Frontline
Radiant Virtue
Radiant Virtue is a teamwide stabilization item for tanks and supports that truly trigger teamfights through their ultimate.
The item matters when your ultimate is not just a personal button, but the real start of an engage, counter-engage, or organized front-to-back. At that point, it does not just protect you: it turns your entry timing into extra breathing room for the whole nearby team.
It is a strong buy for tank supports and frontliners with structuring ultimates when objectives are fought as a group and your team wants to survive the first wave of combat. It is weaker if your ultimate mainly serves isolated picks, side play, or if your champion does not enter surrounded by allies.
Strategic summary
Radiant Virtue is a teamwide stabilization item for tanks and supports that truly trigger teamfights through their ultimate.
The item gains tremendous value when fights are grouped, readable, and revolve around a real engage timing. The more often your champion starts a decisive fight with their ultimate near their team, the more Radiant Virtue converts that moment into effective health, frontline uptime, and safety margin for allies.
Meta snapshot
Stats
- Health+300
- Armor+45
- Ability Haste+15%
Build path
Kindlegem→Chain Vest
Buy when
- Your ultimate truly starts the teamfight.
- The team stays grouped around your entry.
- You want extra stability without leaving your tank-support role.
Avoid when
- Your ultimate is not a real grouped-teamfight button.
- Fights are too spread out to share the value.
- Another pure tankiness or peel piece is more urgent.
Champion examples
Rell naturally starts big grouped fights with her ultimate. Radiant Virtue strengthens that exact timing by adding durability to both her and nearby allies.
Alistar often wants to break the enemy line, absorb the response, and let his team follow. Radiant Virtue complements that teamfight-anchor role very well.
Braum benefits especially well from an item that turns a defensive or counter-engage moment into collective sustain, especially when his team plays grouped around him.
Comparisons
Zeke's Convergence is often more focused on engage utility and offensive pressure tied to crowd control. Radiant Virtue is more defensive-collective: it rewards less the raw lockdown itself and more the ability to keep your team healthy enough to continue the fight after the opening.
Protector's Vow covers immediate peel and targeted protection for a pressured ally better. Radiant Virtue is stronger when value needs to be spread across multiple allies during a real grouped teamfight.
Dawnshroud pushes the aggressive-engage angle and punishment through crowd control more. Radiant Virtue is steadier when your role is to open and then keep the brawl alive rather than mainly adding damage pressure.
Common mistakes
- Buying it by default on any tank without checking whether the champion's ultimate truly creates a grouped teamfight window.
- Choosing it in a comp that is too spread out to stay inside the aura at the right moment.
- Picking it when the real need is to protect one carry from targeted burst.
- Underestimating the importance of ultimate timing: a bad engage dramatically lowers the item's value.
- Treating it like a simple stat item even though its real strength comes from syncing your ultimate, your position, and your allies' positions.
Build contexts
Ultimate tank-support core
Very relevant on tank supports whose ultimate acts as a major engage or counter-engage button around which the team naturally groups.
Objective-fight stabilizer
Excellent when dragon or Baron fights are decided by one big entry and then by the ability to hold the brawl long enough to convert the advantage.
Grouped frontline support
Strong in compositions that want to advance together with a real frontline, without putting all defensive value into a single shield or one ally to protect.
Special family
Ultimate Aura
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FAQ
When should you buy Radiant Virtue in Wild Rift?
When your tank support or frontline often starts fights with their ultimate and your team stays grouped enough to fully benefit from the healing.
Is Radiant Virtue better than Protector's Vow?
Not always. Radiant Virtue is stronger in grouped teamfights with value spread across multiple allies, while Protector's Vow better protects one specific pressured carry.
Is Radiant Virtue a purely tank item?
It is a tank-support item. Its real strength comes less from its raw stats alone and more from the collective window created by the user's ultimate.