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.
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
The Thresh Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Thresh sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akali helps Thresh perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh tries to synergize with Akali, he observes a little drop in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Akali does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Akali on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Akali does a poor job of covering Thresh during team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Thresh that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Akali is a very typical teammate for Thresh. By locking into the same team as Thresh, she drops their win rate by -0.7% to 47.8%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Thresh and Akali that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Akali allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Thresh players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Thresh and Akali together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Akali teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Thresh to work well with Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Thresh and Akali synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Akali than with many other common item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 47.8% when playing alongside Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Thresh players should equip the Guardian, 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 this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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