Thresh Build Guide by

[12.9] "Poor Lost Souls" [Indepth] Guide

6 0

12,901 Views

3 Comments

Thresh Build Guide By Updated on

Guide Discussion (3) More Thresh Guides

Runes: General Runes

1 2 3 4

Resolve

Guardian

Demolish

Conditioning

Overgrowth

Inspiration

Perfect Timing

Biscuit Delivery

Bonus:

+8 Ability Haste
+6 Armor
+10% Tenacity/Slow Resist

Spells:

1 2

Your Go-To Spells

Flash

Ignite

Items

Starting Items

First Backs

Boot Options

Mythic Item

Item Pool

Example Full Build

Ability Order Ability Order

Thresh Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

Show All

None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Morgana

Extreme

She can easily counter your Q by spellshielding the enemy you want to hook and while you are casting it she has enough time to stun you with her Q. Even if you hook an enemy and engage onto him she can just pop her R since you have no way to escape it.

Kalista

Ideal

Kalistas R is great for Thresh as it allows him to land a great engage without having to hit his Q. Not only in lane but also in late-game to open teamfights.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Kalista

Ideal

Kalistas R is great for Thresh as it allows him to land a great engage without having to hit his Q. Not only in lane but also in late-game to open teamfights.

Champion Build Guide

Table Of Contents

// Table Of Contents \\

1 Guide Details

1 About Me

2 Champion

2.1 Pros And Cons
2.2 Skin Spotlight
2.3 Abilities
2.4 Combos
2.5 Tips And Tricks

3 Pre-Game

3.1 Runes
3.2 Summoner Spells

4 In-Game

4.1 Ability Order
4.2 Items
4.3 Laning Phase
4.4 Late Game
4.5 Teamfights

5 Offmeta

5.1 Some Experimental Ideas

1 About Me

// 1 About Me \\

Hi everyone, my name is LessThanThre3, I am a -OTP with more than 1.2m mastery points over multiple accounts. I started playing around Season 8 and so I feel pretty confident that I can teach you how to play him well, or just help you understand him.
Also English isn't my first language so I apologise for any language mistakes ^^

op.gg: https://euw.op.gg/summoner/userName=LessThanThre3

By the way this guide isn't completely done yet there are still some aspects that are missing but if you're interested in learning Thresh check back here every now and then because I'll keep working on this guide.

2.1 Pros And Cons

// 2.1 Pros and Cons \\

Pros

+ High CC
+ Can initiate teamfights very well
+ Can get allies out of bad situations
+ Can get very tanky through

Thresh has a ton of CC through his , and . These abilities make him very good at getting to an enemy, getting an enemy to him and also keeping an enemy in a certain place. He can start teamfights with his by hooking an enemy and immediately reactivating it then he can that enemy towards his team. But he can also save his teammates by throwing a or ing enemys away. And then there's his passive which allows him to become very tanky and infinitely scale.

Cons

- has long cast time
- Relies on hitting his
- Takes a lot of practice

The main difficulty of is the need to hit his to engage onto an enemy, which is especially hard due to its very long cast time. This leads to you having to predict where the enemy is going to move, if he may sidestep or even flash the hook. Another downside to is that it requires a lot of practice to master him because he's a very mechanicaly advanced champion.

2.2 Skin Spotlight

// 2.2 Skin Spotlight \\

2.3 Abilities

// 2.3 Abilities \\

PASSIVE
ABILITY

Damntion (Passive): 's passive is one of the things that can make him so tanky.
Instead of gaining armor per level Thresh can collect souls, which are dropped by dead enemies, by walking up to them or by throwing a Dark Passage onto them. Each soul permanently increases his armor and ability power by 0.75.
So you're going to wanna make sure you collect as many souls as possible. Souls only drop if is within 1900 range of the dying enemy and are only visible to enemies if they have vision of .

Death Sentence (Q): is the essential ability of 's kit.
Thresh throws his scythe dealing magic damage to the first enemy hit and dragging them towards him for 1.5 seconds. Thresh can reactivate the ability to leap to the chained target. If Thresh hits an enemy with Death Sentence its cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds.
It is very important to hit this ability since you can engage onto the enemy after hitting it. If you reactivate and then the enemy you can get him a relatively big distance towards your ADC or your team.

Dark Passage (W): 's is a great ability to setup ganks or get allies out of fights when they get low on health.
Thresh throws out his lantern shielding the ally closest (the amount of shield scales with the amont of collected souls) to its destination. The first ally to click the lantern will be pulled to Thresh
You can also throw the lantern ontop of yourself to shield yourself and collect souls by throwing on them.

Flay (E): can be used to get enemies closer towards you or away from you.
Active: Thresh sweeps his chain in a line dealing magic damage to enemies inside of that line and pushing them in the given direction. Enemies hit are slowed for 1 second.
Passive: Thresh's basic attacks deal extra magic damage for each collected soul plus 100-200% of attack damage based on the amount of time that has passed since the last auto attack.
is also very good for poking during the laningphase. If you combine 's range and the passive of his you can get of a pretty strong basic attack every few seconds.

The Box (R): is great for use during teamfights if the enemies are all very close together to keep them there.
Thresh creates a box around himself which deals magic damage and slows the target by 99% for 2 seconds if an enemy colides with one of the 5 walls. This will destroy the wall. Any wall that is hit after the first one will only slow for 1 second.
You can use after you engaged onto an enemy with your or when you are in the middle of a big teamfight. This may force the enemies to over the wall if they dont want get slowed which often results in them getting killed. You can also force them into a wall by ing them into it or by pulling them through the wall with your .

2.4 Combos

// 2.4 Combos \\

>
Difficulty: ✦✦✦(beginner)

Basic Hook Combo: This Combo will just make it easier for you to hit your s or to force the enemy's .
For this you will firstly the enemy towards you to slow him this will make it harder for him to dodge your allowing you to easily hit it or force the enemy's .
The only thing you have to be careful about with this combo is that you dont accidentaly minions infront of yourself if you're trying this combo inside of a minion wave.

> > >
Difficulty: ✦✦✦(intermediate)

Engage Combo: With this Combo you can engage onto enemies. This combo will be most used to initiate teamfights.
What you're going to do is hook an enemy with your and then reactivate it. Next you activate use your to keep enemies from escaping. If they aren't getting away you can use to force them into one of the walls.

> >
Difficulty: ✦✦✦(intermediate)

Single Target Pick Combo: This comco is great for use in laning phase. It allows you to pick out single enemies. Use this especially when they are near their tower. The main difference to the previous combo is that with this combo you You don't reactivate your after hitting the enemy. Instead you activate as soon as your lands and then the enemy into the wall of .

> > >
Difficulty: ✦✦✦(advanced)

"Bunny Hop": The "Bunny Hop" is one of the most advanced -mechanics. It is used when you want to engage onto an enemy together with your teammate, but he his far behind you.
The first thing you have to do is to hit your target with your . Before you reactivate it you now back towards your teammate and throwing a for them to pick up. Then you instantly reactivate your and your teammate clicks the lantern. This will allow both of you to be pulled to the enemy. From here on you can continue with an Engage Combo.
This mechanic is very difficult and if you're a beginner I would not recommend it to you. If you want to learn it thogh I would recommend you to jump into the practice tool and practice it for 5 to 10 minutes for some days to build up muscle memory. The "Bunny Hop" has to be executed very quickly since you can only reactivate your for 1.5 seconds after hitting it.

2.5 Tips And Tricks

// 2.5 Tips and Tricks \\

Playing Thresh
As you can very easily punish enemies if they try to execute a towerdive. A well placed and some CC from your and can ruin any attempted towerdive and keep you alive. Using from your will help with that a lot.

Using Thresh's Damnation
Collecting the souls dropped by dying minions, enemies and also jungle monsters is a very important part of playing so don't forget to always take them if possible (remeber that you can collect souls with your ). and always give one soul each. The and always drop 2 souls so make sure to stick around a bit longer when fighting these objectives.

Using Thresh's Death Sentence
You can not only use to engage onto enemies. When used correctly it can save your life. When running away from enemies you can throw your over a wall onto a minion camp then you can reactivate it and pull yourself over the wall onto the minion camp.

Using Thresh's Dark Passage
The has alot more usages than you might first think. For example you can block the passage between turrets and wall. Like that enemies can't walk through the little gap.
Allies can also use on the . Other abilities like 's , ' or 's can be used on the as well.
also gives you vision, so you can use it to face check bushes or to check drake or baron pits.

Using Thresh's Flay
can be used to cancel 's as she starts casting it you can her and thus cancel the jump making it easy for you and your team to kill her. Other abalities that can be canceled by include ' , 's and engage tools like 's or 's . can also be used to control minion waves by pushing them towards or away from your tower.

Using The Box
The slow that is inflicted when enemies run into can also help you to get away from enemies. When they are chasing you activate and them into it.

3.1 Runes

// 3.1 Runes \\

Resolve

-OR-

Aftershock:
I like to pick on because it works really well with his cc-heavy kit. Whenever you hit an enemy with your , will proc and thus give you extra armor and magic resist for 2.5 seconds. This is very useful if you want to reactivate and dive into the enemy. after a short delay you will then deal magic damage to enemies around you (this damage scales with your maximum health which is nice since can become quite tanky).

Demolish

Demolish: is very good for building up pressure in the laning phase because you will be able to get at least one plating whenever you kill your enemy-laners. You can also use for split pushing in the late-game how ever that can be dangerous if someone comes to stop you since you're still just a supporter and so you probably can't 1v1 them. Just like , also scales with your maximum health.

Conditioning

Conditioning: This rune is very matchup dependant. In general is a very good choice, it gives you +9 armor and +9 magic resist after 12 minutes and also increases your armor and magic resist by 5%. will give you more survivability in fights after the laning phase and is thus good to pick in good teamfighting comps or when you are the only frontline and will be taking a lot of damage in fights.

Second Wind

Second Wind: If you are playing against poke champions like or I would recommend taking , instead of which will give you extra health regeneration after getting hit by an ability. This will help you stay healthy in the laning phase, so that you can look for windows to engage without getting poked down as much.

Overgrowth

Overgrowth: Taking as your last rune in the -tree will add to the already huge amount of tankines you already get from your , , and of course the items you buy. You will gain +3 maximum health for each 8 minions that die near you and at 120 minion deaths you will gain an aditional 3.5% maximum health

Unflinching

Unflinching: In some matchups, taking will be better than . This is especially the case when you are playing into a lane that has a lot of slows. A classic example of that would be for example. will give you 10% slow resistance and tenacity, which increases based on your missing health up until a maximum of 30% slow resistance and tenacity at 30% of your maximum health

Inspiration

Glacial Augment

Glacial Augment: will prevent you from running out of mana too fast in the early laning phase. Together with your it will always provide you with more mana to spam your abilities. is also a good thing to pick against pokelanes since it will also give you some more sustain.

Biscuit delivery

Biscuit Delivery: will prevent you from running out of mana too fast in the early laning phase. Together with your it will always provide you with more mana to spam your abilities. is also a good thing to pick against pokelanes since it will also give you some more sustain.

Cosmic insight

Cosmic Insight: and CDR in general is very important on because your (your main engagetool) has very high cooldowns (20/18/16/14/12) which is also why your main focus is gonna be getting as much CDR as possible.

: For reasons I've already mentioned before CDR is a must-have and no matter what matchup you always wanna take it. From here on you'll just look at the enemie's and your teamcomp if they have a lot of magic damage take magic resist, if they have a lot of attack damage take armor, if you feel like you are going need a bit of extra health, take health,... you get the point.

3.2 Summoner Spells

// 3.2 Summoner Spells \\

FLASH

As the first Summoner Spell I would definitely take because does not have a built-in escape except but since you need a minioncamp to get away using , which often isnt there in the right situation, is the safer way to go. You can also use agressively as a gap closer to get close enought to your enemy that you can throw a at him or him however you should only do that when you're sure thatit is safe to go in since you won't have an escape without your . Taking can also make for some good plays.

IGNITE

is a good way to make sure an enemy dies. For example if you fight them near their turret you can hook them, , fire some spells at them together with your adc and even if they out of your range they will still get some true damage and hopefully die. Its also a great counter against champions like or that will just heal their adc when ever you attack him because of the Grievous Wounds that will reduce all healing effects by 40%.

EXHAUST

You can also take instead of . You can use offensively by ing an enemy to hot your more easy or if they want to get away you can them and then also use for a massive slow, or you can of course also use it defensively by ing an enemy that is attacking you since will also reduce their damage dealt by 40%.

4.1 Ability Order

// 4.1 Ability Order \\

> > >

For the ability order you're going to put a point into whenever possible (6/11/16). The first ability you should max is (1/4/5/7/9) because that will reduce it's cooldowns from 20 seconds to 12 seconds and combined with all of the CDR you have, you'll have your up much more often. Second you're going to max your (2/8/10/12/13). When you have your maxed you're going to have a ton of cc which is very useful in teamfights because you can get the backline of the enemy in a position where your team can easily kill them and also keep them there with, for example, your . Last you're going to max your (3/14/15/17/18). The reason for that being that you're going to use way less frequently than your other two abilties and so the priority of maxing it is lower.

For the ability that you're leveling first I would recommend because of a leashing technique with that I'm going to talk about in "4.3 Laning Phase" and also because you can play very agressive with it and maybe get first blood. However if you're playing against something like a , and you know that they are going to reach level 2 before you, it can be better to level first. That way you can cancel 's (E) so she can't dash onto you or your adc and hit her (Q) since that might result in a first blood against you or at least burn a .

4.2 Items

// 4.2 Items \\

Ancient Coin
In my opinion is the best option as your support item. It always gives you a good supply of mana so that you're rarely going to run out of mana, especially if you take as well.
On your first backs it should then be your main focus to upgrade into so that you can have it transformed around the 8th to 12th minute of the game. As soon as that's done what I like to do is buy an since you dont need your warding totem anymore. The is the first item you should build since you will then be able to place 4 wards before having to go back to base.

Control Wards
s are a very important item and you should try to buy them at almost every backport. For example when your team starts the dragon you just put down a to deny the enemy vision of that area or if the enemy has a or as the jungler you can put a in the river so that you still see them comming. So make sure you always have a somewhere on the map and always have a spare one with you in case it gets destroyed.

// Tank Build \\

Boots Of Mobility
After buying on one of your first backs you should get your shortly before or right after completing since having them will make hitting your a lot easier. The out of combat movement speed bonus you get allows you to position for your hooks a lot faster.

Knight's Vow
This item is extremely good for multiple reasons the first one being that you get more armor which you already have a ton of so you're going to becaome even more of a giant shield for your adc. In case your adc still gets hit by some abilities 's passive will redirect 12% of the damage your adc would take to you as true damage but you will also heal for 12% of the damage your adc does. Another big advantage of is the 10% CDR it gives which, how I already mentioned, is very important for .

Righteous Glory
is very useful against enemies that have a lot of movement speed on activation it grants +75% movement speed and after 3 seconds or when near an enemy it will emit a shockwave slowing nearby enemies by 75% for 2 seconds. This is great to surprise enemies by storming at them from the fog of war and then landing an easy on them or force an easily predictable . And of course gives you some more bonus armor and another 10% CDR

Randuin's Omen
is practical because of very similar reasons to . It also has an active that slows enemies however the slow is a bit weaker and it doesnt have the movement speed bonus that gives. In return it gives a lot more bonus armor and it's passive reduces the critical strike damage you take by 20%. does not give any CDR.

Thornmail
So now that you're extremely tanky you can build thronmail. It reflects damage equal to 25 + 10% of your bonus armor, which you are going to have a ton of. will then also apply grievous wounds to them, this is extremely strong if they try to lifesteal off of you. In addition whenever someone hits you with a basic attack they will be slowed by 15%.

Warmog's Armor
This item is the final stage of your already insanely tanky build. gives you another 800 bonus health and it's passive will regenerate 5% of your maximum health per second when out of combat for 6 seconds. It also gives +10% CDR.

// Supportstyle Build \\

--- in progress ---