dear thresh players

i've been playing adc recently and whenever i get a thresh support i notice that they're not doing as much damage as i do when i play thresh. usually when i go to the match history and look at what they're leveling, it's because they're maxing their q first, even if they are a higher rank thresh than i am. it really hurts the laning phase when q is maxed first, here's why:

it is purely for engage, the damage is negligible, and you're not likely going to cast it every time its off cooldown, even at rank 1; so the reduced cooldown does absolutely nothing to help the thresh player or the adc.

maxing flay first improves early trading drastically because flay's passive can do a max of 200% AD at max rank and always scales 100% with souls combined with the damage you get from landing flay. you will also be able to last hit using relic shield infinitely better.

hope this helps any thresh players maxing q and not finding as much success as they should.