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Spellthief's Edge

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Spellthief's Edge Current Status

Spellthief's Edge has been changed in 33 League of Legends patches. 11 buffs, 4 nerfs, 17 adjustments. Most recently buffed in Patch 13.20 ().

Cost: 400g
Ability Power: 10
Gold Per 10: 2
Health: 25
Mana Regen: 25
UNIQUE Passive - Tribute: Grants a charge every 12 seconds, up to 3 charges. If an allied champion is nearby, damaging basic attacks and abilities against champions and structures consume a charge, up to one per attack or cast. Consuming a charge grants 20 gold. Receive diminishing gold from excessive minion kills.
UNIQUE Passive - Quest: Earn 500 gold using this item to upgrade to Frostfang, gaining the Warding active with 3 wards in stock.

Spellthief's Edge Changes

Patch 13.20

buff

General

  • Ability power increased to 10 from 8.
  • Health increased to 25 from 10.

Patch 13.4

nerf

General

  • Mana regeneration reduced to 25% from 50%.
  • Tribute recharge timer increased to 12 seconds from 10.

Patch 12.4

change

General

  • New Effect: For the first 5 minutes of the game, the minion farming penalty is increased: Farming more than 10 CS per 5 minutes reduces gold from minions by 80%. After 5:00, the minion farming penalty remains at: Farming more than 20 CS per 5 minutes reduces gold from minions by 50 to 80% (based on CS).
  • This farming penalty is applied before the 10 flat reduced gold from mid lane siege minions before 14:00.

Patch 11.7

change

General

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where abilities with periodic damage (like Blaze) would not trigger Tribute.

Patch 11.3

change

General

  • Disabled on Ultra Rapid Fire.

Patch 10.24

change

General

  • Updated icon.

Patch 10.23

buff

General

  • Updated icon.
  • Tribute gold generated increased to 20 gold from 15 gold.
  • Limited to 1 Support or Jungle item.

Patch 10.15

buff

General

  • Mana regeneration increased to 50% from 25%.

Patch 10.5

buff

Tribute procs now require a nearby ally.

General

  • New Effect: Now requires an ally champion (alive or dead) within 2000 units in order to trigger Tribute.

Patch 10.1

buff

General

  • New Effect: Now grants 25% base mana regeneration.

Patch 9.23

change

General

  • New item icon.

New Effects

  • Cost: 400 gold.
  • Stats: 8 ability power, 10 health, 2 gold per 10 seconds.
  • Unique Passive - Tribute: Grants a charge every 10 seconds, up to 3 charges. Damaging abilities and attacks against champions and buildings consume a charge, up to one per attack or cast. Consuming a charge grants 15 gold. Receive diminishing gold from excessive minion kills.
  • Quest: Earn 500 gold using this item to upgrade to Frostfang, gaining the Warding active with 3 wards in stock.
  • Limitations: Limited to 1 Jungle or Gold Income item.

Old Effects

  • Cost: 400 gold.
  • Stats: 10 ability power, 25% base mana regeneration, 2 gold per 10 seconds.
  • Unique Passive - Tribute: Grants a charge every 10 seconds, up to 3 charges. Damaging spells and attacks against champions and buildings consume a charge, up to one per attack or cast. Consuming a charge deals them 13 bonus magic damage, and if an allied champion is nearby, also grants 11 gold. Before quest completion, killing a minion or non-epic monster pauses Tribute generation and the passive gold generation for 12 seconds per unit slain.
  • Unique Passive - Quest: Earn 500 gold using this item and upgrade to Frostfang. Reward: Permanently upgrades Frostfang to Eye of Frost and Remnant of the Watchers to Eye of the Watchers, giving them the Warding active with respectively 3 and 4 wards in stock.
  • Limitations: Limited to 1 Jungle or Gold Income item.
  • Builds Into: Frostfang.

Patch 9.6

change

General

  • Bug Fix: Tribute gold is no longer paused when minions are killed if the owner has completed the quest.

Patch 9.6

change

General

  • Bug Fix: Tribute gold is no longer paused when minions are killed if the owner has completed the quest.

Patch 9.3

buff

General

  • New Effect: Now requires an ally champion within 2000 units in order to earn gold.
  • Tribute gold generated increased to 11 gold from 10 gold.

Patch 9.3

buff

General

  • New Effect: Now requires an ally champion within 2000 units in order to earn gold.
  • Tribute gold generated increased to 11 gold from 10 gold.

Patch 8.15

nerf

General

  • Cost increased to 400 gold from 350 gold.

Patch 8.15

nerf

General

  • Cost increased to 400 gold from 350 gold.

Patch 8.6

change

General

  • Bug Fix: Pinging the item now displays the correct amount of gold needed to finish its quest.

Patch 8.6

change

General

  • New Effect: Before quest completion, killing minions and non-epic monsters pauses Tribute stack generation and the passive gold generation.
  • Removed: Granting Bandit.
  • Bug Fix: Pinging the item now displays the correct amount of gold needed to finish its quest.

Patch 8.5

change

General

  • New Effect: Before quest completion, killing minions and non-epic monsters pauses Tribute stack generation and the passive gold generation.
  • Removed: Granting Bandit.

Patch 8.2

change

General

  • Quest gold value reduced to 500 gold from 750 gold. Still requires to upgrade to Frostfang.
  • New Effect: Tribute recharge pause now also applies on non-epic monster kill.
  • Tribute pause duration for minion and non-epic monster kill increased to 12 seconds from 8.
  • Removed Quest Reward: Tribute is upgraded to Queen's Tribute, giving you 50% bonus movement speed for 1 second (additional stacks extend duration) for each charge consumed.
  • New Effect: Quest reward now grants the active Warding with 3 wards in stock.
  • Unique Active - Warding: Consumes a charge to place a Stealth Ward at the target location (600 range), which reveals the surrounding area for 150 seconds. Holds up to 3 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.
  • Removed from Twisted Treeline.

Patch 8.2

change

General

  • Tier: Basic item.
  • Cost: 350 gold.
  • Stats: +2 gold per 10 seconds, +10 ability power, +25% base mana regeneration.
  • Unique Passive - Tribute: Grants a charge every 10 seconds, up to 3 charges. Damaging spells and attacks against champions and buildings consume a charge, up to one per attack or cast. Consuming a charge deals them 13 bonus magic damage and grants 10 gold. Killing a minion or non-epic monster pauses Tribute generation for 12 seconds per unit slain.
  • Unique Passive - Bandit: Grants Bandit.
  • Unique Passive - Quest: Earn 750 gold using this item and upgrade to Timeworn Frostfang. Reward: Tribute is upgraded to Queen's Tribute, giving you 50% bonus movement speed for 1 second (additional stacks extend duration) for each charge consumed.
  • Builds into: Timeworn Frostfang
  • Availability: Twisted Treeline.
  • Limits: Limited to 1 Gold Income item.

Patch 7.23

change

General

  • Bug Fix: The Bandit passive no longer incorrectly grants gold for nearby minion deaths while you're dead.

Patch 7.22

buff

General

  • New Effect: Grants Bandit.
  • New Effect: Bandit counts toward the quest goal.
  • Quest gold required to upgrade increased to 750 gold from 650 gold.
  • Tribute bonus damage increased to 13 from 10.
  • Tribute bonus gold increased to 10 gold from 8 gold.

Patch 7.20

buff

General

  • Ability power increased to 10 from 5.

Patch 7.18

buff

General

  • Tribute charge generation pause upon killing a minion increased to 8 seconds from 6.

Patch 7.12

change

General

  • Quest progression VFX displays every third of the way from every fifth of the way toward completion.

Patch 7.10

buff

General

  • New Effect: Killing a minion now only pauses Tribute generation for 6 seconds per minion slain instead of disabling it for 6 seconds per minion slain.

Patch 7.9

change

General

  • New Effect: Can only trigger Tribute once every 1.25 seconds.
  • Removed: Killing a minion disables Tribute for 12 seconds.
  • New Effect: Killing a minion stops you from triggering Tribute for 6 seconds per minion slain.
  • New Effect: Quest.
  • Quest: Earn 650 gold using this item and upgrade to Frostfang.
  • Reward: Tribute is upgraded into Queen's Tribute.
  • Queen's Tribute: Spells and basic attacks against champions or buildings deal 10 additional damage, grant 15 gold and 50% bonus movement speed for 1 second (additional stacks extend duration). This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.

Patch 6.13

change

General

  • Killing non-lane minions no longer deactivates Spellthief's Edge's passive. e.g. Rampant Growth.

Patch 4.20

change

General

  • Mana regeneration changed to +25% of base mana regeneration from +2 mana regeneration per 5 seconds.

Patch 4.3

nerf

General

  • Ability power reduced to 5 from 10.
  • Mana regeneration per 5 reduced to 2 from 3.
  • Revised Passive - Tribute: Your next basic attack or ability to damage a champion or tower will deal 10 bonus damage and generate 5 gold. You generate one charge of Tribute every 10 seconds, storing up to 3. Tribute is disabled for 12 seconds if you kill a minion.
  • The damage type of the bonus damage will match the trigger.
  • Area of effect abilities will use one charge per enemy champion hit.
  • On-hit effects will not trigger Tribute (although the triggering attack can).
  • Damage over time abilities will trigger Tribute once per instance of damage.

Patch 3.14

new

Spellthief's Edge added to League of Legends

General

  • New Basic Item - Costs 365g
  • Stats: +10 ability power, +3 mana regeneration, +2 gold/10
  • Unique Passive - Tribute: Basic attacks against champions grant 4 gold, up to once every 10 seconds per enemy. Killing a minion disables this passive for 10 seconds.
  • Limited to 1 gold income item.

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Spellthief's Edge League of Legends FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions
When was Spellthief's Edge last changed in League of Legends?
Spellthief's Edge was last buffed in League of Legends Patch 13.20, released October 10, 2023.
How many times has Spellthief's Edge been buffed or nerfed in LoL?
Spellthief's Edge has been changed in 33 League of Legends patches: 11 buffs, 4 nerfs, 17 adjustments.
Was Spellthief's Edge changed in LoL Patch 26.14?
No - Spellthief's Edge was not changed in Patch 26.14. Its most recent change was in Patch 13.20.
When was Spellthief's Edge added to League of Legends?
Spellthief's Edge was added to League of Legends in Patch 3.14 on November 20, 2013.