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Lethal Tempo

★Lethal Tempo

Keystone · Cross-path keystone · 7.1e

Mechanics

Gain stackable Attack Speed when attacking enemy champions. Stacks up to 6 times. At max stacks, you gain bonus range and can exceed your Attack Speed cap. Each stack increases Attack Speed by 8 – 16% (melee) or 3 – 10% (ranged) for 6 seconds. At max stacks, gain 50 (melee) or 75 (ranged) Attack Distance.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Commentary (7.1e)

Generated by /wr-extract rune-guide mode from 7.1e rune guide. Re-running OVERWRITES this section.

  • "You can do your damage. At that point, you already have three lethal tempo stacks. You might as well go lethal tempo. You can have done a quick burst with fleet footwork. Uh, so most ADCs actually don't really like empowerment. They prefer lethal tempo even though it's been nerfed a gazillion times. And then when you nerf lethal tempo gazillion times, they're like, "Okay, fine. I'm going to go fleet footwork or I'm even going to go conqueror, right?" (25:50)
  • "Love this rune. Next up, we have Lethal Tempo. Gain stacking attack speed when attacking enemy champions." (26:55)
  • "I guess for items we have magnetic blaster, but even that is for just one O attack. Lethal tempo after you stack it, all your ODS have increased range, which is really insane. So, Lethal Tempo gives an insane amount of gold value in terms of stats, right? Think about it this way." (27:29)
  • "How much gold is that in gold value? That is 3,000 gold of gold value on Lethal Tempo alone. That's a full item and then you also get the range, right? So, Lethal Tempo is one of the highest gold value um items in the game as a har. Thank you so much for the raid just to catch everyone up uh because I'm doing this live and I'm also intending for this to be like something that people can rewatch as well as it gets saved as a VOD on YouTube." (27:56)
  • "Okay. So, who likes lethal tempo, right? Obviously, most ADCs like Lethal Tempo, even though it's less beneficial on ranged champions for attack speed, um you do get a higher increased ranged. uh champions like Twitch, champions like Jinx, champions like mostly hyper carry ADCs, right? Champions like Kaisa, champions like Vain, right? the champions that want to gain attack speed, benefit a lot from attack speed, benefit a lot from range, and can be absolutely crazy in the late game." (28:52)
  • "Uh, so it's pretty obvious. Lethal Tempo is the rune that gives you an insane amount of stats, insane amount of gold compared to other runes. So if you have like a high breakary champion, you love lethal tempo. Even though like Yon and Yaso after so many lethal tempo nerfs don't really want it that much anymore. They have other choices." (29:42)
  • "It's OP in terms of stats. So, it doesn't give as much as much gold value as um as an item like uh Lethal Tempo, but it still gives a crazy amount of gold value. How could you forget to mention Young Timothy?" (33:48)
  • "So Fleetwork is an incredible item on the Young Timothy. So next up, we have Conqueror, who again like Lethal Tempo, gives you a crazy amount of stats. Three to seven." (34:29)