Thresh vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Thresh
based on 2,689 Thresh vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Thresh vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some valuable Thresh vs. Illaoi matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Illaoi. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Thresh or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when trying to fight Illaoi, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a bad counter to Illaoi.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate than Illaoi, when facing one another, Thresh also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Thresh into Illaoias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Thresh is a trash counter to Illaoi. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh usually accumulates a lot less CS as Illaoi. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Thresh versus Illaoi build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Illaoi than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when playing against Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Illaoi 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. Of all the runes we have analyed for Thresh vs Illaoi clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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