Thresh vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Thresh
based on 4,259 Thresh vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ahri as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Ahri
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Advice to Win Against Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Thresh vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some influential Thresh against Ahri counter statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ahri. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ahri. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Ahri
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Who is Better, Thresh or Ahri?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when playing against Ahri, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes an ok counter to Ahri.
While Thresh does have a higher win rate than Ahri, when facing one another, Thresh also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Ahrias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This 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 Thresh vs Ahri matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a decent counter for Ahri. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Ahri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh to counter Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Ahri. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Thresh versus Ahri build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Ahri than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 50.1% battling Ahri with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Ahri as Thresh, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Thresh vs Ahri counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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