Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
The stats shown on this page clarify several valuable Twitch vs. Thresh matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Twitch’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Twitch may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Thresh. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Twitch usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Twitch usually fairs equally well when playing against Thresh, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Twitch makes an ok counter for Thresh.
While Twitch does have a lower winrate than Thresh, when facing one another, Twitch also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Twitch into Thresh.
Furthermore, Twitch also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Twitch vs Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Twitch is a somewhat poor counter for Thresh. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Twitch against Thresh.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Twitch to counter Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Twitch on average accumulates much more CS as Thresh. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Twitch versus Thresh build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Twitch bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Thresh than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Twitch had an average winrate of 49.9% battling Thresh with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Thresh as Twitch, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Twitch vs Thresh matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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