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.
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
The Thresh Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, 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 Janna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Janna helps Thresh perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Janna, he sees a very large increase in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Janna provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played alongside Janna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Janna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Janna.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Janna on the same side, he usually receives more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Janna does a poor job of covering Thresh in teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Janna is a very bad teammate for Thresh. By locking into the same side as Thresh, she decreases their win rate by -13.0% to 35.5%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Thresh and Janna that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Janna has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Janna allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by aligning Thresh and Janna together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of AD. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Janna teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to pair well with Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Thresh and Janna synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Thresh incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Janna than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 35.5% when playing alongside Janna with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Future's Market, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Thresh and Janna pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 35.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Janna with Thresh are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.