Talk:Thornmail/@comment-25053833-20170301071956/@comment-31203455-20170301093740

Right, let's get on with the....um, copy paste? Bit confused as to why they are copy paste kids; clarify?

Anyway, if you are expected to have an enemy Auto-attack reliant champion kill themselves on you solely from Thornmail's passive, then you are sorely mistaken. It's the same as Sunfire Cape; giving you some ambient damage behind what you have with your kit.

Thornmail does work, because it reflects damage. If it reflected more, it would become a staple pick on any and every champion. ADCs would choose it to bugger each other. The item would become mandatory.

Furthermore, if building tanky and letting the enemy kill themselves 100-0 on your Thorny Bum was a thing, then we would have a rather toxic Tank Meta. Tanks would be near unkillable. They'd be extremely tanky while technically dealing a ton of damage.

Remember, Tanks are meant to simple absorb hurt from the enemy team. Damage and ability to get kills is fine but generally a secondary priority.

Lifesteal is a problem, but you can still see benefit from Thornmail since it reduces how much net health is gained.

True damage would be rather dumb, as it would rocket the damage potential from ambient to frontline. Not good when your primary role is to Tank.

But who knows, maybe they'll give it grievous wounds after an armour threshold.