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.
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
The Thresh Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zac helps Thresh perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh is paired with Zac, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This change could signal that Zac provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played alongside Zac on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zac.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Zac on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zac does a poor job of covering Thresh in team fights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Zac is a good teammate for Thresh. By playing on the same team as Thresh, he increases their win rate by 1.5% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Thresh and Zac that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Zac has a greater difficulty than Thresh. That means you need to be very careful when finding Zac allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Thresh players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Thresh and Zac together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zac teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to pair well with Zac during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Thresh and Zac synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Zac than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 50.0% helping carry Zac with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Thresh players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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