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.
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
The Thresh Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Thresh perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Alistar, he gets a very large increase in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Alistar provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Alistar on the same team, he usually receives significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Alistar does a poor job of protecting Thresh in teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Thresh that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Alistar is a terrible ally for Thresh. By playing on the same side as Thresh, he decreases their win rate by -13.2% to 35.3%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Thresh and Alistar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Thresh players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by grouping Thresh and Alistar together, you probably will not be granting your team much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to work well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Thresh and Alistar synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Thresh used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Alistar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 35.3% helping carry Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Thresh players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Future's Market, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Thresh and Alistar pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 35.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Alistar with Thresh are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.