Katarina vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Katarina
based on 5,206 Katarina vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Thresh
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here show several significant Katarina against Thresh matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Thresh. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This commonly 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 Katarina and Thresh
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Who is Better, Katarina or Thresh?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Thresh, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a poor counter to Thresh.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Thresh, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Threshas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, 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 Katarina 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 teamfights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Thresh. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often racks up much more CS as Thresh. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Katarina versus Thresh build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Thresh than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when playing against Thresh with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Thresh as Katarina, Katarina players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Katarina vs Thresh battles, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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