Thresh vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Thresh
based on 6,309 Thresh vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Thresh vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Thresh in LoL
The stats provided here feature several valuable Thresh versus Kai'Sa matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kai'Sa. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kai'Sa. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Thresh or Kai'Sa?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually wins when playing against Kai'Sa, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a good counter for Kai'Sa.
While Thresh does have a higher win rate than Kai'Sa, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Thresh into Kai'Saas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Kai'Sa matchups, Thresh is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Thresh is an above average counter to Kai'Sa. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Kai'Sa during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often picks up a lot less CS as Kai'Sa. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Thresh versus Kai'Sa build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Kai'Sa than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 52.5% battling Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Kai'Sa 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 sets players picked for Thresh vs Kai'Sa battles, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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