Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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 here feature several strategic Warwick vs. Thresh counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Thresh. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Warwick often has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Thresh. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Warwick usually wins when playing against Thresh, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Warwick makes a good counter for Thresh.
While Warwick does have a higher winrate compared to Thresh, when facing one another, Warwick also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Warwick into Thresh.
Furthermore, Warwick has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Thresh matchups, Warwick is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Warwick is a good counter to Thresh. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Warwick against Thresh.
To learn all of the intricacies of Warwick to counter Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick often racks up more CS as Thresh. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Warwick versus Thresh build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Warwick combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Thresh than with many other common item sets. In fact, Warwick boasted an average winrate of 52.2% when playing against Thresh with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Thresh as Warwick, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Warwick vs Thresh counters, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.2% win rate overall.
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