Talk:Frozen Heart/@comment-5211662-20150405195404

I have found that unless you really want/need the cooldown reduction and/or the mana, Thornmail tend to be a better pure armor item than Frozen Heart. The attack speed slow isn't that much detrimental to most champions nowadays. AD casters don't care about it at all. While Thornmail only functions with auto-attacks, it at least return the damage done to them, and some AD casters don't buy lifesteal (or take a while to buy it), making Thornmail even better against them. The attack speed slow may seem to be very good against ADCs, but most of them will buy so many attack speed items, that they will "counter-negate" the attack speed slow (   aren't even in range to be affected by it to begin with). In short, Frozen Heart isn't all that great. It has great stats by itself, but the passive feels so underwhelming, it was better when it was a 20% attack speed reduction. Not to mention the mana. It is completely useless to manaless champions, so champions like Zac and Rek'Sai are even more likely to build Thornmail instead of Frozen Heart.