By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Legendary · Summoner's Rift
Shadowflame — Critical Strikes for Magic Damage
3,200gold
Shadowflame gives magic damage a critical strike: with Cinderbloom, your magic and true damage crits enemies below 40% Health for 20% more damage. It builds from Hextech Alternator and Needlessly Large Rod plus 900 gold, 3,200 in all, for 110 Ability Power and 15 Magic Penetration. Mid laners took 51.6%, and it showed up in 51,192 games, winning 52.1%.
What it grants
- 110 Ability Power
- 15 Magic Penetration
Passive
- Cinderbloom: Magic and true damage Critically Strike enemies below 40% Health, dealing 20% increased damage.
Shadowflame at a glance
Shadowflame is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 3,200 gold: Hextech Alternator and Needlessly Large Rod plus 900 gold. It grants 110 Ability Power and 15 Magic Penetration and the Cinderbloom passive. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 68.8% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Combine cost
900
on top of 2 components, for 3,200 in total.
Builds into
Nothing — this is a finished item.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 7.8%
- Win rate
- 52.1%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 2
- Games
- 51,192
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top11.3%
- Jungle18.8%
- Mid51.6%
- Bot15.6%
- Support2.7%
Reach for it when
- Into magic resist
Gold efficiency
68.8%2,200 gold of stats for 3,200
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
21th of 25 items Riot tags SpellDamage, by this measure. Nearest: Staff of Flowing Water 75.6%, Rabadon's Deathcap 74.3%, Stormsurge 66.9%, Fated Ashes 66.7%.
- 110 Ability Power · 20g each, from Amplifying Tome
- 2200g
Not priced, because Riot sells no single-stat item for magic penetration — so this figure covers the rest.
Shadowflame balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Shadowflame.
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Quick answers about Shadowflame
- How much does Shadowflame cost?
- 3,200 gold in total — Hextech Alternator and Needlessly Large Rod plus 900 gold.
- What is Shadowflame built from?
- Hextech Alternator (1,100) and Needlessly Large Rod (1,200), plus 900 gold to combine.
- What does Shadowflame build into?
- Nothing — Shadowflame is a finished item.
- What stats does Shadowflame give?
- 110 Ability Power and 15 Magic Penetration.
- What does Shadowflame's Cinderbloom passive do?
- Magic and true damage Critically Strike enemies below 40% Health, dealing 20% increased damage.
- Where can you buy Shadowflame?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Shadowflame sell for?
- 2,240 gold, against 3,200 to buy.
- Is Shadowflame gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 2,200 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 3,200 — 68.8%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.