Thresh vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Thresh
based on 3,073 Thresh vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Alistar
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 Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Thresh vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some influential Thresh vs. Alistar counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar..
Thresh typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Alistar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Alistar
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Who is Better, Thresh or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when trying to fight Alistar, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a poor counter for Alistar.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate compared to Alistar, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter for Alistar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Thresh to counter Alistar during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Alistar. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Thresh versus Alistar build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 48.4% when playing against Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Alistar 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. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Thresh vs Alistar battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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