the real problem that has been gutting Thresh

Cherysse··2 votes·681 views

is there a champ that when compared to others has no base armor whatsoever? yes there is; Thresh

16 base armor that doesn't scale with level, all of his other armor is BONUS (Souls + Items). Compare that to the regular value of 75 to 90 base armor late game. This means that Thresh won't endure much late game compared to those champs with a solid base armor, mainly because building item 3035 item 3033 item 3036 is like building an item that penetrates TOTAL ARMOR on him, because almost all of his armor is bonus. Compare 80 base armor that is at least 30% damage reduction, with 16 that is like 9%... It is sad that an item makes something that seems to look like a solid passive (Souls) turn into sht in the practice.

At level 10 Thresh gets an about of 90 armor: 90-16 = 74 ............ 74 - 52% = 35 effective armor And I am not adding the armor pen from runes... or Ghostblade.

A item 3036 + item 3142 + Pen from Masteries and Runes = Thresh is no one, actually building armor would be kinda pointless on him because it would only be 30% as effecive as it should be on other champs.

I seriusly don't know if you are happy or sad because Thresh win rate is down, I know his kit is kinda overloaded and overruns most of the other supp champs, but I just wanted to point out this WEAKNESS he has. I seriusly don't know if this is a huge part of the reason he is down, I just know it is a huge weakness now because of how the meta works.

5 Comments

Hige1 votes

49% win rate is not "down" by any means, he's pretty balanced in his current state.

Cherysse1 votes

hmmm I saw a thread saying it was on 44% sorry, I still consider it a weakness anyways, well at least you know you can totally exploit him with a simple last whisper.

Hige1 votes

isolated statistics tend to do that, 44% win rate is when measured across every elo, this considers that people in bronze can't take advantage of thresh' kit and since the player pool is bigger on bronze, silver and gold, the statistic drops down heavily.

Champion.gg is a bit more accurate since it takes in account plat and up, where people tend to optimize their performance so power can be measured more objectively as opposed to dependent on collective skill with a biased sample.

https://champion.gg/champion/Thresh

Kanlar1 votes

By your logic, Yasuo and Kassadin should gain mr per level because their the only melee champion that doesn't gain mr.

Sasogwa1 votes

Thresh is a problem in hisself because he has an unbelievably high utility based kit paired with infinite scaling, when infinite scaling is usually granted to low reliability high counterplay champions. Therefore his infinite scaling kind of has to be garbage else it instantly becomes a problem. Same for Bard.

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