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.
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The Thresh Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Thresh sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aatrox helps Thresh perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh is paired with Aatrox, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Aatrox doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Aatrox on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Aatrox. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aatrox.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Aatrox on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Aatrox does a decent job of protecting Thresh in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Aatrox is a good companion for Thresh. By being on the same team as Thresh, he increases their win rate by 1.8% to 50.3%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Thresh and Aatrox that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Aatrox has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Aatrox teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Thresh players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Thresh and Aatrox together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Aatrox ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to synergize with Aatrox during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Thresh and Aatrox synergy build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Aatrox than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 50.3% helping carry Aatrox with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Thresh players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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