Gambler's Blade — the Doom Bots Item

2,500gold

Gambler's Blade is written for Doom Bots: Playing for Time delays Doom-boss Veigar's arrival by 10 seconds for each champion takedown and hastens it by 10 for each death. A 2,500-gold buy, it gives 55 Adaptive Force, 15 Lethality, 15 Magic Penetration and 15% Move Speed, and Double Down pays 10 extra gold per stack while you take 5% more damage.

What it grants

55 Adaptive Force
10 Ability Haste
15 Lethality
15 Magic Penetration
15% Move Speed

Passives

Playing for Time: Champion takedowns while using Gambler's Blade delays Doom-boss Veigar's arrival by an additional 10 seconds. Deaths while carrying the Blade accelerate it by 10 seconds. (Will not lose time past the 14:30 minute mark)
Double Down: Champion takedowns grant a stack, each granting 10 bonus gold on kill. Also take 5% increased damage per stack. Lose all stacks on death.

Gambler's Blade at a glance

Gambler's Blade is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 2,500 gold: bought outright, with no components. It grants 55 Adaptive Force, 10 Ability Haste, 15 Lethality, 15 Magic Penetration and 15% Move Speed and the Playing for Time and Double Down passives. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 27.2% 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: 7.7%
Win rate: 50.0%
Completion: 100.0%
Purchase slot: 3
Games: 42,877
Δ this patch: +0.8

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

Who buys it

Top8.4%
Jungle31.3%
Mid15.6%
Bot13.6%
Support31.1%

Reach for it when

Roaming
Into magic resist
Into armour stacking
Rotation uptime

Gold efficiency

27.2%680 gold of stats for 2,500

The stat block only — the passive is not priced.

46th of 46 items Riot tags Damage, by this measure. Nearest: Cull 54.4%, Flesheater 53.3%.

10 Ability Haste · 50g each, from Glowing Mote: 500g
15% Move Speed · 12g each, from Boots: 180g

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

Gambler's Blade balance history

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

Other items for the same job

All tagged “Damage” by Riot.

Quick answers about Gambler's Blade

How much does Gambler's Blade cost?: 2,500 gold in total — bought outright, with no components.
What is Gambler's Blade built from?: Nothing: Gambler's Blade is bought outright.
What does Gambler's Blade build into?: Nothing — Gambler's Blade is a finished item.
What stats does Gambler's Blade give?: 55 Adaptive Force, 10 Ability Haste, 15 Lethality, 15 Magic Penetration and 15% Move Speed.
What does Gambler's Blade's Playing for Time passive do?: Champion takedowns while using Gambler's Blade delays Doom-boss Veigar's arrival by an additional 10 seconds. Deaths while carrying the Blade accelerate it by 10 seconds. (Will not lose time past the 14:30 minute mark)
What does Gambler's Blade's Double Down passive do?: Champion takedowns grant a stack, each granting 10 bonus gold on kill. Also take 5% increased damage per stack. Lose all stacks on death.
Where can you buy Gambler's Blade?: In Summoner's Rift — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
What does Gambler's Blade sell for?: 0 gold, against 2,500 to buy.
Is Gambler's Blade gold efficient?: Its stats are worth 680 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 2,500 — 27.2%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.