Death's Dance

Death's Dance
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Stats

Passive

Unique: Instantly

heal for 15% of all damage dealt, including physical, magic, and true damage. Area of effect damage only heals 5% for every unit affected.

Unique: Stores 30% of all physical and magic damage received, and is taken as damage over time true damage instead, dealing one-third of the stored damage every second.

Recipe

+

625

Cost	Sell	Code
3500	2450	3812

Recipe

Death's Dance

3500 (

625)

Caulfield's Warhammer 1100 ( 400)
		Long Sword 350

		Long Sword 350

Pickaxe

875

Vampiric Scepter 900 ( 550)
		Long Sword 350

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

80 attack damage = 2800
10% cooldown reduction = 266.67
- Total Gold Value = 3066.67
15% "life steal" = 562.5
15% "spell vamp" = 412.5
- Total Gold Value = 4041.67

Gold Efficiency*

Death's Dance is 115.48% gold efficient, without its second passive.

Similar Items

Hextech Gunblade

The Bloodthirster

Ravenous Hydra

Youmuu's Ghostblade

Blade of the Ruined King

Notes

Death's Dance bleed will interrupt channels that are interrupted by damage (e.g. Behind Enemy Lines), and delay abilities that are delayed by damage (e.g. Garen's Perseverance).
Death's Dance's passive heal is the same effect as Hextech Gunblade's, and stacks additively with it, granting 30% healing on all damage.
Death's Dance stores damage taken after reductions and the bleed deals true damage.
- Damage done to a shield is fully applied and does not store damage.
- Shields absorb the true damage of the bleed.
- However, magic and physical shields will not absorb the bleed, as only regular shields can absorb true damage.

Strategy

As Death's Dance's ability drain component is reduced for area of effect abilities, this component is most useful when mainly dealing unit-targeted damage.
The unique passive's usage is best realized when looking at a simplified situation where an enemy inflicts instant burst damage onto you. By transforming 30% of the incoming damage into a damage over time effect, it is equal to a health multiplicator of e.g. 23.6% or 11.8%.
- As a result, your opponent has to overkill you to actually finish you off within this time span, which slightly increases your time to react and deploy counter measures like shields or healing. At the same time it also slightly improves your time window for retaliation, and is as such most powerful in a fight between two assassins.
  - Regardless, it's important to not overestimate this unique passive's influence, as most assassins generally overkill an opponent, and as such aren't hindered by slightly increased health.

Patch History

V9.1

Bug Fix: No longer grants an excessive amount of healing from Urgot's Fear Beyond Death against Tryndamere's Undying Rage or Anivia's Rebirth.

V8.24

Healing changed to all types of damage from only physical damage.

V7.9

Attack damage increased to 80 from 75.
Damage taken dealt as a bleed effect increased to 30% from 15%.

V7.6

Undocumented: Bleed effect now doesn't cancel Recall.

V6.1

Combine cost increased to 625 from 525.
- Total cost increased to 3500 from 3400.
Attack damage increased to 75 from 65.
Healing increased to 15% from 12%.
Damage conversion increased to 15% from 12%.
Now also heals for physical damage done by pets.

V5.22 Added

Death's Dance:
- Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer + Pickaxe + Vampiric Scepter + 525 = 3400
- +65 attack damage.
- +10 cooldown reduction.
- Unique passive: Instantly heal for 12% of all physical damage dealt. Area of effect physical damage only heals 4% for every unit affected.
- Unique passive: Stores 12% of all physical and magical damage received, and is taken as a damage over time instead, dealing one-third of the stored damage every second.