Ultimate Spellbook is a Featured Game Mode in League of Legends. Players choose one additional, random champion's ultimate ability to deploy in chaotic duels and teamfights.^[1]

Overview[]

• Map: Summoner's Rift 5v5
• Draft type: 10 Blind-Ban draft
• Mode: Classic

Features[]

• One summoner spell slot is occupied by a Placeholder Ult-ernate Summoner Spell that cannot be swapped out with another summoner spell. Junglers instead have a Placeholder and Attack-Smite.
• At the start of the match, you will be given 30 seconds to choose from a pool of 4 ultimates.
  • If you do not confirm to take the ultimate you have selected, that ultimate will be taken automatically.
  • If you do not select any ultimate, the first ultimate is taken by default.
• After some time, the ultimate you picked takes the place of your Placeholder Ult-ernate Summoner Spell for the rest of the game, and you cannot change it.
  • You can still rank up your own champion's ultimate.
• All Ult-ernate Summoner Spells do not have resource costs and have an initial cooldown of 130 seconds, increased to 210 if you have Attack-Smite.
  • These ultimates can be used even before reaching level 6.
• All players have 70 summoner spell haste, 160 − 330 (based on level) bonus health, 15% Tenacity and 40 bonus movement speed out-of-combat.
• You can see everyone's chosen Ult-ernate Summoner Spells on both the scoreboard and next to their health bar.
• You start at level 3 and with 950.
• Passive experience and gold are increased and you share minion gold with teammates in lane.
• Slaying epic monsters grants a buff that deals 0.3% maximum health magic damage once every second against turrets whenever you damage them.
• Turret Platings fall off at 9:00.
• Rift Herald spawns at 6:00.
• Slaying Baron Nashor leaves behind an Eye of the Herald.
• Unsealed Spellbook is disabled in this mode.

Attack-Smite[]

• Junglers have "Placeholder and Attack-Smite" instead of Placeholder Ult-ernate Summoner Spell in champion select. Attack-Smite gets replaced by the Ult-ernate Summoner Spell that they select at the beginning of the game, granting a buff that is also called Attack-Smite.
  • Attack-Smite: Causes basic attacks against Blue Sentinel, Red Brambleback, Rift Scuttler, or epic monsters while they are below 450 health to deal 450 bonus true damage.
    • Only affects the Blue Sentinel and Red Brambleback within the user's respective side of the jungle.
  • When Ivern takes Attack-Smite, he will not be able to use it to bypass Friend of the Forest's grove maturation timer. However, freeing a qualifying jungle camp will trigger Attack-Smite, granting him the heal and jungle starter item stack that a regular Smite would.

Exclusive Jungle item

• Unavailable Items: Emberknife and Hailblade.
• Exclusive Items: Obsidian Edge.

Ultimates[]

Ultimates that are currently available include:

One for All-timate Spellbook[]

In each match of the game mode, there is a slight chance for every player's pool of ultimates to contain the same ultimate in all 4 selections; all champions on both teams will have the same Ult-ernate Summoner Spell.

Notes[]

• Ult-ernate Summoner Spells by default have 35 bonus ability haste and scale with 80% of their regular ratios (unless stated otherwise).
• Chosen ultimates have modified scalings in this mode, based upon the reduced ratios:
  • Ultimates that scale with AP but not AD, now also scale with AD.
    • These ultimates now scale with 2.414% bonus AD per 1% AP.
  • Ultimates that scale with AD but not AP, now also scale with AP.
    • These ultimates now scale with 0.6% AP per 1% total AD and 0.4% AP per 1% bonus AD.
  • Ultimates that scale with health but not AP nor AD, now also scale with AD and AP.
    • These ultimates now scale with 13.158125% bonus AD and 8.198125% AP per 1% bonus health.
  • Ultimates that do not scale with anything will continue to scale with nothing.
• Ult-ernate Summoner Spells level up as your champion's personal ultimate levels up to rank 2 and 3 at levels 11 and 16 and benefit from summoner spell haste as well as ultimate haste.
• Ultimates are treated as summoner spells for the purposes of effects that interact with them, such as Nimbus Cloak.
• Axiom Arc's Flux does not reduce the cooldown of Ult-ernate Summoner Spells.
• Ult-ernate Summoner Spells are not applicable to drop as Spell Shards for Zoe's Spell Thief.
• The following ultimates will grant 5 − 35 (based on level) adaptive force,  bonus armor, and  bonus magic resistance after their initial cooldown has elapsed:
  • Bard's Tempered Fate
  • Gwen's Needlework
  • Janna's Monsoon
  • Kai'Sa's Killer Instinct
  • Poppy's Keeper's Verdict
  • Rell's Magnet Storm
  • Ryze's Realm Warp
  • Taliyah's Weaver's Wall
  • Xerath's Rite of the Arcane
  • Zoe's Portal Jump
• Your champion's ultimate will not be available in the pool of ultimates.
• Ultimate selection is unique per player on the same team; each player receives a pool of ultimates that are different from their teammates' pools. Only one type of ultimate may be available in the pool per team.
  • These restrictions do not apply in One for All-timate Spellbook.
  • The leftmost ultimate is weighted depending on a champion's class in order to avoid sub-optimal choices.^[2]

Mode-Specific Changes[]

This table extracts the data from Module:ChampionData/data and Template:map_changes/data/usb.

• Champions
• Items
• Runes
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Champion	Damage dealt	Damage received	Other effects
Ahri		-5%
Alistar	-5%
Anivia	+10%	-10%
Aphelios	-5%
Ashe		-5%
Aurelion Sol	+5%		Movement speed increased by 20%.
Bard	+8%	-8%	Movement speed increased by 20%.
Bel'Veth	-10%
Blitzcrank	+5%	-5%
Brand	-5%
Elise	+5%	-5%
Evelynn	+10%
Fiddlesticks	+5%	-5%
Fiora	-5%	+5%
Graves	-5%
Gwen	-5%	+5%
Ivern		-5%
Jarvan IV	-5%
Jax	-5%	+5%
Kindred	-5%	+5%
Lillia	-5%
Master Yi		+5%
Miss Fortune	+5%	-5%
Mordekaiser		+5%
Nasus		-5%
Neeko		-5%
Nidalee	+5%	-5%	Healing done increased by 20%.
Nunu & Willump	+5%	-5%	Healing done increased by 20%.
Rammus	+5%	-5%
Rell	-10%	+5%
Samira	-10%		Shielding done reduced by 1%.
Senna	+10%		Healing done increased by 20%.
Sett	-5%	+5%
Singed		+5%
Thresh			Shielding done increased by 0%. Movement speed increased by 20%.
Trundle		+5%
Vi	-5%	+5%
Viego	-5%		Healing done reduced by 20%.
Warwick	-5%
Wukong	-5%
Xayah		-5%
Xin Zhao	-5%	+5%
Yuumi	-5%		Shielding done reduced by 25%. Healing done reduced by 25%.

Unsealed Spellbook

• This rune is disabled.

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Trivia[]

• Ultimate Spellbook released with a unique Ruined Dragon using Mordekaiser's dragon from Children of the Grave that was then supplanted by Hextech Drake & Chemtech Drake in V11.23. It granted a dragon soul similar to Chemtech Drake.
• Ultimate Spellbook used a standard Blind pick drafting type in its first launch.

Patch History[]

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