Does Gunblade and Deaths dance passive healing stack?
I thought it doesn't stack because they're both the same unique passive but I see 
players building both which made me question if the passives actually stack or not.
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Short answer: Yes, they stack.
Unique effects need to be named in order to not stack between different items. If you bought two Gunblades or two Death's Dances, they wouldn't stack because they're the same item. That's all unique unnamed passived do: prevent stacking the same item. Even though the effect is mechanically identical between the two and it is a unique passive, it isn't a unique named passive, so it stacks just fine.
If it was called "Unique - Free Sustain For No Good Reason", THEN they wouldn't stack.
Unique passives do stack if they are not named and are on different items. Unique unnamed passives don't stack between duplicate items.
It stacks. There are 2 categories of Unique Passives: with and without name.
If they have a name (like Cold Steel, shared by Thornmail and Randuin's Omen), then no other passive with the same name will apply.
If they don't have a name, their uniqueness prevents stacking from several copies of the same item. But you can stack Unique Passives with same text if they come from different items, like Kindlegem and Fiendish Codex.
Wasn't gunblade's passive named "omnivore" or something? Why'd they change that? It was fitting
Just remember 3 things when getting them both:
- You are getting 120 AD from the two items so you really want a champ with AD scalings of some kind.
- AoE cuts the healing by 1/3 so you only heal for 10% of your AoE spell damage once you have both.
- Grievous wounds cuts your healing more and without HP or defenses, burst on top of GW will still wreck you. Yeah you've got DD's passive but the amount of healing you are getting back is limited so it's help is limited as well. Even with it you can still get overkilled pretty easily in the current balance riot has out there.