LoL Assassin items changes 2025 – a few adjustments

Among the various changes to the LoL itemization, here are the adjustments coming in for the assassin items.

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LoL Assassin Items – 2025 season

With the Mythic items gone, there will be major changes to the mage itemization as there will be new items and adjustments to some of the cheaper components. Below is the full list of changes with some considerations for each item.

Removed: Duskblade of Draktharr, Prowler’s Claw

New Assassin items for 2025

[NEW] – Voltaic Cyclosword

• Total Cost: 2900 gold
• Item Recipe: The Brutalizer + Kircheis Shard + 863 gold
• 55 Attack Damage
• 18 Lethality
• 15 Ability Haste
• Passive – Energized: Moving and Attacking will generate an Energized Attack. Dashes and Stealth stack Energized 75% faster.
• Passive – Firmament: Your Energized Attack applies 100 bonus physical damage and Slows enemies for 99% for 0.75 seconds. Slow is a melee only.

This should be the alternative to the removed Duskblade. It’s not as strong but it will still be good if you need the slow to assassinate the targets. Could be great on assassin junglers specifically (looking at you, Rengar).

[NEW] – Profane Hydra

• Total Cost: 3400 gold
• Item Recipe: Tiamat + The Brutalizer + 863 gold
• 60 Attack Damage
• 18 Lethality
• 20 Ability Haste
• Active – Heretical Slash: Deal 65% total Attack Damage physical damage to nearby enemies. This damage increases to 97.5% total Attack Damage physical damage to enemies below 30% health.
• Passive – Cleave: Attacks deal 40% AD (melee) / 20% AD (ranged) damage to other units within 450 units of the target hit.

Assassins with AoE wave clearing? Not sure how good of an idea this might be, but it should help be a good third/fourth item when wave clearing is necessary.

[NEW] – Hubris

• Total Cost: 3000 gold
• Item Recipe: Serrated Dirk + Caulfield’s Warhammer + 900 gold
• 60 Attack Damage
• 18 Lethality
• 15 Ability Haste
• Passive – Ego: When you kill an enemy champion you are granted a statue of yourself.
• Passive – Eminence: When a champion that you have damaged within the last 3 seconds dies, gain 10 (+1 per Statue) Attack Damage for 60 seconds.

This is great for champions that want to snowball and pick up a lot of kills. Mostly a solo queue item.

[NEW] – Opportunity

• Total Cost: 2700 gold
• Item Recipe: Serrated Dirk + Nether Shard + 800 gold
• 55 Attack Damage
• 18 Lethality
• 6% Movement Speed
• Passive – Murder: After being out of combat with Champions for 8 seconds gains bonus Lethality. This Lethality lasts for 3 seconds after dealing damage to champions.
• Passive – Murderspeed: If a champion dies within 3 seconds of damaging them, gain 150 decaying movement speed for 1.5 seconds.

Must item for fast get-in-get-out types of assassins like Talon.

[NEW] – Rectrix

• Total Cost: 900 gold
• Item Recipe: Long Sword + 550 gold
• 20 Attack Damage
• 4% Movement Speed

Not sure how good of an item this is, especially if Serrated Dirk sticks around.

[NEW] – The Brutalizer

• Total Cost: 1337 gold
• Item Recipe: Glowing Mote + Pickaxe + 212 gold
• 25 Attack Damage
• 10 Ability Haste
• 8 Lethality

It’s back! Zed and Talon players, rejoice.

Serylda’s Grudge

• Total Cost: 3200 gold
• Item Recipe: Brutalizer + Last Whisper + 413 gold
• 45 Attack Damage
• 15 Lethality
• 15 Ability Haste
• Passive – Rancor: Gain 22 (+12%) Lethality Armor Penetration
• Passive – Bitter Cold: Damaging abilities slow enemies below 50% Health by 30% for 1 second

Interesting change – the item will be much better later on but the change to the item’s passive slow will impact some champions’ build (like Ezreal).

Read more: LoL 2025 Support items changes