By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Legendary · Summoner's Rift
Ravenous Hydra — the Life Steal Hydra
3,300gold
Melee attacks hit nearby enemies, dealing damage and restoring Health
Ravenous Hydra builds from Tiamat, Vampiric Scepter and Caulfield's Warhammer plus 150 gold, 3,300 in total, for 65 Attack Damage, 15 Ability Haste and 12% Life Steal. Cleave carries your attacks onto nearby enemies, and the Ravenous Crescent active hits everyone around you, with your Life Steal applying to that damage too. Top laners took 91.1%; it won 52.1% of 11,460 games.
What it grants
- 65 Attack Damage
- 15 Ability Haste
- 12% Life Steal
Passive
- Cleave: Attacks deal physical damage to nearby enemies.Ravenous CrescentDeal physical damage to enemies around you. Your Life Steal applies to this damage.
Ravenous Hydra at a glance
Ravenous Hydra is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 3,300 gold: Tiamat, Vampiric Scepter and Caulfield's Warhammer plus 150 gold. It grants 65 Attack Damage, 15 Ability Haste and 12% Life Steal and the Cleave passive. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 91.7% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Combine cost
150
on top of 3 components, for 3,300 in total.
Builds into
Nothing — this is a finished item.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 1.8%
- Win rate
- 52.1%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 1
- Games
- 11,460
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top91.1%
- Jungle1.1%
- Mid4.9%
- Bot2.5%
- Support0.3%
Reach for it when
- Sustain in lane
- Rotation uptime
- Extended trades
Gold efficiency
91.7%3,025 gold of stats for 3,300
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
20th of 46 items Riot tags Damage, by this measure. Nearest: Immortal Shieldbow 97.5%, Yun Tal Wildarrows 95.8%, The Collector level with it, Bastionbreaker 89.2%.
- 65 Attack Damage · 35g each, from Long Sword
- 2275g
- 15 Ability Haste · 50g each, from Glowing Mote
- 750g
Not priced, because Riot sells no single-stat item for life steal — so this figure covers the rest.
Ravenous Hydra balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Ravenous Hydra.
Other items for the same job
Quick answers about Ravenous Hydra
- How much does Ravenous Hydra cost?
- 3,300 gold in total — Tiamat, Vampiric Scepter and Caulfield's Warhammer plus 150 gold.
- What is Ravenous Hydra built from?
- Tiamat (1,200), Vampiric Scepter (900) and Caulfield's Warhammer (1,050), plus 150 gold to combine.
- What does Ravenous Hydra build into?
- Nothing — Ravenous Hydra is a finished item.
- What stats does Ravenous Hydra give?
- 65 Attack Damage, 15 Ability Haste and 12% Life Steal.
- What does Ravenous Hydra's Cleave passive do?
- Attacks deal physical damage to nearby enemies.Ravenous CrescentDeal physical damage to enemies around you. Your Life Steal applies to this damage.
- Where can you buy Ravenous Hydra?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Ravenous Hydra sell for?
- 2,310 gold, against 3,300 to buy.
- Is Ravenous Hydra gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 3,025 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 3,300 — 91.7%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.