Thresh vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Thresh
based on 1,984 Thresh vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Thresh vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some valuable Thresh vs. Kassadin matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kassadin. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Kassadin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Thresh or Kassadin?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when facing off against Kassadin, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a bad counter to Kassadin.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Kassadinas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champ 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 to Kassadin. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh in order to counter Kassadin during both the lane 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 tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often gets a lot less CS as Kassadin. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Thresh versus Kassadin build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Kassadin than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 48.3% battling Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Kassadin as Thresh, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Thresh vs Kassadin counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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