Death's Defiance in TFT with Stats Recipe Champions and Top Set Items (Updated September 2026)

Detailed page for Death's Defiance in Teamfight Tactics with item effects, recipe, champions that build it most often, top comps of the current set, popular items of the meta, and quick links to related TFT pages.

Last UpdatedSeptember 17, 2026

Death's Defiance

Patch 16.16 · Set 17 · Teamfight Tactics 1 882 games

50% of the damage the holder receives is instead dealt over 4 seconds as non-lethal damage. [Unique - only 1 per champion]

Attack Damage: 0.25
Armor: 40
Attack Speed: 15
Base Heal: 25
Bleed Duration: 4
Ignore Pain Percent: 50
Omnivamp: 0.25

Attack Damage0.25Armor40Attack Speed15Base Heal25Bleed Duration4Ignore Pain Percent50Omnivamp0.25

Avg Place: 4.33
Pick rate: 0.59%
Top 4: 52.92%
Winrate: 13.34%

Avg Place4.33Pick rate0.59%Top 452.92%Winrate13.34%

Champions using Death's Defiance

Master Yi
Avg Place4.65Top 451.25%Winrate6.25%
0.5%
Fiora
Avg Place3.84Top 457.04%Winrate25.19%
0.5%
Riven
Avg Place3.86Top 460.67%Winrate20.5%
0.5%
Zed
Avg Place4.26Top 452.63%Winrate15.79%
0.4%
Pyke
Avg Place4.38Top 451.72%Winrate10.34%
0.4%
Diana
Avg Place4.53Top 444.68%Winrate8.51%
0.3%
Akali
Avg Place4.11Top 455.88%Winrate11.76%
0.3%
Urgot
Avg Place4.44Top 448.61%Winrate11.11%
0.3%
Bel'Veth
Avg Place4.62Top 447.19%Winrate7.87%
0.2%
Graves
Avg Place4.46Top 456.52%Winrate15.22%
0.2%
Talon
Avg Place4.67Top 450.98%Winrate5.88%
0.2%
Fizz
Avg Place4.89Top 444.74%Winrate10.53%
0.2%
Briar
Avg Place4.52Top 450%Winrate10.87%
0.1%
Rhaast
Avg Place3.67Top 469.32%Winrate14.77%
0.1%
Gwen
Avg Place4.69Top 442.86%Winrate11.9%
0.1%
Blitzcrank
Avg Place3.70Top 463.64%Winrate18.18%
0.1%
Leona
Avg Place3.78Top 469.57%Winrate17.39%
0.1%
Jax
Avg Place4.17Top 454.24%Winrate18.64%
0.1%
The Mighty Mech
Avg Place4.05Top 461.9%Winrate14.29%
0.1%
Shen
Avg Place4.21Top 448.84%Winrate9.3%
0.1%
Morgana
Avg Place4Top 457.14%Winrate22.86%
0.1%
Meepsie
Avg Place4.09Top 459.09%Winrate9.09%
0.1%
Pantheon
Avg Place4.45Top 445.45%Winrate18.18%
0.1%
Gnar
Avg Place4.85Top 450%Winrate0%
0.1%
Aatrox
Avg Place4.64Top 451.11%Winrate8.89%
0%
Miss Fortune
Avg Place4.71Top 450%Winrate14.29%
0%
Illaoi
Avg Place4.95Top 445.45%Winrate4.55%
0%
Samira
Avg Place5.10Top 450%Winrate0%
0%
Mordekaiser
Avg Place5.13Top 441.94%Winrate3.23%
0%
Kai'Sa
Avg Place5.77Top 423.08%Winrate0%
0%
Xayah
Avg Place3.13Top 487.5%Winrate25%
0%
Nasus
Avg Place3.40Top 460%Winrate30%
0%
Rek'Sai
Avg Place3.78Top 466.67%Winrate11.11%
0%
Tahm Kench
Avg Place4Top 465.22%Winrate17.39%
0%
Ornn
Avg Place4.25Top 462.5%Winrate12.5%
0%
Cho'Gath
Avg Place4.85Top 453.85%Winrate0%
0%
Corki
Avg Place5.36Top 418.18%Winrate9.09%
0%
Rammus
Avg Place5.55Top 427.27%Winrate0%
0%
Nunu & Willump
Avg Place5.85Top 423.08%Winrate0%
0%
Maokai
Avg Place5Top 436.36%Winrate0%
0%

Part of TFT Set 17

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Top Set 17 comps

Top traits of the meta

Brawler
Pick rate 49.42%
Bastion
Pick rate 44.61%
N.O.V.A.
Pick rate 40.14%
Space Groove
Pick rate 38.2%
Timebreaker
Pick rate 30.36%
Vanguard
Pick rate 29.34%
Fateweaver
Pick rate 24%
Redeemer
Pick rate 21.69%

Top units of the meta

Maokai
Pick rate 34.12%
Aatrox
Pick rate 33.18%
Pantheon
Pick rate 26.83%
Milio
Pick rate 26.8%
Jax
Pick rate 22.56%
Mordekaiser
Pick rate 22.13%
Rhaast
Pick rate 21.7%
Tahm Kench
Pick rate 21.64%

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How the Death's Defiance page is built

Where the data comes from

This Death's Defiance page is built from real ranked Teamfight Tactics matches. Ladder games are sampled across regions and ranks, read, and filtered to the current set and patch. The item summary, the champions that build Death's Defiance, and the comps shown all come from those games.

What this page shows

The summary at the top shows how boards holding Death's Defiance perform, with the average placement, top 4 rate, win rate, and how often the item is built. Below it you see the champions that use Death's Defiance the most, plus the strongest comps and popular items of the current set for context.

This Death's Defiance data is a snapshot of the current meta and shifts with patches and balance changes. The best holder depends on your board and the components you find, so use it as a guide.

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