Wit's End

Wit's End edit
Stats
+50 magic resistance
+55% attack speed
+20% tenacity
Passive
Unique – Fray: Basic attacks deal 15 − 80 (based on level) bonus magic damage on-hit.
Limitations
Limited to 1 Wit's End.
Recipe
+  +  +  900
Cost	2800
Sell	1960
ID	3091
Availability
SR 5v5
SR 5v5
HA ARAM
HA ARAM
Nexus Blitz
Nexus Blitz
Arena
Arena
Menu
Fighter Attack Speed On-Hit Effects Magic Resistance Movement

Wit's End is a legendary item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Wit's End 2800 ( 900)
		Recurve Bow 700 ( 400) Dagger 300
		Negatron Cloak 900 ( 450) Null-Magic Mantle 450
		Dagger 300

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 55% attack speed =  1375
• 50 magic resistance =  900
• 20% tenacity =  0
• Total Gold Value =  2275

Gold efficiency

• Wit's End's base stats are 81.25% gold efficient.

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1st version

2nd version

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Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 50% attack speed = 1500
• 30 magic resist = 540
• 42 on-hit damage = 840
  • Total Gold Value = 2880

Passive Gold Value per Stack

• 5 magic resist = 90
• 5 "magic penetration" = 171.67
  • Total Gold Value = 261.67

Total Gold Value (Fully Stacked) = 4188.33

Gold efficiency

• Wit's End is 102.86% gold efficient, without stacks.
  • Wit's End's gold efficiency is further increased by 10.26% per stack, up to a maximum of 149.58% gold efficiency at full stacks.

Recommended champions

• Wit's End is listed as an essential item on: Irelia (Howling Abyss).
• Wit's End is listed as an offensive item on: Cho'Gath, Dr. Mundo (Crystal Scar, Howling Abyss, Twisted Treeline), Irelia (Crystal Scar, Twisted Treeline), Skarner, and Warwick.

Similar Items

The Black Cleaver

Devourer

Nashor's Tooth

Notes

• Wit's End is an exceptionally helpful item on physical damage dealers when fighting against champions with low magic resistance (i.e. - ranged champions, which don't receive MR per level, and will have the flat 30 MR without runes / items / masteries).
  • Wit's End is also highly useful on frequent auto-attackers against champions with high magic damage, since at max stacks it gives as much magic resistance as items such as the Banshee's Veil while not sacrificing a slot purely for a defensive item. Bear in mind, though, that this will be less effective against burst casters who can execute their combos before you can achieve max stacks through auto attacks.
  • Wit's End is also a great item on tanks that rely on attack speed or have on-hit effects, as it greatly bolsters their magic resistance, and the time it takes to steal it, doesn't matter as much, due to them being tanky anyway. Tanks that work well with this include Volibear and Shen.
  • On auto-attack reliant champions without AD scaling or crit, (e.g. Volibear or Udyr's Phoenix Stance) the 42 on-hit damage can be thought of as AD, resulting in 42 × 36 = 1512 value worth of "AD".
  • On auto-attack reliant champions that deal predominantly magic damage (e.g. Warwick, Shyvana or DPS Teemo) the magic resistance reduction can be thought of as magic penetration, resulting in 171.65 value worth of penetration per stack, maxing at 858.25 value worth of penetration at 5 stacks.
• Wit's End is a strong counter to Thornmail, as it not only provides the user an on-hit effect with their auto-attacks that ignores Thornmail's passive, but it also provide magic resistance that reduces the incoming magic damage from Thornmail's passive. Wit's End also increases the user's magic resistance per auto-attack and reduces the enemy's magic resistance, thus allowing the user to deal more damage with Wit's End's on-hit passive than what Thornmail can reflect back.

• Wit's End's stacks affect two things – increasing your MR and decreasing the target MR. These stacks apply independent of individual targets - you can attack one target, then attack a different one, and still have 10 bonus MR - but the MR decreasing only applies to one target at a time, which resets in stack amount whenever a new target is attacked. Runaan's Hurricane is an exception to this, in both primary and secondary targets - switching from target 1 to target 2 and back, as long as both are either directly or indirectly attacked, will continue to suffer MR reductions.
• Wit's End's additional on-hit damage does not affect structures.

Trivia

• Considering the item's name, the 42 magic damage on-hit (and the previous 42% attack speed bonus) is probably is a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where 42 is the number that signifies "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything".

Patch history

V5.16:

• Total cost decreased by 50

V5.8:

• Recipe cost reduced to 550 from 750 (total cost unchanged).

V4.20:

• Total cost increased to 2600 from 2500.
• Magic resistance increased to 30 from 25.

V4.10:

• Combine cost increased to 750 from 700.
  • Total cost increased to 2500 from 2450.
• Attack speed increased to 50% from 42%.

V3.8:

• New recipe: Recurve Bow + Null-Magic Mantle + Dagger + 700 = 2400
• Attack speed increased to 42% from 40%.
• Revised Passive - Basic attacks steal 5 magic resist from the target, stacks up to 5 times.

V3.02:

• Magic resistance increased to 25 from 20.

V1.0.0.152:

• Item cost increased to 2200 from 2150.
• Combine cost increased to 850 from 700.
• Magic resistance reduced to 20 from 30.

V1.0.0.138:

• Combine cost increased to 700 from 550.
• Total cost increased to 2150 from 2000.

V1.0.0.118: Reworked

• No longer burns mana, but still deals 42 magic damage on each hit.
• New passive: attacks increase your magic resist by 5 for 5 seconds (stacks 4 times for maximum of +20 MR).
• Combine cost reduced to 550 from 700.

V1.0.0.108:

• Now damages enemies that do not have mana.
• Fixed a bug where it did not interact correctly with clones.

July 10, 2009 Patch:

• Combine cost reduced to 700 from 900.

June 19, 2009 Patch:

• Recipe changed: now builds from Null-Magic Mantle.

May 15, 2009 Patch:

• Recipe cost increased to 800 from 600.

April 25, 2009 Patch:

• Mana burn reduced to 35 from 45.
• Cost increased to 600 from 500.

Alpha Week 5:

• Mana per attack increased to 45 from 40, and tooltip fixed.

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