Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
The Viktor Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Viktor sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Thresh. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Thresh helps Viktor perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viktor is paired with Thresh, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This could signal that Thresh supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played together with Thresh 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 Thresh.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Thresh on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Thresh does a decent job of covering Viktor in team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Viktor that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Thresh is a very typical teammate for Viktor. By playing on the same side as Viktor, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 50.6%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Viktor and Thresh that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Thresh has a lower difficulty than Viktor. That means Viktor players don't need to be cautious when finding Thresh allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, Viktor players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Viktor and Thresh together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Thresh ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Viktor in order to pair well with Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Viktor and Thresh synergy build include Lich Bane, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Thresh than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Viktor boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Thresh with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Viktor players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
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