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.
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
The stats shown on this page highlight several influential Thresh vs. Morgana matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Morgana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Morgana..
Thresh usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Morgana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when taking on Morgana, with a 45.7% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a poor counter for Morgana.
While Thresh does have a much lower winrate than Morgana, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Thresh into Morganaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Morgana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Morgana matchups, Morgana is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Thresh is a bad counter to Morgana. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Morgana.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to counter Morgana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Morgana. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Thresh versus Morgana build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Celestial Opposition, and Force of Nature. When Thresh bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Morgana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 45.7% when playing against Morgana with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Morgana as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Thresh vs Morgana counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Morgana as Thresh are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.