Avarice Blade

N/A Edit
"Greed is good."
Recipe
Cost	800g (400g)
Sell	320g
Code	3093

Avarice Blade is an advanced item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Avarice Blade 800 ( 400)
		Brawler's Gloves 400

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 10% critical strike chance = 500g
  • Total Gold Value = 500g

Gold efficiency

• Avarice Blade is 62.5% gold efficient.
• The item becomes gold efficient if held for at least 16 minutes and 40 seconds after purchase. Each unit kill will reduce the timer by 6.7 seconds.

Builds Into

Statikk Shiv

Youmuu's Ghostblade

Similar Items

Ancient Coin

Frostfang

Nomad's Medallion

Relic Shield

Targon's Brace

Spellthief's Edge

Notes

• Avarice Blade is the only gold-generating item without the Gold Income passive, meaning it can be purchased alongside other gold per 10 items. However, only one Avarice Blade can generate gold at a time.
• Avarice Blade generates enough money to pay for itself in 44 minutes and 26.4 seconds, assuming that zero unit kills are made.
• Avarice Blade can be used as an unconventional gold income item. If held for 26 minutes and 40 seconds, this item generates 480g. If Avarice Blade is then sold, it will sell for 320g, meaning that the item will effectively pay for itself. Holding this item for more than 26 minutes and 40 seconds and then selling it will generate income.
• Avarice Blade's tooltip states the total gold earned with the item.
• In the event of no missed last hits, Avarice Blade becomes gold efficient in 6 minutes and 55 seconds.
• The gold gained from the Greed passive stacks with other on-kill bonus gold abilities and auras such as Gangplank's Parrrley, Twisted Fate's Loaded Dice and the +3 gold from controlling one altar in Twisted Treeline.

Trivia

• The item's description, "Greed is good", could be related to the Warcraft III cheat code for extra gold and lumber "greedisgood". Both instances are based on the quote by the fictional character Gordon Gekko in the American movie Wall Street.
• The item's image appears to be that of Long Sword, with the addition of a golden glow.

Patch History

V3.02:

• Gold per 10 seconds increased to 3 from 2.

V1.0.0.152:

• Item cost increased to 800g from 700g.
• Combine cost increased to 400g from 350g.
• Critical strike chance reduced to 10% from 12%.
• Passive – Avarice: bonus gold per 10 seconds reduced to 2 from 5.
• NEW Unique Passive – Greed: Gain an additional 2 gold every kill.
• Added to item recipe for Atma's Impaler, Statikk Shiv and Executioner's Calling.

V1.0.0.143:

• Now indicates in the tooltip how much gold it has generated over the course of the game.

V1.0.0.120:

• Gold per 10 effect is now Unique. It won't stack when the bonus comes from itself, but it will stack when having different items.

V1.0.0.61:

• No longer displays a +x Gold over the Champion although it is still granting the Gold.

V0.9.22.7:

• Now sells back for 50% (from 70%).

V0.8.22.115:

• Combine cost increased to 350g from 300g.

July 10, 2009 Patch:

• Combine cost reduced to 300g from 350g.

May 9, 2009 Patch:

• Gold gain per 10 seconds increased to 5 from 4.

April 11, 2009 Patch:

• Cost increased to 375g from 350g.

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