Thornmail

N/A Edit
Recipe
Cost	2200g (1180g)
Sell	1540g
Code	3075

Thornmail is an advanced item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Thornmail 2200 ( 1180)
		Cloth Armor 300
		Chain Vest 720

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 100 armor = 2000g
  • Total Gold Value = 2000g

Gold efficiency

• Thornmail is 90.9% gold efficient.
• For the item to be gold efficient, its passive must have a value of at least 200 gold.

Notes

• On being hit, Thornmail will reflect 30% of the physical damage dealt by the attacker, including most physical on-hit effects.
  • Thornmail is also triggered by Infinite Duress, so it would appear that Thornmail applies to anything that would apply life steal.
• Damage is reflected when hit by an attack, regardless of whether the attack deals damage. If the attacker is blinded, or the wearer is protected by a shield or invulnerability, damage will still be reflected.
  • Abilities that apply on-hit effects, such as Blade Waltz, will trigger Thormail.
• If you have >233.3 effective armor, Thornmail will reflect more damage than you receive, assuming the attacker has 0 magic resist; if they have 30 magic resist, >333.3 armor is required.

Strategy

• Thornmail is a particularly effective defensive option when facing down opponents whose damage is dealt primarily through autoattacks, or against opponents that utilize on-hit healing to survive fights (such as life steal).
• Unlike Molten Shield and Defensive Ball Curl, Thornmail's magic damage does not trigger spell effects.
• There is a common misconception that life steal and magic resistance "counter" Thornmail, but this is largely incorrect. A combination of magic resistance and life steal will mitigate the reflected damage, but only large quantities of either will see net health gains from life steal.
  • A more effective counter to Thornmail is armor penetration and health; i.e. kill them before you kill yourself.
• Thornmail is often overshadowed by the other two high armor items, Frozen Heart and Randuin's Omen, because it benefits only the wearer instead of the entire team and only provides armor.
• Champions such as Rammus, Galio and Shen can make great use of the passive effect due to their ability to taunt enemies, forcing enemies to attack them.

Trivia

• It is the only purchasable item in the tutorial.
• Currently, this item offers the largest amount of armor along with Frozen Heart.

Patch History

V3.10:

• New icon.

V1.0.0.152:

• Item cost increased to 2200g from 2000g.
• Combine cost increased to 1180g from 1000g.

V1.0.0.151:

• Removed from the purchasable item list on Twisted Treeline.

V1.0.0.82:

• Damage return increased to 30% from 25%.

V1.0.0.63:

• Recipe cost increased to 1000g from 600g.
• Armor increased to 100 from 70.
• Damage return increased to 25% from 20%.

V0.9.25.24:

• Now reflects damage calculated before armor.

June 26, 2009 Patch:

• Added back into the game.

May 15, 2009 Patch:

• Removed from the game temporarily.

May 9, 2009 Patch: Reworked

• Recipe changed: Now requires Cloth Armor.
• Armor increased armor to 70 from 50.
• Combine cost increased to 500g from 320g.
• Unique ability: On being hit, returns 20% of damage taken (20 damage minimum).

Alpha Week 6:

• Increased damage returned to 20 damage from 18.

Alpha Week 2:

• Increased return damage.

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