Board Thread:League of Legends discussion/@comment-26177538-20150307024702/@comment-2128622-20150512221017

Tonyqian wrote: the problem is that attack speed is only at 1/4 of its effectiveness on thresh, so you would need four attack speed items to equal one. also, thresh wouldn't receive as many souls in the jungle as he would in lane, further decreasing his AP, armor, and e-passive damage.

Actually, it's only the animation which gets a reduced benefit from attack speed. the delay between attacks is reduced normally, which still lets you get to about ~2.2 attacks per second with Hurricane, Zehpyr & BoTRK. The damage is pretty disgusting if you can get some stacks on devourer. The problem is, with only 16 base armor, low early game damage and CC that CCs him too, he's pretty unplayable in the jungle.

In a bot match, it's pretty entertaining, though. Lane for a few levels and then go clear things out.