For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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 clarify some critical Jayce against Thresh matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, showing that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Thresh. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Jayce often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jayce usually fairs equally well when taking on Thresh, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Jayce makes an ok counter to Thresh.
While Jayce does have a lower win rate compared to Thresh, when facing one another, Jayce also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Jayce into Threshas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Jayce has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jayce vs Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Jayce is a somewhat poor counter to Thresh. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jayce against Thresh.
To truly master Jayce in order to counter Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce on average picks up much more CS relative to Thresh. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Jayce versus Thresh build consist of Muramana, Eclipse, and Serylda's Grudge. When Jayce bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Thresh than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Jayce had an average win rate of 49.9% battling Thresh with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Thresh as Jayce, Jayce players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Jayce vs Thresh battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Thresh as Jayce are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.