League of Legends Nashor's Tooth Item Guide

League of Legends Nashor's Tooth Item Guide

By Marcus Chen

December 3, 2024 at 07:05 AM

Nashor's Tooth is a powerful hybrid item in League of Legends that combines attack speed with ability power, making it ideal for AP-based auto-attackers.

Core Stats:

  • 80 Ability Power
  • 50% Attack Speed
  • 15 Ability Haste
  • Cost: 3000 gold

Unique Passive - Icathian Bite: Basic attacks deal 15 (+15% AP) bonus magic damage on-hit.

Best Used By: Champions who benefit from both auto-attacks and ability power scaling, such as Kayle, Teemo, and Azir.

Gold Efficiency:

  • Base stats are 139.5% gold efficient
  • Efficiency increases by 10.83% per 100 AP (excluding item's own AP)
  • Total gold value: 4,185

Key Notes:

  • Icathian Bite deals proc damage and won't trigger spell effects
  • On-hit damage doesn't apply to structures
  • Bonus damage benefits from life steal
  • Limited to one Nashor's Tooth per champion

Build Path: Recurve Bow + Blasting Wand + Fiendish Codex + 600 gold

Trivia:

  • Named after Baron Nashor
  • Previously had a Masterwork upgrade called The Baron's Gift (removed)

Recent Changes:

  • Combine cost increased to 600 from 550
  • Ability power reduced to 80 from 90
  • Icathian Bite AP ratio reduced to 15% from 20%

ARAM Specific Changes:

  • 70 Ability Power
  • 45% Attack Speed
  • 10 Ability Haste
  • Icathian Bite scales with 33% bonus AD

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