THORN NAIL NEEDS A 50% buff on damage

Thorn needs to be remade into a Diver item as part of the Tank Update.

, grants IAS, 40 OnHit magic damage, and causes basic attacks to apply stacks of Rent to the target. Each stack of Rent causes, say, 5% of the physical damage they deal to be reflected back to them stacking up to 8 times. Melee basic attacks apply two stacks.

The problem with Thorn is that it has never been a Tank item. It's an item that actively discourages people from focusing you. That's an item suited for duelists and divers, not Tanks. It's also a completely passive item, doling out potentially tremendous damage for doing nothing. By adding some counter-play to the item (don't let them stack it on you) there are now ways to play around it.

Tank items should be about helping Tanks to do Tank things. Protecting allies in the case of Wardens and disrupting the enemy line in the case of Vanguards.

Thornmail is strong early imo, but falls off thanks to % armour pen, lifesteal and maybe base mr as well. So I think a simple buff would make it too strong early.

Imo it shouldn't exist.

the problem with thornmail is, that its balanced around which means it has to be shit on everybody else.

if it was a halfway decent item, then malphite would be op in most scenarios with it. and rammus probably too.

any tank who invests a lot of gold into armor usually manages to get around 350 armor. lets say 400 for a few seconds with a bigass steroid like w.

there have been games where i managed to literally rack up 800 armor on malphite with a thornmail in the build. the item is balanced around extreme cases.

if they want to make it balanced theyd need to make the passive scale with health imo, since the difference between extreme health tanks and regular tanks is largely smaller than between armor on malphite and other tanks.

Considered how it performs right now yeah... they should totally rename it like title.

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