Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some important Aatrox against Thresh counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Thresh. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Aatrox often has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Thresh. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aatrox usually wins when facing off against Thresh, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Aatrox makes a great counter to Thresh.
While Aatrox does have a higher win rate compared to Thresh, when facing one another, Aatrox also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Aatrox into Thresh.
Additionally, Aatrox has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Thresh matchups, Aatrox is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Aatrox is a great counter to Thresh. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aatrox against Thresh.
To truly master Aatrox to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox often picks up much more CS relative to Thresh. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Aatrox versus Thresh build include Kaenic Rookern, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Thresh than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average win rate of 53.1% battling Thresh with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Thresh as Aatrox, Aatrox players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Aatrox vs Thresh counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.1% winrate overall.
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