Thresh vs Blitzcrank
How to Beat Blitzcrank as Thresh
based on 6,141 Thresh vs Blitzcrank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Blitzcrank Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Blitzcrank as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Thresh vs Blitzcrank Counter Stats
How to Counter Blitzcrank with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here feature some valuable Thresh against Blitzcrank matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Blitzcrank..
Thresh normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Blitzcrank. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Blitzcrank
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Who is Better, Thresh or Blitzcrank?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when playing against Blitzcrank, with a 47.3% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes a bad counter to Blitzcrank.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Blitzcrank, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Thresh into Blitzcrankas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Thresh is a bad counter to Blitzcrank. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Blitzcrank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Blitzcrank. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Thresh versus Blitzcrank build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Blitzcrank than with many other typical builds. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 47.3% when countering Blitzcrank with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Blitzcrank as Thresh, you should take 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 we have analyed for Thresh vs Blitzcrank counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.3% winrate overall.
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