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Thornmail is a legendary item in 
League of Legends.
Recipe
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Cost Analysis
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Notes
Item VFX
- Thorns deals
reactive damage, and thus will not trigger spell effects. - Thorns is not blocked by spell shield.
- Thorns' reflect is not a projectile.
- Damage is reflected when hit by a basic attack, regardless of whether the attack deals damage. If the attacker is blinded, or the wearer is protected by a shield or invulnerability, damage will still be reflected.
- By itself, Thornmail reflects at least 16 magic damage on being hit.
- Healing effects triggering on a basic attack ( life steal, Udyr's Turtle Stance, Xin Zhao's Determination, etc.) will first be reduced by Grievous Wounds.
- This means that the Grievous Wounds, applied by Thornmail, will be effective with the basic attack that triggers the effect.
- This means that the
Strategy
- Thornmail is a particularly effective defensive option when facing down opponents whose damage is dealt primarily through basic attacks, or against opponents that utilize on-hit healing to survive fights (such as life steal).
- Unlike Molten Shield and Defensive Ball Curl, Thornmail's magic damage does not trigger spell effects.
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Trivia
- Thornmail is the only purchasable item in the basic tutorial.
- Pentakill's first volume, Smite and Ignite, named its seventh track after this item.
Patch History
- Grievous Wounds duration increased to 3 seconds from 2.
- V10.23 - November 12th Hotfix
- Bug Fix: No longer loses the ability to apply Grievous Wounds if its owner dies.
- Updated icon.
- New:
- Recipe: Bramble Vest + Giant's Belt + 1000 = 2700.
- Stats: 60 armor, 350 health.
- Unique Passive - Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 10 (+ 10% bonus armor) magic damage to the attacker and inflict them with 40% Grievous Wounds for 2 seconds if they are a champion. Immobilizing enemy champions also applies 60% Grievous Wounds for 2 seconds.
- Limited to 1 Thornmail.
- Recipe:
- Old:
- Recipe: Bramble Vest + Ruby Crystal + Warden's Mail + 500 = 2900.
- Stats: 80 armor, 250 health.
- Unique Passive - Thorns: Upon being hit by a basic attack on-hit, reflects 25 (+ 10% bonus armor) magic damage, while also inflicting Grievous Wounds on the attacker for 3 seconds.
- Unique Passive - Cold Steel: When hit by basic attacks, cripples source's attack speed by 15% for 1 second.
- Recipe:
- Grievous Wounds duration increased to 3 seconds from 1.
- Bug Fix: Now correctly applies the cripple debuff to minions and monsters attacking its owner.
- Combine cost reduced to 500 from 600.
- Total cost unchanged.
- Armor increased to 80 from 75.
- New Recipe: Bramble Vest + Ruby Crystal + Warden's Mail + 400 = 2900
- Old Recipe: Cloth Armor + Chain Vest + 1250 = 2350
- Old Recipe:
- Armor reduced to 75 from 100.
- New Effect: Grants 250 health.
- Removed Passive: Reflects 15% of the physical damage taken (+ 25% bonus armor) from basic attacks and on-hit effects back to its source as magic damage.
- New Passive – Thorns: Upon being hit by a basic attack, reflects magic damage equal to 25 (+ 10% bonus armor), inflicting Grievous Wounds on the attacker for 1 second.
- New Passive – Cold Steel: When hit by basic attacks, reduced source's attack speed by 15% for 1 second.
- Added to the Twisted Treeline.
- Total cost increased to 2350 from 2100.
- Reflected damage reduced to 15% from 30%.
- New Effect: Reflected damage now deals (+25% bonus armor) bonus damage.
- The armor ratio will be affected by flat armor reductions down to 0 armor - while percent armor reductions will be ignored for the purpose of calculating bonus damage.i.e. The Black Cleaver will not reduce the reflected damage by reducing your bonus armor but a level 5 Puncturing Taunt will reduce the reflected damage by 6.25(25% of 25).Negative armor values will be treated as 0. Armor penetration will not affect the ratio.
- The armor ratio will be affected by flat armor reductions down to 0 armor - while percent armor reductions will be ignored for the purpose of calculating bonus damage.i.e.
- Item cost decreased to 2100 from 2200.
- Combine cost decreased to 1050 from 1180.
- New icon.
- Item cost increased to 2200 from 2000.
- Combine cost increased to 1180 from 1000.
- Removed from the purchasable item list on Twisted Treeline.
- Damage return increased to 30% from 25%.
- Recipe cost increased to 1000 from 600.
- Armor increased to 100 from 70.
- Damage return increased to 25% from 20%.
- Now reflects damage calculated before armor.
- Added back into the game.
- Removed from the game temporarily.
- May 9, 2009 Patch Reworked
- Recipe changed: Now requires Cloth Armor.
- Armor increased armor to 70 from 50.
- Combine cost increased to 500 from 320.
- Unique ability: On being hit, returns 20% of damage taken (20 damage minimum).
- Increased damage returned to 20 damage from 18.
- Increased return damage.
References
List of Items
- Starter items
- Potions and Consumables
- Trinkets
- Distributed
- Boots items
- Basic items
- Epic items
- Legendary items
- Mythic items
- Minion and Turret items
- Special Game Mode Exclusive items
- Removed items
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