Death's Dance

Death's Dance Edit
Recipe
Cost	Special
Sell	No Sell
Code	N/A

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 75 attack damage = 2625
• 10% cooldown reduction = 300
• 15% "life steal" = 562.5
  • Total Gold Value - spell vamp = 3487.5
• 15% "spell vamp" = 412.5
  • Total Gold Value = 3900

Gold efficiency

• When used by a champion that deals part magic damage or full magic damage, Death's Dance is 108.98% gold efficient, without its damage over time passive, and the rest of its heal passive.
• when used by a champion that deals only physical damage, Death's Dance is 121.88% gold efficient, without its damage over time.

Similar Items

Hextech Gunblade

Will of the Ancients

Youmuu's Ghostblade

Usage

• Death's Dance's is intended for attack damage casters who mostly deal physical damage. It's best used when looking for an aggressive sustain item, with the advantage over life steal that its sustain passive isn't restricted to auto attacks only.
  • Generally for melee champions, lifesteal is most needed if the enemy champion is in possession of strong poke. At the same time as lifesteal helps you sustain this damage though, it forces you to auto attack minions, putting yourself into the poke range of the enemy. As such, unless you can outsustain the poke, the lifesteal itself might be rendered useless. By granting spellvamp 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 spellvamp component is reduced for area of effect abilities , this component is most useful when mainly dealing single target damage.
• Death's Dance second passive has to be judged critically, as its bleed will interrupt channels that are interrupted by damage (e.g. Recall or 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 opponent inflicts instant burst damage onto you. By transforming 15% of the incoming damage into a damage over time effect, it is equal to a HP multiplicator of e.g. 11.8% or 5.9%.
    • 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 heals. 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 assassinss generally overkill an opponent, and as such aren't hindered by slightly increased HP.

Notes

• Death's Dance's bleed will interrupt channels that are interrupted by damage (e.g. Recall or Behind Enemy Lines ), and delay abilities that are delayed by damage (e.g. Twitch's Ambush).
• Death's Dance only heals for damage dealt by your champion. As such, physical damage dealt by pets like Malzahar's Voidlings won't profit from its unique "lifesteal" passive.
• Death's Dance unique "lifesteal" also applies on physical on-hit effects, like Aatrox's Blood Price.
• Death's Dance stores damage taken after reductions and the bleed deals true damage.
  • PENDING FOR TEST: Shields.

Patch History

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%.

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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