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.
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
The Thresh Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xerath helps Thresh perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh is paired with Xerath, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Xerath provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played alongside Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xerath.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Xerath on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Xerath does a poor job of covering Thresh during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Xerath is a good companion for Thresh. By being on the same team as Thresh, he improves their win rate by 1.1% to 49.6%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Thresh and Xerath that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Thresh. That means you should be very careful when lining up Xerath teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Thresh and Xerath together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xerath ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to work well with Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Thresh and Xerath synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Xerath than with most other common builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xerath with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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