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.
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
The Thresh Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, 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 Nautilus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nautilus helps Thresh perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Nautilus, he observes a great improvement in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Nautilus provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nautilus.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Nautilus on the same side, he typically receives significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Nautilus does a poor job of protecting Thresh in teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Thresh that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Nautilus is a terrible companion for Thresh. By locking into the same side as Thresh, he drops their win rate by -11.4% to 37.1%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Thresh and Nautilus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Nautilus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Thresh players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Thresh and Nautilus together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to work well with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Thresh and Nautilus synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Thresh bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Nautilus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 37.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nautilus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Thresh players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 37.1% win rate overall.
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