Talk:Thresh/@comment-5266525-20131024012547

So, I was in ranked the other day climbing to gold as usual, and I landed in first pick. Being a nice guy, I communicated and compromised with the team to sort out a lane configuration where everyone was happy, myself taking support Thresh since he's awesome and I really don't mind doing the role these days. Then, just as the gong sounded, I realised to my horror that since I'd been talking so much, I had forgotten to swap my runes and masteries from the Atk Spd/Cho'Gath jungle setup I had the previous game...

... and in all honesty, it actually wasn't bad. I take tankier support masteries than most (0/17/13), so it wasn't too far off what I run on Cho, but the real difference was in the attack speed I got from my AS reds. Normally I would run hybrid pen on a support but attack speed was noticeably giving me way higher damage, especially early on.

It made sense to me, since Thresh naturally gets strong onhit magic damage as he collects souls and doesn't have too bad a base attack speed. Has anyone else tried this sort of thing? I could certainly see it working for other supports who have good autoattack steroids (Lulu, Taric, Janna, etc).