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With the massive amounts of CC built into Thresh, the displacement on your Flay, and the hook provided by your Death Sentence, can both proc Glacial Augment extremely easily. This provides an icy patch of ground for 3s baseline, which slows enemies and reduces their damage dealt to your allies by 15%, which is like a mini Exhaust!

Hextech Flashtraption provides you with an extra, channeled Flash after you've used your base one. This means that you can use it to surprise your enemies from fog of war, and also works like normal Flash over walls, so you can continue to make aggressive plays.

Biscuit Delivery restore's 8% of your hp and mana, and you get 3 of these over the course of 6 minutes, meaning you can sustain in lane longer. This is useful for Thresh to continue making aggressive plays without having to recall. It also increases your mana cap by 120 in total.

Cosmic Insight provides you with item haste, which is great for Locket of the Iron Solari's onuse, and you also get summoner spell haste, meaning you get your Flash and Ignite back sooner - meaning more aggression!

Bone Plating provides you with a small shield that reduces damage taken for the next 3 attacks from enemies, which is a great bonus for engaging in lane and can be the difference between dying or living in a close fight. Second Wind can be taken if you're against a poke mage such as Lux or Vel'Koz, as you'll regen some hp after taking damage from them. conditoning is also a good choice if you're planning on going to late game and you don't have another tank on your team (not that you should be the primary tank!)

Unflinching gives you tenacity and slow resist, increasing up to 20% when you drop to 30% hp, meaning you can escape from CC easier, very useful on an engage champion, heading into the thick of the battle!

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Boots of Mobility > MOVEMENT SPEED Thresh has the option to roam a lot, and catch people out, so having the bonus movement speed from Mobi's is invaluable. Mercury's Treads > TENACITY/AP RESIST If the enemy team has a lot of CC, or a lot of AP damage, you can trade Mobi's out for these. They offer +25 magic resist, along with reducing the effect of stuns, slows, taunts, fears, silences, blinds and immobilizes by 30%. Boots of Swiftness > SLOW RESIST If the enemy team has a lot of slows, you can take these for extra MS as well as the slow resist.

Zeke's Convergence > SURVIVABILITY/AH/MANA Zeke's is a fantastic item on Thresh as it offers armor, magic resist, ability haste and an extra 250 mana. When you immobilize an enemy, they receive bonus damage from your designated allies basic attacks for the next 4 seconds, increasing your kill chance.

Knight's Vow > SURVIVABILITY/AH/SUSTAIN You gain extra HP, 25 armor and Ability haste with this item which are all great stats. If your ally is nearby, you redirect 10% of the damage they take, to yourself (increasing their survivability), and you heal for 10% of the damage they deal. If they are below 30% max hp, you take 20% damage instead, but this redirection will stop if you hit 30% hp. Usually a core item to take vs physical damage.

Redemption > AH/HP+MANA REGEN/SUSTAIN Redemption offers an aoe heal in an area, add a sustain for his allies that Thresh' kit lacks. It also offers HP and Mana regen, meaning you can stay in the fights longer, recall less, and you can help out even while dead. It also offers an extra 15% shielding power, which synergizes with your Dark Passage.

Mikael's Crucible > SURVIVABILITY/AH/UTILITY A good pick when facing an enemy team with hard CC that you need to Cleanse on allies, such as Impale, Dark Binding, Cocoon etc and provides a sizable heal. Increases your Mana and HP regeneration, and 15% shielding power - good synergy with Dark Passage.

Locket of the Iron Solari > SURVIVABILITY/SUSTAIN With Locket of the Iron Solari, you gain 30 armor and 30 magic resist, 200HP and 20 Ability haste, which increases your overall tankiness, while providing a shield to your allies upon use - and granting nearby allies 5 bonus armor and magic resist.

Gargoyle Stoneplate > SURVIVABILITY/SUSTAIN/UTILITY Gargoyle Stoneplate provides you with some extra tankiness in the form of Armor and Magic Resist. It's most effective in the later stages of the game, when team fights are more prevalent, so you can trigger the passive effect reliably. The active effect really shines in those same scenarios, allowing you to survive through the fight and maintain control of the enemy threats.

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Once you've locked in Thresh and the game has begun, you can gather your team and look for an invade.
Thresh has strong level 1 CC with Death Sentence and can quickly secure a kill if your team follows you into the enemy territory - (try to avoid invading a Braum however. Braum's passive is the strongest passive level 1 in the game which can lead your entire team to their deaths.)

Early laning phase, it is very important to try to beat the enemy team to level 2. In order to achieve level 2 in a shared experience lane, you need to clear the first wave of minions, and 3 melee minions from the second wave.
If you are confident that you will beat the enemy to level 2, start walking forward towards them as the last minion is about to die - that way you can engage while they think you are still level 1 - and level up mid engage, then you can proceed to throw a second ability and catch the opponents off guard.

The level 2 cheese is one of the strongest tools for winning lane as Thresh and it is highly unnoticed at lower ranks in the game. After your level 2 spike is finished, try to keep an eye on your jungler and see if a rotation is necessary in order to help them secure Scuttle Crab. An early rotation if your jungler is fighting for crab will
greatly improve your chances at winning the game.



During Mid Game, your intended job is to set up pick points around objective that are are coming up such as dragon, Rift Herald , Baron Nashor , etc.
Sweeping and clearing the area and setting up wards/ Control Wards so that the enemy team is denied vision is your primary job.
Once this is achieved, the enemy will be concerned if you are doing the objective or not (the trap is set!).

Now is the difficult part - getting someone to rotate to the trap that you've created, so that you can catch someone out and have an advantage for taking whichever objective you are trying to control. (Remember you can even set up at the enemy red or blue buff if you know they are coming up).
If you get a teammate to follow you to said location, you should look for a quick engage/kill, and then ping the rest of your team to follow you to get the objective, and then go back to pushing lanes.





WHAT DO I DO HERE!?
Well, with Thresh, you have a couple of options - Thresh is decently strong at both. Your Death Sentence is very long range to catch someone out, but remember - in team fight stages you don't always want to follow your hook in, you may need to stay back to Flay enemy dive champions off of your carries.

It is up to you to peel your carries so they live long enough to kill the enemy team. Diving is only a good option if they are extremely out of position.
Peel your carries, and look for hooks as the enemy is trying to escape after you've flayed them successfully, and then continue chasing them down with a short CD Death Sentence from this high CDR build.
Smite their turret to hell with the Demolish rune we are running and end the game!

CONGRATULATIONS you are a Thresh master. Do it again. And for even more fun, do it a few thousand times more, I can confirm I still enjoy playing this game after 1 Million mastery points on Thresh.

I hope you enjoyed, and learned enough from my Thresh guide, to play him as well as the pro's.

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