Talk:Item/@comment-168.184.220.3-20120302184510/@comment-24.146.194.181-20120429195959

actually even vs autoattacking champs that are dominating your game... frozen heart/randuins/warden's mail will shut them down more effecively most of the time than thornmail will. 30-35% attack speed reduction on top of the armor those items give will severely hurt their overall damage to everyone, and make you a lot safer than if you just bought thorns, also the movespeed slow from wardens/randuins can make them easy pickings for the rest of your team.

Thornmail is only viable at all if you are already tanky, and even then it's pretty situational... it does more damage if they are hitting you, but lets them do a lot more damage too, not just to you, but to everyone around you... and if you are a squishy type champ wearing this, they won't even blink at the tiny amount of damage you do to them in the 1-2 seconds it takes them to kill you.