Thresh Thresh's strength as a support comes from the incredible amount of utility, CC, and AoE derived from his abilities to displace and disable enemies with his Death Sentence Death Sentence, Skinning Skinning, and The Box The Box. His Dark Passage Dark Passage can be used as a form of escape or for your allies to follow with ease. His passive, Damnation Damnation allows him to continually gain power as the game progresses, making him deceptively strong and durable. However, champions with strong decoupling abilities can prevent it from utilizing its full potential.
While Doom Doom allows Thresh Thresh to continually gain power, it starts out weak. Be cautious in early game.
Pulling Dark Passage Dark Passage near souls allows you to gather them together without getting close.
This tactic can be useful if you are in a line against champions more aggressive than you during the early game, who have a good amount of hitting skills or with ways to counter your CC (eg Lulu Lulu, Ezreal Ezreal, Morgana Morgana and Braum Braum )
Avoid using this method as Dark Passage Dark Passage has a long cooldown and can leave you with no mana to use other abilities.
Skinning Skin's passive is strong enough to deal progressive damage to the enemy.
While the damage from the passive scales with attack damage, it is still Magic Damage and benefits from Magic Penetration.
At level 5, with no attack speed bonus, it adds ~ 24% of your attack damage per attack, which is ~ 20.5 at level 18, with no damage bonuses. (Pending tests).
It's worth saying that the passive's effect doesn't get stronger with consecutive attacks, so there won't be a damage bonus if you don't let the ability "charge up."
Death Sentence Death Sentence is a great introductory tool. Consider the merits of pulling vs pulling yourself. Keep in mind that you can also use it on neutral monsters. This can be used to escape, start a gank, or just for increased mobility.
While hitting Death Sentence Death Sentence is a decent way to start a fight, it is not always the best option; simply walking towards the enemy and using Skinning Skinning towards you can make it easier than hooking and probably cause the enemy to spend their Flash Flash
Dark Passage Dark Passage is a great way to save an ally. Not only for giving them a shield but because it allows them to escape if they click on the flashlight.
Consider teaming up with melee champions who have leaps or throws such as Xin Zhao Xin Zhao or Jax Jax. They can jump at the enemy, be shielded from attack and return safely.
If an ally comes to gank your line, you can throw the lantern in their path and thus be able to initiate, the jungle / ally can use the lantern to jump towards you and help secure the kill quickly.
Dark Passage Dark Passage serves as an exploration tool, particularly when checking. Dragon Dragon and Baron Nashor Baron Nashor. However, be wary of long cooldown of the skill.
Skinning Skinning is a good tool for chasing and escaping. Depending on the direction in which it was launched.
If you catch a fleeing enemy with Death Sentence Death Sentence immediately use Skinning Skinning to push them towards your allies or turret, ensuring their doom.
Skinning Skinning can also counter enemy casts, as well as Leona's Sword of the Zenith Leona's Zenith Sword.
Just as Skinning's active Skinning is useful, so is its passive. Wait for it to charge, then Auto Attack an enemy champion to deal good damage. This method is really useful in early game.
If an enemy is inside the Box The Box and refuses to touch one of the walls consider using Skinning Skinning to push them back. The damage and slowness will help a lot especially if you used Skinning Skin towards an allied or allied turret.
If Thresh Thresh uses his Death Sentence Death Sentence on Morgana Morgana or another enemy while the enemy is wearing the Black Shield, he can wait for it to position itself unfavorably to the opposing team and reactivate the ability so that it can use Skin Skin Skin to slow down the enemy team. Also, if you leave your Dark Passage Dark Passage, an ally can accompany you on the journey.
You can choose to use and combine Punishment with Death Sentence Death Sentence to catch enemies taking cover behind their subjects by surprise. Additionally, Punishment will give you all jungle bonuses, increase your team's control over Dragon Dragon and Baron Nashor Baron Nashor and by upgrading {{sbc | Unique - Devastating Punishment:} you can get a movement speed steal.