League of Legends: Sword of the Divine Returns to Arena Mode in 2024

League of Legends: Sword of the Divine Returns to Arena Mode in 2024

By Marcus Chen

March 2, 2025 at 05:00 PM

Sword of the Divine is a powerful Arena-exclusive item that provides significant offensive capabilities and critical strike scaling.

Stats:

  • 110 adaptive force
  • 40% critical strike chance
  • Sell value: 2000 gold

Unique Passive - Excoriate: Critical strikes gain bonus critical strike damage that scales up to 50% of critical strike chance. This scaling continues even when exceeding 100% critical strike chance.

Item History:

  • Added to Arena mode on May 1st, 2024
  • Previously available in Nexus Blitz with different stats (2020-2023)
  • Original version (2011-2014) featured attack speed and armor penetration

Previous Iterations:

Nexus Blitz Version (2018-2023):

  • 25 attack damage
  • 25% attack speed
  • 18 lethality
  • Active: 3 seconds of 100% bonus attack speed and 100% crit chance

Original Version (2011-2014):

  • 45% attack speed
  • Active: 3 seconds of 100% attack speed and 100% crit chance
  • Passive: Attack speed disabled while on cooldown
  • Champion kills reduced cooldown by 50%

Item Availability: Currently only available in Arena mode through Prismatic Item Anvils.

Note: The item's Excoriate passive makes it particularly effective on champions who can utilize high critical strike chances, as its scaling continues beyond the normal 100% critical strike cap.

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