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Threshing up the Ladder - A Guide to Thresh

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Spells:

Flash

Exhaust

Items

Start

First Back

Mid Game

Late Game

Boot Choices

Enchancement

Other viable Items

Core

Example Full Build #1

Example Full Build #2

Example Full Build #3

Ability Order

Thresh Passive Ability

Introduction

Hello Guys!

I am cataah a main support player in EUW. My main champs are Thresh, Sona and Taric, and i have 80% wins with all of them. Support isnt just an unuseful role. Supports are the main factor of winning the botlane and are a main part of a good team. Always give your best!

In this Guide i will tell you how to play Thresh as a Support, and i hope you can improve your skills!

is the most awesome support in League of Legends, with his Q>E combo he catches and slows everything what is in his path. Done right, can be an excellent champion, because he can disable and cc many enemies at once.

Runes

Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage: To increase your Attack Damage used for the passive of Flay!
Greater Mark of Attack Damage: Try to poke the enemy ADC as much as you can!
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist: Stop beeing squishy for AP champs!
Greater Seal of Armor: Armor needed for Laning Phase and Teamfights!

Pros / Cons

Pros

+ Very Strong Harass
+ High CC
+ Great Initiator
+ Free Ally Escape
+ Two Disruptions
+ Scales Outside Levels
+ Farming Souls is free

Cons

- Low Mobility
- Hard To Play
- AA Windup Is Slow
- Double Edged Sword Passive
- Weaker Against High Range
- Weak Mid Game Without Souls
- No One EVER IS ABLE TO click The Lantern

Spells

Summoner Spells

: It is always usefull to escape or to secure Kills. & is also a very nice combo to start a Teamfight, what you can see in my Video.

: If you have to play vs
, or other champs which massively heal the enemy ADC, be sure to pick it. It loweres the healing a lot.

: I you play vs Champs like , or , which are dealing huge DMG be sure to pick it, and to lower their damage.

Abilities

Ability Explanation

Damnation: Damnation is a passive ability that causes enemy units to leave their souls behind when they die near Thresh. Regular minions and neutral monsters will sometimes leave a soul when they die. Enemy champions as well as large minions (siege minion or super minion) and large monsters will always leave a soul when they die. Thresh can pick up these souls by walking near them, or tossing his lantern to them. Each soul gathered increases Thresh's armor, ability power, and the damage of Flay's passive.
Death Sentence (Q): When activated, Death Sentence is a collision linear skillshot that deals magic damage to the first enemy unit it hits, stunning it for 1.5 seconds. During this time, the target is pulled a short distance towards Thresh twice, and Thresh may reactivate Death Sentence to dash towards the affected unit.
Dark Passage (W): Dark Passage is a ground targeted area of effect ability that places Thresh's lantern at the target location. Allied champions inside the area of effect gain an absorption shield that absorbs incoming damage for up to 6 seconds. Allied champions may only benefit from the shield once per cast. Additionally, allied champions can right-click on the lantern to grab it and dash toward Thresh.
Flay (E): Flay passively causes Thresh's autoattacks to deal bonus magic damage equal to the number of gathered souls from Damnation plus a scaling percentage of his attack damage. The attack damage ratio increases over time while Thresh is not attacking but the soul based damage is applied to every autoattack.
The Box (R): The Box is a point blank ability that creates 5 stationary walls in a small area around Thresh that last up to 5 seconds. Enemy champions that walk through a wall take magic damage and are slowed for 2 seconds, but break the wall. After the first wall is broken, all remaining walls deal half the original damage when walked through and slow for 1 second.

Items

Item Sequence

Talisman of Ascension

Talisman of Ascension's movement speed boost is especially useful for the advantage it provides a team when initiating or exiting a teamfight. Being near a minion death without granting the killing blow it grants 4 gold.

Holds 5 Ward charges and refills upon visiting the shop. Only 3 can be placed at the same time.

+45 movement speed. Increases to +105 movement speed when out of combat for 5 seconds.

+300 health, +20 armor, +10% cooldown reduction. Nearby allied champions gain +20 magic resist and +10 health regen per 5 seconds. Shield yourself and nearby allied champions for 5 seconds, absorbing up to 50 (+10 per level) damage.

Grants you Magic Resistance and Armor. Revives your champion upon death, restoring 30% of your maximum health and mana after 4 seconds of stasis

Grants you Health, Magic Resistance, Cooldown Reduction and Health Regen and increases your self-healing, health regen, life steal and spell vamp by 20%

Reveals and disables nearby invisible traps and wards for 6 seconds.

Other viable choices:

Masteries

Combo's

Teamfights

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Normal Intiate if you are not in Attack Range for enemies.

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Intitiate if you're next to an enemy.

> > >

In this video you can see me playing Thresh, and catching Ahri to instant win the Teamfight and the Game.

Always be sure to use the Unique Passive of Locket of the Iron Solari and Talisman of Ascension

Synergy

and work very well together. A nice combo because of the high mobility. Try to poke your enemies and outzone them, so you have an early advantage.

and are a great combo. The amount of cc is too high, and nearly no one can handle this combo quite well. Easy laning Phase when played right.

and is a combo with high mobility. Corki is a great ADC who can deal huge damage in a short time. Try to land your on the enemies to let corki play out his full potencial, and cc them as much as you can.

and is also a good combo. has massive burst damage, and also great mobility with his . Try to poke them until they have low HP, then be sure to land your for a kill.

One of the greatest combos with is to play with . You will eat your opponents with CC. In most cases, they will have no chance to win against you, because you knock out their ADC completely.

I personally love to play with Sivir,because she can block incoming spells. Land your and in combination with you can deal massive damage in one combo.

is a great ADC on your side. Burst Damage with and cc with her . If she lands her try to land a and cc them as much as you can. Personally i think and work well together.

If you want to have it easy at the bottom lane, is a great choice. She deals massive damage and has cc with her . If the enemies are under cc effect, land your and deal as much damage as you can.

Who will you face?

Matchup

When you have to play vs you have to play very safe and you always have to protect your adc from stuns. Try to disable the enemy ADC when your ADC is stunned.

wont be very hard. Try to pick to disable his healing.

is a nice champ to play against, she doesn't have much cc until level 6 and is often very squishy. It's not very difficult. If you are able to outzone them, be sure to do that.

is not a really hard enemy support. Only her shield can be really annoying. Pick to lower the enemy adc's strenght for the period the shield is active.

is very annoying, her can destroy your combos. Try to play safe, or outzone them before level 6, to get ahead, else you wont have a good time.

One of the most difficult to play against support is . has CC, Burst and can knock out your ADC for seconds. Play safe and be sure to pick !

Summary

Thresh is awesome and if played correctly unstopable.
Take a look at my Youtube channel or Twitch Stream, where you can see some nice Thresh plays.

YOUTUBE
Twitch

I hope i could help you a bit, and if you have some questions. Add me ingame or comment.

cataah Platinium EUW