League-of-legends – Does Guardian Angel prevent loss of stacks on Bloodthirster

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The tooltip for Guardian Angel (GA) says

Passive Unique: Revives your champion upon death, restoring 750
health and 375 mana. 5 minute cooldown.

But as far as I neither Kill or Death counter are increased for the involved champions nor any gold is given to the "killer" when the passive of GA triggers.

Since stacks on Stack-Items (e.g. Bloothirster) are lost upon death, I wonder if being revived from GA's effect counts as a death or not.

The lol.wikia.com article on Death states it as Ways to prevent death when reaching zero health which confuses me even more.

Best Answer

The League Wikia has a page explaining "Removal of stacks, buffs or effects".

Upon death, if the champion killed...had built up stacks on one of a handful of items, those effects are lost

Stacks lost upon death (one third rounded up, unless otherwise noted)

  • Mejai's Soulstealer

  • Leviathan

  • Sword of the Occult

  • The Bloodthirster (half)

  • Cho'Gath's Feast (half)

In the "Ways to prevent death when reaching zero health" section,

Effects that prevent you from dying always occur in a set order:

  1. Zilean's Chrono Shift

  2. Guardian Angel

  3. Anivia's Rebirth

"Prevent death" should be interpreted literally. At 0 HP or less, Guardian Angel triggers and automatically brings your champion to 750 HP. Even though there is a delay for the stasis animation where the champion is untargetable and invulnerable, the champion did not die.

But I encourage somebody to record a video because that's the most convincing evidence.

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