Cruelty — the Item That Drops a Comet on Crowd Control

2,500gold

Cruelty costs 2,500 gold and has no recipe: 60 Ability Power, 25 Armor and 25 Magic Resist, and Watch Them Fall — immobilize or ground an enemy champion and a comet lands on them a second later for extra magic damage in an area, at most once every 6 seconds per target for each spell.

What it grants

60 Ability Power
25 Armor
25 Magic Resist

Passive

Watch Them Fall: On Immobilize or Grounding an enemy champion, summon a comet above them. The comet lands after 1 second, dealing additional magic damage in the area. This effect has a 6s cooldown per target per spell cast.

Cruelty at a glance

Cruelty is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 2,500 gold: bought outright, with no components. It grants 60 Ability Power, 25 Armor and 25 Magic Resist and the Watch Them Fall passive. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 88.0% of its cost in stats.

Build path

Builds from

Nothing — this item is bought whole.

Combine cost

2,500

The full 2,500 is paid at once.

Builds into

Nothing — this is a finished item.

How it performed

Pick rate: 7.0%
Win rate: 47.7%
Completion: 100.0%
Purchase slot: 3
Games: 37,987
Δ this patch: -0.4

Summoner's Rift · patch 26.18 · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA

Who buys it

Top1.3%
Jungle33.0%
Mid19.1%
Bot21.4%
Support25.2%

Reach for it when

Versus heavy AD

Gold efficiency

88.0%2,200 gold of stats for 2,500

The stat block only — the passive is not priced.

10th of 14 items Riot tags Armor, by this measure. Nearest: Zhonya's Hourglass 95.4%, Guardian Angel 88.3%, Plated Steelcaps 86.7%, Seeker's Armguard 81.3%.

60 Ability Power · 20g each, from Amplifying Tome: 1200g
25 Armor · 20g each, from Cloth Armor: 500g
25 Magic Resist · 20g each, from Null-Magic Mantle: 500g

Cruelty balance history

Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Cruelty.

Other items for the same job

All tagged “Armor” by Riot.

Quick answers about Cruelty

How much does Cruelty cost?: 2,500 gold in total — bought outright, with no components.
What is Cruelty built from?: Nothing: Cruelty is bought outright.
What does Cruelty build into?: Nothing — Cruelty is a finished item.
What stats does Cruelty give?: 60 Ability Power, 25 Armor and 25 Magic Resist.
What does Cruelty's Watch Them Fall passive do?: On Immobilize or Grounding an enemy champion, summon a comet above them. The comet lands after 1 second, dealing additional magic damage in the area. This effect has a 6s cooldown per target per spell cast.
Where can you buy Cruelty?: In Summoner's Rift — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
What does Cruelty sell for?: 1,000 gold, against 2,500 to buy.
Is Cruelty gold efficient?: Its stats are worth 2,200 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 2,500 — 88.0%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.