Death's Dance

For the Wild Rift item, see Death's Dance.

Death's Dance edit
Stats
+55 attack damage
+15 ability haste
+45 armor
Passive
Unique – Ignore Pain: Stores ( 35% / 15%) of all post-mitigation physical damage received, which is successively taken as true damage over 3 seconds instead, dealing a third of the stored damage each second.
Unique – Defy: Scoring a takedown against an enemy champion removes Ignore Pain's remaining stored damage, and heals you for 15% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Limitations
Limited to 1 Death's Dance.
Recipe
+  +  +  325
Cost	3100
Sell	2170
ID	3812
Availability
SR
HA
Menu
Fighter Attack Damage Armor Ability Haste
Keywords
dd Bloodbag

Death's Dance is a legendary item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Death's Dance 3100 ( 325)
		Chain Vest 800 ( 500) Cloth Armor 300
		Caulfield's Warhammer 1100 ( 400) Long Sword 350 Long Sword 350
		Pickaxe 875

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 55 attack damage =  1925
• 15 ability haste =  400
• 45 armor =  900
• Total Gold Value =  3225

Gold efficiency

• Death's Dance's base stats are 104.03% gold efficient.

Similar items

Guardian Angel

Maw of Malmortius

Ravenous Hydra

Youmuu's Ghostblade

Notes

• The bleed can interrupt and delay certain effects (e.g, Perseverance, Recall).
• The bleed can kill the user as the stored damage is able to reduce health below 1.
• Physical damage dealt to a shield is fully applied and does not store damage.
• Each tick of damage received is stored and dealt individually, regardless on when other hits were received.
• The healing value is stored on-takedowns, working similarly to the damage storage, meaning that scoring a takedown while the heal is occuring will refresh its duration to 2 seconds and the new heal value value will be added to the remaining healing.
• The Damage mitigation from Death's Dance applies after the damage mitigation from Warden's Mail and it's child items.

Strategy

• The unique passive's usage is best realized when looking at a simplified situation where an enemy inflicts instant burst damage onto you.
  • 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.

Old icons

1st version

Trivia

• The item was referenced by the Teamfight Tactics item Death's Defiance.

Patch History

V11.13

• Removed: Defy no longer grants 30% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds on takedowns.
• Defy heal increased to 15% maximum health from 10%.

V11.10

• Bug Fix: No longer extends Aspect of the Dragon's burn damage longer than intended (3 seconds).

V11.9

• Attack damage increased to 55 from 50.
• Armor increased to 45 from 40.

V10.23

• Updated icon.
• New:
  • Recipe: Chain Vest + Caulfield's Warhammer + Pickaxe + 325 = 3100.
  • Stats: 50 attack damage, 40 armor, 15 ability haste.
  • Unique Passive - Ignore Pain: Stores ( 35% / 15%) of all post-mitigation physical damage received, which is successively taken as damage over time true damage instead, dealing one-third of the stored damage every second.
  • Unique Passive - Defy: Champion takedowns grant you 30% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds, remove Ignore Pain's remaining damage, and heal you for 10% of your maximum health over the duration.
  • Limited to 1 Death's Dance.
• Old:
  • Recipe: Aegis of the Legion + Caulfield's Warhammer + Vampiric Scepter + 500 = 3600.
  • Stats: 50 attack damage, 30 armor, 30 magic resistance, 10% cooldown reduction.
  • Unique Passive: Instantly  heal for 15% of all damage dealt. Area damage and pet damage only heal 5% for every unit affected.
  • Unique Passive: Stores ( 30% / 10%) of all post-mitigation physical and magic damage received, which is successively taken as damage over time true damage instead, dealing one-third of the stored damage every second.

V10.13

• Damage storing for ranged champions reduced to 10% from 20%.

V10.6

• New Recipe: Aegis of the Legion + Caulfield's Warhammer + Vampiric Scepter + 500 = 3600.
  • Old Recipe: Caulfield's Warhammer + Pickaxe + Vampiric Scepter + 625 = 3500
• Attack damage reduced to 50 from 80.
• New Effect: Now grants 30 armor.
• New Effect: Now grants 30 magic resistance.
• Damage storing for ranged champions reduced to 20% from 30%.

V10.5

• Bug Fix: The last tick of stored damage now properly kills the target champion instead of leaving them at 1 health.

V9.23 - November 20th Hotfix

• Bug Fix: Passive no longer infinitely triggers Infernal Dragon Soul.

V9.11

• Bug Fix: Getting damaged by an Aery user while having Death's Dance equipped no longer causes Aery to continuously deal damage to the player.

V9.7

• Bug Fix: Omni-vamp now properly grant reduced healing from pets.

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.

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