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.
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
The stats shown here underscore several critical Thresh vs. Amumu matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between these two champs. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, showing that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Amumu..
Thresh usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Amumu. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when taking on Amumu, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a bad counter for Amumu.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Amumu, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Amumuas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Amumu.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to counter Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Amumu. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Thresh versus Amumu build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Amumu than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 48.2% battling Amumu with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Amumu as Thresh, Thresh players should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Thresh vs Amumu clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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