Thresh with Irelia
How to Synergize Thresh and Irelia
based on 3,817 Thresh with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Irelia
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.
Advice to Understand How Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Thresh Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Irelia helps Thresh perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh is paired with Irelia, he sees a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Irelia does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Irelia.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Irelia on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of covering Thresh during team fights.
Synergies between Thresh and Irelia
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no perfect companion for Thresh that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Irelia is a relatively poor teammate for Thresh. By locking into the same side as Thresh, she lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 47.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Thresh and Irelia that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means Thresh players don't need to be careful when enlisting Irelia allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Thresh players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by grouping Thresh and Irelia together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much cover. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Irelia ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to work well with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Thresh and Irelia synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Irelia than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 47.1% helping carry Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Thresh and Irelia pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.1% win rate overall.
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