By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Legendary · Summoner's Rift
Kaenic Rookern — the Magic Shield Before a Fight
2,900gold
Kaenic Rookern shields you before a fight: after 15 seconds without taking magic damage, Magebane grants a magic shield. Force of Nature works the other way round, growing after 8 magic hits. Rookern costs 2,900 gold for 400 Health, 80 Magic Resist and 100% base Health Regen, and top laners bought 54.7% of them.
What it grants
- 400 Health
- 80 Magic Resist
- 100% Base Health Regen
Passive
- Magebane: After not taking magic damage for 15 seconds, gain a magic shield.
Kaenic Rookern at a glance
Kaenic Rookern is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 2,900 gold: Spectre's Cowl and Negatron Cloak plus 800 gold. It grants 400 Health, 80 Magic Resist and 100% Base Health Regen and the Magebane passive. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 102.3% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
800
on top of 2 components, for 2,900 in total.
Builds into
Nothing — this is a finished item.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 1.2%
- Win rate
- 53.8%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 3
- Games
- 7,859
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top54.7%
- Jungle15.9%
- Mid12.8%
- Bot4.2%
- Support12.4%
Reach for it when
- Survive burst
- Versus heavy AP
Gold efficiency
102.3%2,967 gold of stats for 2,900
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
32th of 76 items Riot tags Health, by this measure. Nearest: Tunneler 103.7%, Experimental Hexplate 103.3%, Locket of the Iron Solari 101.5%, Unending Despair 100.6%.
- 400 Health · 2.67g each, from Ruby Crystal
- 1067g
- 80 Magic Resist · 20g each, from Null-Magic Mantle
- 1600g
- 100% Base Health Regen · 3g each, from Rejuvenation Bead
- 300g
Kaenic Rookern balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Kaenic Rookern.
Other items for the same job
Quick answers about Kaenic Rookern
- How much does Kaenic Rookern cost?
- 2,900 gold in total — Spectre's Cowl and Negatron Cloak plus 800 gold.
- What is Kaenic Rookern built from?
- Spectre's Cowl (1,250) and Negatron Cloak (850), plus 800 gold to combine.
- What does Kaenic Rookern build into?
- Nothing — Kaenic Rookern is a finished item.
- What stats does Kaenic Rookern give?
- 400 Health, 80 Magic Resist and 100% Base Health Regen.
- What does Kaenic Rookern's Magebane passive do?
- After not taking magic damage for 15 seconds, gain a magic shield.
- Where can you buy Kaenic Rookern?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Kaenic Rookern sell for?
- 2,030 gold, against 2,900 to buy.
- Is Kaenic Rookern gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 2,967 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 2,900 — 102.3%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.