Thresh vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Thresh
based on 2,190 Thresh vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Viktor
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 Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Thresh vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several strategic Thresh vs. Viktor counter stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Viktor’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Viktor. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Viktor. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Viktor
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Who is Better, Thresh or Viktor?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when facing off against Viktor, with a 46.7% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a bad counter to Viktor.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Viktor, when facing one another, Thresh also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Thresh into Viktoras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viktor. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Thresh is a trash counter to Viktor. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Viktor.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to counter Viktor during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often gets a lot less CS as Viktor. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Viktor build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Viktor than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when countering Viktor with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Viktor as Thresh, Thresh players should take 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 players picked for Thresh vs Viktor fights, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
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