Soraka vs Thresh Counter Pick

Thresh is the rare champion whose armor does not grow with levels, sitting at 33 at level one and 33 at level 18, because Damnation converts nearby deaths into permanent armor and ability power instead. Against Soraka that detail matters twice: his defenses depend on how the game goes rather than on the clock, and his damage is mixed, so stacking magic resistance covers only part of what Death Sentence and Flay deliver. He attacks from 450 units against her 550, a gap that closes the instant the hook lands.

Soraka’s answer is narrow. Equinox silences the ground Thresh has to cross to flay anyone into The Box, and Astral Infusion refunds the health his chain removes, but neither stops Dark Passage from pulling an ally out of trouble or into it. He carries 620 base health rising to 2,660 at 18, a much larger frame than 605 and 2,101, and moves at 330 to her 325. His 56 base attack damage and the wind-up built into Flay mean the damage he threatens without a hook is modest, and that is the whole of Soraka’s window. With 3,877 games logged on patch 16.13.1, one of the deepest support samples the game produces, Soraka finishes at 48.0 percent against Thresh. She is behind, though only just, and the pairing grades out as even.