Talk:Rylai's Crystal Scepter/@comment-5643879-20150710224231/@comment-3308937-20151222162718

I disagree.

Damage over time in this context refers to single target debuffs (Malz E, Brand passive, etc.), they count as 1 spell hit for the likes of Thunderlord's and once applied the damage cannot be avoided without using special means (zhonya's, bard ult).

Multi-hit is anything like Malz's W, Vel's R, etc. which can be walked out of, don't affect untargetable units, and each hit counts toward's Thunderlord's counter. Yes they effectively do damage over time, but each instance of damage is separate.

It's like the difference between using a machine gun and slicing someone's wrists, technically the machine gun will deal damage over time but it's not the same as the wrist bleeding.