League of Legends has a special interaction when it comes to buying items. When items have special effects, they are activated in the order they were purchased. Therefore, if you want to maximize your potential, you need to consider this factor or apply a trick.
What is the issue with the items? Some items in LoL have special effects that can cause additional damage or convert dealt damage into healing. And this is where it gets a bit complicated, because these effects activate in the order you bought the items:
- If you buy the Blade of the Ruined King first, the special effect “Basic attacks deal 8% of the target’s current health as bonus physical damage” activates first. Since this effect is based on the target’s current health, it makes sense.
- However, if you buy other items first, those effects activate first. For instance, Edge of Infinity deals an additional 15-80 damage, depending on your level. However, this effect reduces the percentage health of the opponent beforehand, thus diminishing the effect of the Blade of the Ruined King.
- Per hit, the difference is small, but with each attack, you lose some damage, which adds up in the end.
Therefore, it is crucial to buy items in the correct order. The rule is: percentage damage should activate first.
You can bypass the issue with the buyback trick
What can you do if you got the order wrong? There is a simple trick: You return to base, sell your items, and then buy them back. It is important that you sell the item last that you want to get back first.
In concrete terms, this means:
- You built Edge of Infinity first and then the Blade of the Ruined King.
- You sell Edge of Infinity first.
- Then you sell the Blade of the Ruined King.
- Then you hit “Undo”.
Now you have – from the game’s perspective – bought the Blade of the Ruined King first and then Edge of Infinity.
By the way, it’s not enough to just change the order in your inventory. You actually need to sell and buy back the items. Make sure you don’t leave the base during this, or else you cannot perform a buyback anymore.
Are there more secrets like this? Yes, many.
- Recently, players discovered that you can get sight over walls with a rune and teleporting to base.
- You can use the Oracle Lens item to disable enemy wards and instead of destroying them, simply walk through them and come unseen through a bush onto the lane.
- Moreover, some skins grant you slight advantages, making them seen as pay2win.
This list could certainly be expanded by dozens of tricks.
Did you already know that the order of the items plays such a significant role? Did you know the other tricks? Do you have any tricks you want to share with other players?
By the way, in LoL, Tahm Kench and Seraphine currently dominate the win rate. However, that is due to a completely different champion:
