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.
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
The Thresh Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Lucian helps Thresh perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Lucian, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Lucian helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Lucian 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 with Lucian.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Lucian on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Lucian does a poor job of protecting Thresh in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Thresh that will always be his top synergy. However, Lucian is a very typical teammate for Thresh. By locking into the same team as Thresh, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 48.2%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Thresh and Lucian that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Lucian teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Thresh players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Thresh and Lucian together, you will not be giving your other teammates much magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Lucian teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 synergize with Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Thresh and Lucian synergy build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Lucian than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 48.2% when playing alongside Lucian with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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