Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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 provided here show several strategic Hwei versus Thresh counter statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Thresh. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Hwei normally has a much larger longest kill spree than their foe does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Thresh. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Hwei usually loses when taking on Thresh, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Hwei makes a poor counter for Thresh.
While Hwei does have a lower winrate than Thresh, when on opposite teams, Hwei also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Hwei into Threshas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Hwei also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Hwei is a somewhat poor counter to Thresh. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Hwei against Thresh.
If you would like to truly master Hwei to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei usually accumulates much more CS relative to Thresh. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Hwei versus Thresh build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Hwei combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better versus Thresh than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Hwei had an average win rate of 48.4% battling Thresh with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Thresh as Hwei, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Gathering Storm, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Hwei vs Thresh LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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