Thresh vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Thresh
based on 4,788 Thresh vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Sylas
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 Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Thresh vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several important Thresh versus Sylas counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sylas’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sylas. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Sylas. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Sylas
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Who is Better, Thresh or Sylas?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually wins when playing against Sylas, with a 52.0% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a good counter for Sylas.
While Thresh does have a higher win rate compared to Sylas, when facing one another, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Sylasas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sylas. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Sylas matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Thresh is a decent counter to Sylas. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often gets a lot less CS relative to Sylas. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Sylas build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Sylas than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 52.0% when countering Sylas with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Sylas as Thresh, you should equip 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 builds players used for Thresh vs Sylas matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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