Death's Dance

Death's Dance

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Stats

+60 attack damage

+15 ability haste

+50 armor

+60 (+9.52) attack damage

+15 (+10.67) ability haste

+50 (+16.67) armor

+69.52 attack damage

+25.67 ability haste

+66.67 armor

Passive

Unique – Ignore Pain: Reduces ( 30% / 10%) of all post-mitigation physical and magic damage received and instead stores the damage to successively take it as true damage over 3 seconds, dealing a third of the stored damage each second.

Unique – Defy: If an enemy champion dies within 3 seconds of you damaging them, removes Ignore Pain's remaining stored damage and heals you for 75% bonus AD over 2 seconds.

Limitations

Limited to 1 Death's Dance.

Recipe

 +  +  +  275

Cost

3300

Sell

2310

ID

6333

Availability

SR 5v5

HA ARAM

Nexus Blitz

Arena

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 3300 ( 275)
		Steel Sigil 1100 ( 150) Cloth Armor 300 Long Sword 350 Cloth Armor 300
		Caulfield's Warhammer 1050 ( 100) Long Sword 350 Glowing Mote 250 Long Sword 350
		Pickaxe 875

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 60 attack damage =  2100
• 15 ability haste =  750
• 50 armor =  1000
• Total Gold Value =  3850

Gold efficiency

• Death's Dance's base stats are 116.67% gold efficient.

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Notes

• Ignore Pain reduces and stores damage that is mitigated by shields.
  • The bleed damage will only be mitigated by normal shields and not other shield types, including physical and magic shields.
• Ignore Pain will refresh the user's combat status for every instance of damage it deals to them, delaying and interrupting certain effects that require the user to be out of combat.
• Ignore Pain may kill the user as the stored damage can reduce their health below 1.
• Each instance of damage received is stored and dealt individually by Ignore Pain, regardless on when other instances of damage were taken.
• Ignore Pain's effect applies after the mitigation from Warden's Mail's Rock Solid and Randuin's Omen's Resilience.
• Ignore Pain's damage instances do not interrupt Recall's channel.
• Defy heals the user in 0.25-second intervals.
• Triggering Defy grants a buff that stores all of its incoming healing.
  • If Defy is triggered again while the buff is active, it will be refreshed and the new heal value will be added to the remaining heal.

Map-Specific Differences

Arena differences ^edit

• Ability haste changed to 10.
• Armor changed to 45.
• Attack damage changed to 60.
• Defy heal changed to 50% bonus AD.
• New Effect: Defy's heal now scales with 30% AP.

Similar items

Guardian Angel

Maw of Malmortius

Ravenous Hydra

Sundered Sky

Immortal Shieldbow

Strategy

• Death's Dance's damage mitigation passive is most effective in a situation where an enemy inflicts a lot of damage to you within a short period of time.
  • As a result of this, a portion of the damage they deal to you gets stored and is delayed until a few seconds after. This slightly increases your time to react and deploy counter measures such as by healing and shielding. At the same time, you have a longer time window for retaliation against the enemy who dealt that damage to you. Killing that enemy allows you to successfully mitigate that damage taken and additionally heal.
• Death's Dance's damage reduction should not be overestimated if enemies have more than enough damage to kill you. This means it is possible for you to be killed even while reducing damage, and in some cases that stored damage will deal lethal damage.

Old icons

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  1st version

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  2nd version

Trivia

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

Patch History

V25.08

• Bug Fix: If Bloodletter's Curse's Vile Decay has been applied on an enemy that has equipped Death's Dance, Bloodsong's Expose Weakness no longer causes Ignore Pain to unintentionally store additional damage to them from receiving magic damage, based on the magic resistance they have lost.

V14.19

• Total cost increased to 3300 from 3200.
  • Combine cost increased to 275 from 125.

V14.15

• Armor increased to 50 from 40.

V14.9

• New Recipe: Steel Sigil + Caulfield's Warhammer + Pickaxe + 125 = 3200.
  • Old Recipe: Steel Sigil + Caulfield's Warhammer + 1000 = 3200.
• Attack damage increased to 60 from 55.
• Defy bonus AD ratio increased to 75% bonus AD from 50% bonus AD.

V14.2

• Combine cost increased to 1000 from 900.
  • Total cost unchanged.

V14.1

• New Recipe: Steel Sigil + Caulfield's Warhammer + 900 = 3200.
  • Old Recipe: Pickaxe + Chain Vest + Caulfield's Warhammer + 525 = 3300.
• Armor reduced to 40 from 45.

V13.7

• New Recipe: Pickaxe + Chain Vest + Caulfield's Warhammer + 525 = 3300.
  • Old Recipe: Pickaxe + Chain Vest + Pickaxe + 750 = 3300.
• Attack damage reduced to 55 from 65.
• Ability haste increased to 15 from 0.
• Armor reduced to 45 from 50.

V13.1b

• New Recipe: Pickaxe + Chain Vest + Pickaxe + 750 = 3300.
  • Old Recipe: Pickaxe + Chain Vest + Caulfield's Warhammer + 525 = 3300.
• Attack damage increased to 65 from 55.
• Ability haste reduced to 0 from 15.
• Armor increased to 50 from 45.
• Defy heal reduced to 50% bonus AD from 120% bonus AD.

V12.23

• New Effect: Taking damage from Ignore Pain no longer interrupts Recall.

V12.21

• Updated icon.

V12.11

• Heal reduced to 120% bonus AD from 140%.

V12.10

• Heal reduced to 140% bonus AD from 175% bonus AD.

V12.4

• Bug Fix: Triggering Defy now properly removes all instances of stored damage by Ignore Pain.

V12.3

• Total cost increased to 3300 from 3100.
  • Combine cost increased to 525 from 325.
• Ignore Pain damage stored reduced to ( 30% / 10%) from ( 35% / 15%).
• New Effect: Ignore Pain now also stores post-mitigation magic damage received.
• New Effect: Ignore Pain now also stores damage received to shields.
• Defy triggering condition changed to enemy champions dying within 3 seconds of damage from enemy champion takedowns.
• Defy heal changed to 175% bonus AD from 15% of your maximum health.

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:
  • Item ID: 6333
  • 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:
  • Item ID: 3812
  • 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.