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.
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
The Thresh Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Graves helps Thresh perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh tries to synergize with Graves, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Graves does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played alongside Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Graves on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Thresh in team fights.
There is no one best companion for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Graves is a very typical ally for Thresh. By playing on the same team as Thresh, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 49.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Thresh and Graves that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Graves comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, Thresh players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Thresh and Graves together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to work well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to get in your Thresh and Graves synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other common item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 49.3% helping carry Graves with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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