Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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 underscore some significant Zoe versus Thresh matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Thresh. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Zoe normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Thresh. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when playing against Thresh, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a bad counter for Thresh.
While Zoe does have a lower win rate than Thresh, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Zoe into Thresh.
Moreover, Zoe also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a bad counter to Thresh. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zoe against Thresh.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe most often gets much more CS relative to Thresh. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Zoe versus Thresh build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Thresh than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zoe had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing against Thresh with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Thresh as Zoe, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Zoe vs Thresh matchups, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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