Thresh vs Viego
How to Beat Viego as Thresh
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Thresh vs Viego Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Viego Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viego as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Viego
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.
Thresh vs Viego Counter Stats
How to Counter Viego with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several vital Thresh vs. Viego counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Viego’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Viego. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Viego. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Viego
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Who is Better, Thresh or Viego?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when taking on Viego, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes an ok counter for Viego.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate than Viego, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Viegoas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viego. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Viego matchups, Viego is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter to Viego. Make sure you focus your actions 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 Viego.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh in order to counter Viego during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Viego. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Thresh versus Viego build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Viego than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 49.7% battling Viego with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Viego as Thresh, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Thresh vs Viego LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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