User blog comment:Tails365/What's wrong with Twisted Treeline/@comment-12542695-20131222040101

Mmm, trynd is pretty good in 3s, he used to be the 3s master in the old map. Right now he's not that much to be honest, there's like a gillion counters to trynd INCLUDING doran OP shield, ninja tabi, randiun's omen and frozen heart.

Wooglets is too good. Black Fire Torch > DFG, lich bane is still in 3s, Liandry's torment as well. Also Archangel's staff, all of them are hard AP scaler items.

if you realy like AP that much, there's Banner of Command. Pretty damn strong right now tbh.

Also, I think the reason why there isnt explosive AP items ( Rabadon's, Zhonia's, DFG ) in 3s is:

1- They're too expensive to buy, game might've already ended before you got them because early game champions are dominant in 3s.

2- Rabadon's and DFG dont provide enough defensive stats ( which you need due to the tight areas around objectives, you'll need to be in close range thus in danger to participate most of the time )

About the map's altars, Your average damage in the beginning of the game is about a 100 AD early game ~ 160 mid game. Having both altars grant 10%, easily calculated as 10~16 AD. Thats not really a shit ton of damage considering you can get it back when the enemy team recalls or when your Nasus for example is well stacked. Resisting early on however will grant 80 gold every time and might cause you problems if your team scales better with levels rather than items. ( level for tanks is more important than gold because of their usually good base damages, so if you keep getting altar and losing it you might be getting yourself in a disadvantage )

Vilemaw actually adds cool interaction to 3v3, and I'm not talking about the dance.

I'm talking about how ADCs and assasins can solo it by avoiding his melee attacks.

About thornmail, the item is most effective when you have a means of keeping your health up and having magic penetration, because it has raw armor and deals magic damage.

Also I agree with Krufix, it is a situational item when the ADCs are fed and you cannot fight them back, being mostly effective on Master Yi. Otherwise you could pick randiun's and build your own damage, heck just build a ninja tabi + sunfire cape.