Any time I support, I usually pick Thresh unless I have a very good reason not to. This was not on of those games. I was paired with a Lucian in response to the first pick Nasus. Fearing Caitlyn harass, I started Doran's Shield, and Lucian was really on the ball helping me maintain ward coverage with our meager ward supplies. I rushed my items pretty much exactly as my guide states; Talisman of ascension, Ruby Sightstone, and Mobility Boots. Nasus got fed so I skipped Locket of the Iron Solari and grabbed a Randuin's Omen first. I likely would have followed up with a Frozen Mallet and Banshee's Veil.
I used my normal Thresh setup, 9-21 masteries and AD marks + 1 AD quint/2health quints. Maxed Flay first, then Death Sentence because we were dunking *****es.
Game Summary
This game was so man mode and crazy because for some reason, my chat box went MIA on me the entire game. I didn't realize that and Flash'd accidentally, not knowing I was not typing. The box was just gone. I could still type back though, and I spent the entire game ushering commands and not caring if people were arguing my commands. Everyone did as I asked with no apparent problem so it was all k.
Anyway, game was pretty uneventful, Ziggs got first blood to be promptly killed by Shaco. Nothing happened for like 10 minutes after that when Shaco got Nasus a kill on Riven, from which he snowballed and became supreme murder dawwwg. Things weren't looking good.
A great gank at bot got me a kill on Caitlyn and a few other mismatched fights got me 4 more kills on Blitzcrank. I am the Thresh KS master! All kills in lane are belong to me. After this, Shaco and Gragas started camping bot, but Gragas was weak as hell from losing so hard to Ziggs. We were far down towers, only having destroyed mid and bot outer turrets while Nasus had detroyed two top turrets and Shaco managed to get 2 bot turrets. CLG triple splitpush comp.
I thought we could lose this game, but Nasus got cocky and got killed, then we basically let Shaco take our inhib in exchange for Baron, then we pretty much steamrolled down mid lane and took the Nexus after killing everyone. Instead of attempting to base race us, Shaco backed and died too. GG WP.
Things I learned:
Doran's Shield start is OP on supports. First time I ever tried it, and Im adding it to my guides with their next updates.
Things to work on:
I was missing a few hooks. Sadness.
Questions for MOBAFire:
I steal like every kill accidentally or otherwise when I play Thresh. Is this a bad thing so long as Lucian's getting good farm and not dying?
Gragas jungle is alright, i would never blind pick it since he is very susceptible to early invades and counterganks. If he loses first blue you can kiss your pressure goodbye. His early damage is pretty nice in a gank although you need to be careful that your body slam doesn't get flashed. He farms pretty fast too.
He scales up through the jungle pretty well, although I'd only really pick him if the mid laner let me have all blues in the game, spectral wraith is necessary on him to jungle and if you don't go athene's you have mana problems later on in the game, but building athene's in the jungle sets you too far back in terms of items so that kinda sucks.
He scales up through the jungle pretty well, although I'd only really pick him if the mid laner let me have all blues in the game, spectral wraith is necessary on him to jungle and if you don't go athene's you have mana problems later on in the game, but building athene's in the jungle sets you too far back in terms of items so that kinda sucks.
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Edit: Changed Karma to Swain.