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.
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several strategic Thresh against Jayce counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jayce’s ratio of NaN, showing that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Jayce. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Jayce. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when facing off against Jayce, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes an ok counter to Jayce.
While Thresh does have a higher win rate than Jayce, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Jayceas 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 great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jayce. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Jayce matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Thresh is a decent counter for Jayce. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Jayce.
If you would like to truly master Thresh to counter Jayce during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh typically picks up a lot less CS as Jayce. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Thresh versus Jayce build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Jayce than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing against Jayce with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Jayce as Thresh, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Thresh vs Jayce counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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