By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Legendary · Summoner's Rift
Dead Man's Plate — Momentum Into a Hit
2,900gold
Build momentum as you move around then smash into enemies.
Dead Man's Plate is a 2,900-gold armour item that rewards running at people: Shipwrecker builds up to 20 bonus Move Speed while you move and spends it on your next attack as bonus physical damage, and Unsinkable cuts slows by 15%. It builds from Winged Moonplate, Ruby Crystal and Chain Vest. Junglers took 35% of it in our Master+ count.
What it grants
- 350 Health
- 55 Armor
- 4% Move Speed
Passives
- Shipwrecker: While moving, build up to 20 bonus Move Speed. Your next Attack discharges built up Move Speed to deal bonus physical damage.
- Unsinkable: Reduce the effectiveness of Slows by 15%.
Dead Man's Plate at a glance
Dead Man's Plate is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 2,900 gold: Winged Moonplate, Ruby Crystal and Chain Vest plus 900 gold. It grants 350 Health, 55 Armor and 4% Move Speed and the Shipwrecker and Unsinkable passives. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 71.8% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Combine cost
900
on top of 3 components, for 2,900 in total.
Builds into
Nothing — this is a finished item.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 1.8%
- Win rate
- 53.6%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 2
- Games
- 11,873
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top27.5%
- Jungle35.0%
- Mid3.4%
- Bot0.7%
- Support33.5%
Reach for it when
- Survive burst
- Versus heavy AD
- Stick to targets
- Roaming
Gold efficiency
71.8%2,081 gold of stats for 2,900
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
69th of 76 items Riot tags Health, by this measure. Nearest: Winged Moonplate 72.6%, Bami's Cinder 72.2%, Liandry's Torment 66.7%, Doran's Shield 65.1%.
- 350 Health · 2.67g each, from Ruby Crystal
- 933g
- 55 Armor · 20g each, from Cloth Armor
- 1100g
- 4% Move Speed · 12g each, from Boots
- 48g
Dead Man's Plate balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Dead Man's Plate.
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Quick answers about Dead Man's Plate
- How much does Dead Man's Plate cost?
- 2,900 gold in total — Winged Moonplate, Ruby Crystal and Chain Vest plus 900 gold.
- What is Dead Man's Plate built from?
- Winged Moonplate (800), Ruby Crystal (400) and Chain Vest (800), plus 900 gold to combine.
- What does Dead Man's Plate build into?
- Nothing — Dead Man's Plate is a finished item.
- What stats does Dead Man's Plate give?
- 350 Health, 55 Armor and 4% Move Speed.
- What does Dead Man's Plate's Shipwrecker passive do?
- While moving, build up to 20 bonus Move Speed. Your next Attack discharges built up Move Speed to deal bonus physical damage.
- What does Dead Man's Plate's Unsinkable passive do?
- Reduce the effectiveness of Slows by 15%.
- Where can you buy Dead Man's Plate?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Dead Man's Plate sell for?
- 2,030 gold, against 2,900 to buy.
- Is Dead Man's Plate gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 2,081 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 2,900 — 71.8%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.