Kai'Sa vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Kai'Sa
based on 6,309 Kai'Sa vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Thresh
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several significant Kai'Sa versus Thresh counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between these two champs. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Thresh. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Thresh
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Thresh?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when taking on Thresh, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Thresh.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate than Thresh, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Thresh.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a garbage counter for Thresh. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Thresh during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa typically accumulates much more CS relative to Thresh. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Thresh build include Guardian Angel, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Thresh than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when countering Thresh with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Thresh as Kai'Sa, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Kai'Sa vs Thresh matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
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