Thornmail off of the Howling Abyss

The Bard Guy·10/13/2014, 1:58:45 AM·1 votes·635 views

So my friend and I were just in an ARAM, easily winning our game when suddenly the lowest of the low appeared. I'm talking 3 people who straight up built a thornmail just to laugh at us and causing us to lose. This is not the first time that this has happened to my friend nor I. We believe that the thornmail should not be a purchasable item on the Howling abyss just because it is an overpowered item on that map since there is no good source of life steal or any way to counter-act the item. this item is not allowed on the Twisted treeline, so why should it be allowed on a smaller map, with even more champions? So either riot needs to come up with a way to counter the thornmail (only on the howling abyss) or just dispose of it on said map. I know that people will disagree with this, however I think that with such a powerful item on such a little map should either be nerfed to where it doesnt return damage, is deleted, or has a way to be counter-acted. Thank you for reading this, here, have a cookie.

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JustMyBassCannon10/13/2014, 2:22:21 AM3 votes

So my friend and I were just in an ARAM, easily winning our game when suddenly the lowest of the low appeared. I'm talking 3 people who straight up built a thornmail just to laugh at us and causing us to lose. This is not the first time that this has happened to my friend nor I. We believe that the thornmail should not be a purchasable item on the Howling abyss just because it is an overpowered item on that map since there is no good source of life steal or any way to counter-act the item. this item is not allowed on the Twisted treeline, so why should it be allowed on a smaller map, with even more champions? So either riot needs to come up with a way to counter the thornmail (only on the howling abyss) or just dispose of it on said map. I know that people will disagree with this, however I think that with such a powerful item on such a little map should either be nerfed to where it doesnt return damage, is deleted, or has a way to be counter-acted. Thank you for reading this, here, have a cookie.

Excuse me?

  • The one and only Lifesteal item not available on Howling Abyss is Bloodthirster. Everything else is still there.
  • You don't counter Thornmail with Lifesteal; the entire point of Thornmail is to counter Lifesteal. You counter Thornmail with Armor Pen and Magic Resistance. I've shown the math for this a great many times; Thornmail is the item to build for countering Lifesteal.
  • Twisted Treeline has weaker defense options because of the map design; they also don't have Warmog's Armor. Howling Abyss is designed with better personal defense options.
ZeroAnarchy10/13/2014, 2:04:54 AM2 votes

The damage thornmail does is magic damage, so get a magic resist item like item 3102 or item 3065 to negate it's damage.