Lucian vs Thresh: WHO WOULD WIN?

RiotMhija·5/16/2016, 4:46:23 PM·91 votes·212,532 views

#UPDATE: Voting is CLOSED! Thresh won, but now both endings are available to view! (click the annotations at the end of the video) Thanks for playing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRLHIkY5fB0

Lucian and Thresh have gotten a ton of love recently, from an enormous Thresh puppet to the reveal of an epic Lucian statue, but we all know that’s where the love stops -- these two have got some beef.

Who would win if they finally got the chance to duke it out?

We teamed up with the community to imagine a fight between the Chain Warden and the Purifier. Who knows if this is actually how it’d go down -- but it sure is fun to wonder.

Notice the cliffhanger -- you decide who wins!

Watch the beginning of the fight and cast your vote in the poll below by 11:59 PM PDT Tuesday (May 17th). We’ll reveal the winner on Wednesday, so check back!

Animation by Zeurel Twitter, YouTube and Andrew Martin

SFX by David Bowick

Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound

1,128 Comments

RiotCarnival Knights5/16/2016, 5:53:55 PM125 votes

THRESH. THE THRESHMAKER. THE THRESHNESS. THRESH INGREDIENTS. AMAZON THRESH. THRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR. DAVID KOTHRESH.

Okay maybe not that last one but you know what I mean.

Totalis5/16/2016, 5:42:47 PM118 votes

clicks my lolking profile

sees my 600 games on lucian

picks thresh

RiotMhija5/16/2016, 4:52:33 PM88 votes

So let's hear it. #TeamLucian or #TeamThresh ?

Armanyte5/16/2016, 5:57:31 PM84 votes

EDIT: Reread Shadow and Fortune to give me a better idea of the matchup.

Lucian:Lucian

Gear: Dual lightslingers built specifically to take out undead foes.

Training: Culled undead for many years with Senna's help, then learned dual-wielding after her death.

Powers: Mostly weapon reliant, but has the ability to move very quickly as shown by relentless pursuit. He also is strong enough to wield the lightslingers which were originally used as a two-handed rifle. This is similar to Ike's (of Fire Emblem and Super Smash Bros) feat of wielding a two-handed sword in just one hand. Correction the lore states that they were originally pistols, why did they carry one each then?

Weakness: He is a regular man. He may have a bunch of training and strength he is fighting a twisted spirit. He will be vulnerable and have to outclass thresh for a while to even have a shot at winning.

Thresh:Thresh

Gear: A Spectral Lantern which contains a ton of souls captured by Thresh. A large hook with which he can grab and torture his victims.

Training: Before death he was trained in the use of magical artifacts and experimented on them. Exploits include tearing out pages of a living book, and scratching a mirror which was a mage's look out into this world. He has great experience using chains and other torture devices.

Powers: Ability to store souls. He is also undead giving him remarkable durability and resistance to normal weapons as seen in the harrowing of Bilgewater. As an undead he would also have incredible stamina. He is also extremely smart figuring out new ways for torture as well as being cunning enough to outsmart Lucian and Senna and capture the latter. Can generate an ethereal prison as shown with "The Box." Also according to the video above thresh can fire blasts of energy. He can use his lantern to protect him from harm, possibly sacrificing his souls however to do so.

Weaknesses: Thresh was never meant for combat he was an experimenter and tormentor. Thresh barely ever confronts his foes directly, choosing rather to trick them before tormenting them. He also might have a bit of a pride issue, he sees his experiments as a higher form of thinking and may fall because of that.

Conclusion:

This is technically the second time this kind of fight has happened the first being detailed in Shadow of Fortune

In this fight Thresh has the upper hand initially being able to block shot with his lantern and once he gets a hook on Lucian it's all but over. However thanks to Senna Lucian gets past the lantern shield and Thresh is forced to flee the scene lest he be destroyed by the lightslingers.

A second round would be a match of Lucian being able to dodge until he could get past Thresh's defenses. His weapons have been shown to seriously hurt Thresh to the point of making the specter flee. Lucian also has the advantage of Senna being able to somewhat communicate with Lucian through the lantern. If Lucian can get past the lantern without being hook he could absolutely win as Thresh relies on his magics and fear to win and has little combat prowess of his own.

I would give the match to #TeamLucian Lucian with a 55:45 matchup.

TBakes5/16/2016, 5:09:08 PM72 votes

If Lucian didn't have an emotional stake in the fight, then I think he would win since he is ranged and has been preparing for this particular fight longer. However, he is "all up in his feelings" and Thresh would tilt him instantly, causing him to add Lucian's soul to the collection.

aidan bee5/16/2016, 5:31:46 PM49 votes

100% wifesteal thresh vs 100% crit lucain

who would win?

Sahn Uzal5/16/2016, 4:54:49 PM42 votes

Looking at their little ''skirmish'' in Shadow and Fortune, I feel like Thresh would kick his @ss But if Thresh is able to shoot soul-LAZORs with his hook, like he did in that animation, I'm sure he would murder Lucian with ease. Also, full AD Thresh would oneshot Lucian before Lucian could even touch Thresh :l Thresh item 3031 item 3031 item 3031 item 3031 item 3031 item 3072 Come at me bro!

Blackhowlin5/16/2016, 5:56:46 PM35 votes

#teamthresh My thoughts here are if Lucian and his wife couldent take him down together, how will he be able to solo, considering that Thresh is still gaining power and souls and Lucian simply has two guns as opposed to one, from the last encounter.

GodËmperorTrump5/16/2016, 5:39:56 PM33 votes

#TeamPhreak

Gravesinger5/16/2016, 6:52:19 PM31 votes

that face when the only two champions you play are supposed to hate each other and you love them both and you have to choose one over the otheritem 3070 item 3070 item 3070

RiotMhija5/16/2016, 6:24:50 PM23 votes

Votes are suuuuuper even thus far. This is going to be close!

Lordllo5/16/2016, 10:06:19 PM18 votes

Team Thresh. Upvote If You Agree

LojyaK3bNk5/16/2016, 5:30:45 PM16 votes

Lucian, because the light shall never faulter in the presence of darkness.

Genmu5/16/2016, 5:39:00 PM15 votes

After Shadow and Fortune I reckon that Thresh has the advantage in a 1v1 fight. He's able to pretty effectively nullify Lucian's gunshots and all the innate life-melting spectre bullshit that story introduced adds greatly to his lore strength. All things considered Thresh should have already won the fight, but he took it slow and wanted to choke the life out of Lucian in his regular fashion. If Lucian wants a chance at winning he either needs some new gear or some friends, otherwise Thresh takes it.

Melledoneus5/16/2016, 5:38:35 PM15 votes

It really all depends where it is. But without any advantages, Thresh has the advantage since he's unlocked the secret of Lucian's relic weapons from Senna. Lucian is agile, yes. But Thresh would be able to outlast him since undead never tire.

Karthus "Never hunger, never tire, never fear. Join her, Lucian!"

cyropox5/16/2016, 6:51:49 PM14 votes

Thresh can take souls which make him stronger. If this fight weren't in the rift, Thresh would have all the souls he's ever collected (since they wouldn't reset; they only do that when he enters summoner's rift) so he's be pretty much invincible. Lucian doesn't get stacks on anything so we can assume that he'll lose to a person who had an eternity to scale for late game.

Decrit5/16/2016, 5:33:14 PM14 votes

In the black mist -> Thresh Out of the black mist -> Lucian makes Thresh garbage

Easy gimme prize cookies

Çhåryzård5/16/2016, 4:57:10 PM13 votes

Taking actually in game on the Ritf, probably Lucian, but like talking about in the actual world the League champions inhabit and not inside the game, I think Thresh would.

Jaéji5/16/2016, 5:20:04 PM13 votes

I think Lucian would win considering he was trained in execution, The loss of his wife only driving him to further his training and loose any type of set back he had. I would think he would know what Thresh was capable of as well giving him even more of a upperhand as he would know what exactly he would have to do to defeat Thresh. Though Thresh might be able to get a edge over Lucian by using his emotions against him. It would be a interesting battle at the least. My vote is Lucian though. As for bringing back Sena, I doubt that's possible.

Ozimul5/16/2016, 6:14:11 PM13 votes

Thresh is far, far older than Lucian and has potential decades or centuries of combat experience on him. And he did very nearly win in Shadow and Fortune - if he'd not taken time to gloat and cackle over his victory, we'd have no more Lucian and another weird rework on our hands. That, and IT'S PERSONAL for Lucian, so he'd make a hell of a lot of hotheaded mistakes, even if that same personal stake drives him to keep getting up long after any other mortal would be put down. #TeamThresh

Darastrix5/16/2016, 5:58:25 PM12 votes

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Full AD Thresh, the one shot wonder.

GetToTheLantern5/16/2016, 6:27:44 PM11 votes

I guess it's not much guessing on who I'm gonna choose lol

Koreean5/16/2016, 5:47:11 PM10 votes

As a support main, of course I'd like to be in #TeamThresh!

Arkraith5/16/2016, 5:52:08 PM9 votes

Lucian has those holy laser guns making him the good guy. He has the drive to avenge his wife. Thresh is a troll, no drive, he's a badguy. Lucian would win

Vantrex1005/17/2016, 3:42:15 PM8 votes

when did league become a civil war team Lucian Lucian Ekko Illaoi Rengar Veigar Twitch Team Thresh Thresh Teemo Urgot Kalista Malzahar Khazix

Lucian: Im sorry thresh, but shes my wife

Thresh: So was I

Muted Summoner5/16/2016, 5:08:31 PM8 votes

How many souls does Thresh have? If he has a lot Lucian will never get by the huge amount of armor Thresh has plus Thresh will do a shit ton of damage. thresh could go half and half armor/damage items and own lucian.

#teamThresh

scorpionhelspawn5/16/2016, 6:13:52 PM5 votes

wow thats a close race

Solari Fortune5/16/2016, 5:38:48 PM5 votes

Thresh easy have you seen Adc thresh That stuff hurts

º LB º5/25/2016, 7:36:13 PM4 votes

of course thresh would win. he has 100% wifesteal item 3070 item 3070 Lucian item 3070 item 3070

nintentwins5/19/2016, 5:18:43 PM4 votes

This was a really fun mini-event for me, two of my favorate champs in my favorate LoL rivalry having a community showoff was amazing to me.

But can i just point out?

thresh won with only 243 votes over lucian, out of 20255 votes in total.

243, is only about 1% of 20255, which means thresh had a 1% victory over lucian!!!!!!!!!

THAT WAS EXTREMELY CLOSE!!!! it just goes to show how good of a job the character design, lore and gameplay teams did when making these two champs in terms of overall character of these 2 champs. To even convince the community that they were almost evenly matched with two champs with a longstanding rivalry, that is not an easy feat to do. I really think they did a really good job designing these champions, as to have the community split this much over something like this, is not an easy feat at all. As annoying as they are sometimes in game, they clearly knew what they were doing with these two, and they are not only split, but beloved characters as well. in terms of character, after seeing this event in action, im convinced this rivalry is LoL's greatest acomplishment when it comes to character development, to have the community involved so evenly in this event, is something they should marvel at.

bravo riot, bravo, ya did a good job here.

zainbuff5/23/2016, 3:31:12 AM4 votes