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.
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Thresh vs. Nocturne matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nocturne. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Nocturne. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when taking on Nocturne, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a bad counter to Nocturne.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate compared to Nocturne, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Thresh into Nocturneas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Thresh is a trash counter for Nocturne. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Nocturne.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to counter Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Nocturne. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Thresh versus Nocturne build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Nocturne than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 46.8% when countering Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Nocturne as Thresh, Thresh players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Thresh vs Nocturne counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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