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Should a Sylvanas win against a Thrall in the solo lane?
Thrall is a very strong solo laner. Sylvanas would have to have extremely good micro skills to be successful. She’s not built to lane against some bruisers, if any. She can hold her own if you play carefully, but I don’t think she’ll be able to push against a Thrall. She’d only be able to pick up XP and stop him from pushing hard. Other than that, she’s more useful elsewhere.
Both characters’ wave clears are mana inefficient and relatively weak in the early game. Long time ago Unstable Poison explosions from dead NPCs used to deal damage to all targets including enemy heroes, but now it doesn’t. Take the most passive approach possible.
Wait for the minions to clash, spread out evenly and start hitting each other. One or two swings from melee minions is just enough help you need. At level 7 you throw out W and spread it through the entire wave with E. This early may need to land one auto attack on the mage to help kill it within the 2.5s time frame, but is generally enough to trigger the explosion which then links to the other six, guaranteeing their deaths.
With might of banshee queen and standing within your own minion wave which he won’t be able to deal so fast might be just enough to trade evenly, or at least result in one party retreating, in which case you take the lead by returning to the lane faster or capitalize on the towers if there is no external threat.
By lvl 8 or 9 your damage scaling overtakes that of minion hp values so you can easily one shot the wave with only two button presses from a safe distance. You might miss out on the globes but he technically isn’t achieving anything by dueling you.
He’s better used elsewhere, using his root to stop mages from farming globes and you trying to brute force against him is in general a bad idea.
Sylvanas is not a solo laner, and she doesn’t have self-heal in the early game. So, no.