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.
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
The Thresh Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Taric helps Thresh perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Taric, he sees a sizeable uptick in his total damage output. This could indicate that Taric supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played alongside Taric on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Taric.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Taric on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Taric 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 best synergy. Yet, overall, Taric is a not very good companion for Thresh. By locking into the same side as Thresh, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 46.5%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Thresh and Taric that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Taric has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Taric allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by aligning Thresh and Taric together, you will not be granting your team very much AD. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Taric ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Thresh in order to synergize with Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Thresh and Taric synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Thresh included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Taric than with many other common builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 46.5% helping carry Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Thresh players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.5% win rate overall.
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