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Frostfang
Frostfang
Passive
UNIQUE - Tribute: Grants a charge every 12 seconds, up to 3 charges. If an allied champion is nearby, damaging spells and attacks against champions and buildings consume a charge, up to one per attack or cast. Consuming a charge grants 20 gold.
UNIQUE - Quest: Earn 500 gold using this item and upgrade to
Shard of True Ice
, granting the Warding active with respectively 4 wards in stock.
Active
UNIQUE - Ward: 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.
Statistics

HP
70

MPR
50% Base Mana Regen

AP
15

GGen
+3 Gold per 10 seconds
Additional Information
LimitationsLimited to 1 Support item
A player may only have 3
Stealth Wards
or
Totem Wards
on the map at one time.
Map AvailabilitySR
TierAdvanced
Recipe
ItemSquareSpellthief's Edge
Total Cost: 400 Goldcurrency
Sold For: 160 Goldcurrency
Builds Into
ItemSquareShard of True Ice

Notes[]

  • The quest reward can only be obtained after being out-of-combat for 5 seconds.
    • Upon completing the quest, the item holds 1 ward, visiting the shop is required to refill the wards.
    • Completing the quest send the following chat message to the team: "Summoner (Champion) Quest Complete! Completion Time: XX:XX"
  • If you damage an enemy champion or structure 3 times every 30 seconds, Tribute grants 20 gold per 10 seconds.
    • Plus 2 gold per 10 seconds from the item, you can receive a total of 22 gold per 10 seconds.
  • 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 the passive once per instance of damage.
  • Killing a minion and damaging an enemy at the same time will put Tribute on cooldown without activating.

Stealth Ward Notes[]

  • Grants sight over the surrounding 900 units.
  • Has 3 Health
  • Grants 30 Goldcurrency and 40 experience upon death

Trivia[]

Similar Items[]

Patch History[]

Patch 10.15

Spellthief's line of items is being overshadowed by the Relic Shield line for AP users, especially enchanters. While it's fine if they're competitive options, the more defensive option should not always be the dominant choice.


Spellthief's Edge

BASE MANA REGEN : [25%] ⇒ 50%


Frostfang

BASE MANA REGEN : [50%] ⇒ 75%


Shard of True Ice

DAMAGE : [45] ⇒ 50 ability power


Patch 10.1

We're following up on our big support item changes during 9.23, tailoring them so that their users are encouraged to do more in the early game in exchange for some combat stats. Tanky champions will be slightly more resilient and ability-casting champions will have more mana for abilities.


Relic Shield

BASE HEALTH REGEN 25%


Targon's Buckler

BASE HEALTH REGEN 50% Base Health Regeneration


Bulwark of the Mountain

BASE HEALTH REGEN 100%
ABILITY POWER : [40] ⇒ 25


Steel Shoulderguards

BASE HEALTH REGEN 25%


Runesteel Spaulders

BASE HEALTH REGEN 50%


Pauldrons of Whiterock

BASE HEALTH REGEN 100%
ATTACK DAMAGE : [24] ⇒ 15


Spectral Sickle

MANA REGEN 25%


Harrowing Crescent

MANA REGEN 50%


Black Mist Scythe

MANA REGEN 100%
ATTACK DAMAGE : [35] ⇒ 25
HEALTH : [150] ⇒ 100


Spellthief's Edge

MANA REGEN 25%


Frostfang

MANA REGEN 50%


Shard of True Ice

MANA REGEN 100%
HEALTH : [150] ⇒ 100
ABILITY POWER : [60] ⇒ 45


Patch 9.23
Ability power, health, and Tribute.

The magical-flavored aggressive line (with fancy new icons)! Tribute no longer deals damage, so Spellthief's users won't be contributing as much to early skirmishes. The new anti-poaching rule lets us rip out Tribute's nearby ally requirement and charge rate CS penalty. Tribute gold is buffed for Spellthief's but nerfed for Frostfang to maintain the time at which supports gain access to wards (given they can't pay to upgrade to Frostfang) but push the final upgrade later than when supports previously completed Remnant of the Watchers. Shard of True Ice's stats on top of the items purchased with freed-up transformation gold would've been too much of a buff.

Tribute Changes

OLD TRIBUTE Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings deal 13 (upgraded: 18) bonus magic damage and, if an ally is nearby, grant 11 (upgraded: 22) gold. Gain a charge every 10 seconds, up to 3 charges. Before quest completion, Tribute generation pauses for 12 seconds per minion or non-epic monster slain.
NEW TRIBUTE Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings grant 15 gold. Gain a charge every 10 seconds, up to 3 charges.


Spellthief's Edge

COST : 400 gold
ABILITY POWER : [10] ⇒ 8
HEALTH 10
MANA REGEN No longer grants +25% mana regen
GOLD PER 10 : 2 (unchanged)
UNIQUE PASSIVE : TRIBUTE: Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings grant 15 gold. This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.
QUEST : Earning 500 total gold through Tribute upgrades this item to Frostfang.


Frostfang

ABILITY POWER : [20] ⇒ 15
HEALTH 70
MANA REGEN No longer grants +50% mana regen
COOLDOWN REDUCTION No longer grants 10% cooldown reduction
GOLD PER 10 : [2] ⇒ 3
UNIQUE PASSIVE : TRIBUTE: Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings grant 15 gold. This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.
UNIQUE ACTIVE : WARDING: Place a Stealth Ward. Holds up to 3 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.
QUEST : Earning 1000 total gold through Tribute upgrades this item to Shard of True Ice.


Shard of True Ice

NAME : [Remnant of the Watchers]
⇒ Shard of True Ice
ABILITY POWER : [35] ⇒ 60
HEALTH : [200] ⇒ 150
MANA REGEN No longer grants +50% mana regen
COOLDOWN REDUCTION No longer grants 10% cooldown reduction
GOLD PER 10 : [2] ⇒ 3
UNIQUE PASSIVE TRIBUTE: Damaging spells and attacks against champions or buildings no longer deal 18 bonus magic damage and, if an ally is nearby, grant 22 gold up to 3 times every 30 seconds.
UNIQUE ACTIVE : WARDING: Place a Stealth Ward. Holds up to 4 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.


v8.15
Cost of starting support items increased.

The current cost of support items lets support players mitigate a pretty high amount of poke through potions, which makes trading feel more ineffective than we'd like.


Nomad's Medallion

Targon's Brace
&
Frostfang

TOTAL COST : 850 gold (unchanged)
COMBINE COST : [500 gold] ⇒ 450 gold
TWISTED TREELINE These changes also apply on Twisted Treeline.


v8.5
Bandit passive removed. Targon's passive gold increased. Frostfang's Tribute gold increased. Nomad's Medallion gold coin reward increased.

We're still seeing non-supports use gold items to ramp up their gold generation, and the key culprit here is the Bandit passive. We're removing it and adding more gold into the existing sources within each item line. NOTE: we'd considered holding this change for 8.6, but data from the start of 8.5 shows that it's still quite necessary, so we're putting it in now.


All Support Items

BANDIT No longer grants gold when nearby enemy minions are killed by allies or when attacking enemy champions

Targon's Brace Targon's Brace and Remnant of the Aspect

PASSIVE GOLD GENERATION : [2] ⇒ 4 gold per 10 seconds

Spellthief's Edge Spellthief's Edge, Frostfang, and Eye of the Watchers

LOCKOUT The penalty for killing a minion or non-epic monster now pauses gold per 10 generation in addition to Tribute stack generation
QUEST COMPLETION Lockout clears upon quest completion, rather than upon upgrading to Remnant of the Watchers
SPELLTHIEF'S EDGE TRIBUTE GOLD : 10 gold (unchanged)
FROSTFANG & EYE OF THE WATCHERS TRIBUTE GOLD : [15] ⇒ 20 gold

Nomad's Medallion Nomad's Medallion and Remnant of the Ascended

GOLD COIN REWARD : [40] ⇒ 45 gold


v8.2
Removed Sightstone. Removed tier 3 support items.

Quests

WARD ITEM Completing a support item quest now grants Sightstone active, rather than the old quest rewards
GO TO BASE Quest completion will only grant one ward charge until returning to the fountain
LESS QUEST Quests now complete at 500 gold earned, not 750
THE NEW MODEL Upon quest completion, item will upgrade into Eye of Frost, which can hold up to three ward charges

Spellthief's Edge lockout on minion/monster kill increased. Relic shield healing decreased when proc'd by ranged champion.

Spellthief's Edge Line

NOT A JUNGLE ITEM Spellthief's Edge line's recharge penalty now also applies on non-epic monster kill
LOCKOUT ON MINION/MONSTER KILL : [8] ⇒ 12 seconds

Relic Shield Line

SPOILS OF WAR Proc healing is reduced by 50% if the item's owner is ranged


v7.22

DAMAGE : [15] ⇒ 18
WOOPS : We accidentally removed the 10% cooldown reduction from the tooltip, but we guarantee it is there.

v7.18
Frostfang now has cooldown reduction, Frost Queen’s Claim build path adjusted to compensate. Tribute lockout for last-hitting a minion increased.

We haven’t seen much of the Spellthief’s line since we made Ancient Coin an actually-appealing item earlier in the season. This is less about Coin and more about Spellthief’s: the line just isn’t doing its job of enabling early aggression. We’re moving the cooldown reduction of Frostfang’s upgrades onto Frostfang itself, making it a more potent laning threat. This has the side effect of unlocking more build flexibility: sitting on Frostfang in the midgame will be less punishing for supports who’d rather start building into their late-game oriented items. That said, the Spellthief’s line has historically been vulnerable to midlane poaching when strong. We’re upping the Tribute penalty for last-hitting to nip that problem in the bud.

Tribute passive

LAST-HIT PENALTY : After last-hitting a minion, Tribute charge generation is paused for [6] ⇒ 8 seconds


Frostfang

COOLDOWN REDUCTION 10%


Frost Queen's Claim

BUILD PATH : Frostfang + [Fiendish Codex + 450 gold]
⇒ Blasting Wand + 500 gold (total cost unchanged)  


v7.10

The whole point of the lockout on Spellthief’s Edge is to prevent champions from both farming waves and using the gold item - at least without some tradeoff. However, it was also punishing supports too harshly when they happened to kill a minion while poking. We’re shifting the mechanic so that minion kills may harm your overall Tribute output, but won’t stop you from using any Tribute stacks you already had.
Tribute passive

MINION PENALTY : Killing a minion [disables Tribute procs] ⇒ [pauses Tribute stack generation] for 6 seconds per minion slain


v7.9

Most mage supports already churn out pretty decent damage (looking at you, Zyra/Brand), so rather than give them more damage as a quest reward, we wanted to give them something that feels distinct from the mid lane experience. Extra mobility gives them a tool to dance in and out of fights, giving them a unique reason to be played as supports, rather than mid laners.
Quest rewards

QUEST : Complete Spellthief’s Edge’s quest by earning 650 gold through the Tribute passive and upgrading to Frostfang or higher (progress preserved through item upgrades)
GOTTA GO FAST : Tribute is upgraded to Queen’s Tribute on quest completion, causing procs to grant a short burst of movement speed

Tribute mechanics

DELIBERATION : Tribute charges can only proc once every 1.25 seconds
MINION PENALTY : Last-hitting minions disables Tribute for [12 seconds, refreshing with subsequent minion kills] ⇒ 6 seconds, stacking per minion kill. (Reminder: this penalty only affects Spellthief’s Edge and Frostfang)

Frostfang

BASE MANA REGEN : [75%] ⇒ 50%
ABILITY POWER : [15] ⇒ 20

Frost Queen's Claim

BASE MANA REGEN : [75%] ⇒ 50%
ABILITY POWER : [50] ⇒ 60

Eye of the Watchers

BASE MANA REGEN : [100%] ⇒ 50%
ABILITY POWER : [25] ⇒ 35


v6.13
Killing pets no longer puts Tribute on cooldown.

Spellthief’s Edge offers you a tradeoff: don’t farm and you can build up gold by trading with your opponents. Much like with Relic Shield, pets were disrupting Spellthief’s tradeoff as well.

TRIFLING TRIBUTE REJECTED : The Tribute passive is no longer put on cooldown when killing enemy pets (ex. Zyra plants)


v6.9
Less mana regeneration.

Regeneration overall is


Frostfang

MANA REGENERATION : [100%] ⇒ 75%


Frost Queen's Claim

MANA REGENERATION : [100%] ⇒ 75%


v5.22

TOTAL cost : [865 gold] ⇒ 850 gold
BUILD path : Spellthief's Edge + Faerie Charm + 375 gold
ABILITY power : [10] ⇒ 15
BASE mana REGEN : [50%] ⇒ 100%
TRIBUTE GOLD : [10 gold on damage/attack on a champion or structure] ⇒ 15 gold on damage/attack on a champion or structure


v4.13
2 less gold per 10 seconds

"As an item that's supposed to be focused on aggressive skirmishing for gold generation, Frostfang and Frost Queen's Claim both create a lot of passive gold on their own, so we're trimming that back a bit."
  • PASSIVE GOLD 4 gold per 10 seconds ⇒ 2 gold per 10 seconds

v4.3

  • PASSIVE TRIBUTEOld Tribute Passive ⇒ Spells and basic attacks against champions or buildings deal 15 additional damage and grant 10 Gold. This can occur up to three times every 30 seconds. Killing a minion disables this passive for 12 seconds.
  • TOTAL COST: 850 gold ⇒ 865 gold
  • ABILITY POWER: 20 ⇒ 10
  • MANA REGEN: 7 ⇒ 5
  • GOLD PER 10: 4 gold per 10 seconds

v3.14

  • Recipe: Spellthief's Edge + 485 Gold (Total 850 gold)
  • +20 Ability Power
  • +7 Mana Regen per 5 seconds
  • +4 Gold per 10 seconds
  • UNIQUE Passive – Tribute: Basic attacks against champions grant 8 gold, up to once every 10 seconds per enemy. Killing a minion disables this passive for 10 seconds.


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