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.
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some significant Thresh versus Xayah matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xayah. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when playing against Xayah, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes an ok counter for Xayah.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate compared to Xayah, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Xayahas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Xayah matchups, Xayah is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter for Xayah. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Xayah.
If you would like to truly master Thresh in order to counter Xayah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often accumulates a lot less CS as Xayah. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Thresh versus Xayah build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Xayah than with many other common builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when countering Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Xayah as Thresh, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Thresh vs Xayah battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xayah as Thresh are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.