Talk:Thresh/@comment-5266525-20131024012547/@comment-6281696-20131028124559

meh, early on the 15% AS isn't particulairyl helpfull and the 8 armor is as you don't have any real damage or defense yet. Without a significant number of souls to back you up virtually any other champion outtrades him in any sort of sustained fight, or even when it's just one/two AA's and perhaps an ability. At least assuming you're not horribly fed for some reason. Early on both his damage & tankyness are relativly bad. And games usually end before he really starts going. It's what always annoyed me about him, if the opponent pays any attention and just returns fire they will nearly always come out on top.. the new plans for supports might change this though, given that you might now actually get some decent items before the game ends.

Mid-late game, so let's say when you have a 100+ armor, the 8 armor becomes insignificant & the AS is better by a very significant margin though.

But mostly it's just personal preference, and I simply run in too few opponents that don't immediatly return fire so I'd rather have the bit more tankyness and survive that half a second longer under a tower so it gets one more shot of, than having the bit more AS and get one more relativly weak AA of.