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 Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
The Thresh Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, 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 Cho'Gath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Cho'Gath helps Thresh perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh is an ally to Cho'Gath, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Cho'Gath provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Cho'Gath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Cho'Gath on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Thresh in team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Cho'Gath is a very typical companion for Thresh. By playing on the same side as Thresh, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.0%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Thresh and Cho'Gath that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means Thresh players don't need to be very careful when finding Cho'Gath comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Thresh players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Thresh and Cho'Gath together, you may not be granting your side a lot of attack damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to pair well with Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Thresh and Cho'Gath synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with most other common item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 48.0% helping carry Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, 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 chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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