Aphelios vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Aphelios
based on 3,416 Aphelios vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Thresh
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Aphelios vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several critical Aphelios against Thresh matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Thresh. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Aphelios normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Thresh. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Thresh
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Thresh?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually fairs equally well when playing against Thresh, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Aphelios makes an ok counter for Thresh.
While Aphelios does have a higher win rate than Thresh, when on opposite teams, Aphelios also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Aphelios into Threshas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aphelios has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Thresh matchups, Aphelios is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Aphelios is a decent counter for Thresh. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to counter Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios on average accumulates much more CS as Thresh. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Aphelios versus Thresh build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Thresh than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 50.3% battling Thresh with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Thresh as Aphelios, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Aphelios vs Thresh face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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