Talk:Trinity Force/@comment-24035110-20140824165936/@comment-24938102-20141001191749

"Spellblade is a unique passive. If using   Iceborn Gauntlet  and   Trinity Force, the next basic attack will deal 200% base AD bonus physical damage to your primary target, 125% base AD bonus physical damage to surrounding enemies and creates the slow field."

SPELLBLADE  :  After using an ability, your next basic attack deals  200% base AD  bonus physical damage.

ICY  / SPELLBLADE  -  After using an ability, your next basic attack deals  125% base AD  bonus  physical damage  to surrounding enemies and creates a field for 2 seconds that slows enemies inside by 30%

The    Iceborn Gauntlet 's Spellblade Unique Passive is combined with the Unique Passive "Icy" (The same keyword used by   Frozen Mallet ). If you look at the wording on IBG's Unique Passive, it doesn't ever reference the target of the AA. It simply says "to surrounding enemies." Ultimately, it's just a burst of AoE damage.

So, you use an ability, turning on Spellblade. You AA someone. They take your Base AD, plus the 200% bonus base AD from    Trinity Force. Then, Surrounding enemies take damage equal to 125% base AD. The part that doesn't stack is the bonus damage to the AA target. So, the AA target takes 200% base AD bonus damage, but not an additional 125% bonus damage (Which would total 325% base AD bonus damage).

To put it another way, the person you hit with the Trinity Force's damage is "protected" from the Iceborn Gauntlet AA's damage.