K'Sante with Thresh
How to Synergize K'Sante and Thresh
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K'Sante Thresh Synergy Summary
Best K'Sante vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Thresh
Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Thresh
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as K'Sante in LoL
The K'Sante Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, K'Sante sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Thresh. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Thresh helps K'Sante perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When K'Sante plays on the same team as Thresh, they gets a marginal improvement in their full damage output. This change may indicate that Thresh provides protection for them to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played with Thresh on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Thresh.
Moreover, when K'Sante plays with Thresh on the same team, they typically takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Thresh does a decent job of covering K'Sante in teamfights.
Synergies between K'Sante and Thresh
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Is K'Sante better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no universally accepted best companion for K'Sante that will 100% of the time be their best teammate. Yet, Thresh is a not very good teammate for K'Sante. By being on the same team as K'Sante, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 45.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between K'Sante and Thresh that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Thresh has a lower difficulty than K'Sante. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Thresh teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, K'Sante players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning K'Sante and Thresh together, you may not be providing your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Thresh teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master K'Sante to synergize with Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your K'Sante and Thresh synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three finished items in their build, they performed significantly better when paired up with Thresh than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 45.7% helping carry Thresh with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, K'Sante players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.7% winrate overall.
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