Hextech Gunblade (Item)
| Overview | Match History |
| Hextech Gunblade | [edit]
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| Effects: | +40 Attack Damage +80 Ability Power |
| Passive: | Unique: Heals for 15% of all damage dealt (33% effective for AoE) |
| Active: | Lightning Bolt: Instantly deals 175-250 (+30% of Ability Power) magic damage to target champion and slows them for 40% for 2 seconds. (40 second cooldown, shared with other Hextech items.) |
| Cost: | 3,400g (550g) |
| Sell Value: | 2,380g |
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Usage
- This item is best built on champions who scale off of both ability power and attack damage, such as
Akali and 
Jax. -
Hextech Gunblade's active ability heals you with the spell vamp it provides, synergizing with itself.
Location
- Attack > Damage
- Attack > Life Steal
- Magic > Ability Power
- Magic > Spell Vamp
Similar Items
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Blade of the Ruined King
Trivia
- This item and the other items that build from
Hextech Revolver are the only items which provide spell vamp. - Hextech Gunblade is the only item which provides life steal and spell vamp.
- Hextech Revolver and Hextech Gunblade are references to weapons used in the video game Final Fantasy VIII. The main character, Squall Leonhart, uses items known as Gunblades with his starting item being named Revolver.
Patch History
Active damage reduced at early levels.
As a powerful fringe item, Gunblade finds itself in a similar position to last season’s Frozen Mallet. While few champions are able to capitalize on its specific set of stats, those that can (Akali, Katarina, Corki) have uncovered Gunblade’s overbearing potential. When built as a first item, Gunblade’s active provides damage akin to a 5th spell for most users, easily overpowering the opposition with its instant nuke. We want Gunblade users to feel good about buying into an aggressive option, but the effectiveness of the item was just too much.
v6.9
Deals more damage and slows instantly.
We’ll square with you a Gunblade hasn’t changed much. Its ‘Omni-Vamp’ e sidesteps a lot of spell-vamp’s issues, proving effective on a wide range of mixed-damage champions. Instead of rocking the boat, we tied it to a lightning mechanic (and made the active match) so it plays nice with the other Hextech upgrades. If you’re looking for pure, hybrid offenslook no further.
Similar to Guinsoo's (though quite not as scarce), Gunblade's reload mechanic actually restricted its active's use as a means of catching people out, instead favoring champions who could repeatedly 'reload' it (hint: it's Akali). By stripping out the mechanic and halving the cooldown we're looking to bring Gunblade back as a possible choice for a broader set of champions, namely those looking to heal off of everything. Actually everything.
v5.2 More ability power, slightly less attack damage and lifesteal.
- "After losing out on Deathfire Grasp, some champions might be looking for healthier alternatives (speaking from a holistic game perspective), and Gunblade makes sense for a few of them so... here we are. Yep."
- ATTACK DAMAGE :
45⇒ 40 - ABILITY POWER :
65⇒ 80 - LIFESTEAL :
12%⇒ 10%
- Combine cost increased from 275g to 800g (total cost is the same)
- Life steal increased from 10% to 12%
- Spell vamp is now UNIQUE
- Attack Damage increased from 40 to 45
- Ability Power reduced from 70 to 65
- Life Steal reduced from 15% to 10%
- Spell Vamp is no longer Unique
- New Unique Passive - Your basic attack and single target spells against champions reduce the cooldown of this item by 3 seconds.
- Unique Active changed to "Deals 150 + 40% of your Ability Power as magic damage and slows target champion's Movement Speed by 40% for 2 seconds (60 second cooldown).
- Cost changed from 3,625 (600) to 3,400 (275)
- Attack damage reduced to 40 from 60
- Ability power reduced to 70 from 75
- Life steal reduced to 15% from 20%
- Spell vamp reduced to 20% from 25% and is now unique
- Spell vamp increased to 25% from 20%
- Spell vamp increased to 20% from 13%
- Life steal increased to 20% from 15%
- Stats increased to +60 attack damage, +75 ability power, +15% lifesteal, +13% spell vamp from +45 attack damage, +55 ability power, +15% lifesteal, +12% spell vamp
- Fixed a bug where the active effect stacked with Bilgewater Cutlass' active
- Hextech Gunblade added
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