By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Epic · Summoner's Rift
Seeker's Armguard — the Early Stasis
1,600gold
Activate to become invincible but unable to take actions
Seeker's Armguard gives you an early stasis: activate it to become invincible but unable to take actions. Use it and it breaks into Shattered Armguard. It costs 1,600 gold — two Amplifying Tomes and Cloth Armor plus 500 — for 40 Ability Power and 25 Armor, finishes into Zhonya's Hourglass, and sells back for just 640. Mid laners took 46.5% of them in 9,461 games.
What it grants
- 40 Ability Power
- 25 Armor
Passives
Stats only — this item has no passive. See the shop for items that do.
Seeker's Armguard at a glance
Seeker's Armguard is an epic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 1,600 gold: Amplifying Tome, Cloth Armor and Amplifying Tome plus 500 gold. It grants 40 Ability Power and 25 Armor. It builds into 1 item: Zhonya's Hourglass. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 81.3% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Combine cost
500
on top of 3 components, for 1,600 in total.
Builds into
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 1.4%
- Win rate
- 55.6%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 2
- Games
- 9,461
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top14.4%
- Jungle17.2%
- Mid46.5%
- Bot15.9%
- Support6.0%
Reach for it when
- Versus heavy AD
Gold efficiency
81.3%1,300 gold of stats for 1,600
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
12th of 14 items Riot tags Armor, by this measure. Nearest: Cruelty 88.0%, Plated Steelcaps 86.7%, Warden's Mail 80.0%, Bramble Vest 75.0%.
- 40 Ability Power · 20g each, from Amplifying Tome
- 800g
- 25 Armor · 20g each, from Cloth Armor
- 500g
What Seeker's Armguard builds into, in full
Zhonya's Hourglass 3,250 gold
Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod and Seeker's Armguard plus 450 gold. Grants 105 Ability Power and 50 Armor.
Seeker's Armguard balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Seeker's Armguard.
Other items for the same job
Quick answers about Seeker's Armguard
- How much does Seeker's Armguard cost?
- 1,600 gold in total — Amplifying Tome, Cloth Armor and Amplifying Tome plus 500 gold.
- What is Seeker's Armguard built from?
- Amplifying Tome (400), Cloth Armor (300) and Amplifying Tome (400), plus 500 gold to combine.
- What does Seeker's Armguard build into?
- Zhonya's Hourglass (3,250).
- What stats does Seeker's Armguard give?
- 40 Ability Power and 25 Armor.
- Where can you buy Seeker's Armguard?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Seeker's Armguard sell for?
- 640 gold, against 1,600 to buy.
- Is Seeker's Armguard gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 1,300 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 1,600 — 81.3%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.