By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Legendary · Summoner's Rift
Bloodthirster — Lifesteal That Overheals Into a Shield
3,400gold
Grants Attack Damage, Life Steal and Life Steal now overheals
Bloodthirster is 80 Attack Damage and 15% Life Steal for 3,400 gold, and its Ichorshield turns healing from lifesteal past full Health into a shield. It builds from B. F. Sword, Pickaxe and Vampiric Scepter. Bot laners made 89.2% of its purchases, and it won 57% of the 6,342 games it showed up in.
What it grants
- 80 Attack Damage
- 15% Life Steal
Passive
- Ichorshield: Convert excess healing from your Lifesteal to a Shield.
Bloodthirster at a glance
Bloodthirster is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 3,400 gold: B. F. Sword, Pickaxe and Vampiric Scepter plus 325 gold. It grants 80 Attack Damage and 15% Life Steal and the Ichorshield passive. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 82.4% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Combine cost
325
on top of 3 components, for 3,400 in total.
Builds into
Nothing — this is a finished item.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 1.0%
- Win rate
- 57.0%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 6,342
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top3.9%
- Jungle1.9%
- Mid4.9%
- Bot89.2%
Reach for it when
- Sustain in lane
Gold efficiency
82.4%2,800 gold of stats for 3,400
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
27th of 46 items Riot tags Damage, by this measure. Nearest: Manamune 85.3%, Profane Hydra 85.1%, Voltaic Cyclosword 80.8%, Sword of the Divine 80.0%.
- 80 Attack Damage · 35g each, from Long Sword
- 2800g
Not priced, because Riot sells no single-stat item for life steal — so this figure covers the rest.
Bloodthirster balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Bloodthirster.
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Quick answers about Bloodthirster
- How much does Bloodthirster cost?
- 3,400 gold in total — B. F. Sword, Pickaxe and Vampiric Scepter plus 325 gold.
- What is Bloodthirster built from?
- B. F. Sword (1,300), Pickaxe (875) and Vampiric Scepter (900), plus 325 gold to combine.
- What does Bloodthirster build into?
- Nothing — Bloodthirster is a finished item.
- What stats does Bloodthirster give?
- 80 Attack Damage and 15% Life Steal.
- What does Bloodthirster's Ichorshield passive do?
- Convert excess healing from your Lifesteal to a Shield.
- Where can you buy Bloodthirster?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Bloodthirster sell for?
- 2,380 gold, against 3,400 to buy.
- Is Bloodthirster gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 2,800 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 3,400 — 82.4%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.