LoL: Stormsurge – New Mage Item For Season 14

With the beginning of Season 14 in League of Legends, we got tons of new items for every role in the Summoner's Rift. Especially mages great new items and we're here to tell you everything you need to know about them. This time, we'll take a look at Stormsurge.

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LoL: new Mage item Stormsurge is one of the best new items in LoL. | © Riot Games

Stormsurge might be one of the strongest item additions for mages in Season 14, granting you tons of bonus damage with its Passive. Compared with other new burst oriented items like Caster's Companion, you'll become a serious thread, deleting everyone the crossed your path.

Not sure what Caster's Companion does? Check it out here:

LoL: Stormsurge – Stats And Build

Stormsurge
LoL: New Mage item Stormsurge added to LoL in Season 14. | © Riot Games

With a total of 2,900 gold, Stormsurge is a legendary item, which will grant you useful stats, such as Ability Power, Magic Penetration and Movement Speed. On top of that, it got 2 Passives: Stormraider and Squall. Stormraider gives you 25% Bonus Movement Speed for a short duration if you deal 35% damage to a champion's max Health within 2.5 seconds. If you do so, Squall also triggers, striking the target with an additional 75-150 (Melee+30%/Ranged+22.5% AP) Magic Damage and additionally grants you 30 gold.

To build Stormsurge, you'll need the following items:

  • Hextech Alternator (items + 300 gold)
    • Amplifying Tome (400 gold)
    • Amplifying Tome (400 gold)
  • Aether Wisp (item + 450 gold)
    • Amplifying Tome (400 gold)
  • 950 gold

Best Champions With Stormsurge

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AP assassins like Katarina can perfectly make use of this item. | © Riot Games

With the bonus AP damage through Stormsurge's Passive Squall, burst mages, as well as AP assassins work incredibly well with it, absolutely deleting their opponents off guard and unexpected.

Lux, Zoe or Syndra are perfect burst mages for example. AP assassins that will demolish you with this item are gonna be Katarina, Diana or Fizz.

Eric Leneschmidt

Eric loved playing video games since he was little and is now a gaming journalist at EarlyGame. To escape from his League of Legends addiction, he also enjoys movies, TV shows, as well as internet drama....