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.
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
The stat comparisons provided here feature some significant Thresh versus LeBlanc matchup stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than LeBlanc’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than LeBlanc. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to LeBlanc. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually wins when taking on LeBlanc, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes a great counter to LeBlanc.
While Thresh does have a higher winrate than LeBlanc, when facing one another, Thresh also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Thresh into LeBlancas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs LeBlanc matchups, Thresh is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Thresh is a great counter for LeBlanc. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Thresh against LeBlanc.
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to counter LeBlanc during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh usually accumulates a lot less CS as LeBlanc. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Thresh versus LeBlanc build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus LeBlanc than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 53.3% battling LeBlanc with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing LeBlanc as Thresh, you should use 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 builds we have analyed for Thresh vs LeBlanc matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat LeBlanc as Thresh are shown for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.