Talk:Thornmail/@comment-25053833-20170301071956/@comment-4091261-20170301091220

Mmm... I dunno. I actually agree with you there. The fact this gives only raw doesn't really hit its target audience, which is mega tanks.

For one, since the price of is quite a bit larger than raw, this is a big deal. The main thing that benefits from raw damage resistance are shields and sustain.

While / amplifies essentially all forms of defense except more /, the consistency of shields and sustain grants a much more prominent effect. Using it as just an EHP boosting tool for raw is just not good enough as you have experienced, only tremendous sustain can really remedy this.

As such you can only expect it to be good on mega tanks that got. Unfortunately, there is a disparity with the effect of in that it highly encourages getting more --which  does not have.

The only real kinds of champions that can utilize truly effectively are skirmishers like  and. It would be used as a replacement for the they usually get in the case that enemy marksman are batshit insane. Unfortunately, there is also synergy attached to this item which makes it even less desirable for them because it would need more  investment to get strong usage out of the item.

As such there is a only a great dissonance that prevents anyone from using it well. The only reasonable way to see it is somewhere at the end of the game when a tank successfully has and some other  item like  or. Usually by the time that occurs, the enemy already has /.

GG R.I.P.