Thresh vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Thresh
based on 5,325 Thresh vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Thresh vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some significant Thresh vs. Zed counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zed. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Zed. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Zed
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Who is Better, Thresh or Zed?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zed, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes an ok counter to Zed.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate compared to Zed, when facing one another, Thresh also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Zedas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Zed matchups, Zed is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter for Zed. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh to counter Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh most often gets a lot less CS relative to Zed. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Thresh versus Zed build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Zed than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when countering Zed with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Zed as Thresh, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Thresh vs Zed counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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