Thresh vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Thresh
based on 2,158 Thresh vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Thresh vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Thresh in LoL
The stats provided here show some influential Thresh vs. Heimerdinger counter stats that may help you realize the differences between the two. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, showing that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Heimerdinger. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Heimerdinger. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Thresh or Heimerdinger?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when taking on Heimerdinger, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a poor counter to Heimerdinger.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate compared to Heimerdinger, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Heimerdingeras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter for Heimerdinger. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Heimerdinger during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh most often picks up a lot less CS as Heimerdinger. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Thresh versus Heimerdinger build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when countering Heimerdinger with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Heimerdinger as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Thresh vs Heimerdinger fights, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.
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