| Mercury's Treads | |
|---|---|
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| Statistics | |
MR | 20 |
| Movement Speed | 45 |
TNC | 30% |
| Additional Information | |
| Limitations | Limited to 1 Boots item. |
| Map Availability | ALL |
| Tier | Boots |
| Item Code | 3111 |
| Recipe | |
 +  + 550  | |
| Total Cost: 1250 | |
| Sold For: 875 | |
| Builds Into | |
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| ExternalLinks | |
| Game Info Wiki | wiki.leagueoflegends.com |
Notes
- The flat movement speed bonus of
Boots and everything that it builds into is unique and thus does not stack with other boots. - Mercury's Treads' tenacity stacks multiplicatively with other sources of tenacity.
- If a team wins Blessing of Noxus, then Mercury's Treads is upgraded to Triumphant Mercury's Treads.
- Item icon is modified with
- +5 magic resistance
- can be builds into
Chainlaced Crushers.
- Item icon is modified with
Trivia
- The item is likely named after the Roman god, Mercury.
- Mercury's Treads' appearance is a palette swap of its armor-counterpart,
Ninja Tabi. - Cassiopeia is the only champion that can't buy boots.
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Patch History
After making several balance passes at level 2 boots late last year, we've gotten them to a point where they're appropriately competitive with legendary items. That said, we've got some minor balance outliers within the boots space itself, so we're looking to bring up some of the worst performers and bring down the top end a touch.
First is Mercury's Treads, which is the weakest tank footwear. We know 50 gold doesn't sound like a lot, but boots are small items and as a percentage, this is like dropping 125 gold off of a full legendary.
- Price: 1300 ⇒ 1250 gold
- Price: 1200 ⇒ 1300 gold
Overall the nerfs to tier two boots are meant to make them the correct buy once you actually want the move speed, instead of just the best early items in the game. Ideally building your first legendary should be the optimal way to play out your laning phase but upgrading your move speed could be worthwhile if you need to dodge skill shots or close the gap on a ranged opponent.
Mercury Treads' nerf is around 200g total in price and stats. It provided so much durability at such a cheap price point that it could easily shut down offensive AP opponents.
- Total Price: 1100 ⇒ 1200
- Magic Resist: 25 ⇒ 20
v6.4
More tenacious!
Merc Treads haven't been scratching the 'Buy me against hard CC' itch they're intended to for a while now. With most players opting for cheaper boots (or more movement speed), we're upping the effectiveness so Merc's are once again the go-to footwear when you're jumping head-first into a moshpit of stuns, fears, taunts, and Nautili.
- Items that build out of Boots of Speed have had their recipe costs increased by 25
- Limited to 1 Boots item at a time
- Tenacity Removed
- Unique Passive changed to "Enhanced Movement: +45 Movement Speed"
- New Unique Passive - Tenacity: The duration of stuns, slows, taunts, fears, silences, blinds and immobilizes are reduced by 35%
- Now grants +35 tenacity
- Crowd Control reduction reduced to 35% from 40%
- Magic resistance reduced to 25 from 30
- Magic resist reduced to 30 from 35
- Crowd control reduction increased from 35% to 40%
- Combine cost reduced from 500 to 450
- Combine cost decreased from 700 to 600
- Slow duration reduction increased from 30% to 35%
- Recipe cost reduced from 850 to 700
- Mercury's Treads added
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