Thornmail

For the Teamfight Tactics item, see Thornmail.

For the Wild Rift item, see Thornmail.

Thornmail edit
Stats
+350 health
+60 armor
Passive
Unique – Thorns: When struck by a basic attack on-hit, deal 10 (+ 10% bonus armor) magic damage to the attacker and, if they are a champion, inflict them with 40% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds. Immobilizing enemy champions also inflicts them with 60% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Limitations
Limited to 1 Thornmail.
Recipe
+  +  1000
Cost	2700
Sell	1890
ID	3075
Availability
SR
HA
Menu
Tank Health & Regeneration Armor
Keywords
grievous wounds

Thornmail is a legendary item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Thornmail 2700 ( 1000)
		Bramble Vest 800 ( 200) Cloth Armor 300 Cloth Armor 300
		Giant's Belt 900 ( 500) Ruby Crystal 400

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 350 health =  933.33
• 60 armor =  1200
• Total Gold Value =  2133.33

Gold Efficiency*

• Thornmail's base stats are 79.01% gold efficient.

Similar items

Morellonomicon

Mortal Reminder

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.

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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1st version

2nd version

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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

V11.8

• New Effect: Is now called out in chat to notify when the item is purchased.

V11.1

• 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.

V10.23

• 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.
• 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.

V9.8

• Grievous Wounds duration increased to 3 seconds from 1.

V8.4

• Bug Fix: Now correctly applies the cripple debuff to minions and monsters attacking its owner.

V7.19

• Combine cost reduced to 500 from 600.
  • Total cost unchanged.
• Armor increased to 80 from 75.

V7.14

• New Recipe: Bramble Vest + Ruby Crystal + Warden's Mail + 400 = 2900
  • Old Recipe: Cloth Armor + Chain Vest + 1250 = 2350
• 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.

V6.14

• Added to the Twisted Treeline.

V5.16

• 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.

V4.20

• Item cost decreased to 2100 from 2200.
• Combine cost decreased to 1050 from 1180.

V3.10

• New icon.

V1.0.0.152

• Item cost increased to 2200 from 2000.
• Combine cost increased to 1180 from 1000.

V1.0.0.151

• Removed from the purchasable item list on Twisted Treeline.

V1.0.0.82

• Damage return increased to 30% from 25%.

V1.0.0.63

• Recipe cost increased to 1000 from 600.
• Armor increased to 100 from 70.
• Damage return increased to 25% from 20%.

V0.9.25.24

• Now reflects damage calculated before armor.

June 26, 2009 Patch

• Added back into the game.

May 15, 2009 Patch

• 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).

Alpha Week 6

• Increased damage returned to 20 damage from 18.

Alpha Week 2

• Increased return damage.

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