Frozen Heart is a legendary item in
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Cost Analysis
Gold Value
- 20 ability haste =
1000 - 400 mana = 400
- 75 armor = 1500
- Total Gold Value = 2900
Gold efficiency
Frozen Heart's base stats are 116% gold efficient.
Similar items
Map-Specific Differences
- Ability haste changed to 15.
- Armor changed to 90.
- Attack speed slow changed to 25%.
Strategy
- Frozen Heart is best suited for champions that want durability to survive and ability haste and mana to cast their spells.
- The passives for the aura and damage mitigation can also be used as a counter against champions that need to attack to deal damage.
- Champions that engage into the middle of a fight can spread the aura to all nearby enemies and gain great value out of the attack speed slow.
Old icons
1st version
2nd version
Last version (Frozen Brain)
Trivia
- The attack speed debuff only affects enemy Champions.
Frozen Heart's old icon is the same icon used to represent a Citrine gem in the popular MMO World of Warcraft. In that game, the gem appears orange.- The item's description "Warning: Do not thaw!" is a reference to the item Eye of Skadi from the mod DotA: Allstars, whose description contains exactly the same line.
Frozen Brain was a seasonal item for the 2010 Harrowing celebration that temporarily replaced Frozen Heart. It had the same stats and effect as Frozen Heart, just with a different name and appearance.- Pentakill's second volume, Pentakill II: Grasp of the Undying, named its eighth track after this item.
- Frozen Heart is the only item that can reduce attack speed.
Media
Item VFX
Old Item VFX
Patch History
- Combine cost increased to 600 from 550.
- Total cost unchanged.
- Armor increased to 75 from 65.
- New Effect: Winter's Carress now only affects enemy champions.
- Removed Unique Passive - Rock Solid: Every first incoming instance of post-mitigation
basic damage per cast instance is reduced by 5 (+ 3.5 per 1000 maximum health), maximum 20% reduction each.
- Combine cost reduced to 550 from 600.
- Total cost unchanged.
- Total cost increased to 2500 from 2400.
- Combine cost increased to 600 from 500.
- Combine cost increased to
- Armor reduced to 65 from 70.
- Total cost increased to 2400 from 2300.
- Combine cost increased to 500 from 400.
- Combine cost increased to
- Total cost reduced to 2300 from 2700.
- Combine cost reduced to 400 from 800.
- Combine cost reduced to
- Armor reduced to 70 from 90.
- Bug Fix: Snowflake VFX no longer appears above nearby affected non-champions.
- Bug Fix: No longer sometimes generates monster aggro.
- Maximum damage reduction on affected damage instances reduced to 20% of the total damage from 40%.
- Total cost increased to 2700 from 2500.
- Combine cost increased to 800 from 600.
- Combine cost increased to
- Armor increased to 90 from 80.
- Rock Solid base damage reduction reduced to 5 from 7.
- Bug Fix: Winter's Caress no longer improperly counts as being in-combat.
- Unknown patch
- Undocumented: Now only triggers on the first damage instance for every cast instance, preventing increased effectiveness against single attacks with multiple instances such as
Ashe's 
Ranger's Focus, 
Camille's 
Precision Protocol or 
Zeri's 
Burst Fire.
- This can now result in lower effectiveness against these attacks due to the maximum reduction becoming 40% of said first damage instance.
- Bug Fix: Winter's Caress no longer activates while dead if the item is purchased while dead.
- New Effect: Now has a base basic damage reduction of 7.
- Basic damage reduction health ratio reduced to 3.5 per 1000 health from 5.
- Attack speed slow increased to 20% from 15%.
- Armor increased to 80 from 70.
- Total cost reduced to 2500 from 2700.
- Combined cost reduced to 600 from 800.
- Combined cost reduced to
- Armor reduced to 70 from 80.
- Updated icon.
- New:
- Recipe:
Warden's Mail + 
Glacial Buckler + 800 = 2700. - Stats: 80 armor, 400 mana, 20 ability haste.
- Unique Passive - Winter's Caress: Reduces the attack speed of nearby enemies by 15%.
- Unique Passive - Rock Solid: Reduces incoming damage from basic attacks by 5 per 1000 maximum health, capped at 40% of the attack's damage.
- Limited to 1 Frozen Heart.
- Recipe:
- Old:
- Recipe: Warden's Mail +
Glacial Shroud + 800 = 2700. - Stats: 110 armor, 400 mana, 20% cooldown reduction.
- Unique Aura:
Cripples nearby enemies' attack speed by 15% (700 range center-to-center).
- Recipe:
- Armor increased to 110 from 100.
- Armor increased to 100 from 90.
- Combine cost increased to 800 from 700. Total cost is still 2700.
- Combine cost reduced to 700 from 800.
- Total cost reduced to 2700 from 2800.
- Total cost reduced to
- New item icon.
- Old item icon : [1].
- Combine cost increased to 800 from 700, due to Warden's Mail cost reduction.
- Total cost increased 2800 from 2600.
- Total cost increased 2600 from 2450.
- Armor reduced to 90 from 100.
- Total cost reduced to 2450 from 2600.
- Combine cost increased to 650, up from 550.
- Total cost reduced to 2600, down from 2900.
- Armor increased to 100 from 95.
- Aura attack speed reduction reduced to 15% from 20%.
- Cost reduced to 2900 from 3000 (combine cost unchanged).
- Combine cost increased to 550 from 400 (total cost unchanged).
- Armor increased to 95 from 90.
- Item cost reduced to 3000 from 3100.
- Combine cost reduced to 400 from 500.
- Item cost increased to 3100 from 2775.
- Combine cost reduced to 500 from 650.
- New recipe: Warden's Mail + Glacial Shroud
- Armor reduced to 90 from 99.
- Mana reduced to 400 from 500.
- Cooldown reduction is no longer unique.
- Recipe cost reduced to 650 from 800.
- Cooldown reduction reduced to 20% from 25%.
- Recipe changed: Now requires a Glacial Shroud + 2
Cloth Armor + 800
- Recipe cost increased to 425 from 400.
- Combine cost reduced to 425 from 525.
- June 6, 2009 Patch Added
- High Tier - Armor / Mana item with
- 25% cooldown reduction.
- Unique aura: 25% attack speed reduction.
References
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