Leona vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Leona
based on 6,078 Leona vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Thresh
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Win Against Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Leona vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some influential Leona vs. Thresh counter stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Thresh..
Leona often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Thresh
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Who is Better, Leona or Thresh?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Thresh, with a 52.6% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a good counter for Thresh.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Thresh, when facing one another, Leona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Thresh.
Moreover, Leona has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Thresh matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Leona is an above average counter to Thresh. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona in order to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Thresh. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Leona versus Thresh build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Thresh than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 52.6% when countering Thresh with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Thresh as Leona, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Leona vs Thresh counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.6% winrate overall.
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