combine.
- What does Blackfire Torch build into?
- Nothing — Blackfire Torch is a finished item.
- What stats does Blackfire Torch give?
- 80 Ability Power, 600 Mana and 20 Ability Haste.
- What does Blackfire Torch's Baleful Blaze passive do?
- Damaging Abilities deals bonus magic damage for 3 seconds.
- What does Blackfire Torch's Blackfire passive do?
- For each enemy champion, epic and large monster affected by your
- What does Blackfire Torch's Baleful Blaze passive do?
- , gain 4% Ability Power.
- Where can you buy Blackfire Torch?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Blackfire Torch sell for?
- 1,960 gold, against 2,800 to buy.
- Is Blackfire Torch gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 3,200 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 2,800 — 114.3%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.