By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Epic · Summoner's Rift
Hearthbound Axe — the AD and Attack Speed Component
1,200gold
Hearthbound Axe is the component that pairs Attack Damage with Attack Speed — 20 Attack Damage and 20% Attack Speed for 1,200 gold, from two Long Swords and a Dagger. It finishes into Trinity Force, Terminus or Kraken Slayer, and bot laners held 56.7% of the Axes we found in end-of-game inventories.
What it grants
- 20 Attack Damage
- 20% Attack Speed
Passives
Stats only — this item has no passive. See the shop for items that do.
Hearthbound Axe at a glance
Hearthbound Axe is an epic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 1,200 gold: Long Sword, Dagger and Long Sword plus 250 gold. It grants 20 Attack Damage and 20% Attack Speed. It builds into 3 items: Trinity Force, Terminus and Kraken Slayer. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 100.0% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
250
on top of 3 components, for 1,200 in total.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 0.4%
- Win rate
- 40.7%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 2,586
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top27.2%
- Jungle6.6%
- Mid9.1%
- Bot56.7%
- Support0.4%
Reach for it when
- Shred frontline
Gold efficiency
100.0%1,200 gold of stats for 1,200
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
13th of 46 items Riot tags Damage, by this measure. Nearest: Noonquiver 101.9%, Umbral Glaive 101.8%, Hextech Gunblade level with it, Long Sword level with it.
- 20 Attack Damage · 35g each, from Long Sword
- 700g
- 20% Attack Speed · 25g each, from Dagger
- 500g
What Hearthbound Axe builds into, in full
Kraken Slayer 3,000 gold
Recipe: Rectrix, Hearthbound Axe and Recurve Bow plus 325 gold. Grants 45 Attack Damage, 40% Attack Speed and 4% Move Speed. Passive: Bring It Down.
Terminus 3,000 gold
Recipe: Hearthbound Axe and Recurve Bow plus 1,100 gold. Grants 30 Attack Damage and 35% Attack Speed. Passive: Shadow, Juxtaposition.
Trinity Force 3,333 gold
Recipe: Sheen, Phage and Hearthbound Axe plus 133 gold. Grants 36 Attack Damage, 30% Attack Speed, 333 Health and 15 Ability Haste. Passive: Spellblade, Quicken.
Hearthbound Axe balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Hearthbound Axe.
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Quick answers about Hearthbound Axe
- How much does Hearthbound Axe cost?
- 1,200 gold in total — Long Sword, Dagger and Long Sword plus 250 gold.
- What is Hearthbound Axe built from?
- Long Sword (350), Dagger (250) and Long Sword (350), plus 250 gold to combine.
- What does Hearthbound Axe build into?
- Trinity Force (3,333), Terminus (3,000) and Kraken Slayer (3,000).
- What stats does Hearthbound Axe give?
- 20 Attack Damage and 20% Attack Speed.
- Where can you buy Hearthbound Axe?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Hearthbound Axe sell for?
- 840 gold, against 1,200 to buy.
- Is Hearthbound Axe gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 1,200 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 1,200 — 100.0%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.