By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Epic · Summoner's Rift
Vampiric Scepter — the Life Steal Component
900gold
Basic attacks restore Health
Vampiric Scepter is where Life Steal starts: a Long Sword plus 550 gold, 900 in all, for 15 AD and 7% Life Steal. Five items finish from it, Bloodthirster, Ravenous Hydra, Hextech Gunblade and Mercurial Scimitar among them. Its 58.3% efficiency counts only the AD: the 7% goes unpriced, since Riot sells no Life Steal-only item to measure it by. Bot laners held 70.6%.
What it grants
- 15 Attack Damage
- 7% Life Steal
Passives
Stats only — this item has no passive. See the shop for items that do.
Vampiric Scepter at a glance
Vampiric Scepter is an epic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 900 gold: Long Sword plus 550 gold. It grants 15 Attack Damage and 7% Life Steal. It builds into 5 items: Blade of The Ruined King, Hextech Gunblade, Bloodthirster, Ravenous Hydra and Mercurial Scimitar. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 58.3% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
550
on top of 1 component, for 900 in total.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 0.8%
- Win rate
- 51.3%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 5,409
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top17.0%
- Jungle3.3%
- Mid8.7%
- Bot70.6%
- Support0.4%
Reach for it when
- Sustain in lane
Gold efficiency
58.3%525 gold of stats for 900
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
43th of 46 items Riot tags Damage, by this measure. Nearest: Terminus 64.2%, Blade of The Ruined King 63.3%, Cull 54.4%, Flesheater 53.3%.
- 15 Attack Damage · 35g each, from Long Sword
- 525g
Not priced, because Riot sells no single-stat item for life steal — so this figure covers the rest.
What Vampiric Scepter builds into, in full
Blade of The Ruined King 3,200 gold
Recipe: Vampiric Scepter, Recurve Bow and Pickaxe plus 725 gold. Grants 40 Attack Damage, 25% Attack Speed and 10% Life Steal. Passive: Mist's Edge, Clawing Shadows.
Bloodthirster 3,400 gold
Recipe: B. F. Sword, Pickaxe and Vampiric Scepter plus 325 gold. Grants 80 Attack Damage and 15% Life Steal. Passive: Ichorshield.
Hextech Gunblade 3,000 gold
Recipe: Vampiric Scepter, Hextech Alternator and Amplifying Tome plus 600 gold. Grants 80 Ability Power, 40 Attack Damage and 10% Omnivamp.
Mercurial Scimitar 3,200 gold
Recipe: Quicksilver Sash, Pickaxe and Vampiric Scepter plus 125 gold. Grants 50 Attack Damage, 35 Magic Resist and 10% Life Steal.
Ravenous Hydra 3,300 gold
Recipe: Tiamat, Vampiric Scepter and Caulfield's Warhammer plus 150 gold. Grants 65 Attack Damage, 15 Ability Haste and 12% Life Steal. Passive: Cleave.
Vampiric Scepter balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Vampiric Scepter.
Other items for the same job
Quick answers about Vampiric Scepter
- How much does Vampiric Scepter cost?
- 900 gold in total — Long Sword plus 550 gold.
- What is Vampiric Scepter built from?
- Long Sword (350), plus 550 gold to combine.
- What does Vampiric Scepter build into?
- Blade of The Ruined King (3,200), Hextech Gunblade (3,000), Bloodthirster (3,400), Ravenous Hydra (3,300) and Mercurial Scimitar (3,200).
- What stats does Vampiric Scepter give?
- 15 Attack Damage and 7% Life Steal.
- Where can you buy Vampiric Scepter?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Vampiric Scepter sell for?
- 630 gold, against 900 to buy.
- Is Vampiric Scepter gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 525 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 900 — 58.3%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.