By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Boots · Summoner's Rift
Plated Steelcaps — Armor Boots Against Basic Attacks
1,200gold
Enhances Move Speed and reduces incoming basic attack damage
Plated Steelcaps are the boots against basic attacks: Plating cuts the damage attacks deal you by 10% — down from 12% since patch 25.04 — on top of 25 Armor and 45 Move Speed, for 1,200 gold. Mercury's Treads cost 1,250 and swap that for 20 Magic Resist and 30% Tenacity. Steelcaps upgrade into Armored Advance, and won 51.2% of the 90,777 games they appeared in.
What it grants
- 25 Armor
- 45 Move Speed
Passive
- Plating: Reduces incoming damage from Attacks by 10%.
Plated Steelcaps at a glance
Plated Steelcaps is a boots item on Summoner's Rift that costs 1,200 gold: Boots and Cloth Armor plus 600 gold. It grants 25 Armor and 45 Move Speed and the Plating passive. It builds into 1 item: Armored Advance. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 86.7% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
600
on top of 2 components, for 1,200 in total.
Builds into
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 13.9%
- Win rate
- 51.2%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 90,777
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top52.4%
- Jungle28.0%
- Support19.6%
Reach for it when
- Versus heavy AD
- Map pressure
Gold efficiency
86.7%1,040 gold of stats for 1,200
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
11th of 14 items Riot tags Armor, by this measure. Nearest: Guardian Angel 88.3%, Cruelty 88.0%, Seeker's Armguard 81.3%, Warden's Mail 80.0%.
- 25 Armor · 20g each, from Cloth Armor
- 500g
- 45 Move Speed · 12g each, from Boots
- 540g
What Plated Steelcaps builds into, in full
Armored Advance 1,200 gold
Recipe: Plated Steelcaps plus 0 gold. Grants 35 Armor and 45 Move Speed. Passive: Plating, Noxian Endurance.
Plated Steelcaps balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Plated Steelcaps in 1 patch. The latest is patch 25.04, published 2025-02-19.
Patch 25.042025-02-19
- Damage Reduction from Auto Attacks12%to10%
Why, in Riot's words
As Mercury's Treads are getting a bit stronger, Plated Steelcaps are getting a bit weaker, since they're currently the strongest boots in the game. This has the added benefit of being a very small buff for ADCs, which we're happy to lightly buff in the short term.
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Quick answers about Plated Steelcaps
- How much does Plated Steelcaps cost?
- 1,200 gold in total — Boots and Cloth Armor plus 600 gold.
- What is Plated Steelcaps built from?
- Boots (300) and Cloth Armor (300), plus 600 gold to combine.
- What does Plated Steelcaps build into?
- Armored Advance (1,200).
- What stats does Plated Steelcaps give?
- 25 Armor and 45 Move Speed.
- What does Plated Steelcaps's Plating passive do?
- Reduces incoming damage from Attacks by 10%.
- Where can you buy Plated Steelcaps?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Plated Steelcaps sell for?
- 840 gold, against 1,200 to buy.
- Is Plated Steelcaps gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 1,040 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 1,200 — 86.7%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.