Every figure shows its source. Where a source is missing, the number is a placeholder — and it is never written as fact.

By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026

Basic · Summoner's Rift

Dagger — the Basic Attack Speed Item

250gold

Slightly increases Attack Speed

Dagger is the basic attack-speed item: 10% Attack Speed for 250 gold, priced at exactly its cost. Ten items finish from it, including Recurve Bow, Zeal, Berserker's Greaves, Phantom Dancer, Stridebreaker and Navori Flickerblade. Bot laners held 68.4% of the Daggers still in an inventory when our counted games ended.

What it grants

  • 10% Attack Speed

Passives

Stats only — this item has no passive. See the shop for items that do.

Dagger at a glance

Dagger is a basic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 250 gold: bought outright, with no components. It grants 10% Attack Speed. It builds into 10 items: Recurve Bow, Zeal, Dusk and Dawn, Berserker's Greaves, Phantom Dancer, Hearthbound Axe, Experimental Hexplate, Scout's Slingshot, Stridebreaker and Navori Flickerblade. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 100.0% of its cost in stats.

Build path

Builds from

Nothing — this item is bought whole.

Combine cost

250

The full 250 is paid at once.

Builds into

How it performed

Pick rate
2.3%
Win rate
37.3%
Completion
Not counted
Inventory slot
5
Games
15,079
Δ this patch
Not counted

patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted

Who buys it

  • Top15.6%
  • Jungle5.5%
  • Mid7.7%
  • Bot68.4%
  • Support2.9%

Reach for it when

  • Shred frontline

Gold efficiency

100.0%250 gold of stats for 250

The stat block only — the passive is not priced.

4th of 8 items Riot tags AttackSpeed, by this measure. Nearest: Nashor's Tooth 124.1%, Berserker's Greaves 117.3%, Zephyr 93.8%, Scout's Slingshot 83.3%.

10% Attack Speed · 25g each, from Dagger
250g

What Dagger builds into, in full

  • Berserker's Greaves 1,100 gold

    Recipe: Boots, Dagger and Dagger plus 300 gold. Grants 30% Attack Speed and 45 Move Speed.

  • Dusk and Dawn 3,100 gold

    Recipe: Sheen, Blasting Wand, Kindlegem and Dagger plus 300 gold. Grants 300 Health, 60 Ability Power, 20 Ability Haste and 20% Attack Speed. Passive: Spellblade.

  • Experimental Hexplate 3,000 gold

    Recipe: Tunneler, Dagger and Phage plus 500 gold. Grants 40 Attack Damage, 20% Attack Speed and 450 Health. Passive: Hexcharged, Overdrive.

  • Hearthbound Axe 1,200 gold

    Recipe: Long Sword, Dagger and Long Sword plus 250 gold. Grants 20 Attack Damage and 20% Attack Speed.

  • Navori Flickerblade 2,650 gold

    Recipe: Dagger, Zeal and Dagger plus 950 gold. Grants 40% Attack Speed, 25% Critical Strike Chance and 4% Move Speed. Passive: Transcendence.

  • Phantom Dancer 2,650 gold

    Recipe: Dagger, Zeal and Dagger plus 950 gold. Grants 65% Attack Speed, 25% Critical Strike Chance and 10% Move Speed. Passive: Spectral Waltz.

  • Recurve Bow 700 gold

    Recipe: Dagger plus 450 gold. Grants 15% Attack Speed. Passive: Sting.

  • Scout's Slingshot 600 gold

    Recipe: Dagger and Dagger plus 100 gold. Grants 20% Attack Speed. Passive: Bullseye.

  • Stridebreaker 3,300 gold

    Recipe: Tiamat, Phage and Dagger plus 750 gold. Grants 40 Attack Damage, 25% Attack Speed and 450 Health. Passive: Cleave.

  • Zeal 1,200 gold

    Recipe: Cloak of Agility and Dagger plus 350 gold. Grants 15% Attack Speed, 15% Critical Strike Chance and 4% Move Speed.

Dagger balance history

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

Other items for the same job

All tagged “Attack Speed” by Riot.

Quick answers about Dagger

How much does Dagger cost?
250 gold in total — bought outright, with no components.
What is Dagger built from?
Nothing: Dagger is bought outright.
What does Dagger build into?
Recurve Bow (700), Zeal (1,200), Dusk and Dawn (3,100), Berserker's Greaves (1,100), Phantom Dancer (2,650), Hearthbound Axe (1,200), Experimental Hexplate (3,000), Scout's Slingshot (600), Stridebreaker (3,300) and Navori Flickerblade (2,650).
What stats does Dagger give?
10% Attack Speed.
Where can you buy Dagger?
In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
What does Dagger sell for?
175 gold, against 250 to buy.
Is Dagger gold efficient?
Its stats are worth 250 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 250 — 100.0%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.