- Win Rate
- 49.4%
- Pick Rate
- 9.8%
Cheap Shot vs Sudden Impact vs Taste of Blood
- Patch
- 26.19
- Games with rune
- 44,463
- Lane
- All Lanes
- Tier
- All Tiers
- Last Updated
- Oct 6, 2026 UTC
- Methodology
- Data Methodology
- Author
- Dakota Chinnick
Cooldown: 4s
- Rune tree
- Domination · Row 1
- Cooldown
- 4s
- Win Rate
- 49.4%+0.1 vs row avg
- Pick Rate
- 9.8%
- Best champion
- Xerath · 59.8%
- Most played by
- Lux
Cheap Shot vs alternatives
Patch 26.19 · All ranksYou can take only one rune per row. Here is Cheap Shot against its 2 row alternatives, on the same champions and overall.
Cheap Shot49.4%9.8% PR · 44,463 games
Sudden Impact49.2%15.6% PR · 70,885 gamesOn the same champions, Sudden Impact wins 1.8 points more often than Cheap Shot across 53 champion-lane pairs. Cheap Shot and Sudden Impact share a row, so it is a straight either-or choice.
Cheap Shot vs Sudden Impact on the same champions
| Champion | Cheap Shot | Sudden Impact | Δ WR |
|---|---|---|---|
 Pyke · Support | 47.5% 2,992 | 48.7% 2,668 | −1.2 |
 Shaco · Jungle | 46.5% 840 | 47.9% 4,069 | −1.4 |
 Pantheon · Support | 48.5% 2,749 | 54.6% 463 | −6.2 |
 Elise · Jungle | 48.4% 1,204 | 48.3% 300 | +0.1 |
| Pantheon · Mid | 54.5% 440 | 50.5% 402 | +4.0 |
 Fiddlesticks · Jungle | 49.7% 2,197 | 55.0% 218 | −5.4 |
| Shaco · Support | 50.6% 326 | 45.9% 366 | +4.7 |
 Nocturne · Jungle | 48.3% 178 | 49.5% 3,166 | −1.2 |
 Zoe · Mid | 45.9% 172 | 48.9% 1,506 | −2.9 |
 Ahri · Mid | 51.4% 249 | 51.4% 393 | ±0.0 |
 Teemo · Top | 50.5% 1,356 | 52.1% 167 | −1.6 |
 Malphite · Jungle | 45.6% 215 | 51.6% 351 | −6.0 |
By lane
| Lane | Cheap Shot | Sudden Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Top | 51.0% 3,895 | 48.5% 5,703 |
| Jungle | 49.5% 9,869 | 49.0% 33,226 |
| Mid | 49.3% 9,090 | 49.8% 23,753 |
| ADC | 47.6% 2,815 | 49.3% 3,720 |
| Support | 49.4% 18,777 | 49.0% 4,453 |
By game length
Per-minute stats
| Stat | Cheap Shot | Sudden Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Damage to champions | 728 | 806 |
| Healing | 203 | 321 |
| Damage mitigated | 648 | 709 |
| Objective damage | 374 | 586 |
| Kills | 0.189 | 0.287 |
| Deaths | 0.223 | 0.226 |
Cheap Shot49.4%9.8% PR · 44,463 games
Taste of Blood49.2%4.8% PR · 21,669 gamesHead to head on shared champions it is close: Cheap Shot and Taste of Blood are 0.2 points apart over 69 champion-lanes. Cheap Shot and Taste of Blood share a row, so it is a straight either-or choice.
Cheap Shot vs Taste of Blood on the same champions
| Champion | Cheap Shot | Taste of Blood | Δ WR |
|---|---|---|---|
 Veigar · Mid | 48.8% 2,414 | 50.2% 906 | −1.4 |
 Zyra · Support | 51.1% 1,063 | 52.6% 1,539 | −1.5 |
 Jhin · ADC | 45.9% 429 | 50.0% 3,541 | −4.1 |
 Janna · Support | 53.0% 551 | 50.0% 668 | +3.0 |
 Vex · Mid | 54.0% 326 | 51.6% 3,506 | +2.4 |
 Neeko · Support | 50.8% 799 | 48.0% 348 | +2.8 |
| Ahri · Mid | 51.4% 249 | 51.0% 7,695 | +0.5 |
| Teemo · Top | 50.5% 1,356 | 48.3% 290 | +2.2 |
| Veigar · ADC | 51.7% 810 | 48.6% 276 | +3.2 |
 Brand · Support | 43.3% 270 | 52.3% 803 | −9.0 |
 Miss Fortune · ADC | 48.9% 442 | 50.4% 357 | −1.6 |
| Veigar · Support | 45.8% 613 | 45.1% 184 | +0.7 |
By lane
| Lane | Cheap Shot | Taste of Blood |
|---|---|---|
| Top | 51.0% 3,895 | 48.9% 2,064 |
| Jungle | 49.5% 9,869 | 47.5% 762 |
| Mid | 49.3% 9,090 | 49.5% 9,208 |
| ADC | 47.6% 2,815 | 48.7% 6,967 |
| Support | 49.4% 18,777 | 50.3% 2,657 |
By game length
Per-minute stats
| Stat | Cheap Shot | Taste of Blood |
|---|---|---|
| Damage to champions | 728 | 826 |
| Healing | 203 | 194 |
| Damage mitigated | 648 | 469 |
| Objective damage | 374 | 349 |
| Kills | 0.189 | 0.240 |
| Deaths | 0.223 | 0.222 |
Same-champion difference: for every champion and lane with 30+ games on both runes, the win-rate gap, weighted by the smaller sample. This removes the bias of each rune's champion mix.
Cheap Shot and its alternatives
All candidates at a glance. The same-champion column shows how each alternative does against Cheap Shot on the champions that take both.
| Rune | Win Rate | Pick Rate | vs this rune (same champions) | Shared champions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheap Shot This rune | 49.4% | 9.8% | — | — |
| Sudden Impact | 49.2% | 15.6% | +1.8 | 53 |
| Taste of Blood | 49.2% | 4.8% | +0.2 | 69 |
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Cheap Shot vs other runes – Patch 26.19
Cheap Shot vs Sudden Impact: which is better?
On the same champions, Sudden Impact wins 1.8 points more often than Cheap Shot across 53 champion-lane pairs. Across all games: Cheap Shot 49.4%, Sudden Impact 49.2%. Cheap Shot and Sudden Impact share a row, so it is a straight either-or choice.
Cheap Shot vs Taste of Blood: which is better?
On the same champions, Cheap Shot and Taste of Blood are within 0.2 points of each other (69 shared champion-lanes), so pick by playstyle. Across all games: Cheap Shot 49.4%, Taste of Blood 49.2%. Cheap Shot and Taste of Blood share a row, so it is a straight either-or choice.