Thornmail is a legendary item in League of Legends.
Recipe
Cost Analysis
Similar items
Notes
- Thorns deals reactive damage, and thus will not trigger spell effects.
- Thorns is not blocked by spell shield.
- Thorns' reflect is not a projectile.
- Thorns will trigger regardless of if the basic attack deals damage or not.
- This includes if the user mitigates all damage with a shield or invulnerability.
- It will not trigger if the attack is dodged, blocked, or missed while the attacker is blinded.
- Heals that trigger on-hit will take place after Thorns' Grievous Wounds has been applied.
- By itself, Thornmail's Thorns reflects at least 22 magic damage on being hit.
Strategy
- It is also useful against enemies that heal through their attacks.
is most effective against enemies that use basic attacks to deal damage and attack at a fast rate.
Old icons
Trivia
- Thornmail was the only purchasable item in the old basic tutorial.
- Pentakill's first volume, Pentakill: Smite and Ignite, named its seventh track after this item.
Media
Patch History
- Undocumented: Armor increased to 70 from 60.
- Thorns armor ratio increased to 25% bonus armor from 20%.
- Grievous Wounds strength increased to 40% from 25%.
- Removed: Immobilizing effects on enemy champions no longer inflict them with Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
- Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 25% from 30%.
- Enhanced Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 40% from 50%.
- Thorns armor ratio increased to 20% bonus armor from 10%.
- Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 30% from 40%.
- Enhanced Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 50% from 60%.
- New Effect: Is now called out in chat to notify when the item is purchased.
- 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: + + 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: + + + 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.
- Grievous Wounds duration increased to 3 seconds from 1.
- Bug Fix: Now correctly applies the cripple debuff to minions and monsters attacking its owner.
- New Recipe: + + + 400 = 2900
- 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. will not reduce the reflected damage by reducing your bonus armor but a level 5 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.
- New icon.
- 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 .
- 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.
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- Ornn's item upgrades
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- Removed items