Flesheater — Shred Now, Steal Stats on Takedowns

2,500gold

Flesheater costs 2,500 gold with no recipe: 55 Adaptive Force, 500 Health and two passives. Hack the Meat shreds 3 Armor and Magic Resist per hit for 5 seconds, stacking ten times; Cannibalize steals 10% of a champion's stats and size on a takedown — for the rest of the round, as Riot's own text puts it.

What it grants

55 Adaptive Force
500 Health

Passives

Hack the Meat: Dealing damage shreds 3 Armor and Magic Resist for 5 seconds, stacking up to 10 times. Applying stacks has a 1 second cooldown per Ability.
Cannibalize: On Champion Takedown, steal 10% of their stats and size for the rest of the round.

Flesheater at a glance

Flesheater is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 2,500 gold: bought outright, with no components. It grants 55 Adaptive Force and 500 Health and the Hack the Meat and Cannibalize passives. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 53.3% 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: 8.2%
Win rate: 51.9%
Completion: 100.0%
Purchase slot: 3
Games: 51,013
Δ this patch: +1.3

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

Who buys it

Top15.4%
Jungle41.9%
Mid18.1%
Bot19.9%
Support4.8%

Reach for it when

Into magic resist
Into armour stacking

Gold efficiency

53.3%1,333 gold of stats for 2,500

The stat block only — the passive is not priced.

45th of 46 items Riot tags Damage, by this measure. Nearest: Vampiric Scepter 58.3%, Cull 54.4%, Gambler's Blade 27.2%.

500 Health · 2.67g each, from Ruby Crystal: 1333g

Not priced, because Riot sells no single-stat item for adaptive force — so this figure covers the rest.

Flesheater balance history

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

Other items for the same job

All tagged “Damage” by Riot.

Quick answers about Flesheater

How much does Flesheater cost?: 2,500 gold in total — bought outright, with no components.
What is Flesheater built from?: Nothing: Flesheater is bought outright.
What does Flesheater build into?: Nothing — Flesheater is a finished item.
What stats does Flesheater give?: 55 Adaptive Force and 500 Health.
What does Flesheater's Hack the Meat passive do?: Dealing damage shreds 3 Armor and Magic Resist for 5 seconds, stacking up to 10 times. Applying stacks has a 1 second cooldown per Ability.
What does Flesheater's Cannibalize passive do?: On Champion Takedown, steal 10% of their stats and size for the rest of the round.
Where can you buy Flesheater?: In Summoner's Rift — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
What does Flesheater sell for?: 1,000 gold, against 2,500 to buy.
Is Flesheater gold efficient?: Its stats are worth 1,333 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 2,500 — 53.3%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.