By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Boots · Summoner's Rift
Mercury's Treads — the Tenacity Boots
1,250gold
Increases Move Speed and reduces duration of disabling effects
Mercury's Treads are the tenacity boots: 20 Magic Resist, 45 Move Speed and 30% Tenacity for 1,250 gold, upgrading into Chainlaced Crushers. Boots of Swiftness instead trade the resist and tenacity for 10 more speed and 25% slow reduction. Mercury's were on the feet of 8.8% of players at the end of our counted Master+ games, who won 52.1% of the time.
What it grants
- 20 Magic Resist
- 45 Move Speed
- 30% Tenacity
Passives
Stats only — this item has no passive. See the shop for items that do.
Mercury's Treads at a glance
Mercury's Treads is a boots item on Summoner's Rift that costs 1,250 gold: Boots and Null-Magic Mantle plus 550 gold. It grants 20 Magic Resist, 45 Move Speed and 30% Tenacity. It builds into 1 item: Chainlaced Crushers. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 75.2% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
550
on top of 2 components, for 1,250 in total.
Builds into
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 8.8%
- Win rate
- 52.1%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 57,783
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top33.5%
- Jungle42.1%
- Support24.3%
Reach for it when
- Map pressure
- Versus heavy AP
- Against crowd control
Gold efficiency
75.2%940 gold of stats for 1,250
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
4th of 7 items Riot tags Boots, by this measure. Nearest: Boots 100.0%, Swiftmarch 78.0%, Boots of Swiftness 66.0%, Sorcerer's Shoes 49.1%.
- 20 Magic Resist · 20g each, from Null-Magic Mantle
- 400g
- 45 Move Speed · 12g each, from Boots
- 540g
Not priced, because Riot sells no single-stat item for tenacity — so this figure covers the rest.
What Mercury's Treads builds into, in full
Chainlaced Crushers 1,250 gold
Recipe: Mercury's Treads plus 0 gold. Grants 25 Magic Resist, 45 Move Speed and 30% Tenacity. Passive: Noxian Persistence.
Mercury's Treads balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Mercury's Treads in 1 patch. The latest is patch 25.04, published 2025-02-19.
Patch 25.042025-02-19
- Price1300to1250 gold
Why, in Riot's words
After making several balance passes at level 2 boots late last year, we've gotten them to a point where they're appropriately competitive with legendary items. That said, we've got some minor balance outliers within the boots space itself, so we're looking to bring up some of the worst performers and bring down the top end a touch.First is Mercury's Treads, which is the weakest tank footwear. We know 50 gold doesn't sound like a lot, but boots are small items and as a percentage, this is like dropping 125 gold off of a full legendary.
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Quick answers about Mercury's Treads
- How much does Mercury's Treads cost?
- 1,250 gold in total — Boots and Null-Magic Mantle plus 550 gold.
- What is Mercury's Treads built from?
- Boots (300) and Null-Magic Mantle (400), plus 550 gold to combine.
- What does Mercury's Treads build into?
- Chainlaced Crushers (1,250).
- What stats does Mercury's Treads give?
- 20 Magic Resist, 45 Move Speed and 30% Tenacity.
- Where can you buy Mercury's Treads?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Mercury's Treads sell for?
- 875 gold, against 1,250 to buy.
- Is Mercury's Treads gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 940 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 1,250 — 75.2%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.