Thresh with Leona
How to Synergize Thresh and Leona
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Thresh Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Leona
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Thresh Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Leona helps Thresh perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh is an ally to Leona, he gets a massive increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Leona supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Leona on the same team, he usually takes much more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Leona does a poor job of covering Thresh in teamfights.
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Leona?
There is no one best ally for Thresh that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Leona is a very bad ally for Thresh. By locking into the same team as Thresh, she lowers their win rate by -6.6% to 41.9%. This shows that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Thresh and Leona that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Leona allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by pairing Thresh and Leona together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Leona teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to synergize with Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Thresh and Leona synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Thresh combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Leona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 41.9% helping carry Leona with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Thresh players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Future's Market, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 41.9% win rate overall.
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