Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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 feature several vital K'Sante vs. Thresh matchup statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Thresh..
K'Sante typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Typically, they takes more damage than Thresh. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Thresh, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes an ok counter for Thresh.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate than Thresh, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking K'Sante into Threshas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, K'Sante also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter for Thresh. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Thresh.
To learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante on average accumulates much more CS relative to Thresh. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Thresh build include Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when facing Thresh than with most other common counter builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 49.3% battling Thresh with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Thresh as K'Sante, K'Sante players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for K'Sante vs Thresh face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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