thormail idea (runicblessing inspired)

LilxPaprika··1 votes·222 views

TL,DR: +500gold enchantment to thornmail. Gives true damage shield when exiting base like the runicblessing mastery that no body uses. can only be purchased once the game exceeds the 40 minute mark.

so it occured to me that thornmail is only 2100 gold. and i figured it must fall off late. correct me if im wrong. im no wiz but just seems to be dollar per dollar in flat out trades when it comes to item slots id rather have a trinity force or randuins, banshee's, spirit visage in place of thornmail. assuming the enemy has equal amount of mixed damages. unless of course your name is Taric.

ANYYYYYYWAYS: so i challenged myself to come up with a possible buff that would be half decent. I was about to make a thread and asking the board to brainstorm some ideas. here's what i came up with after briefly dwelling on it. It would be an enhancement (much like enchantements to the jungle items) ... now i just had another idea. what if thornmail could have like 3 enhancements to build out of. okay getting sidetracked. so the enhancement could only be unlocked after the 40 minute mark for those long drawn out games (not sure if this will help extend length of games or shorten them)... at 40 minutes the enhancement you could buy for just 500 gold would be that you'd get a shield to true damage when exiting the base. it wouldn't come back up if destroyed unlike malphite passive (even if it could replenish itself it wouldn't be for a long time more like a zac passive). just saying as a tank getting 1 shot by chogath can be pretty annoying.

it'd be kind of like the armor equivalent to banshe's except only respawn when you exit base. the shield would only have about 200 to it. and if enemy team has no true damage you would just die without ever having benefitted from it.

8 Comments

3tyson1 votes

I dont really think it falls of

LilxPaprika1 votes

I just think its weird that a 2100 gold item can hold up to other more expensive items.

3tyson1 votes

wel sometimes cheap stuf can be good

3tyson1 votes

It has 100 armor and returns like 15% of al dmg taken ? Seems quite bad aas for a tank doesnt it ?

3tyson1 votes

item 3165 isnt a bad item just becauase there is aitem 3089

LilxPaprika1 votes

i suppose but even morello is 200 gold more. and 20% cdr is hella nice. but so is 100 armor ;p

idk, i just feel like if thormail cost 2300 gold even with its current stats i wouldnt be that uptight about it.

The Blue Rooster1 votes

Thornmail doesn't fall off, but it's so cheap because against some champs it is equivalent of buying absolutely nothing for 2100 gold. MAgic Damage champs don't give a rats ass about your thornmail.

Last season when it was 2200 gold, the only champs that even bothered to touch it against mixed damage comps were Rammus and Taric.

Buying a Thornmail is a 2100 gold gamble that the enemy's AP won't get fed.

LilxPaprika1 votes

it wouldnt be as much of a gamble vs ahri or chogath with such a buff tho. i guess you right. i'm surprised we see it built so much then. then again i also see a lot of full ad comps. i guess its there to deter such comps.

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