Thresh vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Thresh
based on 3,965 Thresh vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Thresh vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some significant Thresh versus Irelia counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Irelia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Irelia
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Who is Better, Thresh or Irelia?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when trying to fight Irelia, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a bad counter for Irelia.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Irelia, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Thresh into Ireliaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Thresh is a bad counter to Irelia. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Thresh in order to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh most often picks up a lot less CS as Irelia. Champions who typically don't get much CS often 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Thresh versus Irelia build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Irelia than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 47.7% battling Irelia with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Irelia as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Thresh vs Irelia counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
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