Thresh vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Thresh
based on 5,206 Thresh vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Thresh vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Thresh against Katarina counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Katarina. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Katarina. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Katarina
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Who is Better, Thresh or Katarina?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually wins when facing off against Katarina, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes a good counter to Katarina.
While Thresh does have a higher win rate compared to Katarina, when facing one another, Thresh also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Katarinaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Katarina matchups, Thresh is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Thresh is a decent counter to Katarina. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh most often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Katarina. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Katarina build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Katarina than with many other common builds. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 51.5% when countering Katarina with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Katarina as Thresh, Thresh players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Thresh vs Katarina battles, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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