Illaoi vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Illaoi
based on 2,689 Illaoi vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Thresh
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Advice to Win Against Thresh
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.
Illaoi vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several important Illaoi versus Thresh matchup statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between these two champs. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Thresh. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Illaoi typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Thresh. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Thresh
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Thresh?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when taking on Thresh, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes a good counter for Thresh.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate compared to Thresh, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Thresh.
Moreover, Illaoi also 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Thresh matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Thresh. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually picks up much more CS relative to Thresh. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Thresh build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Illaoi used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Thresh than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 52.0% when countering Thresh with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Thresh as Illaoi, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Thresh clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.0% win rate overall.
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