By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Epic · Summoner's Rift
Hextech Alternator — the Revved AP Component
1,100gold
Increases Ability Power. Deal bonus magic damage on attack periodically.
Hextech Alternator is 45 Ability Power for 1,100 gold, built from two Amplifying Tomes, and its Revved passive adds bonus magic damage when you damage a champion. Five items finish from it — Shadowflame, Hextech Gunblade, Luden's Echo, Hextech Rocketbelt and Stormsurge. Mid laners took 51.9% of them.
What it grants
- 45 Ability Power
Passive
- Revved: Damaging a champion deals bonus magic damage.
Hextech Alternator at a glance
Hextech Alternator is an epic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 1,100 gold: Amplifying Tome and Amplifying Tome plus 300 gold. It grants 45 Ability Power and the Revved passive. It builds into 5 items: Shadowflame, Hextech Gunblade, Luden's Echo, Hextech Rocketbelt and Stormsurge. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 81.8% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
300
on top of 2 components, for 1,100 in total.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 2.0%
- Win rate
- 42.5%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 12,947
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top13.4%
- Jungle13.6%
- Mid51.9%
- Bot13.0%
- Support8.1%
Gold efficiency
81.8%900 gold of stats for 1,100
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
17th of 25 items Riot tags SpellDamage, by this measure. Nearest: Lich Bane 88.7%, Cryptbloom 83.3%, Redemption 76.1%, Staff of Flowing Water 75.6%.
- 45 Ability Power · 20g each, from Amplifying Tome
- 900g
What Hextech Alternator builds into, in full
Hextech Gunblade 3,000 gold
Recipe: Vampiric Scepter, Hextech Alternator and Amplifying Tome plus 600 gold. Grants 80 Ability Power, 40 Attack Damage and 10% Omnivamp.
Hextech Rocketbelt 2,650 gold
Recipe: Hextech Alternator, Kindlegem and Ruby Crystal plus 350 gold. Grants 60 Ability Power, 350 Health and 10 Ability Haste.
Luden's Echo 2,750 gold
Recipe: Lost Chapter and Hextech Alternator plus 450 gold. Grants 100 Ability Power, 600 Mana and 10 Ability Haste. Passive: Echo.
Shadowflame 3,200 gold
Recipe: Hextech Alternator and Needlessly Large Rod plus 900 gold. Grants 110 Ability Power and 15 Magic Penetration. Passive: Cinderbloom.
Stormsurge 2,800 gold
Recipe: Hextech Alternator and Aether Wisp plus 800 gold. Grants 90 Ability Power, 15 Magic Penetration and 6% Move Speed. Passive: Stormraider, Squall, Squall, Squall.
Hextech Alternator balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Hextech Alternator.
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Quick answers about Hextech Alternator
- How much does Hextech Alternator cost?
- 1,100 gold in total — Amplifying Tome and Amplifying Tome plus 300 gold.
- What is Hextech Alternator built from?
- Amplifying Tome (400) and Amplifying Tome (400), plus 300 gold to combine.
- What does Hextech Alternator build into?
- Shadowflame (3,200), Hextech Gunblade (3,000), Luden's Echo (2,750), Hextech Rocketbelt (2,650) and Stormsurge (2,800).
- What stats does Hextech Alternator give?
- 45 Ability Power.
- What does Hextech Alternator's Revved passive do?
- Damaging a champion deals bonus magic damage.
- Where can you buy Hextech Alternator?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Hextech Alternator sell for?
- 770 gold, against 1,100 to buy.
- Is Hextech Alternator gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 900 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 1,100 — 81.8%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.