Talk:Thresh/@comment-5077844-20130727192322/@comment-8506165-20130907165158

He has a shorter AA range than any ADC (Urgot isn't an ADC and even if you're playing him bot he has Q). Thresh literally -can't- AA poke without walking through your range, and he's not tanky enough early to take consistent AAs in exchange for only one of his own. Control the brush, and Thresh literally can't use his E passive aside from as a followup to his hook without taking serious punishment for it.

And this is ignoring the fact that if Thresh just walks up to 475 range any support worth their salt would be getting CC on him too. If you want a support than can poke with autos Zyra has 575 range and can pull it off fairly regularly, Sona has Power Chord, Lulu has Pix... all of these are far better at consistent AA harassment than Thresh, it's just Thresh's seems worse because he does a fair bit of damage in one shot without expending mana.