Thresh with Wukong
How to Synergize Thresh and Wukong
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Thresh Wukong Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Wukong
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 Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Thresh Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Wukong helps Thresh perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Wukong, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Wukong does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Wukong on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Wukong. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Wukong.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Wukong on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Wukong does a decent job of covering Thresh during team fights.
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no perfect companion for Thresh that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Wukong is a below average companion for Thresh. By being on the same team as Thresh, he decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 46.6%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Thresh and Wukong that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Wukong has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means Thresh players don't need to be careful when arranging Wukong comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. When paired, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Thresh and Wukong together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of magic damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Wukong teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 synergize with Wukong during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Thresh and Wukong synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Wukong than with many other typical builds. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 46.6% when playing alongside Wukong with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Thresh players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Wukong with Thresh are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.