Zeke's Herald

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Zeke's Herald

Tier	Legendary
Effects	+250 health
Aura	Unique: Nearby allied champions gain +20% attack speed and +12% life steal.
Passive	Unique: +15% cooldown reduction
Menu	Attack > Attack Speed Attack > Life Steal Defense > Health Magic > Cooldown Reduction
Item cost	2145g (425g)
Sell value	1502g
Item code	3050
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Zeke's Herald is a legendary item in League of Legends.^[1] It was formerly known as Stark's Fervor before being remade/renamed.

RecipeEdit

Kindlegem (850g)
Dagger (420g)
Vampiric Scepter (450g)
425 gold

Similar itemsEdit

TriviaEdit

Zeke's Herald is named after a character from the webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del as a reward for the creator Tim Buckley gaining over 1000 referrals.

Patch historyEdit

V1.0.0.133: Remade/renamed

Renamed to Zeke's Herald from Stark's Fervor.
Recipe changed to Kindlegem + Dagger + Vampiric Scepter + 425g from Emblem of Valor + Recurve Bow + 700g.
Effect changed to +250 health and +15% cooldown reduction from +20% attack speed.
Unique aura changed to Unique aura: Nearby allied champions gain +20% attack speed and +12% life steal from Unique aura: Nearby allied champions gain +20% attack speed, +30 health regeneration, and +20% life steal and Unique aura: Nearby enemy champions suffer −20 armor. (1200 range)

V1.0.0.94(b):

Clones will no longer grant a double bonus to the aura holder. Clones with aura items otherwise interact the same with other champions.

V1.0.0.87:

Now stacks the personal applying Aura buff with an allied champion's Stark's Fervor.

V1.0.0.82:

Attack speed aura reduced to 20% from 25%.
Armor reduction aura reduced to 20 from 25.

V0.8.22.115:

Fixed a bug which caused the aura to not apply to owner.

June 12, 2009 Patch:

Added an additional 20% attack speed.

ReferencesEdit

↑ Zeke's Herald Announcement Page at the Official Web Page.

Items
Consumables	Both	Health Potion · Mana Potion
	Classic	Elixir of Agility · Elixir of Brilliance · Elixir of Fortitude · Oracle's Elixir · Sight Ward · Vision Ward
	Dominion	Oracle's Extract
Basic Tier	Both	Amplifying Tome · B. F. Sword · Blasting Wand · Boots of Speed · Brawler's Gloves · Chain Vest · Cloak of Agility · Cloth Armor · Dagger · Doran's Shield · Faerie Charm · Giant's Belt · The Hex Core · Long Sword · Meki Pendant · Needlessly Large Rod · Negatron Cloak · Null-Magic Mantle · Pickaxe · Recurve Bow · Regrowth Pendant · Rejuvenation Bead · Ruby Crystal · Sapphire Crystal · Vampiric Scepter
	Classic	Doran's Blade · Doran's Ring
	Dominion	Prospector's Blade · Prospector's Ring
Advanced Tier	Both	Abyssal Scepter · Aegis of the Legion · Atma's Impaler · Avarice Blade · Augment: Death · Augment: Gravity · Augment: Power · Berserker's Greaves · Bilgewater Cutlass‎ · The Black Cleaver · Boots of Mobility · Boots of Swiftness · The Brutalizer · Catalyst the Protector · Chalice of Harmony · Cloak and Dagger · Emblem of Valor · Executioner's Calling · Fiendish Codex · Force of Nature · Glacial Shroud · Guardian Angel · Guinsoo's Rageblade · Haunting Guise · Heart of Gold · Hexdrinker‎ · Hextech Revolver‎ · Infinity Edge · Ionian Boots of Lucidity · Ionic Spark · Kage's Lucky Pick · Kindlegem · Last Whisper · Malady · Mana Manipulator · Mercury's Treads · Moonflair Spellblade · Ninja Tabi · Phage · Philosopher's Stone · Quicksilver Sash · Rabadon's Deathcap · Rylai's Crystal Scepter · Sheen · Sorcerer's Shoes · Stinger · Sunfire Cape · Tear of the Goddess · Thornmail · Tiamat · Void Staff · Warden's Mail · Wit's End · Zeal · Zhonya's Hourglass
	Classic	The Bloodthirster · Leviathan · Madred's Razors · Mejai's Soulstealer · Sword of the Occult · Warmog's Armor
	Dominion	Kitae's Bloodrazor · The Lightbringer · Sanguine Blade
Legendary Tier	Both	Archangel's Staff · Athene's Unholy Grail · Deathfire Grasp · Eleisa's Miracle · Frozen Heart · Frozen Mallet · Hextech Gunblade‎ · Lich Bane · Locket of the Iron Solari · Manamune · Maw of Malmortius · Morello's Evil Tome · Nashor's Tooth · Phantom Dancer · Randuin's Omen · Rod of Ages · Shurelya's Reverie · Spirit Visage · Soul Shroud · Trinity Force · Will of the Ancients · Youmuu's Ghostblade · Zeke's Herald
	Classic	Banshee's Veil · Madred's Bloodrazor · Wriggle's Lantern
	Dominion	Entropy · Hextech Sweeper · Odyn's Veil
Removed	Classic	Alpha items · Ancient Pocket Watch · Bag of Tea · Blue Pill · Breathstealer · Innervating Locket · Marksman's Rifle · Oracle's Hood · Pendant of Zephiris · Renewal Tunic · Sage's Ring · Scroll of Teleportation · Sword of the Divine · Wizard's Regalia · Yordle Stompers · Zhonya's Ring
Removed	Dominion	Priscilla's Blessing

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Volibear needs all the stats. Maybe Olaf, but there are better things to build on Olaf.

1 day ago by A Wikia contributor
I enjoy building this on my support especially when I see the enemy is going for a frozen heart to nerf my carry. GG canceling your frozen heart debuff.

3 days ago by A Wikia contributor

1.0 x 1.2 x 0.8 = 0.96, so much for cancelling frozen hearts debuff.

3 days ago by A Wikia contributor
"close enough"

1 day ago by Dj0z

Isn't the drawing inside the red dot the Deathfire Grasp's skull?

8 days ago by A Wikia contributor
Am I the only one who likes this item? Someone?

9 days ago by MarKassiN

You are the only one.

7 days ago by A Wikia contributor
i find it extremely good on some champs like olaf , AS health CDR and lifesteal and since you're pretty tanky in teamfights 20% AS and 12% lifesteal is pretty good for your carry AD.

i usually get CDR boots then this on olaf and with templates thats nearly 40% CDR to spamm true damage

and for jungle olaf its pretty nice too, especially when you gank bot.

5 days ago by A Wikia contributor
There are better boots then cdr boots on Olaf, and the aura betrays your presence, so it isn't good for ganking
For more cdr things like Shurelya's Reverie, The Brutalizer (Youmuu's Ghostblade) and the Enlightenment mastery are better choices

4 hours ago by Jupie
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I miss the old starks :(

11 days ago by A Wikia contributor
Why didn't they just remove the AS/regen/LS aura on Stark's while keeping the Arpen aura, and then create a new item? Riot really hates armor pen, first SoTD, then this, what next? Brutalizer?

12 days ago by Anglerman
They should of left it the fuck alone.

20 days ago by A Wikia contributor
I miss Stark's Fevor. =(

20 days ago by Gene0129
I've been using this item on Wukong and I think it fits him...but only because I use ghostlblade as well, giving me 30% cooldown (No cooldown boots). I mean sure it would be easier to go bloodthrister and I'd sustain myself well but since I can pretty much do QWE way faster than the average Wukong and EVERYONE in the group is getting extra lifesteal I find that we win most of the fights anyway. (Plus if they go bad I can decoy out and live anyway..)

20 days ago by A Wikia contributor
this "rework" was about the same as if they took deathcap, removed the bonus 30% bonus AP and made it 400 gold cheaper

25 days ago by A Wikia contributor
Shitty excuse of an item
Just cuz it had an aura doesnt mean it had to be a support item

25 days ago by A Wikia contributor
Shit item.

April 16 by A Wikia contributor
Number wise, Stark's was way too good, this item isn't as good but is balanced (i.e. at least breaks even for it's price).
+20% atk spd and +12% life steal is like a free dagger and vampiric scepter for each person on your team (over 880 gold per ally). So the aura alone is already worth up to 4400 gold (of course stark's was better).

April 11 by A Wikia contributor

Stark's had a major disadvantage - it alerted enemy champs to your presence. That was a significant drawback to ganking or sneaking anywhere. That made up for the price easily.

19 days ago by A Wikia contributor
the champs who bought starks either possessed greater MS (Master yi with highlander) or some type of gap closer plus a slow to make the alert largely irrelevant.

16 days ago by A Wikia contributor

I really hate this item.
unlike stark's, it gives too little of anything you'd actually want (except CDR). Zeke's is a shadow of it's former self.
it's clear that Riot's adgenda in changing this item was not only to "give supports a new item", but to nerf bruisers.

April 9 by A Wikia contributor

i used to always get this on vayne so dps people 2 =/

6 days ago by A Wikia contributor

Can we get an actual Stark's page? Stark's wasn't 'remade' into Zeke's, it was removed and Zeke's added. I was just thinking, 'wow, i forget the actual numbers on Stark's. Let's check the Wiki.' but no, only this page.

April 6 by A Wikia contributor

You can watch the history of Stark's page and select a version before it was changed to redirect. Gotta admit. that's a bit too complicated.

April 6 by A Wikia contributor
Starks was 20 armor reduction aura, 30 HP/5 aura, 20% life steal aura, 20% attack speed aura and the only nonaura component was 20% attack speed for the owner (for 40% total).

It was way better than this shit. STARKS NEVER FORGET

26 days ago by A Wikia contributor

Needs an active or some shit.

April 3 by A Wikia contributor
Looks like a good item for shen.
attack speed, heath, cdr which is helpful for his ult (and which is hard to get on a manaless champ) and it helps his team a decent amount

April 2 by A Wikia contributor

yes it is. I generally build this on my tanky dps shen as a last item for the aura, cdr, ls, as and health.

28 days ago by A Wikia contributor

This is worse than the sunfire nerf, at least that item is still worth getting on some champions.
Was starks really so OP that they had to essentially remove it from the game? What the hell was Riot thinking?

March 31 by A Wikia contributor

Stark's was taken on a select few champions. Yi, Tryndamere, and Shaco. The reason why they bought starks is because it was a solid ganking item early/mid game and allowed them to start in the jungle with a vamp scepter without needing to wait to upgrade it to BT.
If you were buying Stark's on anyone else aside from these champs, you were doing it wrong. Mundo? Olaf? Wrong, not tanky enough. Ranged AD carry? Wrong, scales poorly into late game.
It was both too strong for a small subset of champions (squishy AD jungler carries/assassins) while being too weak for the intended target buyer (supports).
People hated Shurelia's Reverie for a long time before it became more popular. It eventually became a core item for not only all suports, but for many tanks and tanky dps as well. While I don't think this item is perfect as is, I think it's much more useful for its intended target buyer than Stark's.

16 days ago by A Wikia contributor

Dammit I really liked the new name until I found out that it was Tim Buckley who made it >_<

March 28 by Mugi Kotobuki

What's wrong with Tim Buckley?

April 6 by A Wikia contributor
^^^ Fuckley in disguise, 95% sure.

27 days ago by A Wikia contributor

I think I have to like this Item, but... I don't know... maybe it's the price. Every single stat is nice for any AD Champion, and all that in one slot, but it seems that I invest over 2k Gold and get... a little overall buff for it. Is it worth it's Gold if there was no aura effect?

March 27 by A Wikia contributor

This item is worthless. It's not worth the gold with the aura effect so why would it be worth the gold without it?
There's a reason you never see this item in high ELO or tournament play. Might as well just collect 2k gold and not spend it. Get approximately the same effect.

March 29 by A Wikia contributor
They did ruin this item completely, but that's a ridiculous exaggeration.

March 31 by A Wikia contributor
Sad thing is its not far from the truth.

25 days ago by A Wikia contributor

Starks was amazing for champs that needed AS and LS. Now it does half of both (for the holder).
Zeke's is one of the very weakest support items. Aegis, SR, Randiun's, FH, are all MUCH better.
The nerf really hurts the item options of alot of junglers/tanky dps. i loved going Wiggles -> starks. Now most junglers/tanky dps are forced to take Wit's End as their AS item.

March 24 by A Wikia contributor
Starks was better. With the aura cut in half supports still don't want this item and now Olaf is out of one of his core items.

March 24 by A Wikia contributor
Now it's a bit less worthless. A bit, but still.

March 22 by A Wikia contributor
I want Stark's back, this one doesn't fit into my nasus/sion build. Too little AS, and the Armor Reduction was awesome. They could make a Stark's fervor with no aura (except for Armor reduction). Perhaps like this: Costs: Recursive Bow + Vampiric scpepter + recipe around 600-900 Gives: 45% AS, 12-15% Lifesteal, reduces enemy armor by 20-25 (in a range of 1000)

March 20 by A Wikia contributor

are you out of your mind? too cheap.

April 10 by A Wikia contributor

I admire Ctrl+Alt+Del for lasting so long without being either funny or interesting

March 19 by A Wikia contributor

It's truly amazing how many things persist despite being worthless.

March 23 by A Wikia contributor