By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Legendary · Summoner's Rift
Frozen Heart — the Armor Item That Slows Attack Speed
2,500gold
Massively increases Armor and slows enemy basic attacks
Frozen Heart is the armour answer to attack-speed carries: Winter's Caress cuts the Attack Speed of nearby enemy champions by 20%, on top of 75 Armor, 400 Mana and 20 Ability Haste. It costs 2,500 gold from Warden's Mail and Glacial Buckler. Top laners took 46.3% of it, and it won 55.6% of 9,133 games.
What it grants
- 75 Armor
- 400 Mana
- 20 Ability Haste
Passive
- Winter's Caress: Reduce the Attack Speed of nearby champions by 20%.
Frozen Heart at a glance
Frozen Heart is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 2,500 gold: Warden's Mail and Glacial Buckler plus 600 gold. It grants 75 Armor, 400 Mana and 20 Ability Haste and the Winter's Caress passive. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 116.0% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
600
on top of 2 components, for 2,500 in total.
Builds into
Nothing — this is a finished item.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 1.4%
- Win rate
- 55.6%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 2
- Games
- 9,133
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top46.3%
- Jungle9.1%
- Mid12.7%
- Bot5.8%
- Support26.2%
Reach for it when
- Versus heavy AD
- Long lane phases
- Team fighting
- Rotation uptime
Gold efficiency
116.0%2,900 gold of stats for 2,500
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
3rd of 14 items Riot tags Armor, by this measure. Nearest: Glacial Buckler 144.4%, Death's Dance 116.7%, Armored Advance 103.3%, Steel Sigil 102.3%.
- 75 Armor · 20g each, from Cloth Armor
- 1500g
- 400 Mana · 1g each, from Sapphire Crystal
- 400g
- 20 Ability Haste · 50g each, from Glowing Mote
- 1000g
Frozen Heart balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Frozen Heart.
Other items for the same job
Quick answers about Frozen Heart
- How much does Frozen Heart cost?
- 2,500 gold in total — Warden's Mail and Glacial Buckler plus 600 gold.
- What is Frozen Heart built from?
- Warden's Mail (1,000) and Glacial Buckler (900), plus 600 gold to combine.
- What does Frozen Heart build into?
- Nothing — Frozen Heart is a finished item.
- What stats does Frozen Heart give?
- 75 Armor, 400 Mana and 20 Ability Haste.
- What does Frozen Heart's Winter's Caress passive do?
- Reduce the Attack Speed of nearby champions by 20%.
- Where can you buy Frozen Heart?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Frozen Heart sell for?
- 1,750 gold, against 2,500 to buy.
- Is Frozen Heart gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 2,900 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 2,500 — 116.0%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.