Talk:Thornmail/@comment-25053833-20170301071956/@comment-27004415-20170301235314

Making it an active would make it to reliable, and won't give enough opportunity for the enemy to dodge it. The damage received is not so much a pent up, but a condition for the activation (like sterak, and like sterak the passive triggered should be based on max health to avoid making it a staple pick on every champion).

I don't know if you remember when this item was popular (before deadman's plate or the reworked randuin), it was a strong defensive item but was built to punish ad heavy comp, more than auto-attack reliant champions. So to me even when it was purchased, it failed to live up to its name. So sure, the item would serve a slightly different purpose than intended (punish ad heavy comp), and just recently on the pbe bond of stone is going t obe renamed stoneborn pact. What about mail of retribution?