Thresh with Akshan
How to Synergize Thresh and Akshan
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Thresh Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Akshan
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.
Advice to Understand How Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Thresh Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akshan helps Thresh perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Akshan, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Akshan supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Akshan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Akshan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akshan.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Akshan on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Thresh in teamfights.
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no top synergy for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Akshan is a below average companion for Thresh. By being on the same team as Thresh, they lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 46.5%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Thresh and Akshan that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means Thresh players don't need to be cautious when finding Akshan comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by grouping Thresh and Akshan together, you may not be giving your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Akshan teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Thresh in order to work well with Akshan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Thresh and Akshan synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Akshan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 46.5% when playing alongside Akshan with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Thresh and Akshan pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.5% win rate overall.
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