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.
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some vital Thresh against Warwick counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Warwick’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Warwick. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Warwick. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when trying to fight Warwick, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a bad counter to Warwick.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate than Warwick, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Thresh into Warwickas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Warwick. 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 a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Warwick matchups, Warwick is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Thresh is a terribly counter to Warwick. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Warwick.
To truly master Thresh in order to counter Warwick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh most often picks up less CS compared to Warwick. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Warwick build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Warwick than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 47.8% battling Warwick with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Warwick 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 players used for Thresh vs Warwick clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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