League of Legends Items

What Are Items?

Items are pieces of equipment that one can purchase to increase their champion's effectiveness. Items can only be purchased at the fountain where a team spawns. Items come in 3 different tiers, basic, advanced, and legendary. All items sell for 70% of their cost except for Doran's and GP/10 items, which sell for 50% of their cost. There are items that are specific to Classic only, and items that are specific to Dominion only.

What are the Item Tiers?

Basic Tier:

These items are singular items that are not built out of anything and generally are used to make other items. They range from the cheapest being The Hex Core (0 gold) to the most expensive being B. F. Sword (1650 gold).

Complete list of basic tier items:

Amplifying Tome, B. F. Sword, Blasting Wand, Boots, Brawler's Gloves
Chain Vest, Cloak of Agility, Cloth Armor, Dagger, Doran's Blade, Doran's Ring
Doran's Shield, Faerie Charm, Giant's Belt, Long Sword, Meki Pendant
Needlessly Large Rod, Negatron Cloak, Null-Magic Mantle, Pickaxe, Prospector's Blade
Prospector's Ring, Recurve Bow, Regrowth Pendant, Rejuvenation Bead, Ruby Crystal
Sapphire Crystal, The Hex Core, Vampiric Scepter

Advanced Tier:

These items are created from at least 1 basic tier item and a recipe. Generally, they give unique stats besides their normal stats. They range from the cheapest being Mana Manipulator (475 gold) to the most expensive being Infinity Edge (3830 gold).

Complete list of advanced tier items:

Abyssal Mask, Aegis of the Legion, Atma's Impaler, Augment: Death, Augment: Gravity
Augment: Power, Avarice Blade, Berserker's Greaves, Bilgewater Cutlass
Mobility Boots, Boots of Swiftness, Catalyst the Protector, Chalice of Harmony
Cloak and Dagger, Emblem of Valor, Executioner's Calling, Fiendish Codex
Force of Nature, Glacial Shroud, Guardian Angel, Guinsoo's Rageblade, Haunting Guise
Heart of Gold, Hexdrinker, Hextech Revolver, Infinity Edge, Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Ionic Spark, Kage's Lucky Pick, Kindlegem, Kitae's Bloodrazor, Last Whisper
Leviathan, Madred's Razors, Malady, Mana Manipulator, Mejai's Soulstealer
Mercury's Treads, Moonflair Spellblade, Ninja Tabi, Phage, Philosopher's Stone
Quicksilver Sash, Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Sanguine Blade
Sheen, Sorceror's Shoes, Stinger, Sunfire Aegis, Sword of the Occult
Tear of the Goddess, Black Cleaver, Bloodthirster, The Brutalizer
The Lightbringer, Thornmail, Tiamat, Void Staff, Warden's Mail, Warmog's Armor
Wit's End, Zeal, Zhonya's Hourglass

Legendary Tier:

These items are created from at least 1 advanced tier item and a recipe. They may or may not contain basic tier items. Usually, these items give a large variety of stats, and are usually very expensive. They range from the cheapest being Eleisa's Miracle (1300) to the most expensive being Trinity Force (4070 gold).

Complete list of legendary tier items:

Archangel's Staff, Banshee's Veil, Deathfire Grasp, Eleisa's Miracle, Entropy
Frozen Heart, Frozen Mallet, Hextech Gunblade, Hextech Sweeper, Lich Bane
Locket of the Iron Solari, Madred's Bloodrazor, Manamune, Maw of Malmortius
Morello's Evil Tome, Nashor's Tooth, Odyn's Veil, Phantom Dancer, Randuin's Omen
Rod of Ages, Shurelya's Battlesong, Soul Shroud, Spirit Visage, Trinity Force
Will of the Ancients, Wriggle's Lantern, Youmuu's Ghostblade, Zeke's Herald

What are "Passives", "Auras", and "Actives"?

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What are Doran's Items?

Doran's items are items that all cost 475 gold, and they usually give a variety of stats. This makes them very cost efficient, however, Doran's items don't build into anything. Because of their extreme cost efficiency, it is sometimes a decent strategy to stack them. More about this can be read here: Doran's Stacking

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What are Gold/10 Items?

Gold/10 items are items that increase how much gold a character gains every second. These items usually are bought early in the game, so that they eventually pay for themselves. Each Gold/10 item increases your gold gain by .5 gold per second.

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What are Snowball Items?

Snowball items are items that increase in strength the more "stacks" that the item has. To gain stacks, one must gain kills or assists. However, with snowball items, whenever the holder dies, the item loses a percentage of it's stacks. Because of this, most players consider these snowball items unreliable.

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What are Consumables?

Consumables are relatively cheap items that are one time use. Depending on what consumable you purchase, it will have a different effect.

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Potions are usually bought early on in the game. The reason for this, is because they eventually become less useful the later the game is, because the percentage of health/mana restored goes down as the champion's health/mana goes up.

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Wards give you vision of the map and remove the fog of war from a set area around where you place the ward. Using these correctly can give your team great map vision and can even win games. To learn more, check out Warding.

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What are Dominon and Classic Only Items?

There are certain items that can only be purchased in Dominion, and others that can only be purchased in Classic mode. Usually, the items are just different versions of each other, and aren't too different.

List of similar items:

Banshee's Veil > Odyn's Veil
Doran's Blade > Prospector's Blade
Doran's Ring > Prospector's Ring
Madred's Bloodrazor > Kitae's Bloodrazor
Bloodthirster > Sanguine Blade
Oracle's Elixir > Oracle's Extract

Classic Only Items:

Banshee's Veil, Doran's Blade, Doran's Ring, Elixir of Agility, Elixir of Brilliance
Elixir of Fortitude, Leviathan, Madred's Bloodrazor, Madred's Razors, Mejai's Soulstealer
Oracle's Elixir, Sight Ward, Sword of the Occult, Bloodthirster, Vision Ward
Warmog's Armor, Wriggle's Lantern

Dominion Only Items:

Entropy, Hextech Sweeper, Kitae's Bloodrazor, Odyn's Veil, Oracle's Extract
Prospector's Blade, Prospector's Ring, The Lightbringer

What are Custom Recommended Items?

Currently, in game, when you open up the shop, you will see the recommended items in the top right. Riot has put these there with good intentions, however, as most people know, you don't really want to follow that list. So, to make it easy and convenient to access, you can customize that list!

For the full instructions, you can look here or here (which I think is the more helpful).

If you need help creating the .ini files, or you don't know how to, here is a video:
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