Life steal

Life steal (LS) is an offensive stat that restores health to the wielder on all basic attacks, including abilities that modify their basic attacks (such as Fiora's Lunge and Ezreal's Mystic Shot). It is a percent of the basic attack, plus physical damage from modifiers on the attack (such as Sheen's Spellblade), but not on-hit effects (such as Muramana's Shock).

Life steal is calculated from the actual damage done to an enemy, after armor and all other forms of damage reduction. All champions have 0% base life steal. It can be increased with items, runes, masteries, and some champion abilities.

Increasing life steal

Items

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• Ardent Censer:
• Cull: +3 health on-hit.
• Death's Dance: Passive: Unique – Ignore Pain: Reduces ( 30% / 10%) of all post-mitigation physical and magic damage received and instead stores the damage to successively take it as true damage over 3 seconds, dealing a third of the stored damage each second.
• Elixir of Wrath:
• Hextech Gunblade:
• Hunter's Machete: +10% life steal vs. monsters.
• Maw of Malmortius:
• Skirmisher's Sabre: +10% life steal against monsters.
• Spirit Visage: Passive: Unique – Boundless Vitality: Increases all healing and shielding received as well as  health regeneration by 25%.
• Stalker's Blade: +10% life steal against monsters.
• The Bloodthirster: Passive: Unique – Engorge: While above 70% maximum health, gain 10 − 40 (based on level) bonus attack damage.
• Tracker's Knife: +10% life steal against monsters.

Champion abilities

Note: Only the life steal buff effect of these abilities is shown here, to read more information on each of these abilities, follow the link on each of them.

• Lee Sin's Iron Will grants 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30% life steal for 4 seconds.
• Nasus' Soul Eater permanently grants him % life steal.
• Olaf's Vicious Strikes gives him 14 / 16 / 18 / 20 / 22% life steal and 0.5% healing per 1% missing health, which applies to life steal for 6 seconds.
• Sion's Glory in Death grants 100% life steal for the duration of the ability.
• Warwick's Infinite Duress grants him 30% life steal for the duration of the ability.

Masteries

•  Vampirism: Grants 0.4 / 0.8 / 1.2 / 1.6 / 2% life steal and spell vamp.
•  Warlord's Bloodlust: Moving or attacking makes an attack Energized. Energized attacks heal for 5% − 40% (based on level) AD and grant 30% movement speed for 0.75 seconds. If the Energized attack critically strikes, it instead heals for 5% − 40% (based on level) AD × (2 + bonus critical strike damage).

Runes

	Type	Tier 3	% of Highest	Price
Life steal
	Quintessence	1.5%	100%	2050 Influence Point

Notes

• Life steal stacks additively, and has no cap.
• Spirit Visage's passive is a unique multiplicative increase, so if you had 10% life steal before, you will now have 12.5%, and not 35% life steal.
  • 10% × 1.25 = 12.5% life steal.
• Life steal will not heal from damage done to towers and inhibitors.
• Life steal will heal from all damage done to minions, monsters, pets and champions.
• Abilities that apply on-hit effects such as Mystic Shot and Parrrley will work with life steal.
• Life steal does not work for abilities that don't apply on-hit effects, nor with item actives like with Blade of the Ruined King.
• Life steal does not work with True damage, for example Master Yi's Wuju Style.
• Healing reduction effects like Ignite and Varus' Hail of Arrows reduce the health restored by life steal.

See Healing reduction for more information.

Trivia

Last updated: June 8, 2017 - V7.11

• The maximum achievable life steal by a playable champion is 263.925% on Sion.
• Runes: +4.5% Life Steal
  • 3 ×  Quintessences of Life Steal (+3 × 1.5% Life Steal)
• Masteries: +2% Life Steal
  • 5 points in  Vampirism (+2% Life Steal)
• Items: +74% Life Steal
  • The Bloodthirster (+20% Life Steal)
  • Death's Dance (+15% Life Steal)
  • Hextech Gunblade (+15% Life Steal)
  • A combination of two of any of the following items: 2 × 12% Life Steal
    • Blade of the Ruined King
    • Ravenous Hydra
  • Spirit Visage (+25% Heal Amp.)
• Buffs: +115% Life Steal
  • Sion's Glory in Death (+100% Life Steal)
  • Elixir of Wrath (+15% Life Steal)
• Heal Amplification: +35% Heal Amp.
  • Spirit Visage (+25% Heal Amp.)
  •  Runic Armor (+8% Heal Amp.)
• Relevant mathematics:
  • Sion's life steal = (4.5% + 2% + 74% + 115%) × 1.35 = 263.925%
    • Items =  20% + 15% + 15% + 12% × 2 = 74%
    • Runes =  1.5% × 3 = 4.5%
    • Masteries =  2%
    • Buffs =  100% +  15% = 115%
    • Heal Multiplier =  1.25 ×  1.08 = 1.35

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