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Spear of Shojin

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Spear of Shojin has been changed in 20 League of Legends patches. 3 buffs, 5 nerfs, 11 adjustments. Most recently adjusted in Patch 25.S1.1.

Cost: 3100g
Attack Damage: 45
Health: 450
Recipe:
UNIQUE Passive - Dragonforce: Gain 25 [[Haste#Basic ability haste|basic ability haste]].
UNIQUE Passive - Focused Will: Dealing ability damage or pet damage, sourced from a non-innate ability, generates a stack for 6 seconds, stacking up to 4 times. For each stack, your ability damage, pet damage and proc damage, sourced from a non-[[item]], gain 3% increased damage, for a total increase of 12% at maximum stacks.
Patch 25.S1.1change

General

  • Bug Fix: Pets not sourced from champion innates now properly grant stacks of Focused Will.
Patch 25.S1.1change

General

  • Bug Fix:
Patch 14.24change

General

  • Bug Fix: Pets not sourced from champion innates now properly benefit from Focused Will.
Patch 14.20nerf

General

  • Removed: Proc damage no longer counts toward stacking Focused Will.
Patch 14.19change

General

  • New Recipe: Pickaxe + Tunneler + Ruby Crystal + 675 gold = 3100 gold.
  • Old Recipe: Kindlegem + Caulfield's Warhammer + Pickaxe + 325 gold = 3100 gold.
  • Health increased to 450 from 300.
  • Attack damage reduced to 45 from 55.
  • Ability haste reduced to 0 from 20.
  • Dragonforce basic ability haste increased to 25 from 15.
Patch 14.17change

General

  • Bug Fix: Basic ability haste from Dragonforce is now properly granted.
Patch 14.16change

General

  • Bug Fix: Item damage effects no longer grant stacks and no longer benefit from the bonus damage.
Patch 14.9buff

General

  • New Effect: Focused Will can now only gain 1 stack per unique ability cast per second.
Patch 14.7change

General

  • Bug Fix: Focused Will now properly amplifies passive ability damage.
Patch 14.5buff

Our goal with these Shojin changes is to make it synergize better with champions that should be primary users of the items, so these should help move it in the right direction for those champs. (Note: This change was implemented in Patch 14.4.)

General

  • New Effect: Abilities can now only grant 1 stack per cast, up to 1 per second for damage over time effects.
  • New Effect: Empowered attacks granted by abilities now grant a stack on-damage and benefit from the damage amplification.
  • Bug Fix: Damage dealt by champion passives no longer incorrectly grant stacks.
Patch 14.4change

General

  • Bug Fix: Tooltip no longer incorrectly displays a ranged modifier where the damage amplifier was 1.5% per stack for ranged champions, but the actual value was the melee value of 3%.
Patch 14.1change

General

  • New:
  • Recipe: Kindlegem + Caulfield's Warhammer + Pickaxe + 325 gold = 3100 gold.
  • Stats: 300 health, 55 attack damage, 20 ability haste.
  • Unique Passive - Dragonforce: Gain 15 basic ability haste.
  • Bug Fix: No longer also applies to some ultimate abilities.
  • Unique Passive - Focused Will: Dealing ability damage grants a stack for 6 seconds, up to 4 stacks. For each stack, your damaging abilities deal 3% increased damage, up to a maximum of 12% increased damage at 4 stacks.
  • Limited to 1 Spear of Shojin.
  • Living Forge item: Shojin's Resolve.
  • Stats: 500 health, 65 attack damage, 25 ability haste.
  • Old:
  • Recipe: Kindlegem + Caulfield's Warhammer + Pickaxe + 525 gold = 3300 gold.
  • Stats: 500 health, 55 attack damage, 20 ability haste.
  • Unique Passive - Dragonforce: Gain 16 (+ 4% bonus AD) basic ability haste, reduced by 50% for immobilize spells.
  • Unique Passive - Exigency: Gain up to 15% bonus movement speed based on missing health, capped at 67% missing health.
  • Limited to 1 Spear of Shojin.
Patch 13.18nerf

Items in League of Legends will always have a best user. It’s inevitable. What's important is for items to be balanced for a large pool of champions and that outliers are handled as needed. In Spear of Shojin's case, we're overall quite happy with its new shape as a mid-sized fighter item that asks for a longer fight commitment to make use if its ability haste, but it's a little too powerful. This patch we're further lowering the attack damage to reinforce its space as a durable item that's functional as an early purchase.

General

  • Attack damage reduced to 55 from 60.
Patch 13.17change

In this patch, our goal is to make Spear of Shojin a solid middleweight fighter item. Its stat efficiency is receiving a significant buff to open it up to more users, and its unique passive is being heavily buffed before four items. We expect some champions like Hecarim and Jax to be very pleased with this buff and some new champions to take notice. We’ll follow up as needed on any individual balance outliers, but we believe a world where more fighters buy items with 500 HP on them makes for a healthier game overall.

General

  • New Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer + Pickaxe + Kindlegem + 525 gold = 3300 gold.
  • Old Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer + B. F. Sword + Kindlegem + 100 gold = 3300 gold.
  • Attack damage reduced to 60 from 65.
  • Health increased to 500 from 350.
  • Dragonforce base basic ability haste increased to 16 from 8.
  • Dragonforce bonus AD ratio reduced to 4% bonus AD from 8%.
Patch 13.14buff

Spear of Shojin should be an exciting capstone-level item for fighters but currently has very few purchasers. This item does fulfill a very specific niche but there are other champions that could potentially do well with it that are intimidated by its high price. We’ll be reducing its gold cost and increasing its HP offering to make this item more of a realistic option for users that aren’t as well established, like Jax or Hecarim.

General

  • Total cost reduced to 3300 gold from 3400 gold.
  • Combine cost reduced to 100 gold from 200 gold.
  • Health increased to 350 from 300.
  • Bug Fix: Dragonforce no longer also grants ultimate ability haste to some champions.
Patch 12.22nerf

General

  • Updated icon.
  • Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer + B. F. Sword + Kindlegem + 200 gold = 3400 gold.
  • Stats: 65 attack damage, 300 health, 20 ability haste.
  • Unique Passive - Dragonforce: Gain 8 (+ 8% bonus AD) basic ability haste, reduced by 50% for immobilize spells.
  • Unique Passive - Exigency: Gain up to 15% bonus movement speed based on missing health, capped at 33% missing health.
  • Limited to 1 Ability Haste Capstone item.
Patch 12.22nerf

Shojin is back! Become the AD caster you’ve always wanted to be.

General

  • Gold Cost: 3400
  • Attack Damage: 65
  • Health: 300
  • Ability Haste: 20
  • Unique Passive - Dragonforce: Non-ultimate spells gain an extra [8 (+8% bonus AD) Ability Haste for melee champions | 6 (+6% bonus AD) Ability Haste for ranged champions], reduced to [4 (+4% bonus AD) Ability Haste for melee champions | 3 (+3% bonus AD) Ability Haste for ranged] for spells with immobilizing effects
  • Unique Passive - Exigency: Gain up to [15% melee | 10% ranged] move speed, based on your % missing health (maxed out while below 33% health)
  • Build Path: B.F. Sword + Kindlegem + Caulfield’s Warhammer
Patch 10.15change

General

  • New Recipe: B. F. Sword + Kindlegem + 900 gold = 3000 gold.
  • Old Recipe: B. F. Sword + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 950 gold = 3400 gold.
  • Available on Nexus Blitz.
  • New Stats:
  • 65 attack damage, 10% cooldown reduction, 200 health.
  • Unique Passive: Reduces damage from champion attacks and abilities by 10 (+ 15% bonus AD), capped at 300.
  • Unique Passive: While within 500-units of at least 3 enemy champions, basic attack to gain Dragon Heart (90 second cooldown).
  • Unique Passive - Dragon Heart: For 8 seconds, blocks 300% more damage, for a total of 40 (+ 60% bonus AD). The duration refreshes on takedown.
  • Old Stats:
  • 60 attack damage, 20% cooldown reduction, 250 health.
  • Unique Passive: After casting your ultimate, your next basic attack on-attack within 10 seconds grants Awakened Dragon for 6 seconds (30 second cooldown).
  • Unique Passive - Awakened Dragon: Gain 50% bonus attack speed, and basic attacks refund 20% of your remaining basic abilities cooldowns on-attack.
Patch 9.24removed

Removed from the game

General

  • Removed from the Howling Abyss, thus removed from the game.
Patch 9.23nerf

When wielded by its most synergistic users, Shojin's unique passive reduced the downtime of their CC, mobility, and immunity spells beyond what we think leaves healthy room for counterplay.

General

  • Removed from Summoner's Rift. Still available on the Howling Abyss.
Patch 9.3new

Spear of Shojin added to League of Legends

Grants attack damage, health, cooldown reduction, and Awakened Dragon (renamed Essence Flare).

General

  • New Recipe: B. F. Sword + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 950 gold = 3400 gold.
  • Old Recipe: B. F. Sword + Kindlegem + 800 gold = 2900 gold.
  • Now available on all maps.
  • New Stats:
  • 60 attack damage, 20% cooldown reduction, 250 health.
  • Unique Passive: After casting your ultimate, your next basic attack on-attack within 10 seconds grants Awakened Dragon for 6 seconds (30 second cooldown).
  • Unique Passive - Awakened Dragon: Gain 50% bonus attack speed, and basic attacks refund 20% of your remaining basic abilities cooldowns on-attack.
  • Old Stats:
  • 60 attack damage, 10% cooldown reduction, 200 health.
  • Unique Passive: Reduces damage from champion attacks and abilities by 20 (+ 10% bonus AD), capped at 70.
  • Unique Passive: While within 500-units of at least 3 enemy champions, basic attack to gain Dragon Heart (90 second cooldown).
  • Unique Passive - Dragon Heart: For 6 seconds, blocks 200% more damage, for a total of 60 (+ 30% bonus AD). The duration refreshes on takedown.