Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
The Lissandra Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lissandra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Thresh. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Thresh helps Lissandra perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lissandra is paired with Thresh, she observes a little increase in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Thresh supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played alongside Thresh on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Thresh. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Thresh.
Additionally, when Lissandra plays with Thresh on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Thresh does a decent job of protecting Lissandra in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Lissandra that will 100% of the time be her top ally. However, Thresh is a relatively poor companion for Lissandra. By locking into the same team as Lissandra, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 48.3%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Lissandra and Thresh that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Thresh has a greater difficulty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players must be very careful when finding Thresh teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Lissandra players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Lissandra and Thresh together, you may not be granting your team enough AD. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Thresh ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order to synergize with Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Lissandra and Thresh synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Lissandra combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Thresh than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 48.3% helping carry Thresh with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Lissandra players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Thresh with Lissandra are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.