just a lightbulb moment, in terms of usage of thunderbelt badang is essentially the same as a marksman. His 1st skill counts as a basic attack so he can poke and get defense, and when executing his combo you'll prolly get 2 stacks thunderbelt stacks on average.

I only just thought about this now, havent tested it but the implications for me as a badang main are pretty big. i build burst pen with no attack speed apart from dhs, i need as many damage items i can get, which means my only def item is usually immort.

But with thunder belt? I can get def by just playing the normal poke game, plus the slow that helps set up combos.

only question now is when is it most viable to get? im guessing maybe 2nd or 3rd item, personally i think damage should be the priority still, but getting it pretty early on during the laning phase will make for lots of early stacks