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.
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
The Thresh Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Brand helps Thresh perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh is paired with Brand, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Brand does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Brand on the same side, 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 Brand.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Brand on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Brand does a poor job of protecting Thresh during team fights.
There is no top companion for Thresh that will always be his top teammate. However, Brand is a good teammate for Thresh. By being on the same side as Thresh, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Thresh and Brand that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Brand teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, Thresh players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Thresh and Brand together, you will not be providing your other allies enough AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Brand ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Thresh in order to synergize with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Thresh and Brand synergy build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Brand than with many other common item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 50.1% helping carry Brand with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Thresh players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Thresh and Brand pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Brand with Thresh are shown for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.