Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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 stat comparisons shown on this page show some vital Vladimir against Thresh matchup statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Thresh. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Vladimir normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Thresh. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vladimir usually wins when playing against Thresh, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Vladimir makes a good counter for Thresh.
While Vladimir does have a higher winrate than Thresh, when facing one another, Vladimir also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Vladimir into Threshas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vladimir has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs Thresh matchups, Vladimir is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vladimir is a good counter to Thresh. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vladimir against Thresh.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir in order to counter Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir on average accumulates much more CS compared to Thresh. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Vladimir versus Thresh build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Stormsurge. When Vladimir used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Thresh than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average winrate of 52.1% battling Thresh with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Thresh as Vladimir, you should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Last Stand, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Vladimir vs Thresh counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.1% win rate overall.
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