The Botlane Nightmare: Jinx and Thresh

Gunpoint··3 votes·522 views

What CAN'T they do exactly? Poke? Nobody can out-harass them because Jinx's 20 mana cost* rockets and Thresh's bonus damage on his E passive, both of which are targeted abilities that you can not dodge. Safety? Nobody can play safer than Thresh and Jinx because of Jinx's potential range with the safety added from Thresh's lantern and peel and tankiness. All in? Is there really a better replacement for all ins than Thresh? Hook the carry, lantern in the jungler or adc, into flay. WITH Jinx Thresh pretty much guarantees that the enemies get stuck in her traps. The only thing they are almost lacking in is sustain which can be found in Thresh's Face of the Mountain with it's build path which he can also proc from range easily with the bonus damage from his E. Honestly both of these champions are problematic by themselves between Jinx's ridiculous bonus damage and range rockets with aoe crits and Thresh's just plain overloaded kit and versatility.

*Even at level one laughably low.

*Why the hell was this even included in his kit in the first place?

5 Comments

alasarcher1 votes

So whats your point? Pick Lulu as support and spam laugh. Pick Varus and poke the shit out of them since they dont have enough sustain. Pick Alistar and counter everything they can do. Pick Zyra and block thresh Q or Jinx W with your plants, and poke the shit out of them.

Lugg1 votes

Kalista and Thresh is worse. Tahm plus anyone is awful as well.

MudintheWater1 votes

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Kalista and Thresh is worse. Tahm plus anyone is awful as well.

Tahm is Riot giving the middle finger to all CC-based supports.

xl Kirito lx1 votes

Tahm + Kalista... can't beat that. Free pass to anyone nearby Tahm to take Kalista ult, or if Tahm eats someone, they get thrown half way across the map.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

They have no sustain. At least not enough to live through super heavy poke. I can just proceed to poke the crap out of them while screwing up Thresh's fancy combos because plain ol' disengage just screws him. Easy lane unless I'm getting camped.

I think Kalista is so much worse because 1) she is mobile compared to Jinx, 2) botlane is nearly ungankable past level 6, and 3) they have much, much better all-ins pre-6.

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