By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Legendary · Summoner's Rift
Zhonya's Hourglass — Invincible for a Moment
3,250gold
Activate to become invincible but unable to take actions
Zhonya's Hourglass exists for its active: press it and you turn invincible, though you cannot act while it lasts. It builds from Seeker's Armguard and Needlessly Large Rod plus 450 gold, 3,250 in all, for 105 Ability Power and 50 Armor. Guardian Angel costs 3,200 for 55 AD and 45 Armor and revives you instead. Mid laners took 44.3%; Zhonya's won 55.4% of 46,741 games.
What it grants
- 105 Ability Power
- 50 Armor
Passives
Stats only — this item has no passive. See the shop for items that do.
Zhonya's Hourglass at a glance
Zhonya's Hourglass is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 3,250 gold: Needlessly Large Rod and Seeker's Armguard plus 450 gold. It grants 105 Ability Power and 50 Armor. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 95.4% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Combine cost
450
on top of 2 components, for 3,250 in total.
Builds into
Nothing — this is a finished item.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 7.1%
- Win rate
- 55.4%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 3
- Games
- 46,741
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top12.2%
- Jungle23.4%
- Mid44.3%
- Bot15.1%
- Support5.0%
Reach for it when
- Versus heavy AD
Gold efficiency
95.4%3,100 gold of stats for 3,250
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
8th of 14 items Riot tags Armor, by this measure. Nearest: Chain Vest 100.0%, Cloth Armor 100.0%, Guardian Angel 88.3%, Cruelty 88.0%.
- 105 Ability Power · 20g each, from Amplifying Tome
- 2100g
- 50 Armor · 20g each, from Cloth Armor
- 1000g
Zhonya's Hourglass balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Zhonya's Hourglass.
Other items for the same job
Quick answers about Zhonya's Hourglass
- How much does Zhonya's Hourglass cost?
- 3,250 gold in total — Needlessly Large Rod and Seeker's Armguard plus 450 gold.
- What is Zhonya's Hourglass built from?
- Needlessly Large Rod (1,200) and Seeker's Armguard (1,600), plus 450 gold to combine.
- What does Zhonya's Hourglass build into?
- Nothing — Zhonya's Hourglass is a finished item.
- What stats does Zhonya's Hourglass give?
- 105 Ability Power and 50 Armor.
- Where can you buy Zhonya's Hourglass?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Zhonya's Hourglass sell for?
- 2,275 gold, against 3,250 to buy.
- Is Zhonya's Hourglass gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 3,100 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 3,250 — 95.4%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.