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Blade of the Ruined King

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Blade of the Ruined King has been changed in 41 League of Legends patches. 10 buffs, 14 nerfs, 16 adjustments. Most recently buffed in Patch 25.14.

Cost: 3200g
Attack Damage: 40
Attack Speed: 25%
Life Steal: 10%
Recipe:
UNIQUE Passive - Mist's Edge: Basic attacks deal bonus physical damage [[on-hit]] equal to 9%/6% of the target's current health, with a maximum of 100 against minions and monsters.
UNIQUE Passive - Clawing Shadows: Basic attacks on-hit against enemy champions apply a stack for 6 seconds, stacking up to 3 times. The third stack consumes them all to slow the target by 30% for 1 second.
Patch 25.14buff

Blade of the Ruined King has fallen out of favor recently. Meanwhile, there has been a rise in popularity of health stacking within the game, which means BoRK should be a more popular pick up. To help it get back on everyone's radar we're buffing the % health damage this item provides which is the item's biggest selling point and fantasy.

General

  • Mist's Edge damage increased to 9% of target's current health from 8%.
Patch 25.S1.3change

General

  • Bug Fix: No longer unintentionally displays an outdated debuff icon for Clawing Shadows's effect.
Patch 14.21nerf

We’re happy with the relative tuning of most AD items, but Blade of the Ruined King is currently dominating the on-hit space, taking over builds where it shouldn’t be, and generally making tanks feel bad way too quickly. While it’s fine that BoRK is clearly an anti-tank item, it does the job too well, so we’re specifically taking down some of its on-hit damage.

General

  • Mist's Edge damage reduced to 8% of target's current health from 10%.
Patch 14.19nerf

General

  • Attack damage reduced to 40 from 50.
Patch 14.16change

Blade of the Ruined King came out a little stronger than it should have for ADCs so we're bringing its power down and compensating its melee users. Blade should be specifically good when targeting health-stackers, not just a generically great starter item, hence the reduction in base stats.

General

  • Attack damage reduced to 50 from 55.
  • Attack speed reduced to 25% from 30%.
  • Mist's Edge damage for melee champions increased to 10% of the target's current health from 9%.
Patch 14.10buff

We’re updating Blade of the Ruined King's damage profile to be centered more about the stats the item provides rather than the on-hit damage. We’re also taking this opportunity to move the effect of clawing shadows back to be triggered after 3 hits instead of on first attack.

General

  • Attack damage increased to 55 from 40.
  • Attack speed increased to 30% from 25%.
  • Life steal increased to 10% from 8%.
  • Mist's Edge damage reduced to 9% of target's current health from 12%.
  • Mist's Edge monster damage cap increased to 100 from 60.
  • Unique Passive - Clawing Shadows:
  • New Effect: Basic attacks on-hit against enemy champions apply a stack for 6 seconds, stacking up to 3 times. The third stack consumes them all to slow the target by 30% for 1 second (15 second cooldown).
  • Old Effect: Your next basic attack on-hit against an enemy champion is empowered to slow them by 30% for 1 second (15 second cooldown).
Patch 14.8change

General

  • Bug Fix: Now once again displays its cooldown on the scoreboard for allies.
Patch 14.1change

General

  • Total cost reduced to 3200 gold from 3300 gold.
  • Combine cost reduced to 725 gold from 825 gold.
  • New Unique Passive - Clawing Shadows: The next basic attack against an enemy champion on-hit slow them by 30% for 1 second (15 second cooldown).
  • Removed Unique Passive - Siphon: Basic attacks on-hit against enemy champions apply a stack for 6 seconds, stacking up to 3 times. The third stack consumes them all to deal 40 to 103 (based on level) bonus magic damage on-hit and slow the target by 25% for 2 seconds, while also granting you 25% bonus movement speed for the same duration.
Patch 13.10nerf

General

  • Combine cost increased to 825 gold from 525 gold.
  • Total cost unchanged.
Patch 13.1bchange

General

  • Siphon cooldown increased to 30 seconds from 20.
  • Siphon damage reduced to 40 to 103 (based on level) from 40 to 150 (based on level).
  • Mist's Edge damage on ranged champions increased to 9% of target's current health from 8%.
Patch 12.21change

General

  • Updated icon.
Patch 12.16change

General

  • Bug Fix: Mist's Edge no longer deals less damage than intended if purchased after certain items.
Patch 12.15change

General

  • Bug Fix: Passive will now always deal the maximum possible % current health damage on each attack, regardless of buff slot ordering.
Patch 12.11buff

General

  • Life steal increased to 8% from 7%.
Patch 12.10nerf

General

  • Life steal reduced to 7% from 8%.
Patch 12.6nerf

General

  • Life steal reduced to 8% from 10%.
Patch 12.3change

General

  • Total cost increased to 3300 gold from 3200 gold.
  • Combine cost increased to 525 gold from 425 gold.
  • Mist's Edge damage increased to 12% of target's current health from 10%.
Patch 11.7change

General

  • Bug Fix: Corrected Siphon damage in game to be consistent with the values in the item's tooltip in the client.
Patch 11.6change

General

  • Life steal reduced to 10% from 12%.
  • Siphon bonus damage increased to 40 to 150 (based on level) from 40 to 120 (based on level).
Patch 10.24nerf

Blade of the Ruined King is overperforming compared to the other Legendaries it competes with. Dropping its power to make it look more in line with the others.

General

  • Updated icon.
  • Total cost increased to 3200 gold from 3100 gold.
  • Combined cost increased to 425 gold from 325 gold.
  • Attack speed reduced to 25% from 30%.
Patch 10.23change

Movement speed active is now a passive.

General

  • Updated icon.
  • New:
  • Recipe: Vampiric Scepter + Recurve Bow + Pickaxe + 325 gold = 3100 gold.
  • Stats: 40 attack damage, 30% attack speed, 12% life steal.
  • Unique Passive - Mist's Edge: Deal 10% of the target's current health bonus physical damage on-hit, capped at 60 bonus damage against minions and monsters.
  • Unique Passive - Siphon: Attacking a champion 3 times deals 40 to 120 (based on level) magic damage on-hit and steals 25% of their movement speed for 2 seconds (20 second cooldown).
  • Limited to 1 Blade of the Ruined King.
  • Old:
  • Recipe: Bilgewater Cutlass + Recurve Bow + 700 gold = 3300 gold.
  • Stats: 40 attack damage, 25% attack speed, 12% life steal.
  • Unique Passive: Basic attacks deal 12% of the target's current health bonus physical damage on-hit, with a minimum of 15 damage against all targets, and a maximum of 60 damage against minions and monsters.
  • Unique Active: Instantly deal 100 magic damage and slow the target by 25% for 3 seconds, while also increasing your own movement speed by 25% for the same duration ( 550 range) (90 second cooldown).
  • Living Forge item: Might of the Ruined King.
  • Stats: 55 attack damage, 40% attack speed, 12% lifesteal.
Patch 10.5buff

General

  • Passive damage for melee champions increased to 12% of the target's current health from 8%.
Patch 9.8nerf

General

  • Total cost increased to 3300 gold from 3200 gold.
  • Combine cost unchanged.
Patch 8.11buff

General

  • Total cost reduced to 3200 gold from 3400 gold.
  • Combine cost reduced to 700 gold from 900 gold.
Patch 8.2buff

General

  • New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
Patch 7.17change

General

  • Bug Fix: No longer causes The Black Cleaver to apply two stacks per basic attack.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed an interaction where energized attacks prevented some movement speed boosts, including Blade of the Ruined King's active and Blood Hunt.
Patch 7.12change

General

  • Bug Fix: On-hit effect no longer applies a stack of The Black Cleaver.
Patch 7.11nerf

General

  • Life steal reduced to 12% from 15%.
Patch 7.9nerf

General

  • Total cost increased to 3400 gold from 3300 gold.
  • Combine cost increased to 900 gold from 800 gold.
Patch 7.5buff

General

  • Total cost reduced to 3300 gold from 3400 gold.
  • Combine cost reduced to 800 gold from 900 gold.
  • Attack damage increased to 40 from 25.
  • Attack speed reduced to 25% from 40%.
  • Life steal increased to 15% from 10%.
  • Active damage changed to 100 from 10% of target's maximum health.
  • Active damage type changed to magic from physical.
  • Removed: Active healing for 10% of target's maximum health.
  • On-hit minimum damage increased to 15 from 10.
Patch 6.23buff

General

  • Bonus damage increased to 8% of current health from 6%.
Patch 6.12nerf

General

  • Combine cost increased to 900 gold from 750 gold.
  • Total cost unchanged.
Patch 5.10buff

General

  • Active's range increased to 550 from 450.
Patch 5.8change

General

  • New recipe: Recurve Bow + Bilgewater Cutlass + 700 gold = 3200 gold
  • Old recipe: Dagger + Dagger + Bilgewater Cutlass + 650 gold = 2850 gold
  • New Effect: Passive's on-hit effect now benefits from lifesteal.
  • New Effect: Passive's minimum damage cap increased to 10 from 3.
Patch 4.10nerf

General

  • Life steal reduced to 10% from 15%.
  • On-hit damage increased to 8% current health from 5% current health.
  • Active: Damage reduced to 10% maximum health from 15% maximum health.
  • Active: Movement speed steal reduced to 25% from 30%.
Patch 3.10anerf

General

  • Range reduced to 450 from 550.
  • Active cooldown increased to 90 seconds from 60.
Patch 3.10nerf

General

  • Active haste/slow duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
Patch 3.4nerf

General

  • Attack damage reduced to 25 from 30.
  • Combine cost increased to 1000 from 650 (total cost increased to 3200 from 2850).
  • Maximum damage dealt to minions and monsters reduced to 60 from 90.
  • Active heal amount is now reduced by the target's armor.
Patch 3.3change

These changes make Blade of the Ruined King a more universally useful item for Attack Damage champions and allow it to better fulfill its role in their arsenal as an item to combat high Health targets.

General

  • New Recipe: Dagger + Dagger + Bilgewater Cutlass + 650 gold = 2850 gold
  • Old Recipe: Bilgewater Cutlass + 1000 gold = 2825 gold
  • Attack damage reduced to 30 from 45.
  • Now grants 40% attack speed.
  • Life steal increased to 15% from 10%.
  • UNIQUE Passive adjusted to "Deals 5% of the target's current Health in bonus physical damage (max 90 damage vs. monsters and minions) on hit."
  • UNIQUE Active changed to "Deals 15% of target champion's maximum Health as physical damage (min. 100), heals for the same amount, and steals 30% of the target's Movement Speed for 4 seconds (60 second cooldown)."
  • UNIQUE Active range increased to 500 from 400.
Patch 3.2buff

General

  • Attack damage increased to 45 from 40.
  • Current health damage increased to 5% from 4%.
Patch 1.0.0.150new

Blade of the Ruined King added to League of Legends

General

  • Recipe: Bilgewater Cutlass + 1000 gold = 2825 gold
  • +40 attack damage
  • +10% life steal
  • Unique Passive: Your attacks deal 4% of the target's current health in magic damage and heals you for half the amount (120 max vs. minions).
  • Unique Active: Drains target champion, dealing 150 physical damage plus 50% of your attack damage and healing you by the same amount. Additionally, you steal 30% of their movement speed for 2 seconds (1 minute cooldown).