Death's Dance

Death's Dance Edit
Stats
+15 ability haste
+40 armor
+50 attack damage
Passive
Unique – 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 – 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.
Limitations	Limited to 1 Death's Dance.
Recipe
+  +  +  325
Cost	3100
Sell	2170
Code	3812
Menu
Attack › Damage
Defense › Armor
Magic › Ability Haste
Other › Movement

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

• 80 attack damage = 2800
• 10% cooldown reduction = 266.67
• 15% "life steal" = 562.5
  • Total Gold Value - spell vamp = 3629.17
• 15% "spell vamp" = 412.5
  • Total Gold Value = 4041.67

Gold Efficiency*

• When used by a champion that deals part magic damage or full magic damage, Death's Dance is 117.07% gold efficient, without its damage over time passive, and the rest of its healing passive.
• When used by a champion that deals only physical damage, Death's Dance is 130.38% gold efficient, without its damage over time.

Similar Items

Hextech Gunblade

The Bloodthirster

Ravenous Hydra

Youmuu's Ghostblade

Blade of the Ruined King

Usage

• The advantage over life steal that its sustain passive isn't restricted to basic attacks only.
  • Generally for melee champions, life steal is most needed if the enemy champion is in possession of strong poke. At the same time as life steal helps you sustain this damage though, it forces you to basic attack minions, putting yourself into the poke range of the enemy.
    • As such, unless you can outsustain the poke, the life steal itself might be rendered useless. By granting spell vamp on abilities on the other hand, Death's Dance allows you to regenerate while minimizing the enemy's window to poke.
  • As Death's Dance's spell vamp component is reduced for area of effect abilities , this component is most useful when mainly dealing unit-targeted damage.
• Death's Dance second passive has to be judged critically, as its damage over time will interrupt channels that are interrupted by damage (e.g. Behind Enemy Lines), and delay abilities that are delayed by damage (e.g. Twitch's Ambush).
  • This 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.

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. Twitch's Ambush).
• Death's Dance unique 'life steal' also applies on physical on-hit effects.
• Conqueror or Infinity Edge can actually decrease Death's Dance's efficiency as potential physical damage is converted into true damage, which will not give healing.
• 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.

Patch History

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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