Zed vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Zed
based on 5,325 Zed vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Thresh
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Win Against Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Zed vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Zed in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several significant Zed versus Thresh matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Thresh. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Zed normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Thresh
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Who is Better, Zed or Thresh?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when playing against Thresh, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes an ok counter to Thresh.
While Zed does have a higher win rate than Thresh, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Threshas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. 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 in League of Legends, in Zed vs Thresh matchups, Zed is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zed is a decent counter to Thresh. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed usually racks up much more CS as Thresh. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Zed versus Thresh build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Thresh than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when playing against Thresh with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Thresh as Zed, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Zed vs Thresh clashes, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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