Kayn with Thresh
How to Synergize Kayn and Thresh
based on 6,661 Kayn with Thresh pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayn Thresh Synergy Summary
Best Kayn vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Thresh
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kayn sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Thresh. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Thresh helps Kayn perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is paired with Thresh, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Thresh supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Thresh on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Thresh. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Thresh.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Thresh on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Thresh does a decent job of covering Kayn during team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no perfect companion for Kayn that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Thresh is a relatively poor companion for Kayn. By playing on the same side as Kayn, he decreases their win rate by -2.6% to 46.6%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Kayn and Thresh that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Thresh has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Thresh teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kayn and Thresh together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kayn in order to synergize with Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Kayn and Thresh synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Kayn bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Thresh than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kayn had an average winrate of 46.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Thresh with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Kayn and Thresh pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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