Make Thresh both melee and ranged.

jdizzle367·4/11/2016, 6:35:28 PM·3 votes·1,002 views

Thresh is a neat guy and probably one of the best designed champions in league he combines utility, play making, and mechanics into one fun guy to play that isn't super binary or unfun to play against. He also has this theme of a melee/ranged hybrid from his auto attacks to the fact that every ability in his kit can be used to either create of reduce distance between and other champions. Due to his kit thresh can't ever really step out of the support role which is fine in ranked and competitive, you should always play and build a champion in the most optimal way possible when there are stakes involved. But in normal fun games sometimes i want to bring thresh top which leads me to my proposed buff; Thresh's basic attacks are counted as both melee and ranged and will choose the better of the two when calculating on hit effects and item passives. It would probably be tacked on as an additional innate passive. This really wouldn't affect a standard competitive support thresh build but it would definitely help help those brave summoners who want to help thresh break out from his imposed position. There is are only 10 items in the game that have different effects based on whether or not a champion is range or melee (item 3930 item 3124 item 3022 item 3044 item 3071 item 3074 item 3085 item 3748 item 3078 item 3742) and none of them exist in a standard support build. The only item i could see being pick up for a support thresh is item 3742 but i highly doubt it would usurp item 3110 and even if it did a 1 second 50% slow would hardly have the potential to break support thresh. I think opening the hydra options to thresh would make his solo lane viable for fun normal matches but it would by no means break Thresh. It would add to the cool Melee/ranged hybrid fantasy that thresh tries to deliver by making it exist as actual gameplay.

P.S. Also sort of insane power farmer jungle sated Thresh doubling the damage from his passive would be hilarious

22 Comments

Billy VoHagen4/12/2016, 7:32:37 PM2 votes

Fuck that. We don't need to baby the thresh' who fucking suck with targons. They should actually get good.

Nidelkha4/11/2016, 6:48:10 PM1 votes

He already is like this.

Wolfram Oxford4/11/2016, 7:36:47 PM1 votes

This would make him broken, he would just be played in other roles.

For Example Jungle Build: item 3930 item 3748 item 3085

Mid/Top: item 3748 item 3085 item 3124

ADC: item 3124 item 3085 item 3074

Magnum Mack4/11/2016, 7:46:06 PM1 votes

Thresh is currently really solid and composed in his current state. I don't know if tweaking him to work off-meta top lane would be a good idea.

The idea of thresh lanterning in his jungler or roaming mid is cool and all, but highly telegraphed to the point that I don't think it would be too effective. I dunno, It COULD work, but in trying to make it work they would probably mess something up.

Spicy Rice4/11/2016, 8:42:08 PM1 votes

I'd honestly rather just have him be considered melee with a huge AA range, like how aatrox is while ulting