Any gun should be able to put down 'top' players within a few shots. The main reason the thorn is overused is because of the ar nerf. I remember a time post patch that thorn still wasnt used, and when the ar's were hit, the cheap suros users jumped to the thorn because it was the second most powerful weapon. The 'plz nerf' threads jumped from suros to thorn. If you nerf thorn, tlw will be complained about. And then the read death after that. Becase there are so many op guns (mainly due to the fact that most guns arent bad) that after a whole we will see 'nerf nlb because it can one ahot' and then a 'berf nechrochasm too op' will start popping up.