Talk:Thresh/@comment-24582296-20140223103654/@comment-6281696-20140224121534

He gets outpoked by virtually anything, at least until he has a great deal of souls or gets damage from another source. Really the only situation in which his poke is of any real interest is when you allow him to just continously hit you and don't retaliate at all. At least with a support build. His initiate is relativly difficult to pull of as his hook is slow and can be blocked. It usually works better as a counter initiate. His disengage is quite good, he's one of the best at turning around an initiation. Although it would be nice if he himself got an escape as he frequently can't get away himself due to the large amount of gapclosers on everything else, though this is more an issue with everything else having gapcloser than him lacking a way to distance himself. His cc is good, but his CD's are relativly long, he can't stun every 4 seconds like leona or Blitz can. His tankiness is increadibly awkward. His MR is abysmall (for a tank) and his Armor takes a considerable amount of time before it actually becomes an advantage. Most of the game you'l have a 5-10 armor advantage, which really isn't enough to be considered a tank. Since he has nothing beyond a bit of free armor he can feel increadibly squishy at times. His latern is one of the few skills that actually needs coordination, even as an escape, and as for ganks it functions as a massive tell given you a considerable amount of reaction time compared to other ways of ganking. Given the tell that his lantern provides it might actually be one of the easier to react to ganks actually.