Template:Item data Wit's EndWit's End was an advanced item in League of Legends for .
Recipe
Template:Item data Wit's End
Cost Analysis
Gold Value
- 40% attack speed = 1000
- 40 magic resistance = 720
- 40 on-hit damage = 1000
Passive Gold Value per Stack
- 5 magic resistance = 90
- 5 'magic penetration' = 186.67
Maximum Gold Value (Fully Stacked) = 4103.34
Gold efficiency
- 97.14% gold efficient, without stacks.
- Wit's End's gold efficiency is further increased by 9.88% per stack, up to a maximum of 146.55% gold efficiency at full stacks.
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Recommended champions
- is listed as an essential item on: (Howling Abyss).
- Wit's End is listed as an offensive item on: , (Crystal Scar, Howling Abyss, Twisted Treeline), (Crystal Scar, Twisted Treeline), , and .
Similar Items
Notes
- magic damage and physical damage, such as or , in order to both decrease the enemy's magic resistance as well as deal more damage against champions with high armor by dealing additional magic damage. is often most useful on auto-attack reliant, mixed damage dealers who deal both
- While Wit's End is very useful when fighting against tanks with high magic resistance, it can also be very useful against champions with particularly low magic resistance as well. Most ranged champions do not receive additional MR per level; provided that they do not have any magic resistance in their runes or masteries, Wit's End will reduce their magic resistance to a mere 5 points.
- Wit's End is also highly useful on frequent auto-attackers against champions with high magic damage, since it can give its owner up to a total of +65 magic resistance while not sacrificing an item slot solely for a defensive item.
- Wit's End is viable on bruisers and tanks who rely on their auto-attacks to deal damage, such as and , as it not only increases their damage output but also greatly bolsters their magic resistance.
- Auto-attack reliant champions who lack attack damage scalings such as often find the 40 on-hit damage roughly equivalent to having AD, resulting in 40 × 36 = 1440 value worth of "attack damage".
- Wit's End is a strong counter to , as it not only provides the user an on-hit effect that ignores passive, but its magic resistance also reduces the incoming magic damage from passive. Depending on the opponent's magic resistance, Wit's End's on-hit passive can deal more damage than what reflects back.
- Wit's End's stacks affect two things—increasing your magic resistance and decreasing the target's magic resistance. However, the MR reduction only applies to one target at a time, resetting to one whenever a new target is attacked. is an exception; as long as the target is still being directly or indirectly attacked, they will continue to suffer the MR reductions.
- Wit's End's additional on-hit damage does not apply to structures.
Trivia
- Before an update, Wit's End gave 42 on-hit magic damage and attack speed. Considering the item's name, this was probably a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where 42 is the answer to "the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything".
Patch history
- Total cost increased to 2800 from 2550.
- Magic resist increased to 40 from 30.
- Attack speed reduced to 40% from 50%.
- On-hit damage reduced to 40 from 42.
- New recipe: + + + 700 = 2400
- Attack speed increased to 42% from 40%.
- New Effect: Basic attacks steal 5 magic resist from the target for 5 seconds, stacks up to 5 times, for a maximum of +25 MR.
- Removed: Basic attacks increase your magic resist by 5 for 5 seconds, stacks 4 times for maximum of +20 MR).
- Magic resistance increased to 25 from 20.
- Item cost increased to 2200 from 2150.
- Combine cost increased to 850 from 700.
- Magic resistance reduced to 20 from 30.
- 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.
- Now damages enemies that do not have mana.
- Fixed a bug where it did not interact correctly with clones.
- Recipe changed: now builds from .
- Mana per attack increased to 45 from 40, and tooltip fixed.
References
List of Items
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- Distributed items
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- Ornn's item upgrades
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