By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Epic · Summoner's Rift
Hexdrinker — Lifeline and Maw of Malmortius
1,300gold
Increases Attack Damage and Magic Resist
Hexdrinker works like this: when magic damage would drop you below 30% Health, Lifeline gives you a magic-damage shield for 2.5 seconds. It costs 1,300 gold for 25 Attack Damage and 25 Magic Resist, from two Long Swords and a Null-Magic Mantle, and builds into one item — Maw of Malmortius. Junglers took 36.4% of them.
What it grants
- 25 Attack Damage
- 25 Magic Resist
Passive
- Lifeline: Taking magic damage that would reduce your Health below 30% grants a magic damage Shield for 2.5 seconds.
Hexdrinker at a glance
Hexdrinker is an epic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 1,300 gold: Long Sword, Null-Magic Mantle and Long Sword plus 200 gold. It grants 25 Attack Damage and 25 Magic Resist and the Lifeline passive. It builds into 1 item: Maw of Malmortius. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 105.8% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Combine cost
200
on top of 3 components, for 1,300 in total.
Builds into
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 1.0%
- Win rate
- 51.2%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 6,593
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top34.4%
- Jungle36.4%
- Mid8.9%
- Bot15.6%
- Support4.7%
Reach for it when
- Versus heavy AP
Gold efficiency
105.8%1,375 gold of stats for 1,300
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
7th of 46 items Riot tags Damage, by this measure. Nearest: B. F. Sword 107.7%, Axiom Arc 106.4%, Stormrazor 105.5%, Hexoptics C44 104.5%.
- 25 Attack Damage · 35g each, from Long Sword
- 875g
- 25 Magic Resist · 20g each, from Null-Magic Mantle
- 500g
What Hexdrinker builds into, in full
Maw of Malmortius 3,100 gold
Recipe: Hexdrinker and Caulfield's Warhammer plus 750 gold. Grants 60 Attack Damage, 15 Ability Haste and 40 Magic Resist. Passive: Lifeline.
Hexdrinker balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Hexdrinker.
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Quick answers about Hexdrinker
- How much does Hexdrinker cost?
- 1,300 gold in total — Long Sword, Null-Magic Mantle and Long Sword plus 200 gold.
- What is Hexdrinker built from?
- Long Sword (350), Null-Magic Mantle (400) and Long Sword (350), plus 200 gold to combine.
- What does Hexdrinker build into?
- Maw of Malmortius (3,100).
- What stats does Hexdrinker give?
- 25 Attack Damage and 25 Magic Resist.
- What does Hexdrinker's Lifeline passive do?
- Taking magic damage that would reduce your Health below 30% grants a magic damage Shield for 2.5 seconds.
- Where can you buy Hexdrinker?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Hexdrinker sell for?
- 910 gold, against 1,300 to buy.
- Is Hexdrinker gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 1,375 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 1,300 — 105.8%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.