By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Epic · Summoner's Rift
Tunneler — the Attack Damage and Health Component
1,150gold
Tunneler is a Long Sword and Ruby Crystal plus 400 gold, 1,150 in all, for 15 Attack Damage and 250 Health — 103.7% of the price at shop rates. Eight items finish from it: Overlord's Bloodmail (which takes two), Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, Edge of Night, Hullbreaker, Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra and Sundered Sky. Top laners held 49.2% of them in 13,404 games.
What it grants
- 15 Attack Damage
- 250 Health
Passives
Stats only — this item has no passive. See the shop for items that do.
Tunneler at a glance
Tunneler is an epic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 1,150 gold: Long Sword and Ruby Crystal plus 400 gold. It grants 15 Attack Damage and 250 Health. It builds into 8 items: Overlord's Bloodmail, Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, Edge of Night, Hullbreaker, Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra and Sundered Sky. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 103.7% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
400
on top of 2 components, for 1,150 in total.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 2.0%
- Win rate
- 49.1%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 13,404
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top49.2%
- Jungle27.2%
- Mid6.1%
- Bot7.4%
- Support10.0%
Reach for it when
- Survive burst
Gold efficiency
103.7%1,192 gold of stats for 1,150
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
30th of 76 items Riot tags Health, by this measure. Nearest: Crystalline Bracer 104.1%, Giant's Belt level with it, Experimental Hexplate 103.3%, Kaenic Rookern 102.3%.
- 15 Attack Damage · 35g each, from Long Sword
- 525g
- 250 Health · 2.67g each, from Ruby Crystal
- 667g
What Tunneler builds into, in full
Edge of Night 3,000 gold
Recipe: Serrated Dirk and Tunneler plus 850 gold. Grants 50 Attack Damage, 15 Lethality and 250 Health. Passive: Annul.
Experimental Hexplate 3,000 gold
Recipe: Tunneler, Dagger and Phage plus 500 gold. Grants 40 Attack Damage, 20% Attack Speed and 450 Health. Passive: Hexcharged, Overdrive.
Hullbreaker 3,000 gold
Recipe: Tunneler, Winged Moonplate and Pickaxe plus 175 gold. Grants 40 Attack Damage, 500 Health and 4% Move Speed. Passive: Skipper, Boarding Party.
Overlord's Bloodmail 3,300 gold
Recipe: Tunneler and Tunneler plus 1,000 gold. Grants 30 Attack Damage and 550 Health. Passive: Tyranny, Retribution.
Spear of Shojin 3,100 gold
Recipe: Pickaxe, Tunneler and Ruby Crystal plus 675 gold. Grants 45 Attack Damage and 450 Health. Passive: Dragonforce, Focused Will.
Sterak's Gage 3,200 gold
Recipe: Pickaxe, Tunneler and Ruby Crystal plus 775 gold. Grants 400 Health and 20% Tenacity. Passive: The Claws that Catch, Lifeline.
Sundered Sky 3,100 gold
Recipe: Tunneler and Caulfield's Warhammer plus 900 gold. Grants 40 Attack Damage, 400 Health and 10 Ability Haste. Passive: Lightshield Strike.
Titanic Hydra 3,300 gold
Recipe: Tiamat, Tunneler and Giant's Belt plus 50 gold. Grants 40 Attack Damage and 600 Health. Passive: Cleave, Cleave.
Tunneler balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Tunneler.
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Quick answers about Tunneler
- How much does Tunneler cost?
- 1,150 gold in total — Long Sword and Ruby Crystal plus 400 gold.
- What is Tunneler built from?
- Long Sword (350) and Ruby Crystal (400), plus 400 gold to combine.
- What does Tunneler build into?
- Overlord's Bloodmail (3,300), Sterak's Gage (3,200), Experimental Hexplate (3,000), Edge of Night (3,000), Hullbreaker (3,000), Spear of Shojin (3,100), Titanic Hydra (3,300) and Sundered Sky (3,100).
- What stats does Tunneler give?
- 15 Attack Damage and 250 Health.
- Where can you buy Tunneler?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Tunneler sell for?
- 805 gold, against 1,150 to buy.
- Is Tunneler gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 1,192 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 1,150 — 103.7%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.