By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Epic · Summoner's Rift
Bramble Vest — Early Anti-Heal Armor
800gold
Bramble Vest is the cheap anti-heal armour: 30 Armor for 800 gold, and Thorns deals magic damage to anyone who attacks you and applies 40% Wounds to champions for 3 seconds. Two Cloth Armors build it and it finishes into Thornmail. Top laners take 52.7% of them and supports 34%.
What it grants
- 30 Armor
Passive
- Thorns: When hit by an Attack, deal magic damage to the attacker and apply 40% Wounds for 3 seconds if they are a champion.
Bramble Vest at a glance
Bramble Vest is an epic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 800 gold: Cloth Armor and Cloth Armor plus 200 gold. It grants 30 Armor and the Thorns passive. It builds into 1 item: Thornmail. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 75.0% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
200
on top of 2 components, for 800 in total.
Builds into
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 1.6%
- Win rate
- 49.4%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 10,408
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top52.7%
- Jungle9.2%
- Mid3.8%
- Bot0.3%
- Support34.0%
Reach for it when
- Versus heavy AD
Gold efficiency
75.0%600 gold of stats for 800
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
14th of 14 items Riot tags Armor, by this measure. Nearest: Seeker's Armguard 81.3%, Warden's Mail 80.0%.
- 30 Armor · 20g each, from Cloth Armor
- 600g
What Bramble Vest builds into, in full
Thornmail 2,450 gold
Recipe: Bramble Vest, Chain Vest and Ruby Crystal plus 450 gold. Grants 150 Health and 75 Armor. Passive: Thorns.
Bramble Vest balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Bramble Vest.
Other items for the same job
Quick answers about Bramble Vest
- How much does Bramble Vest cost?
- 800 gold in total — Cloth Armor and Cloth Armor plus 200 gold.
- What is Bramble Vest built from?
- Cloth Armor (300) and Cloth Armor (300), plus 200 gold to combine.
- What does Bramble Vest build into?
- Thornmail (2,450).
- What stats does Bramble Vest give?
- 30 Armor.
- What does Bramble Vest's Thorns passive do?
- When hit by an Attack, deal magic damage to the attacker and apply 40% Wounds for 3 seconds if they are a champion.
- Where can you buy Bramble Vest?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Bramble Vest sell for?
- 560 gold, against 800 to buy.
- Is Bramble Vest gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 600 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 800 — 75.0%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.