This is a catalogue of many if not most of Thor's major fights going back to the late 70's. Included are fights where he fought beings at least close to him in power where Thor could let loose without fear of killing his opponent and where the opponent wasn't ko'd in like 1-2 hits. The purpose is to show how often Thor makes use of his non melee abilities so a few fights where he could not make use of those abilities due to his opponents invulernability to those attacks were excluded from the list. This catalogue also is only mainly taken from Thor's own books or Journey into Mystery. It is also limited to regular Thor fights(no King Thor, RKT or OKT but including OF Thor since he mostly used the same power set as regular Thor). Skip to the end if you just want to see the results of the catalogue. I know I missed a few epic fights and will add them in if someone wants to list the fight and what attacks he used.
Eternals Saga forward(from Thor 283 up to Thor 320)
Eternals/Deviants- melee and omnidirectional lightning storm/blast
Dromedan- melee
Forgotten One- melee
One Above All- lightning blast, melee
Odin- melee, energy blast
aliens on strange planet- melee, energy blasts
Eye of Odin- lightning storm, energy blasts, wind vortex
4th Celestial Host- lightning blasts, energy blasts, melee
Shiva- melee, wind vortex
Umar- energy blasts, melee
Wrecking Crew- melee, energy blast on Wrecker
Airwalker- melee
Firelord- melee, energy blast
Frost giant- melee
Mephisto- melee, energy blast
Tyr- melee, lightning storm/blast
Maurglon- melee
Drax- melee, lightning bolts
Demogorge- lightning storm, melee
Bibeast- melee
Manbeast/Bibeast- melee, energy blast
Manbeast- melee
Simonson years(from Thor 337 up to Thor 382)
Beta Ray Bill- melee
demon hordes- melee,lightning blast
Fafnir- melee
Fafnir- melee, lightning blast
Algrim- melee
Malekith- melee
Surtur- melee, hammer throw with the power "of a thousand suns"
Surtur- melee, storm
Kurse- melee, energy blast through Energizer
Balder- melee, lightning
Troll mother- melee
Zaniac- lightning storm
Marauders- melee, lightning blasts
Marauders- lightning
Absorbing man- melee, windstorm, bfr
Grendel- melee
Frost giants- melee
World Serpent- melee
Post Simonson(only up to Thor 400)
Secret wars battle royale- melee, energy blast, lightning storm
Leir- melee, energy blast, lightning blast, windstorm
Arishem- melee, planetary magnetic blast
Inside Exitar- melee, lightning blast, godblast
Grog- melee, windstorm
World engine battle- lightning storm
Infinity Crusade/Blood&Thunder arc(Thor 461, 465-471)
Beta Ray Bill- melee, lightning
Super Skrull- melee, lightning blast
Drax- melee, lightning blast
Beta Ray Bill- melee, energy blast
Silver Surfer- melee, lightning blast
Surfer/Warlock- melee, lightning/energy blasts
Infinity Watch- melee
Infinity Watch+others- melee, energy blast
Thanos- melee
Jurgens years(Thor vol 2)
The Destroyer- melee, lightning storm, lightning blast
The Destroyer- melee, bfr
Perrikus- energy blasts, melee
Dark Gods- melee, energy blasts, lightning storm, godblast
Enrakt- energy blast, melee
Juggernaut- melee
8th day Exemplars- energy blasts
Mangog- energy blast, melee
Mangog/Thanosi- lightning storm, energy blasts
Mangog/Thanosi- melee, energy blasts
Mangog- melee, energy blast
Absorbing Man- melee, energy blast
Wrecking Crew- lightning blast, melee
Galactic police- melee, windstorm
Nullitron- melee
Gladiator- melee, energy blast
The Destroyer- melee
Surtur- melee, lightning storm
Post Ragnarok years(JMS, Gillen, Fraction, Aaron)
Iron Man- melee, lightning blasts
The Destroyer- melee
Surtur- melee, lightning
Bor- melee, lightning
Destroyer Doom- lightning blast, melee
Ragnarok- lightning, melee
Silver Surfer- energy blast, melee
Silver Surfer- melee, lightning storm
Ulik- melee
Star Colossus- melee, lightning blast
Nightmare creatures- lightning blast, melee
Surtur- melee, lightning storm
Gorr- melee, lightning blast
Malekith- melee, lightning blast
Ulik/Minotaur- melee
So all total I counted 88 battles catalogued above.
In 23 of the 88 battles or 26% of them Thor used only melee forms of attack.
In 48 of the 88 battles or 55% of them Thor used lightning or energy blasts from his hammer.
In 21 of the 88 battles or 24% of them Thor used weather related attacks such as lightning storms, wind attacks or vortexes.
Thus we can conclude that Thor is over twice as likely to use an energy or lightning blast during a fight as he is to use only melee attacks and about as likely to use a weather storm or vortex as he is only melee attacks.
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