Thresh vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Thresh
based on 6,078 Thresh vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Thresh vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several critical Thresh vs. Leona counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona..
Thresh often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Leona
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Who is Better, Thresh or Leona?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 47.4% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Thresh into Leonaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. 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 Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a bad counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Leona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Thresh
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh to counter Leona during both the laning 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 suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh usually gets a similar amount of CS as Leona. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Thresh versus Leona build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Leona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 47.4% when playing against Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Leona as Thresh, Thresh players should equip 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 Leona LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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