By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Legendary · Summoner's Rift
Lich Bane — the Burst Mage's Spellblade
2,900gold
Grants a bonus to next attack after spell cast
Lich Bane is the burst mage's Spellblade: each spell charges your following basic attack with bonus magic damage. Patch 26.10 raised its AP ratio from 40% to 45% and its Move Speed to 6%, Riot pulling it away from Dusk and Dawn, which keeps you in the fight instead. The 2,900-gold item adds 100 AP and 10 Ability Haste; mid laners bought 60.7%.
What it grants
- 100 Ability Power
- 6% Move Speed
- 10 Ability Haste
Passive
- Spellblade: After using an Ability, your next Attack deals bonus magic damage On-Hit.
Lich Bane at a glance
Lich Bane is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 2,900 gold: Sheen, Aether Wisp and Blasting Wand plus 250 gold. It grants 100 Ability Power, 6% Move Speed and 10 Ability Haste and the Spellblade passive. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 88.7% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
250
on top of 3 components, for 2,900 in total.
Builds into
Nothing — this is a finished item.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 4.9%
- Win rate
- 52.7%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 1
- Games
- 32,109
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top6.0%
- Jungle28.1%
- Mid60.7%
- Bot4.6%
- Support0.6%
Reach for it when
- Extended trades
- Roaming
- Rotation uptime
Gold efficiency
88.7%2,572 gold of stats for 2,900
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
15th of 25 items Riot tags SpellDamage, by this measure. Nearest: Amplifying Tome 100.0%, Actualizer 92.9%, Cryptbloom 83.3%, Hextech Alternator 81.8%.
- 100 Ability Power · 20g each, from Amplifying Tome
- 2000g
- 6% Move Speed · 12g each, from Boots
- 72g
- 10 Ability Haste · 50g each, from Glowing Mote
- 500g
Lich Bane balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Lich Bane in 2 patches. The latest is patch 26.10, published 2026-05-12.
Patch 26.102026-05-12
- AP ratio 40% APto45% AP
- Movespeed 4%to6%
Why, in Riot's words
Last patch, we made adjustments to further differentiate our two AP Sheen items. For Lich Bane, rather than proccing Spellblade through getting in their face (like what Dusk and Dawn builds provide), we’re tuning up Lich Bane’s Movespeed to help you get into position for a better scaling proc.
Patch 25.102025-05-13
- Ability Power115to100
- RecipeSheen + Aether Wisp + Needlessly Large Rod + 200 GoldtoSheen + Aether Wisp + Blasting Wand + 250 Gold
- Total Gold Cost3200to2900
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Quick answers about Lich Bane
- How much does Lich Bane cost?
- 2,900 gold in total — Sheen, Aether Wisp and Blasting Wand plus 250 gold.
- What is Lich Bane built from?
- Sheen (900), Aether Wisp (900) and Blasting Wand (850), plus 250 gold to combine.
- What does Lich Bane build into?
- Nothing — Lich Bane is a finished item.
- What stats does Lich Bane give?
- 100 Ability Power, 6% Move Speed and 10 Ability Haste.
- What does Lich Bane's Spellblade passive do?
- After using an Ability, your next Attack deals bonus magic damage On-Hit.
- Where can you buy Lich Bane?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Lich Bane sell for?
- 2,030 gold, against 2,900 to buy.
- Is Lich Bane gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 2,572 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 2,900 — 88.7%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.