User blog comment:Alpha Cyrione/Thallux, the Exalted Warrior/@comment-5412516-20130611091137/@comment-5877019-20130614041132

I disagree. And to show you why I'll compare him to some other champions.

Like Thallux, Tryndamere is a melee ADC. His passive gives him innate critical strike chance, while Thallux gives him stats that you won't get until your first back, wasting an early passive almost, except for when you use your Q. Tryndamere has a reliable sustain in lane, especially early, with his Q. It also gives him bonus AD passively. Thallux has great burst on his Q but sacrifices it mostly for the late-game advantages by using it to farm, like Nasus (who is barely viable anymore.) Tryndamere's W has a few uses. It (technically) can help you sense a gank if you're smart with it, and secures kills almost all the time. But Thallux hasn't got a reliable tool like that. He has his leap, that by luck can stun. But it's on a much higher cooldown than Tryndamere's spin, especially with it's passive. Tryndamere's spin does almost the same damage as Thallux's leap when it crits, but in an AoE effect and can be used as an escape. Thallux's leap is like Pantheon's, but doesn't stun all the time. Pantheon's leap does less damage, but procs his passive.

Thallux's E is like a Ravenous Hydra active, just a little more damaging and slighlty lower cooldown. His main damage comes late-game after great farming on his Q, like Tryndamere after an Infinity Edge. Let's look at Thallux's ultimate. It's really close to Riven's ult, but Thallux loses attack range for maybe a bit more AD, and does similar damage as Riven's. Tryndamere has almost a guaranteed kill with his ult, probably more.

Melee ADC's are very susceptible to poke. That's why they are less viable. Thallux has one gap closer that could secure a kill. Fiora has an instant two, not to mention her ult is super OP. Master Yi can have one every time he gets a kill with his outrageous ultimate. Tryndamere, he can have one every 3 or so crits. Those three aren't that viable as melee ADCs ecept maybe Fiora because of her parry.

I feel that Thallux may be really strong, but not unplayably OP. Denying someone like Thallux, with low base health, barely higher than Annie's, and low innate sustain early on will be pretty easy. Thallux would almost always need a few ganks against Olafs, Nidalees, Elises, and many other champions. A few items and free farm will definately put him over the top, but it's not super hard to deprive him of this. This is it, I hope you liked my wall of text, I would've written more but I already expect a tl;dr response to this, or none at all.