Naafiri vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Naafiri
based on 1,812 Naafiri vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Thresh
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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.
Naafiri vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Naafiri in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some critical Naafiri versus Thresh matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Thresh. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Naafiri often has a much larger longest kill spree than their counter does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Thresh. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Naafiri and Thresh
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Thresh?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when taking on Thresh, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes a good counter for Thresh.
While Naafiri does have a higher winrate than Thresh, when on opposite teams, Naafiri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Naafiri into Thresh.
Additionally, Naafiri also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Thresh matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Naafiri is a decent counter to Thresh. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Naafiri against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to counter Thresh during both the laning 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 listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri on average racks up much more CS as Thresh. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Naafiri versus Thresh build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri combined at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better against Thresh than with most other typical builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when playing against Thresh with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Thresh as Naafiri, Naafiri players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Naafiri vs Thresh clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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