Might of the Ruined King

		"You belong in a museum!" This article or section may contain obsolete information, but exists here for historical purposes. This item has been removed on patch V10.23.

Might of the Ruined King edit
Master Craftsman: All stats except Life Steal have been improved.
Stats
+55 attack damage
+40% attack speed
+12% life steal
Active
Unique: Deal 100 magic damage to the target enemy champion and slow them by 25% for 3 seconds, while also granting you 25% bonus movement speed for the same duration (90 second cooldown; 550 range).
Passive
Unique: Basic attacks deal ( 12% / 8%) of the target's current health bonus physical damage on-hit, with a minimum of 15 bonus damage against all targets, and a maximum of 60 bonus damage against minions and monsters.
Limitations
Limited to 1 Might of the Ruined King. Can only be forged by Ornn. Limited to one Master Craftsman item.
Recipe
+  0
Cost	3300
Sell	2310
ID	3389
Availability
Menu
Attack>Damage Attack>Attack Speed Attack>Life Steal
Keywords
ornn forge

Might of the Ruined King was a legendary item in League of Legends. Could only be forged by Ornn.

Recipe

Might of the Ruined King 3300 ( 0)
		Blade of the Ruined King 3300 ( 700) Bilgewater Cutlass 1600 ( 350) Vampiric Scepter 900 ( 550) Long Sword 350 Long Sword 350 Recurve Bow 1000 ( 400) Dagger 300 Dagger 300

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 55 attack damage = 1925
• 12% life steal = 450
• 40% attack speed = 1000
• 15 on-hit physical damage = 375
  • Total Gold Value = 3750

Gold efficiency

• Might of the Ruined King's base stats were 113.64% gold efficient.
• The raw stats gained from upgrading Blade of the Ruined King into Might of the Ruined King were worth 900 (15 attack damage and 15% attack speed).

Similar items

Black Cleaver

Bloodrazor

Bloodthirster

Guinsoo's Rageblade

Hextech Gunblade

Liandry's Torment

Notes

Item VFX

Slow VFX

• The active is not considered a projectile.
•  Life steal applies to the bonus damage even if it's dealt through other items/abilities, such as Guinsoo's Rageblade, Runaan's Hurricane and Double Up.
  • It also benefits from  Heal Power.
• The passive damage is not factored into critical strikes, as it is an on-hit effect.
• Spirit Visage increases the heal from the bonus damage twice, for 69% (1.3 × 1.3), instead of 30%. This only occurs if the heal comes from life steal.
• The  movement speed buff stacks additively with other percentage movement speed buffs.
• Although Hextech Gunblade and Blade of the Ruined King both have a Bilgewater Cutlass in their recipe, their item actives are considered distinct from one another and will not put each other on cooldown.

Strategy

• This item is often built as a form of "anti-tank" item used to counter health-stacking champions (or champions that scale well in health) such as Shen, Dr. Mundo, Volibear, Zac, and Taric.
• Blade of the Ruined King can be seen as a soft defensive item, as its active offers high utility. Depending on the situation, it can be used to lock down a target, evade skillshots, or most importantly, improve kiting. * Champions who are highly dependent on basic attacks ( Master Yi,  Jax,  Tristana, etc.) often build this item due to the attack speed, lifesteal, and the passive that helps boost their autoattacks.
• Champions with an attack speed steroid like Master Yi, Quinn, Xin Zhao, Nocturne or champions with on-hit effect abilities like Shyvana, Warwick, Renekton, Yasuo, Yone can synergize well with Blade of the Ruined King, making better use of the passive.
  • Champions that autoattack and deal true damage also benefit from the passive on Blade of the Ruined King, as the best counter to true damage is to build health
    • However, being able to constantly autoattack is still the foremost criteria. Prime examples are Olaf, Irelia or Master Yi.
  • AD Casters can also consider picking this item up as a side item for extra damage and sustain vs HP targets, but only if they have abilities that directly synergize with auto attacks via applying on-hit effects (e.g. Renekton's Ruthless Predator, Jax's Empower and Wukong's Crushing Blow). *** Even then, a majority of users of this item also often combine it with the likes of a Spellblade-proc'ing item such as Trinity Force.
• Thornmail and Frozen Heart are strong counters to Blade of the Ruined King, as both provide armor and an attack speed slow; in the former's case, it provides a Grievous Wounds effect that counters BotRK's lifesteal. The latter's case has more armor and also has its attack speed slow in the form of an aura.
  • However, when combined with lethality or any other form of defense-stat bypass, the HP-based damage will punch through easily in most cases against a variety of targets.

Trivia

• Blade of the Ruined King is named after The Ruined King, who transformed the Blessed Isles into the undead-dwelling Shadow Isles after his 'grief overcame his reason' and lead him to attempt and fail to resurrect his wife.
• With the start of the preseason of Season 3 Madred's Bloodrazor was removed and was replaced by Blade of the Ruined King.
• Pentakill's second volume, Pentakill II: Grasp of the Undying, named its tenth track after this item.

Patch History

V10.23 - Removed

• Removed from the game.

V10.6

• Undocumented: No longer has its damage capped when attacking clones.

V10.5

• Passive damage for melee champions increased to 12% of the target's current health from 8%.

V10.3

• Bug Fix: Passive no longer stacks with Blade of the Ruined King's passive.

V9.8

• Total cost increased to 3300 from 3200.
  • Combine cost unchanged.

V9.1 - Added

• Added to the game.
• Recipe: Blade of the Ruined King + 0 = 3200.
• Stats: 55 attack damage, 40% attack speed, 12% life steal.
• Unique Active: Instantly deal 100 magic damage and slow the target enemy champion by 25% for 3 seconds, while also increasing your own movement speed by 25% for the same duration (90 second cooldown; 550 range).
• Unique Passive: Basic attacks deal 8% of the target's current health bonus physical damage on-hit, with a minimum of 15 bonus damage against all targets, and a maximum of 60 bonus damage against minions and monsters.
• Can only be forged by Ornn. Limited to one Master Craftsman item.

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