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Phantom Dancer has been changed in 27 League of Legends patches. 10 buffs, 5 nerfs, 11 adjustments. Most recently buffed in Patch 25.14.
Dagger
ZealUNIQUE Passive - Spectral Waltz: Become permanently ghosted.
Patch 25.14buff
Phantom Dancer is the least-purchased attack speed-crit item in the game so we'd like to buff it enough to feel more competitive. As it doesn't have any really unique outputs, we’re going to lean further into its attack speed and movement speed bonuses.
General
- Attack speed increased 65% from 60%.
- Bonus movement speed increased to 10% from 8%.
Patch 14.19nerf
General
- Total cost increased to 2650 gold from 2600 gold.
- Combine cost increased to 950 gold from 900 gold.
- Movement speed reduced to 8% from 12%.
Patch 14.10change
Phantom Dancer is getting a stat facelift focusing on attack speed and movement speed. It'll serve its purpose as a really strong way to multiple other sources of damage scaling.
General
- New:
- Recipe: Dagger + Zeal + Dagger + 900 gold = 2600 gold.
- Stats: 60% attack speed, 25% critical strike chance, 12% movement speed.
- Unique Passive - Spectral Waltz: Become permanently ghosted.
- Limited 1 Phantom Dancer.
- Old:
- Recipe: Zeal + Rectrix + 800 gold = 2800 gold.
- Stats: 20 attack damage, 30% attack speed, 20% critical strike chance, 10% movement speed.
- Unique Passive - Spectral Waltz: Basic attacks on-attack grant ghosting and a stack of Spectral Waltz for 3 seconds, up to 5 stacks. For each stack, gain 7% bonus attack speed, for a total of 35% at maximum stacks.
- Limited 1 Phantom Dancer.
Patch 14.2change
Reverting Phantom Dancer back to build out of Zeal again like it always used to.
General
- New Recipe: Zeal + Rectrix + 800 gold = 2800 gold.
- Old Recipe: Hearthbound Axe + Cloak of Agility + 1000 gold = 2800 gold.
Patch 14.1change
General
- New:
- Recipe: Hearthbound Axe + Cloak of Agility + 1000 gold = 2800 gold.
- Stats: 20 attack damage, 30% attack speed, 20% critical strike chance, 10% movement speed.
- Unique Passive - Spectral Waltz: Basic attacks on-attack grant ghosting and a stack of Spectral Waltz for 3 seconds, up to 5 stacks. For each stack, gain 7% bonus attack speed, up to 35% bonus attack speed at maximum stacks.
- Limited to 1 Phantom Dancer.
- Old:
- Recipe: Hearthbound Axe + Zeal + 600 gold = 2800 gold.
- Stats: 20 attack damage, 35% attack speed, 20% critical strike chance, 7% movement speed.
- Unique Passive - Spectral Waltz: Basic attacks on-attack grant ghosting, 7% bonus movement speed, and a stack of Spectral Waltz for 3 seconds, up to 4 stacks. While at 4 stacks, gain 30% bonus attack speed.
- Limited to 1 Phantom Dancer.
Patch 13.12buff
Phantom Dancer is underperforming compared to other mid-range crit items so it's just receiving a small buff this patch.
General
- Attack speed increased to 35% from 30%.
Patch 13.10buff
In an effort to make window shopping more intuitive for crit users, Phantom Dancer has been increased to 2800 gold with a small stat increase to go alongside it.
General
- New Recipe: Hearthbound Axe + Zeal + 600 gold = 2800 gold.
- Old Recipe: Long Sword + Zeal + Long Sword + 850 gold = 2600 gold.
- Attack speed increased to 30% from 25%.
Patch 11.3nerf
General
- New Recipe: Long Sword + Zeal + Long Sword + 850 gold = 2600 gold.
- Old Recipe: Dagger + Zeal + Dagger + 950 gold = 2600 gold.
- Attack damage increased to 20 from 0.
- Attack speed reduced to 25% from 45%.
- Spectral Waltz stacks reduced to 4 from 5.
- Spectral Waltz bonus attack speed reduced to 30% from 40%.
Patch 11.2change
General
- Total cost increased to 2600 gold from 2500 gold.
- Combine cost increased to 950 gold from 850 gold.
- Attack speed increased to 45% from 40%.
- Bug Fix: No longer gives less attack speed than its item components combined.
Patch 10.25buff
General
- Total cost reduced to 2500 gold from 2700 gold.
- Combine cost reduced to 850 gold from 900 gold.
Patch 10.24buff
Phantom Dancer generally underperforms, especially early on. We’re putting it on discount and throwing in a utility boost to make it a more appealing early pick-up.
General
- Updated icon.
- Total cost reduced to 2700 gold from 2900 gold.
- Combined cost reduced to 900 gold from 1100 gold.
- Buff duration increased to 3 seconds from 2.
Patch 10.23change
No longer has Lifeline. Grants Ghosting, movement speed, and bonus attack speed after consecutive attacks.
General
- New:
- Recipe: Dagger + Zeal + Dagger + 1100 gold = 2900 gold.
- Stats: 40% attack speed, 20% critical strike chance, 7% movement speed.
- Unique Passive - Spectral Waltz: Basic attacks grant ghosting and 7% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds. Attacking 5 times causes Spectral Waltz to also grant 40% bonus attack speed for the same duration.
- Limited to 1 Phantom Dancer.
- Old:
- Recipe: Dagger + Zeal + 900 gold = 2600 gold.
- Stats: 30% attack speed, 25% critical strike chance, 7% movement speed.
- Unique Passive - Spectral Waltz: Basic attacking a champion grants ghosted and 7% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
- Unique Passive - Lifeline: If you would take damage that would reduce maximum health below 30%, you first gain a shield that absorbs 240 to 600 (based on level) damage decaying over 2 seconds (90 second cooldown).
Patch 10.11buff
General
- Bonus movement speed increased to 7% from 5%.
Patch 9.23change
Build path updated.
General
- New Recipe: Dagger + Zeal + 900 gold = 2600 gold.
- Old Recipe: Dagger + Zeal + Brawler's Gloves + 700 gold = 2600 gold.
Patch 9.3change
Now grants a shield at low health but no longer decreases damage from the last champion you hit. Spectral Waltz now triggers on attack rather than proximity to an enemy champion.
General
- New Recipe: Dagger + Zeal + Brawler's Gloves + 700 gold = 2600 gold.
- Old Recipe: Dagger + Zeal + Dagger + 800 gold = 2700 gold.
- Attack speed reduced to 30% from 45%.
- Critical strike chance reduced to 25% from 30%.
- Removed Unique Passive - Spectral Waltz: Grants ghosted and +7% movement speed while within 550 units of a visible enemy champion.
- Removed Unique Passive - Lament: Grants 12% damage reduction against the last enemy champion you basic attacked (lasts for 10 seconds and refreshes with each basic attack).
- New Unique Passive - Spectral Waltz: Basic attacking a champion grants ghosted and 7% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
- New Unique Passive - Lifeline: If you would take damage that would reduce maximum health below 30%, you first gain a shield that absorbs 240 to 600 (based on level) damage for 2 seconds (90 second cooldown).
Patch 8.17change
General
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Spectral Waltz passive would sometimes not trigger.
Patch 8.15buff
General
- Total cost reduced to 2700 gold from 2800 gold.
- Combine cost reduced to 800 gold from 900 gold.
Patch 8.11nerf
General
- Total cost increased to 2800 gold from 2600 gold.
- Combine cost increased to 900 gold from 800 gold.
Patch 7.14change
General
- Bug Fix: No longer prevents some champion abilities (primarily stealth effects) from ignoring unit collision when no enemy champions are nearby - the condition for its own immunity to unit collision.
Patch 7.9nerf
General
- Total cost increased to 2600 gold from 2550 gold.
- Combine cost increased to 800 gold from 650 gold.
Patch 6.3buff
General
- Total cost reduced to 2550 gold from 2800 gold.
- Combine cost reduced to 650 gold from 900 gold.
- New Effect: Tooltip tracks how many times Lament's damage reduction saves your life in a fight.
Patch 6.1change
General
- Bonus movement speed increased to 5% from 0%.
- Spectral Waltz movement speed reduced to 7% from 12%.
Patch 5.24change
General
- Total cost increased to 2800 gold from 2700 gold.
- Attack speed increased to 45% from 40%.
Patch 5.1buff
General
- Critical strike chance increased to 35% from 30%.
Patch 1.0.0.140nerf
General
- Movement speed reduced to 12% from 15%.
Patch 1.0.0.108buff
General
- Attack speed increased to 55% from 50%.
Phantom Dancer added to League of Legends
General
- Combine cost reduced to 400 gold from 900 gold.
- Total cost reduced to 2895 gold from 3395 gold.
- Removed: Dodge chance reduced to 0% from 20%.