By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Epic · Summoner's Rift
Verdant Barrier — the Spell Shield Component
1,600gold
Verdant Barrier brings the spell shield early: Annul gives you a Spell Shield against the next enemy ability. For 1,600 gold — Null-Magic Mantle and a pair of Amplifying Tomes plus 400 — it adds 40 Ability Power and 25 Magic Resist, and its one upgrade is Banshee's Veil. Mid laners held 39.7% of them across 2,759 games, junglers 21.3%.
What it grants
- 40 Ability Power
- 25 Magic Resist
Passive
- Annul: Grants a Spell Shield that blocks the next enemy Ability.
Verdant Barrier at a glance
Verdant Barrier is an epic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 1,600 gold: Amplifying Tome, Null-Magic Mantle and Amplifying Tome plus 400 gold. It grants 40 Ability Power and 25 Magic Resist and the Annul passive. It builds into 1 item: Banshee's Veil. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 81.3% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Combine cost
400
on top of 3 components, for 1,600 in total.
Builds into
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 0.4%
- Win rate
- 58.3%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 2,759
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top10.0%
- Jungle21.3%
- Mid39.7%
- Bot16.8%
- Support12.1%
Reach for it when
- Versus heavy AP
Gold efficiency
81.3%1,300 gold of stats for 1,600
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
7th of 9 items Riot tags SpellBlock, by this measure. Nearest: Banshee's Veil 96.7%, Chainlaced Crushers 83.2%, Wit's End 76.8%, Mercurial Scimitar 76.6%.
- 40 Ability Power · 20g each, from Amplifying Tome
- 800g
- 25 Magic Resist · 20g each, from Null-Magic Mantle
- 500g
What Verdant Barrier builds into, in full
Banshee's Veil 3,000 gold
Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod and Verdant Barrier plus 200 gold. Grants 105 Ability Power and 40 Magic Resist. Passive: Annul.
Verdant Barrier balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Verdant Barrier.
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Quick answers about Verdant Barrier
- How much does Verdant Barrier cost?
- 1,600 gold in total — Amplifying Tome, Null-Magic Mantle and Amplifying Tome plus 400 gold.
- What is Verdant Barrier built from?
- Amplifying Tome (400), Null-Magic Mantle (400) and Amplifying Tome (400), plus 400 gold to combine.
- What does Verdant Barrier build into?
- Banshee's Veil (3,000).
- What stats does Verdant Barrier give?
- 40 Ability Power and 25 Magic Resist.
- What does Verdant Barrier's Annul passive do?
- Grants a Spell Shield that blocks the next enemy Ability.
- Where can you buy Verdant Barrier?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Verdant Barrier sell for?
- 1,120 gold, against 1,600 to buy.
- Is Verdant Barrier 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.