Life steal is a stat that grants healing equal to a percentage of basic damage dealt. It applies to basic attacks and abilities that act like basic attacks (those triggering on-hit effects).

Key Points:

• Stacks additively
• Based on post-mitigation damage (after armor/magic resistance)
• Base life steal for all champions is 0%
• Gold value is 53.55 per point

Sources of Life Steal:

Items that grant life steal:

• Bloodthirster
• Immortal Shieldbow
• Blade of the Ruined King
• Ravenous Hydra
• Vampiric Scepter

On-hit effects benefiting from life steal:

• Blade of the Ruined King
• Divine Sunderer
• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Nashor's Tooth
• Trinity Force
• Wit's End

Champion abilities with life steal:

• Bel'Veth (Royal Maelstrom)
• Lee Sin (Iron Will)
• Nasus (Soul Eater)
• Senna (Absolution)
• Sion (Glory in Death)

Important Interactions:

• Does not benefit from Heal Power
• Doesn't apply to structures or turrets
• Applies to ward damage but heals for negligible amount
• Reduced by Grievous Wounds
• Spirit Visage increases life steal by 25% multiplicatively

Maximum Life Steal:

• Highest achievable: 194.0625% (Sion with optimal build)
• Maximum effective healing: 213.46875% (with Revitalize rune)

This stat effectively enables sustain through damage dealing, making it crucial for many champion builds and playstyles.

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