Thresh vs Rek'Sai
How to Beat Rek'Sai as Thresh
based on 797 Thresh vs Rek'Sai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Rek'Sai Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Thresh Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Rek'Sai as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Rek'Sai
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.
Advice to Win Against Rek'Sai
When Rek'Sai is near, she can see the position of you and your allies, but only if you're moving.
If you see one of Rek'Sai's tunnels, briefly stand on one of the entrances to destroy it.
Rek'Sai's Furious Bite gains damage as she builds Fury. Be very careful around her when her Fury is full.
Thresh vs Rek'Sai Counter Stats
How to Counter Rek'Sai with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here feature several valuable Thresh vs. Rek'Sai matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rek'Sai. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Rek'Sai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Rek'Sai
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Thresh or Rek'Sai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when taking on Rek'Sai, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes an ok counter for Rek'Sai.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Rek'Sai, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Rek'Saias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rek'Sai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Rek'Sai matchups, Rek'Sai is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter to Rek'Sai. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Rek'Sai.
Other Champion Matchups Against Thresh
Additional Information for Thresh Players
How We Calculated Our Thresh vs Rek'Sai Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to counter Rek'Sai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often gets a similar amount of CS as Rek'Sai. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Thresh versus Rek'Sai build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Rek'Sai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Rek'Sai with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Rek'Sai as Thresh, Thresh players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Thresh vs Rek'Sai counters, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Rek'Sai as Thresh are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.