Lee Sin vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Lee Sin
based on 4,568 Lee Sin vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Thresh
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Lee Sin in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several critical Lee Sin vs. Thresh counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Thresh. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Lee Sin often has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Thresh. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lee Sin and Thresh
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Thresh?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when taking on Thresh, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Lee Sin makes a bad counter to Thresh.
While Lee Sin does have a lower win rate compared to Thresh, when they face off with one another, Lee Sin also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lee Sin into Thresh.
Furthermore, Lee Sin 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Lee Sin is a somewhat poor counter to Thresh. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lee Sin against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lee Sin in order 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Thresh. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Lee Sin versus Thresh build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Death's Dance. When Lee Sin included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Thresh than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 48.6% battling Thresh with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Thresh as Lee Sin, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Lee Sin vs Thresh counters, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.6% winrate overall.
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