A comprehensive guide to building Thresh Support effectively with a 49.4% win rate across 5,125 matches.

Core Build

• Summoner Spells: Flash, Ignite
• Starting Items: Celestial Opposition
• Core Items: Plated Steelcaps, Locket of the Iron Solari
• Final Items: Knight's Vow, Zeke's Convergence, Vigilant Wardstone
• Skill Order: Q > E > W

Optimal Runes Primary Tree:

• Aftershock
• Font of Life
• Bone Plating
• Unflinching

Secondary Tree:

• Biscuit Delivery
• Cosmic Insight

Shards:

• Offense: Adaptive Force
• Flex: Adaptive Force
• Defense: Health Scaling

Strong Against:

• Shen (55.3% WR)
• Lux (54.7% WR)
• LeBlanc (54.4% WR)
• Pyke (53.2% WR)
• Nautilus (53.2% WR)

Weak Against:

• Galio (40.8% WR)
• Brand (45.2% WR)
• Sona (46.6% WR)
• Seraphine (47.2% WR)
• Swain (47.2% WR)

Best ADC Synergies:

• Sivir (55.9% WR)
• Miss Fortune (54.7% WR)
• Kalista (53.3% WR)
• Draven (52.2% WR)
• Kog'Maw (52.1% WR)

Pro Tips:

1. Utilize roaming potential after purchasing boots
2. Bait out enemy dashes before using Death Sentence (Q)
3. Maintain vision control around objectives for pick potential

Alternative Build (47.8% WR)

• Keystone: Glacial Augment
• Primary: Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight
• Secondary: Bone Plating, Unflinching
• Same item build as core

Off-Meta Build (48.2% WR)

• Keystone: Guardian
• Primary: Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching
• Secondary: Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight
• Skill Order: Q > W > E
• Final Items: Knight's Vow, Thornmail, Vigilant Wardstone

Adapt your build based on matchups and team compositions. Consider switching defensive rune shards between Armor and Magic Resist depending on lane opponents.

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