By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Epic · Summoner's Rift
Chain Vest — the 800-Gold Armor Component
800gold
Greatly increases Armor
Chain Vest is 40 Armor for 800 gold, worth exactly its price in stats. Bramble Vest costs the same and trades 10 of that Armor for Thorns anti-heal, so Chain Vest is the raw-armour choice. It finishes into seven items, among them Dead Man's Plate, Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail and Iceborn Gauntlet. Supports bought 46.6% of them.
What it grants
- 40 Armor
Passives
Stats only — this item has no passive. See the shop for items that do.
Chain Vest at a glance
Chain Vest is an epic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 800 gold: Cloth Armor plus 500 gold. It grants 40 Armor. It builds into 7 items: Dead Man's Plate, Sunfire Aegis, Knight's Vow, Unending Despair, Thornmail, Jak'Sho, The Protean and Iceborn Gauntlet. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 100.0% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
500
on top of 1 component, for 800 in total.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 1.9%
- Win rate
- 49.7%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 5
- Games
- 12,690
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top31.9%
- Jungle12.2%
- Mid4.0%
- Bot5.2%
- Support46.6%
Reach for it when
- Versus heavy AD
Gold efficiency
100.0%800 gold of stats for 800
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
6th of 14 items Riot tags Armor, by this measure. Nearest: Armored Advance 103.3%, Steel Sigil 102.3%, Cloth Armor level with it, Zhonya's Hourglass 95.4%.
- 40 Armor · 20g each, from Cloth Armor
- 800g
What Chain Vest builds into, in full
Dead Man's Plate 2,900 gold
Recipe: Winged Moonplate, Ruby Crystal and Chain Vest plus 900 gold. Grants 350 Health, 55 Armor and 4% Move Speed. Passive: Shipwrecker, Unsinkable.
Iceborn Gauntlet 2,900 gold
Recipe: Sheen, Ruby Crystal and Chain Vest plus 800 gold. Grants 300 Health, 50 Armor and 15 Ability Haste. Passive: Spellblade.
Jak'Sho, The Protean 3,200 gold
Recipe: Giant's Belt, Chain Vest and Negatron Cloak plus 650 gold. Grants 350 Health, 45 Armor and 45 Magic Resist. Passive: Voidborn Resilience.
Knight's Vow 2,300 gold
Recipe: Kindlegem, Chain Vest and Rejuvenation Bead plus 400 gold. Grants 200 Health, 40 Armor, 10 Ability Haste and 100% Base Health Regen. Passive: Sacrifice.
Sunfire Aegis 2,800 gold
Recipe: Bami's Cinder, Chain Vest and Ruby Crystal plus 700 gold. Grants 350 Health, 50 Armor and 10 Ability Haste. Passive: Immolate.
Thornmail 2,450 gold
Recipe: Bramble Vest, Chain Vest and Ruby Crystal plus 450 gold. Grants 150 Health and 75 Armor. Passive: Thorns.
Unending Despair 2,800 gold
Recipe: Chain Vest, Kindlegem and Ruby Crystal plus 800 gold. Grants 400 Health, 50 Armor and 15 Ability Haste. Passive: Anguish.
Chain Vest balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Chain Vest.
Other items for the same job
Quick answers about Chain Vest
- How much does Chain Vest cost?
- 800 gold in total — Cloth Armor plus 500 gold.
- What is Chain Vest built from?
- Cloth Armor (300), plus 500 gold to combine.
- What does Chain Vest build into?
- Dead Man's Plate (2,900), Sunfire Aegis (2,800), Knight's Vow (2,300), Unending Despair (2,800), Thornmail (2,450), Jak'Sho, The Protean (3,200) and Iceborn Gauntlet (2,900).
- What stats does Chain Vest give?
- 40 Armor.
- Where can you buy Chain Vest?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Chain Vest sell for?
- 560 gold, against 800 to buy.
- Is Chain Vest gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 800 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 800 — 100.0%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.