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- For the
Teamfight Tactics item, see .
- For the
Wild Rift item, see .
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.
- This includes if the user mitigates all damage with a
Heals that trigger
on-hit will take place after Thorns'
Grievous Wounds has been applied.
- By itself, Thornmail's Thorns reflects at least 16 magic damage on being hit.
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
healing from attacks to survive fights (such as
life steal).
- Unlike spell effects. and , Thornmail's magic damage does not trigger
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
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.
- Recipe: + +
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
References
List of Items
- Starter items
- Potions and Consumables
- Trinkets
- Distributed items
- Boots
- Basic items
- Epic items
- Legendary items
- Mythic items
- Ornn's Mythic item upgrades
- Champion exclusive items
- Minion and Turret items
- Removed items