By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
Legendary · Summoner's Rift
Death's Dance — How Ignore Pain and Defy Work
3,300gold
Death's Dance buys time: Ignore Pain spreads a share of the damage you take over the next 3 seconds, and Defy wipes what is left and heals you over 2 seconds once a champion you recently damaged is taken down. It costs 3,300 gold for 60 Attack Damage, 50 Armor and 15 Ability Haste, and junglers account for 48.4% of its buyers.
What it grants
- 60 Attack Damage
- 50 Armor
- 15 Ability Haste
Passives
- Ignore Pain: A percentage of damage taken is dealt to you over 3 seconds instead.
- Defy: When a champion that you damaged within 3 seconds dies, cleanse
- Ignore Pain's: remaining damage and restore Health over 2 seconds.
Death's Dance at a glance
Death's Dance is a legendary item on Summoner's Rift that costs 3,300 gold: Steel Sigil, Pickaxe and Caulfield's Warhammer plus 275 gold. It grants 60 Attack Damage, 50 Armor and 15 Ability Haste and the Ignore Pain, Defy and Ignore Pain's passives. Nothing in the shop builds from it. Priced by its stat block alone, it returns 116.7% of its cost in stats.
Build path
Combine cost
275
on top of 3 components, for 3,300 in total.
Builds into
Nothing — this is a finished item.
How it performed
- Pick rate
- 6.3%
- Win rate
- 56.6%
- Completion
- Not counted
- Inventory slot
- 3
- Games
- 40,927
- Δ this patch
- Not counted
patch 26.18 · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 65,406 matches counted
Who buys it
- Top35.2%
- Jungle48.4%
- Mid12.0%
- Bot3.8%
- Support0.6%
Reach for it when
- Versus heavy AD
- Rotation uptime
Gold efficiency
116.7%3,850 gold of stats for 3,300
The stat block only — the passive is not priced.
2nd of 14 items Riot tags Armor, by this measure. Nearest: Glacial Buckler 144.4%, Frozen Heart 116.0%, Armored Advance 103.3%.
- 60 Attack Damage · 35g each, from Long Sword
- 2100g
- 50 Armor · 20g each, from Cloth Armor
- 1000g
- 15 Ability Haste · 50g each, from Glowing Mote
- 750g
Death's Dance balance history
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change nothing about Death's Dance.
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Quick answers about Death's Dance
- How much does Death's Dance cost?
- 3,300 gold in total — Steel Sigil, Pickaxe and Caulfield's Warhammer plus 275 gold.
- What is Death's Dance built from?
- Steel Sigil (1,100), Pickaxe (875) and Caulfield's Warhammer (1,050), plus 275 gold to combine.
- What does Death's Dance build into?
- Nothing — Death's Dance is a finished item.
- What stats does Death's Dance give?
- 60 Attack Damage, 50 Armor and 15 Ability Haste.
- What does Death's Dance's Ignore Pain passive do?
- A percentage of damage taken is dealt to you over 3 seconds instead.
- What does Death's Dance's Defy passive do?
- When a champion that you damaged within 3 seconds dies, cleanse
- What does Death's Dance's Ignore Pain's passive do?
- remaining damage and restore Health over 2 seconds.
- Where can you buy Death's Dance?
- In Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss (ARAM) — the maps Riot's own data marks it as sold on.
- What does Death's Dance sell for?
- 2,310 gold, against 3,300 to buy.
- Is Death's Dance gold efficient?
- Its stats are worth 3,850 gold at basic-item prices against a cost of 3,300 — 116.7%. The passive is not priced, so this measures the stat block only.