By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Legendary · Summoner's Rift
Serpent's Fang — the Anti-Shield Lethality Item
2,500gold
Serpent's Fang is the answer to shields: Shield Reaver weakens any shield a champion gains for 3 seconds after you damage them, and your first hit also cuts the shields already on them. It builds from Serrated Dirk and Pickaxe plus 625 gold, 2,500 in all, for 55 Attack Damage and 15 Lethality. It won 51.3% of 19,942 games; junglers bought 52.1% of it.
What it grants
- 55 Attack Damage
- 15 Lethality
Passives
- Shield Reaver: Damaging an enemy champion reduces Shields they gain by % for 3 seconds. If they were not already affected by
- Shield Reaver: , reduce Shields on them by %.
Serpent's Fang at a glance
Serpent's Fang is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 2,500 gold: Serrated Dirk and Pickaxe plus 625 gold. It grants 55 Attack Damage and 15 Lethality and the Shield Reaver and Shield Reaver passives. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 77.0% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
625
on top of 2 components, for 2,500 in total.
Builds into
Nothing — this is a finished item.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 3.0%
- Win rate
- 51.3%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 3
- Games
- 19,942
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top20.4%
- Jungle52.1%
- Mid14.6%
- Bot6.1%
- Support6.8%
Reach for it when
- Into armour stacking
Gold efficiency
77.0%1,925 gold of stats for 2,500
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
31th of 46 items Riot tags Damage, by this measure. Nearest: Sword of the Divine 80.0%, Serylda's Grudge 77.5%, Guinsoo's Rageblade 75.8%, Mortal Reminder 74.2%.
- 55 Attack Damage · 35g each, from Long Sword
- 1925g
Not priced, because Riot sells no single-stat item for lethality — so this figure covers the rest.
Serpent's Fang balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Serpent's Fang.
Other items for the same job
Quick answers about Serpent's Fang
- How much does Serpent's Fang cost?
- 2,500 gold in total — Serrated Dirk and Pickaxe plus 625 gold.
- What is Serpent's Fang built from?
- Serrated Dirk (1,000) and Pickaxe (875), plus 625 gold to combine.
- What does Serpent's Fang build into?
- Nothing — Serpent's Fang is a finished item.
- What stats does Serpent's Fang give?
- 55 Attack Damage and 15 Lethality.
- What does Serpent's Fang's Shield Reaver passive do?
- Damaging an enemy champion reduces Shields they gain by % for 3 seconds. If they were not already affected by
- What does Serpent's Fang's Shield Reaver passive do?
- , reduce Shields on them by %.
- Where can you buy Serpent's Fang?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Serpent's Fang sell for?
- 1,750 gold, against 2,500 to buy.
- Is Serpent's Fang gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 1,925 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 2,500 — 77.0%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.