Thresh vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Thresh
based on 2,475 Thresh vs Annie matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Annie
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Advice to Win Against Annie
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Thresh vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several critical Thresh vs. Annie counter statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the two. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Annie’s ratio of NaN, showing that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Annie. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Annie. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Annie
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Who is Better, Thresh or Annie?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Annie, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes an ok counter to Annie.
While Thresh does have a higher win rate compared to Annie, when facing one another, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Annieas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Annie matchups, Thresh is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a decent counter for Annie. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Annie.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to counter Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Annie. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Thresh versus Annie build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Annie than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 50.3% when playing against Annie with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Annie as Thresh, Thresh players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Thresh vs Annie battles, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
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