Can we talk about Deaths Dance? (Uses heavy maths to convey why it's strong)
So right off the bat I think Deaths Dance is just too strong. And I will use maths to show you why. Please correct me on any errors that I may make in working this out.
Lets take a level 18 Xayah
full build with
.
Without runes this gives her 354 AD. and 1906 health. With Fervor of Battle at max stacks every time she crits again a champion she does somewhere between 900 and 500 damage depending on armor and other resistances.
Now lets choose a Fiora
who uses Deaths Dance as a core item right now. Lets say she builds
. This gives Fiora 322 AD 174 armor and 108 Magic Resist and 12% lifesteal plus the 15% life steal of all damage dealt. This gives Fiora a 63% damage reduction to Physical Damage. Add Ninja Tabi to this and it becomes 75% and has 3195 health.
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Now im not saying that in a 1v1 Xayah should always win. Late game Fiora is a monster to behold and will destroy anyone in a 1v1 no matter what. But take out the duel aspect and look at the damage resistance she has. Xayah's crit with IE against a target with no armor will do upwards to 1400.
Now a crit against a Fiora at this level with the added 20% damage and 35% armor pen is this:
1400 + 20% = 1680 DMG. 1680 DMG - 20% crit reduction (
) = 1344. 1334DMG - 75%= 334DMG. Now add the 30% DoT to that and it becomes 334DMG - 30% = 234DMG per AA. Now thats not taking into account that maybe the Frioa has Exhaust for more dueling power or that the Support in a fight may Exhaust Xayah. But lets say she isnt Exhausted to not dramatize this.
[ALL MATHS IGNORE IF NOT INTERESTED] Fiora's passive at this point will do 12% of maximum health and give her 155 health. So Fiora will do 226.72 True Damage to Xayah with each Vital and with the added damage from her Q as physucal damage that will bring the amount of damage upwards to around 500 danage.( I'm getting tired to changing from Xayah and Fiora in the practice tool to do this but trust me with the calculations it will be very close to 500 with Xayah's Armor at this level.) Lets add the life steal to this. 500 + 12%= 60 + 155 = 215 health. Not the added 15% of all damage done will give her 500 + 15%= 75. 75 + 215= 290 health.
So with every Auto Attack done by Xayah to Fiora; Xayah does 234 DMG. Firoa heals for 290 health with each Q Vital. That's not even taking into account Fiora's E crit her auto attack cancled and her W she can do. So with deaths dance she negates an entire 100 damage from Xayah's attacks and heals 75 of that back with each attack. So Xayah now does 75 less Damage per attack to Fiora with just Fiora's Q.
So that is why I believe Deaths Dance is too strong. The amount of Offensive damage and Defensive healing it gives is outstanding. I was going to do a comparison between Xayah's damage and Draven's Damage but I decided against it since Draven is designed to be a heavy hitting ADC(Although I do believe he is too strong at the moment with Deaths Dance). Although looking back I believe choosing Draven as the ADC would have been a better choice to show the power of Deaths Dance since he is a very squishy champion compared to Fiora. Especially since he would most likely build Phantom Dancer into a DPS matchup for even more damage reduction. But alas I didnt think of it beforehand so Fiora will have to suffice. I hope this gets checked and all of this calculating doesn't go to waste haha. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]