Talk:Mordekaiser/@comment-100.0.66.6-20121126142204/@comment-4499945-20121127052916

I can respect your decision to favor resistances over health. I can respect your decision to choose Merc Treads over Sorc Shoes (I personally don't agree with it, but to each his own).

I can respect your choice for Force of Nature. However, from what I heard this item is getting removed Season 3, so you may end up stuck with Abyssal Scepter regardless.

However, Thornmail? What? Zhonya's or even GA is preferable to Thornmail in almost all cases. It may work against champs like fed Tryndameres or Yis, but I would take Zhonya's or GA almost every time.

The following assumes that your enemies are competent and see your build:

Physical damage bruisers will see that you have gotten Thornmail and simply get magic resistance (which they should be doing anyway since you deal magic damage). Since several bruisers can also get Lifesteal, the combination of Lifesteal and magic resistance severely weakens the effectiveness of Thornmail.

As for ADCs, any ADC that does not get a Bloodthirster is retarded. Also, any smart ADC that sees armor on an enemy will almost certainly get Last Whisper or sometimes Black Cleaver. These two items (or Last Whisper at least) are highly underrated and are actually very useful when dealing with enemies that build armor.

Your arguments for the rest of your build make sense (I don't agree with some of the items but they're viable). But I can see no reason EVER to get Thornmail.