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Ravenous Hydra is a legendary item in League of Legends icon League of Legends.

Recipe

Ravenous Hydra item
Ravenous Hydra
3300 Gold 3300 (100 Gold 100)
Tiamat item
1200 Gold 1200 (500 Gold 500)
Vampiric Scepter item
900 Gold 900 (550 Gold 550)

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

Gold efficiency

  • Ravenous Hydra's Ravenous Hydra's base stats are 124.02% gold efficient.

Similar items

Notes

  • Cleave deals Umbra Blades default damage, and thus will not trigger spell effects.
    • Ravenous Crescent deals Death Lotus area damage, and will trigger spell effects in contrast to Cleave.
  • Cleave is not blocked by Spell Shield spell shield.
  • Cleave does not trigger on attacks against structures.
  • Cleave will trigger even if the basic attack does not deal damage, such as if the target is Cosmic Radiance invulnerable.
  • Cleave's damage benefits from Life steal icon life steal at 150% effectiveness.
  • Ravenous Crescent is an auto-targeted effect.
  • Ravenous Crescent's cast breaks Guerrilla Warfare stealth.
  • Ravenous Crescent has a cast time equal to the user's attack windup.

Map-Specific Differences

Arena icon Arena differences edit
  • Life steal changed to 15%.
  • New Effect: Cleave now scales with (Melee role 24% / Ranged role 12%) AP.

Old icons

Trivia

Media

Patch History

V14.4
  • Ravenous Crescent life steal effectiveness increased to 150% from 100%.
  • Bug Fix: Ravenous Crescent range indicator is now properly offset from the center by 100 units, matching the hitbox.
V14.2
  • Cast time now shifts to be equal to the caster's attack windup time if it would be lower than the usual cast time.
  • Bug Fix: Cast time now properly uses attack windup values.
V14.1 - January 12th Hotfix
  • Lifesteal increased to 12% from 10%.
  • Cast time changed to champion's auto attack windup from 0.2 seconds.
V14.1
  • New:
    • Recipe: Tiamat Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter Vampiric Scepter + Caulfield's Warhammer Caulfield's Warhammer + 100 Gold 100 = 3300 Gold 3300.
    • Stats: 70 attack damage, 20 ability haste, 10% life steal.
    • Unique Active - Ravenous Crescent: Deal 100% AD physical damage to enemies within a Range center 450 radius in front of you (10 second cooldown).
    • Unique Passive - Cleave: Damaging basic attacks deal (Melee role 40% AD / Ranged role 20% AD) physical damage to other enemies within Range center 350 units of the target.
    • Limited to 1 Cleave item.
  • Old:
    • Recipe: Tiamat Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter Vampiric Scepter + Caulfield's Warhammer Caulfield's Warhammer + 200 Gold 200 = 3400 Gold 3400.
    • Stats: 65 attack damage, 25 ability haste, 10% life steal.
    • Unique Passive - Cleave: Damaging basic attacks and ability damage from abilities deal (Melee role 40% AD / Ranged role 20% AD) physical damage to other enemies within 350 units of the target damaged. Can only hit each target once per attack or ability, and may only trigger once every 10 seconds from the same cast.
    • Unique Passive - Carnivorous: Gain 0.5 bonus attack damage whenever you kill a minion, doubled for kills against champions, large monsters, and large minions. This effect stacks up to 40 times, for a total of 20 bonus attack damage. Lose 60% of stacks upon death.
    • Limited to 1 Hydra item.
V13.5
  • Bug Fix: Cleave now triggers correctly.
V13.1b
  • Ability haste increased to 25 from 20.
  • Life steal increased to 10% from 0%.
  • Omnivamp reduced to 0% from 10%.
  • New Effect: Damage dealt by Cleave now benefits from life steal.
V12.23 - December 14th Hotfix
  • Cleave damage AD ratio reduced to (Melee role 40% AD / Ranged role 20% AD) from (Melee role 50% AD / Ranged role 25% AD).
  • Stacks lost upon death increased to 60% from 50%.
V12.23
  • Removed: No longer grants 0.1% omnivamp per stack of Carnivorous.
  • Cleave damage AD ratio reduced to (Melee role 50% AD / Ranged role 25% AD) from (Melee role 60% AD / Ranged role 30% AD).
  • Bug Fix: Selling the item and undoing that action now properly preserves the acquired stacks.
  • Bug Fix: No longer loses the Cleave effect after 2500 seconds (~41 minutes) of being purchased.
V12.22 - November 17th Hotfix
  • Total cost increased to 3400 Gold 3400 from 3300 Gold 3300.
    • Combine cost increased to 200 Gold 200 from 100 Gold 100.
  • Carnivorous bonus attack damage per stack reduced to 0.5 bonus attack damage from 0.6.
V12.22
  • Attack damage reduced to 65 from 70.
  • Cleave AD ratio changed to (Melee role 60% AD / Ranged role 30% AD) from 60% − 12% (based on distance) AD.
  • New Unique Passive - Carnivorous: Gain 0.6 bonus attack damage and 0.1% omnivamp whenever you kill a minion, doubled for kills against champions, large monsters, and large minions. This effect stacks up to 40 times, for a total of 24 bonus attack damage and 4% omnivamp. Lose 50% of these bonuses upon death.
V12.21
  • Updated icon.
V12.3
  • Attack damage increased to 70 from 65.
V11.18
  • Removed: Cleave no longer works against structures.
    • The tooltip now also mentions this.
V11.5
  • New Effect: Cleave now only triggers once every 10 seconds within the same cast instance.
  • Removed: Cleave no longer triggers from spell damage by items.
  • Bug Fix: (Regarding the above) Cleave now behaves more consistently across similar abilities.
V11.3
  • Omnivamp reduced to 10% from 15%.
V11.2
V10.24
  • Updated icon.
V10.23
  • Now purchaseable on Ranged role ranged champions.
  • Updated icon.
  • New:
    • Recipe: Tiamat Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter Vampiric Scepter + Caulfield's Warhammer Caulfield's Warhammer + 100 Gold 100 = 3300 Gold 3300.
    • Stats: 65 attack damage, 15% omni vamp, 20 ability haste.
    • Unique Passive - Cleave: Abilities and basic attacks deal 60% − 12% (based on distance) AD physical damage to other nearby enemies. Can only hit each target once per attack or ability, and doesn't trigger off periodic damage.
    • Limited to 1 Hydra item.
  • Old:
    • Recipe: Tiamat Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter Vampiric Scepter + Pickaxe Pickaxe + 400 Gold 400 = 3500 Gold 3500.
    • Stats: 80 attack damage, 18% life steal, 100% base health regeneration.
    • Unique Passive: Life steal applies to 50% of Cleave and Crescent's splash physical damage.
    • Unique Passive - Cleave: Basic attacks deal (20% to 60% AD) physical damage to units around your target – (20% AD near the edge).
    • Unique Active - Crescent: Deals (60% to 100% AD) physical damage to units in front of you – (60% AD near the edge) (10 second cooldown).
V10.5
  • Lifesteal increased to 18% from 12%.
  • Crescent radius increased to 450 units from 400.
  • Crescent center point is now at the champion's basic attack range (up to 200 units), instead of 125 units in front of the champion.
V10.4 - February 21st Hotfix
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Poppy Poppy and Rengar Rengar could use its active effect from range.
V8.24b
  • Combine cost reduced to 400 Gold 400 from 525 Gold 525. Total cost unchanged.
V7.9
  • Attack damage increased to 80 from 75.
V6.6
V6.4
V6.1
  • Item cost reduced to 3500 Gold 3500 from 3600 Gold 3600.
    • Combine cost reduced to 1050 Gold 1050 from 1100 Gold 1100.
V5.22
V5.16
  • New item icon.
V5.7
  • New Effect: Cleave and Crescent damage scales linearly with distance from scales in three damage 'stages'.
V4.20
  • New Effect: Now grants +100% base health regen.
  • Removed: +15 health regeneration per 5 seconds.
V3.6
  • Combine cost increased to 600 Gold 600 from 200 Gold 200. Total cost unchanged to 3300 Gold 3300.
V3.04
  • Item cost reduced to 3300 Gold 3300 from 3500 Gold 3500.
    • Combine cost reduced to 200 Gold 200 from 400 Gold 400.
  • Life steal increased to 12% from 10%.
V1.0.0.152 Added
  • Ravenous Hydra Ravenous Hydra
    • Recipe: Tiamat Tiamat + Vampiric Scepter Vampiric Scepter + 400 Gold 400 = 3500 Gold 3500
    • +75 attack damage, +15 health regen per 5 seconds, +10% life steal.
    • Passive: Damage dealt by this item works with life steal.
    • Unique Passive - Cleave: Your attacks deal up to 60% of your attack damage to units around your target - decaying down to 20% near the edge.
    • Unique Active - Crescent: Deals up to 100% of your attack damage to units around you - decaying down to 60% near the edge (10 second cooldown).

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