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.
Ashe has very few defensive options, and she's a good target to gank.
Be wary of moving around the map alone if Ashe has not recently cast her Enchanted Crystal Arrow.
The stats shown on this page highlight several significant Thresh vs. Ashe matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the two. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ashe’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ashe. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ashe. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when taking on Ashe, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes an ok counter for Ashe.
While Thresh does have a higher winrate than Ashe, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Asheas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ashe. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Ashe matchups, Ashe is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a decent counter for Ashe. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Ashe.
To truly master Thresh in order to counter Ashe 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 suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often picks up a lot less CS as Ashe. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Thresh versus Ashe build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Ashe than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 50.0% battling Ashe with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Ashe as Thresh, Thresh players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Thresh vs Ashe fights, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ashe as Thresh are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.