Runaan’s Hurricane

What is Runaan’s Hurricane? 🌪️

Runaan’s Hurricane is a legendary Marksman item in League of Legends, categorized under Marksman, Critical Strike, Attack Speed, On-Hit Effects, and Movement. It is available only to ranged champions — the item cannot be purchased by melee champions.

The item’s identity is straightforward: it triples the effective on-hit and critical-strike value of basic attacks in grouped scenarios by firing two additional bolts at nearby enemies simultaneously with every primary attack. A single basic attack becomes three independent hit instances — each applying on-hit effects, each capable of critically striking, and each dealing physical damage proportional to AD.

At 2,650 gold, it is positioned as a second or third item after a critical strike foundation, typically following Infinity Edge or Kraken Slayer depending on whether the build prioritizes crit or on-hit damage. Available on SR 5v5, ARAM, Nexus Blitz, and Arena. Sell price: 1,855 Gold.

📊 Base Statistics & Cost

🔨 Recipe & Components

Runaan’s Hurricane builds from a crit-oriented and an attack speed-oriented component — both feeding the core stat identity:

🌪️ Passive Mechanic: WIND’S FURY

WIND’S FURY fires additional bolts at up to 2 enemies in front of you with each basic attack. Each bolt deals 55% AD physical damage. Bolts apply on-hit effects and are affected by critical strike modifiers — they function identically to basic attacks in the vast majority of gameplay interactions.

Target selection: bolts automatically target the closest enemies to you that are not the primary attack target. This is auto-targeted — you cannot manually direct which enemies receive bolts. Positioning determines whether bolts hit champions, minions, or monsters based on proximity.

WIND’S FURY — Complete Mechanics Reference

On-Hit Effects Applied by Bolts — What Works and What Doesn’t

🏟️ Arena Mode — Map-Specific Differences

Arena transforms Runaan’s Hurricane significantly. The bolt damage increases from 55% to 70% AD — each bolt deals noticeably more per hit. The new 42% AP scaling is the most significant change: it opens Runaan’s Hurricane to hybrid and AP-building ranged champions who don’t otherwise use the item on SR. In Arena, a ranged champion building both AP and AD stats (e.g. Corki, Ezreal, Teemo with AP items) can convert that AP into meaningful bolt damage through the 42% ratio.

🎯 Best Champions for Runaan’s Hurricane

Runaan’s Hurricane is strongest on ranged champions who deal meaningful on-hit damage or apply valuable on-hit effects to multiple targets simultaneously. The item multiplies the value of whatever on-hit behavior the champion already has — weak on-hit effects multiplied by three are still weak; powerful on-hit effects multiplied by three become disproportionately impactful.

✅ Ideal Picks

• Ashe — The definitive Runaan’s synergy. Every bolt applies Frost Shot slow to adjacent targets — a single auto slows 3 champions simultaneously in grouped fights. At 100% crit, Frost Shot’s doubled slow at 62.35% means 3 targets simultaneously slowed at that level. Her Ranger’s Focus (Q) maintains unique bolt behavior with 2500 missile speed for those bolts specifically.
• Kog’Maw — His W Bio-Arcane Barrage applies percentage-HP on-hit damage on every basic attack. With Runaan’s, every attack deals percentage-HP damage to the primary target AND to up to 2 adjacent targets — making grouped frontline fights extremely punishing. His natural low mobility means the attack speed also helps him generate bolt hits quickly.
• Jinx (Minigun form) — Jinx’s Fishbones (Q rockets) is explicitly one of the exceptions to the modified damage rule — Runaan’s unaffected clause doesn’t apply to Jinx Fishbones. Her attack speed scaling from Pow-Pow (minigun stacks) and Runaan’s attack speed compound significantly, and the multi-target coverage in grouped fights is her strongest AoE auto pattern.
• Twitch — Deadly Venom (passive) stacks apply on-hit to adjacent targets through bolts — spreading poison stacks to up to 3 targets per auto. His Contaminate (E) then detonates all stacks simultaneously. Runaan’s is the enabler that turns single-target Twitch poisoning into multi-target poison distribution across the entire enemy frontline.
• Miss Fortune — Her Love Tap (passive) applies a damage multiplier when hitting targets that weren’t the last target. Runaan’s bolts can feed into Love Tap mechanics by hitting different targets in sequence. Her Strut (W) attack speed and the natural grouping during Bullet Time (R) make Hurricane a valuable damage amplifier in teamfight windows.
• Caitlyn — Headshot (passive) charges apply to each bolt independently — bolt hits contribute to Headshot charge accumulation. Her positioning-dependent playstyle in grouped fights makes Hurricane’s multi-target bolt coverage valuable for zone control and coordinated engage peel.
• Varus — His Blighted Quiver (W) on-hit stacks apply through bolts to each target hit. With Runaan’s, Varus can spread Blight stacks to up to 3 targets per auto — detonating with abilities deals amplified damage to all three simultaneously. This is one of the most efficient Blight-stacking methods in grouped scenarios.

❌ Suboptimal Picks

• Melee champions — Runaan’s Hurricane cannot be purchased by melee champions. The item is explicitly limited to ranged only.
• Single-target assassin ranged ADCs (Draven): Draven’s identity is single-target maximum damage through Spinning Axe (Q) and his snowball gold mechanic. Runaan’s spreads damage across three targets instead of maximizing single-target output — Galeforce or Infinity Edge + Collector provide better single-target kill power per gold spent.
• Hypercarries who already have AoE from kit (Jinx Fishbones, Tristana W): Champions with strong built-in AoE from their kits gain less incremental AoE value from Runaan’s bolts. Though some synergies still exist (Jinx Fishbones exception), the slot may be better used for a damage amplifier that doesn’t overlap with the kit’s natural coverage.

⚙️ Recommended Build Paths

Crit ADC Multi-Target Build (Ashe / Caitlyn)

1. Infinity Edge — First item — crit damage amplification that compounds with Runaan’s 25% crit and WIND’S FURY bolt critical strikes
2. Runaan’s Hurricane — Second item — bolt spread with crit at 50% crit chance total; every bolt crits when primary crits
3. Kraken Slayer / Phantom Dancer — Third item — on-hit tank shredding or survivability crit extension depending on enemy composition
4. Lord Dominik’s Regards — Fourth item — armor penetration against tanky frontlines taking multi-bolt hits
5. Bloodthirster / Guardian Angel — Fifth item — survivability in the late-game teamfight window

On-Hit Multi-Target Build (Kog’Maw / Varus / Twitch)

6. Kraken Slayer — First item — true damage on every third hit applies to primary target; attack speed compounds with Hurricane’s multi-hit pattern
7. Runaan’s Hurricane — Second item — bolt spread enables on-hit effects (Kraken true damage counted separately, Varus Blight, Twitch stacks) across 3 targets
8. Blade of the Ruined King — Third item — percentage-HP on-hit damage applies to each bolt independently against multiple targets simultaneously
9. Wit’s End — Fourth item — on-hit magic damage from each bolt; attack speed stacks compound across all three targets
10. Guinsoo’s Rageblade — Situational — converts crit chance to on-hit damage, making the Hurricane bolt crits convert to additional on-hit instances

🔄 Similar Items & Alternatives

❌ Common Mistakes & How to Avoid Them

• Assuming bolts trigger spell effects: WIND’S FURY deals BASIC damage, not spell damage. Any item or ability that requires spell damage, spell casts, or ability damage to proc will NOT be triggered by bolts. This is the most common misconception — always check whether an effect requires ‘basic attack’ or ‘ability/spell’ before assuming it chains with Runaan’s.
• Building it on isolated single-target fights: In a 1v1 scenario with no nearby secondary targets, Runaan’s Hurricane provides zero bolt value — the bolts have nobody to hit. The item’s entire AoE value is contingent on having grouped enemies within range. In heavy split-push or dueling-focused games, a different ADC item delivers more single-fight value.
• Forgetting bolts can be blocked by Yasuo/Yone Wind Wall: Bolts are blockable projectiles. Yasuo and Yone Wind Wall will block them. Playing around Wind Wall in matchups is essential — attacking from an angle where the primary bolt and both secondary bolts pass outside the Wind Wall range, or forcing Wind Wall before committing to a multi-bolt sequence.
• Not accounting for the on-attack vs on-hit distinction: On-attack effects are triggered at the start of the attack animation — Runaan’s bolts do NOT trigger on-attack effects. Only on-hit effects (which trigger on successful hit) are applied by bolts. Champions who rely on on-attack mechanics don’t gain those benefits from the bolt spread.
• Skipping Runaan’s on Twitch or Varus for a damage item: For on-hit stack-spreading champions like Twitch and Varus, Runaan’s isn’t just a damage item — it’s the primary multi-target delivery mechanism for their core mechanic. Building a raw damage item instead of Runaan’s means those on-hit effects only apply to the primary target, eliminating the teamfight value of Twitch’s Contaminate or Varus’s multi-target Blight detonation.
• Ignoring Arena’s 42% AP scaling in hybrid builds: In Arena, Runaan’s bolts scale with 42% AP in addition to 70% AD. Players who treat it identically to the SR version miss the opportunity to build AP items that feed into bolt damage. In Arena, hybrid AD/AP champions (Corki, Ezreal) or AP-building ranged champions (Teemo with AP items) can meaningfully scale bolt damage through AP investment.

✅ Best Practices

• Walk toward grouped enemies before attacking: bolt targeting selects closest non-primary enemies — getting 2 champions within bolt range maximizes every auto’s multi-target value
• Buy Runaan’s as second item on on-hit builds (after Kraken Slayer) — the earlier bolt spread is online, the more fights benefit from multi-target on-hit application
• On Ashe: every Hurricane auto slows 3 targets simultaneously — use this in teamfights to lock down the entire enemy front line rather than focusing on single-target crit value
• On Twitch: use Hurricane to stack Deadly Venom on 3 targets simultaneously before Contaminate (E) — maximize the number of stacked targets before the detonation window
• Against Yasuo/Yone: bait Wind Wall first or attack from an angle that avoids the wall before committing to a grouped fight where bolts are critical — blocked bolts in a teamfight is a significant lost damage window
• In Arena, factor in the 42% AP scaling — any AP items in the build directly increase bolt damage per hit for all three bolt instances

FAQ

Q: Can melee champions buy Runaan’s Hurricane?

A: A: No. Runaan’s Hurricane explicitly states it can only be purchased by ranged champions. The shop will not allow melee champions to add it to their inventory. If you’re playing a ranged champion who temporarily becomes melee through an ability or effect, the purchase restriction is still applied based on the champion’s base classification.

Q: Do Runaan’s Hurricane bolts apply Vayne Silver Bolts?

A: A: No. Vayne’s Silver Bolts (W) is explicitly listed as an on-hit exception that WIND’S FURY bolts do not apply. The bolts apply most standard on-hit effects, but Silver Bolts is specifically excluded. This means Vayne’s Silver Bolt stacks only accumulate on the primary attack target, not on bolt targets.

Q: Can Runaan’s Hurricane bolts critically strike?

A: A: Yes, under one specific condition: bolts will critically strike if and only if the primary attack would also critically strike. They inherit the crit/non-crit outcome of the primary attack. The exception is guaranteed critical strikes — bolts WILL critically strike on guaranteed crit effects even if the primary attack’s crit was ‘guaranteed’ through a mechanic rather than probability.

Q: Do Runaan’s bolts trigger Kraken Slayer’s true damage?

A: A: Kraken Slayer’s Bring It Down true damage triggers on every third basic attack hit. Bolts independently count as hit instances for most on-hit effects — but the specific stacking toward Kraken Slayer’s third-hit counter depends on whether bolts count as separate hit instances for that mechanic. In general, on-hit effects that apply based on successful hit count (rather than specific attack count) are applied by bolts.

Q: What’s the missile speed of Runaan’s Hurricane bolts?

A: A: Standard WIND’S FURY bolts have a missile speed of 2000. The specific override variants — Ashe’s Ranger’s Focus (Q) and Kalista’s Basic Attack missiles — have a different speed of 2500 when those abilities modify the bolt behavior.

Q: Does Runaan’s Hurricane work with Jinx’s Fishbones rockets?

A: A: Yes — Jinx’s Fishbones (Pow-Pow, Q rocket mode) is one of the explicitly listed exceptions to the ‘unaffected if primary attack deals modified damage’ rule. WIND’S FURY is still functional and fires bolts normally during Fishbones rocket mode, unlike the general case where modified primary attack damage would prevent bolt interaction.

Q: How does Arena’s 42% AP scaling change the item’s viability?

A: A: In Arena, WIND’S FURY deals 70% AD + 42% AP per bolt. For a champion with 200 AP and 200 AD, each bolt deals 140 (70% AD) + 84 (42% AP) = 224 damage per bolt × 2 bolts = 448 additional damage per auto. This makes hybrid-damage ranged champions significantly more viable with Runaan’s in Arena, and opens it to champions like Corki, Ezreal, and AP Teemo who wouldn’t build it on SR.