Proposal for Thornmail Buff

Shield Villain·9/21/2015, 9:14:38 PM·1 votes·284 views

What if we added a new passive to it, a reversal on item 3022 where every-time you get hit by an auto, they loose movement speed? I meant, as it currently stands there isn't much of a reason to get Thornmail anymore, it doesn't really help until full build. So what if we gave it more utility specific for mobile champions?

Seems like it'd hit two birds with one stone. Fix Thornmail's usefulness and counter some mobility.

We could always make it stack so that every consecutive auto increases the slow percentage,. That sounds pretty fair to me, it forces people to commit to a battle after using a few autos. it would certainly help stop Kalista and Vayne 's intense kiting ability if by landing more attacks they actually end up making themselves easier to catch.

Though it shouldn't apply much change to caster type ADC's like Ezreal Varus Corki who use abilities to do damage. Thus keeping it balanced enough to not be the answer to all kites, only some.

Fuck, why not take it a step further and make it distinguish between Ranged AA and Melee AA so that Melee carries aren't as heavily fucked, but still feel enough to have a more difficult time escaping.

1 Comments

Marthian9/21/2015, 10:14:14 PM1 votes

counter some mobility.

People keep mentioning countering mobility with slows, when in reality, it only hurts immobile champions more than it does mobile champions.

Thormail is honestly a terribly designed item: Punishes you for trying to kill someone (in a game where a champion's death generally makes a huge difference in fights.)