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.
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
The Thresh Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sylas helps Thresh perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh is an ally to Sylas, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Sylas doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Sylas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sylas.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Sylas on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Sylas does a decent job of covering Thresh in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Thresh that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Sylas is a relatively poor ally for Thresh. By playing on the same side as Thresh, he decreases their win rate by -2.9% to 45.6%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Thresh and Sylas that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Sylas allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Thresh players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Thresh and Sylas together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Sylas ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold 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 Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Thresh and Sylas synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Sylas than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 45.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood 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. Of all the rune sets players chose for Thresh and Sylas pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Sylas with Thresh are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.