Thresh with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Thresh and Rek'Sai
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Thresh Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Thresh Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rek'Sai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rek'Sai helps Thresh perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Rek'Sai, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Rek'Sai does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Rek'Sai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rek'Sai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rek'Sai.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Rek'Sai does a decent job of covering Thresh in team fights.
Synergies between Thresh and Rek'Sai
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Rek'Sai is a very typical companion for Thresh. By playing on the same team as Thresh, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 49.0%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Thresh and Rek'Sai that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means Thresh players don't need to be cautious when finding Rek'Sai comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Thresh players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Thresh and Rek'Sai together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Rek'Sai ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to work well with Rek'Sai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Thresh and Rek'Sai synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Rek'Sai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rek'Sai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Thresh and Rek'Sai pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
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