Irelia vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Irelia
based on 3,965 Irelia vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Thresh
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Irelia against Thresh matchup stats that can help you realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Thresh. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Irelia usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Thresh. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Thresh
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Who is Better, Irelia or Thresh?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually wins when taking on Thresh, with a 52.3% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes a good counter for Thresh.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate than Thresh, when facing one another, Irelia also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Irelia into Thresh.
Additionally, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Thresh matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Irelia is a good counter for Thresh. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Irelia in order to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia most often picks up much more CS relative to Thresh. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Irelia versus Thresh build include Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Thresh than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 52.3% battling Thresh with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Thresh as Irelia, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Irelia vs Thresh clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.3% win rate overall.
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