League of Legends (LoL) Question: What do you max on Thresh second?

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What do you max on Thresh second?

Asked on January 30, 2014

W or Q? Q reduces the CD and ups the damage a lot and W ups the shield. Which is the optimal way to go currently?

Answers (2)

(569) |

I max W myself because of the lowered cooldown and the stronger shield. I usually don't need the second hook in short teamfights. The shield is also AoE and that lantern can help your team to reposition more effectively. It also blocks things like completely (or at least, almost all of it).

I max Q when I am against super mobile champions who can escape easily if I don't have it every 10 seconds.

(531) |

W definitely. It improves the shield and lowers the cool down of your strongest ability. Also you just use Q like once per teamfight, regardless if you max it or not.

(1495) |

Max W against more burst champions and AoE spells. The main point of maxing W is the stronger shield. Even at max rank it has a 16 second cooldown so I wouldn't count on the CDR making much of a difference.

Max Q against bruisers and tanks that aren't going to instantly kill people, but you need to peel them off your backline. I have no idea why GrandmasterD and Janistu seem to think you can't use more than one hook in team fights. With 40% CDR at rank 5, a that hits a target has a 4 second cooldown. Keep in mind that the ability stuns for 1.5 seconds, so with successive hooks you can leave a bruiser with only 2.5 seconds to do anything before they get hooked again.

You can actually put 1-3 points in E and max R>Q>W>E. You won't deal quite as much damage in laning phase without more points in E, but sometimes the lower CD on Q is just as useful, and it scales better into late game. In team fights you really only need E for the knockback and the cooldown doesn't go down with level.

(415) |

I'm gonna chime in cause I like psi's answer better. But, I personally will also max second if we're just straight up dunking the game, cause the added burst damage. ;p

(569) |

I didn't say that you don't use more than one hook per fight. Yes, I do understand that it gives you more CC but I usually find stronger shield with a little bit lower CD better than the hook in teamfights.

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