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.
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
The stats shown here emphasize several vital Thresh versus Gwen counter statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gwen. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Gwen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually wins when playing against Gwen, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes a good counter for Gwen.
While Thresh does have a higher win rate compared to Gwen, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Gwenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Gwen matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Thresh is a decent counter to Gwen. Focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Gwen.
To truly master Thresh to counter Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often racks up a lot less CS as Gwen. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Thresh versus Gwen build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Gwen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 51.7% when playing against Gwen with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Gwen as Thresh, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Thresh vs Gwen counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Gwen as Thresh are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.