With the new pre-season fast approaching, here are the planned changes to the tank items for the 2025 LoL season.
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LoL Tank Items – 2025 season
With the Mythic items being removed, there will be major changes to the tank items: six of them will be removed, and three new items will be added. Below is the full list of changes with some considerations for each item.
Removed: Turbo Chemtank, Radiant Virtue, Evenshroud, Gargoyle’s Stoneplate, Aegis of the Legion, Lifewell Pendant
New Tank items for 2025
[NEW] – Hollow Radiance
- Total Cost: 2800 gold
- Item Recipe: Bami’s Cinder + Spectre’s Cowl + 550 gold
- 600 Health
- 40 Magic Resistance
- 100% Base Health Regeneration
- Passive – Immolate: Taking or dealing damage causes you to begin dealing magic damage per second to nearby enemies (increased by 25% against minions) for 3 seconds. Taking or dealing damage refreshes the duration of this effect.
- Passive – Moonburn: Killing an enemy (non-ward, non-structure) deals 30 (+3.5% bonus HP) magic damage in an area around them.
This is supposed to be the new Sunfire Aegis but with magic resistances. It’s a great addition since it gives tank champions additional wave clearing in specific matchups. Don’t think it will be busted but it will have its own presence.
[NEW] – Unending Despair
- Total Cost: 2800 gold
- Item Recipe: Chain Vest + Kindlegem + Ruby Crystal + 800 gold
- 400 Health
- 55 Armor
- 10 Ability Haste
- Passive: While in combat with champions, every 7 seconds, deal magic damage to nearby enemy champions, healing for 175% of the damage dealt.
This item looks quite strong and it’s perfect for those who can survive long in mid-game skirmishes. Its power will be mostly decided by the passive damage.
[NEW] – Kaenic Rookern
- Total Cost: 3000 gold
- Item Recipe: Spectre’s Cowl + Negatron Cloak + 850 gold
- 350 Health
- 80 Magic Resistance
- 100% Base Health Regeneration
- Passive – Magebane: After not taking damage from champions for 15 seconds, gain a magic shield for 18% of your maximum health.
Interesting addition and it will be mostly built by super-tanky top laners and junglers. Mostly a 5th-6th item slot, but it can amount to a lot of extra shield in the late game (18% of a 4000 HP tank is a 720 HP magic shield, which in most cases fully tanks for a control mage’s ability). Will be quite strong in magic damage heavy team compositions.
Reworked items
Jak’Sho the Protean
- Total Cost: 3200 gold
- Item Recipe: Chain Vest + Negatron Cloak + Ruby Crystal + 1100 gold
- 200 Health
- 50 Armor
- 50 Magic Resistance
- Passive – Voidborn Resilience: For each second in champion combat gain a stack, up to a maximum of 5 stacks. At maximum stacks become empowered, increasing your bonus resists by 25% until end of combat.
Tanks will lose damage but they will get much tankier with the new Jak’Sho. Should be strong as a 3rd-4th item once teamfights are more frequent.
Dead Man’s Plate
- Total Cost: 3100 gold
- Item Recipe: Winged Moonplate + Chain Vest + Ruby Crystal + 1100 gold
- 300 Health
- 45 Armor
- 5% Movement Speed
- Passive – Shipwrecker: While moving, build up to 40 bonus Move Speed. Your next Attack discharges built up Move Speed to deal up to 40 (+100% base AD) bonus physical damage.
- Passive – Unsinkable: The strength of movement slowing effects is reduced by 25%.
Quite similar to the previous version. It will be built on champions that want the extra movement speed, so I’m not expecting much to change in this case.
Force of Nature
- Total Cost: 2800 gold
- Item Recipe: Negatron Cloak + Winged Moonplate + Ruby Crystal + 700 gold
- 400 Health
- 50 Magic Resistance
- 5% Movement Speed
- Passive – Absorb: Taking magic damage from enemy Champions grants a stack of Steadfast (up to a maximum of 8) for 7 seconds. Enemy Immobilizing effects grant an additional 2 stacks. One spell can add a new stack of Steadfast every 1 second.
- Dissipate: While at 8 stacks of Steadfast, gain 60 Magic Resist and 10% increased Movement Speed.
Just like Dead Man’s Plate, the same points apply to Force of Nature. But that being said, there will be more options to counter magic damage champions with useful tools (RIP Turbo Chemtank, you will be missed).
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