Thresh with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Thresh and Caitlyn
based on 13,474 Thresh with Caitlyn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Caitlyn Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Caitlyn
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 Understand How Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Thresh Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Thresh sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Caitlyn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Caitlyn helps Thresh perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Caitlyn, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Caitlyn supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Caitlyn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Caitlyn on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Caitlyn does a poor job of covering Thresh during teamfights.
Synergies between Thresh and Caitlyn
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no top companion for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Caitlyn is a very typical ally for Thresh. By locking into the same side as Thresh, she drops their win rate by -0.7% to 47.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Thresh and Caitlyn that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means Thresh players don't need to be cautious when lining up Caitlyn teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, Thresh players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Thresh and Caitlyn together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Caitlyn ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Thresh in order to work well with Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Thresh and Caitlyn synergy build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Caitlyn than with most other typical builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Caitlyn with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Thresh players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Unflinching, and Bone Plating runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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