Heimerdinger with Thresh
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Thresh
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Heimerdinger Thresh Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Thresh
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Advice to Understand How Thresh Will Play
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.
Heimerdinger Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Thresh. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Thresh helps Heimerdinger perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger tries to synergize with Thresh, he observes a sizeable uptick in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Thresh supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played together with Thresh on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Thresh.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Thresh on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Thresh does a poor job of protecting Heimerdinger during teamfights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Thresh
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Thresh is a below average teammate for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same side as Heimerdinger, he drops their win rate by -2.7% to 46.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Thresh that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Thresh has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Thresh comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Heimerdinger and Thresh together, you may not be giving your other allies very much attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to synergize with Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Heimerdinger and Thresh synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Thresh than with most other common item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 46.9% helping carry Thresh with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Heimerdinger players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
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