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.
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
The Thresh Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Yasuo helps Thresh perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Yasuo, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This could signal that Yasuo helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Yasuo on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Yasuo. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Yasuo.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Yasuo on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of protecting Thresh in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Yasuo is a very typical teammate for Thresh. By locking into the same team as Thresh, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 48.8%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Thresh and Yasuo that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Yasuo has a greater difficulty than Thresh. That means Thresh players should be cautious when enlisting Yasuo teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Thresh and Yasuo together, you may not be granting your other allies very much magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Yasuo teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to synergize with Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Thresh and Yasuo synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Yasuo than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 48.8% when playing alongside Yasuo with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
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