By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Epic · Summoner's Rift
Glacial Buckler — the Step to Frozen Heart
900gold
Increases Armor and Cooldown Reduction
Glacial Buckler is the step to Frozen Heart and its only upgrade: 25 Armor, 300 Mana and 10 Ability Haste for 900 gold, from Cloth Armor, a Sapphire Crystal and a Glowing Mote. At basic-item prices those stats are worth 144.4% of what it costs. Supports bought 46.5% of them, top laners 33.5%.
What it grants
- 25 Armor
- 300 Mana
- 10 Ability Haste
Passives
Stats only — this item has no passive. See the shop for items that do.
Glacial Buckler at a glance
Glacial Buckler is an epic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 900 gold: Cloth Armor, Sapphire Crystal and Glowing Mote plus 50 gold. It grants 25 Armor, 300 Mana and 10 Ability Haste. It builds into 1 item: Frozen Heart. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 144.4% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Combine cost
50
on top of 3 components, for 900 in total.
Builds into
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 0.3%
- Win rate
- 48.2%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 1,743
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top33.5%
- Jungle5.3%
- Mid9.8%
- Bot4.8%
- Support46.5%
Reach for it when
- Versus heavy AD
- Long lane phases
- Rotation uptime
Gold efficiency
144.4%1,300 gold of stats for 900
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
1st of 14 items Riot tags Armor, by this measure. Nearest: Death's Dance 116.7%, Frozen Heart 116.0%.
- 25 Armor · 20g each, from Cloth Armor
- 500g
- 300 Mana · 1g each, from Sapphire Crystal
- 300g
- 10 Ability Haste · 50g each, from Glowing Mote
- 500g
What Glacial Buckler builds into, in full
Frozen Heart 2,500 gold
Recipe: Warden's Mail and Glacial Buckler plus 600 gold. Grants 75 Armor, 400 Mana and 20 Ability Haste. Passive: Winter's Caress.
Glacial Buckler balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Glacial Buckler.
Other items for the same job
Quick answers about Glacial Buckler
- How much does Glacial Buckler cost?
- 900 gold in total — Cloth Armor, Sapphire Crystal and Glowing Mote plus 50 gold.
- What is Glacial Buckler built from?
- Cloth Armor (300), Sapphire Crystal (300) and Glowing Mote (250), plus 50 gold to combine.
- What does Glacial Buckler build into?
- Frozen Heart (2,500).
- What stats does Glacial Buckler give?
- 25 Armor, 300 Mana and 10 Ability Haste.
- Where can you buy Glacial Buckler?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Glacial Buckler sell for?
- 630 gold, against 900 to buy.
- Is Glacial Buckler gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 1,300 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 900 — 144.4%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.