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.
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several strategic Thresh versus Taric matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the pair. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taric..
Thresh typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Taric. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when taking on Taric, with a 45.9% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes a bad counter to Taric.
While Thresh does have a much lower winrate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Thresh into Taricas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a garbage counter to Taric. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Taric.
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Taric. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Thresh versus Taric build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Taric than with many other common item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 45.9% when playing against Taric with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Taric as Thresh, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Thresh vs Taric counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.9% winrate overall.
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