Talk:Thresh/@comment-26222017-20160111152956/@comment-28539958-20160524111505

You can play him as an AD bruiser top, but it's only viable against some toplaners, champions like Darius and Renecton will own you in lane, Thresh has the lowest armor stat level 1 and 18 at a constant 16 armor so he will get destroyed by high physical damage champions like Pantheon and Riven early, But if you start by building a Iceborn Gauntlet you can mitigate it a little.

It's something I've tried a couple times and it can work against anybody, I've even won my lane against some of the champion that should destroy me, though I've feel dirty when i lane against a Yasuo cause I destroy him in lane.

When laning phase is over and you start to group for teamfights and objectives you get insanely usefull as a peeler for your carry's, or you can be a diver from the flanks  and hook one in the backline and lantern in another guy like an Amumu or a Karthus for a Great initiate, and you're no slouch on the damage side if you've built AD and collected your souls.