If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
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.
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some critical Draven versus Thresh matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Draven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Draven may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Thresh. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Draven normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Draven usually wins when facing off against Thresh, with a 54.9% win rate. Therefore, Draven makes a great counter for Thresh.
While Draven does have a much higher win rate than Thresh, when on opposite teams, Draven also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Draven into Threshas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Draven also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Draven vs Thresh matchups, Draven is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Draven is a great counter for Thresh. Focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Draven against Thresh.
To truly master Draven to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Draven typically picks up much more CS as Thresh. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Draven versus Thresh build include Eclipse, Rapid Firecannon, and The Collector. When Draven incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Thresh than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Draven had an average win rate of 54.9% when playing against Thresh with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Thresh as Draven, Draven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Draven vs Thresh counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Thresh as Draven are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.