Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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 stat comparisons shown on this page feature several significant Ahri versus Thresh matchup statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Thresh. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Ahri normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when taking on Thresh, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes an ok counter to Thresh.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate compared to Thresh, when facing one another, Ahri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Thresh.
Moreover, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter for Thresh. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Thresh.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to counter Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often racks up much more CS as Thresh. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Thresh build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Thresh than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 49.9% when playing against Thresh with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Thresh as Ahri, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Ahri vs Thresh matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Thresh as Ahri are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.