Thresh with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Thresh and Kai'Sa
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Thresh Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Thresh Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kai'Sa helps Thresh perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh tries to synergize with Kai'Sa, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Kai'Sa does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Kai'Sa on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kai'Sa. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kai'Sa.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Kai'Sa on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Kai'Sa does a poor job of covering Thresh in team fights.
Synergies between Thresh and Kai'Sa
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Thresh that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Kai'Sa is a below average ally for Thresh. By playing on the same side as Thresh, she lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 46.5%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Thresh and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means Thresh players don't need to be cautious when finding Kai'Sa allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Thresh players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Thresh and Kai'Sa together, you probably will not be giving your side enough magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Thresh and Kai'Sa synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kai'Sa than with most other common item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when playing alongside Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Kai'Sa with Thresh are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.