By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Basic · Summoner's Rift
Dark Seal — Glory Stacks and Mejai's Soulstealer
350gold
Provides Ability Power and Mana. Increases in power as you kill enemies.
Dark Seal is a 350-gold stacking item: 15 Ability Power and 50 Health, and Glory — every takedown adds a stack, up to 10, each worth 4 Ability Power, and dying costs you 5. It builds into one item, Mejai's Soulstealer. 13.8% of players in our counted games ended with one, and half of them (49.6%) were mid laners.
What it grants
- 15 Ability Power
- 50 Health
Passives
- Glory: Takedowns grant
- Glory: , up to 10. 5
- Glory: is lost on death.Gain 4 Ability Power per
- Glory: .
Dark Seal at a glance
Dark Seal is a basic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 350 gold: bought outright, with no components. It grants 15 Ability Power and 50 Health and the Glory, Glory, Glory and Glory passives. It builds into 1 item: Mejai's Soulstealer. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 123.7% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Nothing — this item is bought whole.
Combine cost
350
The full 350 is paid at once.
Builds into
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 13.8%
- Win rate
- 49.2%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 89,940
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top10.1%
- Jungle19.6%
- Mid49.6%
- Bot10.4%
- Support10.4%
Reach for it when
- Survive burst
- Early lane
Gold efficiency
123.7%433 gold of stats for 350
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
15th of 76 items Riot tags Health, by this measure. Nearest: Doran's Blade 125.1%, Echoes of Helia 124.2%, Spectre's Cowl 122.6%, Black Cleaver 121.4%.
- 15 Ability Power · 20g each, from Amplifying Tome
- 300g
- 50 Health · 2.67g each, from Ruby Crystal
- 133g
What Dark Seal builds into, in full
Mejai's Soulstealer 1,500 gold
Recipe: Dark Seal plus 1,150 gold. Grants 20 Ability Power and 100 Health. Passive: Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory.
Dark Seal balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Dark Seal.
Other items for the same job
Quick answers about Dark Seal
- How much does Dark Seal cost?
- 350 gold in total — bought outright, with no components.
- What is Dark Seal built from?
- Nothing: Dark Seal is bought outright.
- What does Dark Seal build into?
- Mejai's Soulstealer (1,500).
- What stats does Dark Seal give?
- 15 Ability Power and 50 Health.
- What does Dark Seal's Glory passive do?
- Takedowns grant
- What does Dark Seal's Glory passive do?
- , up to 10. 5
- What does Dark Seal's Glory passive do?
- is lost on death.Gain 4 Ability Power per
- What does Dark Seal's Glory passive do?
- .
- Where can you buy Dark Seal?
- In Summoner's Rift — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Dark Seal sell for?
- 140 gold, against 350 to buy.
- Is Dark Seal gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 433 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 350 — 123.7%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.