Katarina with Thresh
How to Synergize Katarina and Thresh
based on 5,490 Katarina with Thresh pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Thresh Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Thresh
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Understand How Thresh Will Play
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.
Katarina Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Thresh. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Thresh helps Katarina perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Thresh, she sees a small increase in her total damage output. This change may signal that Thresh provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Thresh on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Thresh.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Thresh on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Thresh does a decent job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Thresh
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no perfect synergy for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, Thresh is a very typical companion for Katarina. By playing on the same team as Katarina, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 48.0%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Katarina and Thresh that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Thresh has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when arranging Thresh teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Katarina players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Katarina and Thresh together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to work well with Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Katarina and Thresh synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Thresh than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 48.0% when playing alongside Thresh with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Katarina players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Katarina and Thresh pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Thresh with Katarina are presented for every ranked division. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.