By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Epic · Summoner's Rift
Haunting Guise — Madness, and Why Only One
1,300gold
Deals additional physical damage when ambushing enemies
Haunting Guise does not stack with itself: since patch 25.14 you can hold only one, down from six. Its Madness passive does build within a fight — 2% bonus damage for each second in combat with champions, up to 6%. It costs 1,300 gold for 30 AP and 200 Health and finishes into Bloodletter's Curse, Riftmaker or Liandry's Torment.
What it grants
- 30 Ability Power
- 200 Health
Passive
- Madness: For each second in combat with enemy champions, deal 2% bonus damage, up to 6%.
Haunting Guise at a glance
Haunting Guise is an epic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 1,300 gold: Amplifying Tome and Ruby Crystal plus 500 gold. It grants 30 Ability Power and 200 Health and the Madness passive. It builds into 3 items: Bloodletter's Curse, Riftmaker and Liandry's Torment. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 87.2% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
500
on top of 2 components, for 1,300 in total.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 1.0%
- Win rate
- 47.9%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 6,609
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top27.5%
- Jungle19.7%
- Mid32.5%
- Bot11.5%
- Support8.7%
Reach for it when
- Survive burst
Gold efficiency
87.2%1,133 gold of stats for 1,300
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
57th of 76 items Riot tags Health, by this measure. Nearest: Spear of Shojin 89.5%, Iceborn Gauntlet 87.9%, Sunfire Aegis 86.9%, Jak'Sho, The Protean 85.4%.
- 30 Ability Power · 20g each, from Amplifying Tome
- 600g
- 200 Health · 2.67g each, from Ruby Crystal
- 533g
What Haunting Guise builds into, in full
Bloodletter's Curse 2,900 gold
Recipe: Haunting Guise and Fiendish Codex plus 750 gold. Grants 65 Ability Power, 400 Health and 15 Ability Haste. Passive: Vile Decay.
Liandry's Torment 3,000 gold
Recipe: Haunting Guise and Fated Ashes plus 800 gold. Grants 60 Ability Power and 300 Health. Passive: Torment, Suffering.
Riftmaker 3,100 gold
Recipe: Haunting Guise and Fiendish Codex plus 950 gold. Grants 70 Ability Power, 350 Health and 15 Ability Haste. Passive: Void Corruption, Void Infusion.
Haunting Guise balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Haunting Guise in 1 patch. The latest is patch 25.14, published 2025-07-15.
Patch 25.142025-07-15
- Maximum Haunting Guises in Inventory6to1
Why, in Riot's words
Haunting Guise stacking goes against what we typically want out of our item system, namely that builds should have peaks and valleys where there's room to beat someone on a weaker spike. As this item's passive stacks (and it's intended for the upgraded versions to do so), we're locking players out from building more than one at a time, as the amount of early health that Haunting Guise stacking provides ends up making champions unassailable.
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Quick answers about Haunting Guise
- How much does Haunting Guise cost?
- 1,300 gold in total — Amplifying Tome and Ruby Crystal plus 500 gold.
- What is Haunting Guise built from?
- Amplifying Tome (400) and Ruby Crystal (400), plus 500 gold to combine.
- What does Haunting Guise build into?
- Bloodletter's Curse (2,900), Riftmaker (3,100) and Liandry's Torment (3,000).
- What stats does Haunting Guise give?
- 30 Ability Power and 200 Health.
- What does Haunting Guise's Madness passive do?
- For each second in combat with enemy champions, deal 2% bonus damage, up to 6%.
- Where can you buy Haunting Guise?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Haunting Guise sell for?
- 910 gold, against 1,300 to buy.
- Is Haunting Guise gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 1,133 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 1,300 — 87.2%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.