Soraka vs Thresh Counter Pick

Thresh is an unusual champion because his armor stays flat as he levels, at 33 at level one and again at level 18. Damnation makes up for that by turning nearby deaths into permanent armor and ability power. Soraka runs into this twice. Her defenses hinge on how the match unfolds rather than on the clock, and Thresh’s damage comes in two types, so magic resistance only blunts part of what Death Sentence and Flay do. His attack range is 450 units to her 550, but the gap disappears the moment his hook connects.

Soraka has a narrow set of answers. Equinox silences the ground Thresh must cross before he can flay someone into The Box, and Astral Infusion returns the health his chain strips away. Neither one stops Dark Passage from dragging an ally out of danger or pulling someone into it. Her base health is 620, growing to 2,660 at level 18, which is far below Thresh’s 605 and 2,101 in terms of frame size, while her movement speed of 330 edges out his 325. Thresh’s 56 base attack damage, combined with the wind-up baked into Flay, keeps the damage he can deal without landing a hook fairly limited, and that narrow opening is where Soraka lives. Across 3,877 games on patch 16.13.1, one of the largest support samples the game produces, Soraka wins 48.0 percent of the time against Thresh. She trails, but only barely, and the matchup rates as even.