Future problem with thornmail

Robert Smith·7/19/2017, 3:38:16 PM·2 votes·325 views

As of right now,item 3075 seems to primarily benifit champions who stack armor, or scale with armor (Malphite Taric Rammus )

Rammus and Malph however are the ones that benifit the most from them. Malph has scaling damage and so does Rammus. Rammus however, has a Thormail for an ability, and a taunt to force enemies to attack him. As it stands, Thormail is an offensive like item (more so for Rammus), and the point where they spike somewhat. Thormail however, is not an offensive item for other champs, nor does it provide the same benifits to other champions without a taunt (Shen doesn't do well with this item anymore since W dodges autos intead of a shield, and Galio scales better with AP/MR). If item 3075 were buffed, to the point of being must have or at least more gold efficient than it is now it would make tanks, not only harder to kill, but to be avoided at all cost. This would cause unnecessary nerfs to champs to balance their kit based off a popular item, which everyone can remember to never work out since the item always gets nerfed along with the champs. Thorrn buffs would also make Malph pick or ban and Rammus permaban. These two are also slated for a VGU in the future, which might also mean that their synergy with Thornmail might be taken away

6 Comments

Zielmann7/19/2017, 3:45:37 PM2 votes

I don't think there's anything to worry about, if your fear is that they'll further buff thornmail. Meddler said there's no plans to touch it in 7.15, but they'll be watching it for 7.16 if they need to adjust anything. That said, they also said they currently feel thornmail is somewhere between balanced or slightly too strong. Given that, there certainly shouldn't be any buffs slated for it at all.

Naching7/19/2017, 3:53:30 PM1 votes

Hilarious topic New thormail is a huge nerf for Rammus, Malphithe, Taric and a nerf to every champ outhere too...

How you dare to open this topic? Haha

Thormail is Nerfed in all the senses.. Its showed in lots of topics

vidghost7/19/2017, 11:18:44 PM1 votes

Ohmwrecker is better then the new thornmail.... lol NO JOKE it is...

WHO would spend an extra 2000g to upgrade bramble vest into thornmail ???

250health + 40 armor + -15 attack speed..

Bramble vest is all anyone should be buying! RIP thonmail.. its 100% complete trash now