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.
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
The Thresh Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Orianna helps Thresh perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh tries to synergize with Orianna, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Orianna provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Orianna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Orianna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Orianna.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Orianna on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Orianna does a decent job of protecting Thresh in team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Thresh that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Orianna is a below average teammate for Thresh. By locking into the same team as Thresh, she lowers their win rate by -2.8% to 45.7%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Thresh and Orianna that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Orianna has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means Thresh players don't need to be cautious when arranging Orianna allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Thresh and Orianna together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Orianna ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to pair well with Orianna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Thresh and Orianna synergy build consist of Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Orianna than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 45.7% when playing alongside Orianna with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Thresh and Orianna pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
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