By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Epic · Summoner's Rift
Warden's Mail — the Armor Component Against Attacks
1,000gold
Warden's Mail is the armor component for fights against basic attacks: Rock Solid reduces the damage attacks deal you, on top of 40 Armor. It costs 1,000 gold, two Cloth Armors plus 400, and it finishes into Frozen Heart or Randuin's Omen. Top laners held 42.2% of them in 8,448 games and supports 25.3%.
What it grants
- 40 Armor
Passive
- Rock Solid: Reduce incoming damage from Attacks.
Warden's Mail at a glance
Warden's Mail is an epic item on Summoner's Rift that costs 1,000 gold: Cloth Armor and Cloth Armor plus 400 gold. It grants 40 Armor and the Rock Solid passive. It builds into 2 items: Frozen Heart and Randuin's Omen. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 80.0% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Builds from
Combine cost
400
on top of 2 components, for 1,000 in total.
Builds into
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 1.3%
- Win rate
- 47.7%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 4
- Games
- 8,448
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top42.2%
- Jungle16.7%
- Mid8.4%
- Bot7.4%
- Support25.3%
Reach for it when
- Versus heavy AD
Gold efficiency
80.0%800 gold of stats for 1,000
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
13th of 14 items Riot tags Armor, by this measure. Nearest: Plated Steelcaps 86.7%, Seeker's Armguard 81.3%, Bramble Vest 75.0%.
- 40 Armor · 20g each, from Cloth Armor
- 800g
What Warden's Mail builds into, in full
Frozen Heart 2,500 gold
Recipe: Warden's Mail and Glacial Buckler plus 600 gold. Grants 75 Armor, 400 Mana and 20 Ability Haste. Passive: Winter's Caress.
Randuin's Omen 2,700 gold
Recipe: Warden's Mail and Giant's Belt plus 800 gold. Grants 350 Health and 75 Armor. Passive: Resilience.
Warden's Mail balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Warden's Mail.
Other items for the same job
Quick answers about Warden's Mail
- How much does Warden's Mail cost?
- 1,000 gold in total — Cloth Armor and Cloth Armor plus 400 gold.
- What is Warden's Mail built from?
- Cloth Armor (300) and Cloth Armor (300), plus 400 gold to combine.
- What does Warden's Mail build into?
- Frozen Heart (2,500) and Randuin's Omen (2,700).
- What stats does Warden's Mail give?
- 40 Armor.
- What does Warden's Mail's Rock Solid passive do?
- Reduce incoming damage from Attacks.
- Where can you buy Warden's Mail?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Warden's Mail sell for?
- 700 gold, against 1,000 to buy.
- Is Warden's Mail gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 800 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 1,000 — 80.0%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.