Scorchclaw Pup — the Burn-and-Slow Jungle Pet

450gold

Scorchclaw Pup gives you a jungle pet whose payoff is a burn: when it is fully grown and your Jungle Quest is done, it regularly empowers your next Attack or Ability to burn enemies and Slow them, and killing a large monster readies that hit at once. Until then it helps against monsters and strengthens Smite as it grows. It costs 450 gold and sells back for 0.

What it grants

No stat lines — this item is bought for its effect alone.

Passive

Jungle Companions: Summon a Scorchclaw that assists you against monsters.The companion grows as you hunt monsters, empowering your Smite. When fully grown, it completes your Jungle Quest and periodically imbues your next Attack or Ability to burn enemies and Slow them. Killing large monsters readies this immediately.

Scorchclaw Pup at a glance

Scorchclaw Pup is a starter item on Summoner's Rift that costs 450 gold: bought outright, with no components. It grants the Jungle Companions passive. Nothing in the shop builds from it.

Build path

Builds from

Nothing — this item is bought whole.

Combine cost

450

The full 450 is paid at once.

Builds into

Nothing — this is a finished item.

How it performed

Pick rate: 0.3%
Win rate: 15.5%
Completion: Not counted
Inventory slot: 2
Games: 1,838
Δ this patch: Not counted

patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted

Who buys it

Jungle100.0%

Reach for it when

Clear speed

Gold efficiency

Not measurable for Scorchclaw Pup. Gold efficiency prices a stat block, and nothing this item grants is sold on its own anywhere in the shop — so there is no reference price to compare it with. That is a property of the item, not a gap in our data.

What it does instead is written above, in the publisher's own words. A percentage would tell you less about this item than that sentence does.

Scorchclaw Pup balance history

Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Scorchclaw Pup.

Other items for the same job

All tagged “Jungle” by Riot.

Quick answers about Scorchclaw Pup

How much does Scorchclaw Pup cost?: 450 gold in total — bought outright, with no components.
What is Scorchclaw Pup built from?: Nothing: Scorchclaw Pup is bought outright.
What does Scorchclaw Pup build into?: Nothing — Scorchclaw Pup is a finished item.
What does Scorchclaw Pup's Jungle Companions passive do?: Summon a Scorchclaw that assists you against monsters.The companion grows as you hunt monsters, empowering your Smite. When fully grown, it completes your Jungle Quest and periodically imbues your next Attack or Ability to burn enemies and Slow them. Killing large monsters readies this immediately.
Where can you buy Scorchclaw Pup?: In Summoner's Rift — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
What does Scorchclaw Pup sell for?: 0 gold, against 450 to buy.