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[8.23] Shackle Your Enemies! Thresh Support Guide

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Runes:

Resolve

Aftershock

Font of Life

Bone Plating

Unflinching

Inspiration

Perfect Timing

Approach Velocity

Bonus:

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

Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Items

Starting Items

First back

Boots

Core Items

Item Pool

Example Full Build(VS Full AD)

Example Full Build(VS Hybrid Team)

Example Full Build(VS Heavy AP)

Ability Order

Thresh Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

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Synergies

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Kai'Sa

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Introduction

Thresh

Skill Priority

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Shackle Your Enemies

	Yo! Welcome to my thresh guide! I'm LordBlazer and I'll be helping you guys out today(hopefully). Thresh is one of my most favourite support champions. His kit is so versatile, the plays you can make on this champion are literally endless. From flying to champions to hopping of dragons. I hope to help you guys and teach you all of these tips and tricks.
Thresh is a support champion mainly played in the bot lane with an ADC champ(no sh*t genius xD). His role is that of an initiator i.e, he is the one who starts the fights by hooking enemies and knocking them into your team or ADC thus earning him the title: The Chain Warden (spooky huh). You will be setting up teamfights while providing boat loads of Crowd Control to support your team.

Pros		Cons
+Very Tanky +Gains AP and Armor from passive +Lots of mobility +Sets up fights easily +Lots of CC		-No sustain -Hard to master -Animation on hook makes it easy to sidestep -No scaling armor based on level -Weak to poke -Long cooldowns on certain abilities( Dark Passage & The Box

Runes

Primary:

Resolve

Stun icon Immobilizing an enemy champion grants 70 - 120 (based on level) bonus armor and bonus magic resistance for 2.5 seconds.
After the duration, you release a shockwave that deals 10 - 120 (based on level) (+ 3% of your maximum health) (+ 15% bonus AD) (+ 10% AP) magic damage to nearby enemy champions and monsters

This rune has good synergy with Thresh's kit. He has a lot of movement disrupting abilities. This makes it easy to proc . It's also good in teamfights as the bonus armor and MR helps, along with the shockwave released also deals damage(Kind of a no brainer pick).

After taking damage from an enemy champion, their next three spells or attacks against you deal 15-40 less damage (at levels 1-18).

Duration: 3 seconds
Cooldown: 45 seconds

This is probably the best rune to choose from. Reduces quite a bit of damage. There's no need to shy away from a fight while you have active. You can initiate a fight without having to worry that much.

After 10 min, gain +8 Armor and +8 Magic Resist and increase your Armor and Magic Resist by 5%.

Nothing much to explain. This rune provides extra armor and magic resistance at 10 minutes making even more tanky.

You gain 10% Tenacity icon Tenacity for each of your summoner spells on cooldown, stacking up to 20%.
You gain 15% Slow immune icon Slow Resist as well as an additional, multiplicative 15% Tenacity icon Tenacity for 10 seconds whenever you cast a summoner spell.

Extra tenacity based on whether or not your summoner spells are on cooldown. For every summoner spell on cooldown you get 10% tenacity stacking upto 20% which is super useful. You also receive slow resistfor 10 seconds after casting any summoner spells. Very useful in fights.

Inspiration

Receive a Stopwatch item Replica Stopwatch at 8 minutes. The Replica Stopwatch is identical to the Stopwatch item Stopwatch, except it only contributes for a value of Gold 250

Nothing much to explain. A stopwatch helps in tricky and messy situations. It can bail you out of a bad scenario where you probably would have died(although don't activate by mistake lol).

Gain 15% bonus Movement speed icon movement speed when moving toward an movement impaired allied champion, or toward an enemy champion whose movement you have impaired.

Almost all of Thresh's abilities are movement impairing, making this rune SUPER useful. You move that much faster towards enemies whom you have impaired. Same with allies. Wanna pop a lanter to them(you will understand once you read the abilities section) but out of range? This rune helps so much with that.

Abilities

Passive:

Damnation:

BASIC ATTACKS: Thresh's basic attacks do not use projectiles and his basic attack wind-up is only reduced by 0.25% per Attack speed icon 1% bonus attack speed (compared to the standard 1% per 1%).

INNATE: Enemies who die near Thresh drop souls for 8 seconds, which he can collect by either approaching them or by placing Dark Passage Dark Passage's lantern near them. Each collected soul permanently grants Thresh Ability power icon 0.75 bonus ability power, Armor icon 0.75 bonus armor and increases Dark Passage Dark Passage's shield's strength and Flay Flay's minimum bonus magic damage by 1.

Champions and large enemies always drop 1 soul, epic monsters always drop 2, but small minions and monsters only have a 33% chance to drop 1. Souls are visible to allies and only become visible to enemies if their team has Sight icon sight of Thresh.

's passive provides scaling AP and armor based on the number of souls you have collected. The AP helps with ability damage without you having to build any AP items.

P.S: If you are too far to collect souls, you can throw your onto them to collect the souls. However don't do this if you can help it as this ability is used to peel for your ADC.

Q:

Death Sentence:

FIRST CAST - DEATH SENTENCE: After a 0.5-second delay, Thresh throws out his scythe in the target direction and forms a tether with the first enemy hit, dealing Ability power magic damage and Stun icon stunning them for 1.5 seconds. Hitting an enemy reduces Death Sentence's Cooldown reduction icon cooldown by 3 seconds.

While the tether persists, Thresh is Disarm icon disarmed and periodically tugs at his scythe's chain, Airborne icon pulling the target a short distance towards himself. After 0.5 seconds, or instantly upon hitting a minion or monster, Thresh can cast Death Leap Death Leap while the tether holds.

Death Leap
SECOND CAST - DEATH LEAP: Thresh Dash dashes to the tethered enemy, removing the Stun icon stun but becoming able to attack again.

MAGIC DAMAGE:
80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+ 50% AP)

THE most important part of 's kit. This is the ability you use to initiate a fight. It is also a gap closer and if used properly, an escape tool. It has a 0.5 second delay, which might alert enemies. Therefore use it properly.

P.S: It can be used to interrupt channel and can also allow a on your team to ult() off of .

W:

Dark Passage:

ACTIVE: Thresh throws his lantern to the target location, Sight icon revealing its immediate surroundings and collecting nearby Damnation souls for the duration. The lantern remains for 6 seconds and automatically returns to Thresh if he moves more than 1500 units away from it. The first ally to come near the lantern is Hybrid resistances icon shielded for 4 seconds.

An ally that grabs the lantern will Dash dash to Thresh's location and shield themselves for the same duration.

SHIELD STRENGTH:
60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 (+ 1 per collected Damnation soul)

One of the most versatile abilities in the game. It can be used offensively or defensively. It can be used as peel for your ADC or any teammate when they are in trouble, or it can be used to pull an ally towards you when you are engaging.

P.S: can be used to provide vision so you don't have to facecheck a bush. It can also be teleported to using . Spells like and can be used on your lantern.

E:

Flay:

PASSIVE: Thresh's basic attacks deal bonus magic damage, increasing with time spent not attacking enemy units or neutral monsters.

ACTIVE: Thresh sweeps his chain in a broad line towards the target direction, dealing magic damage to enemies hit, Airborne icon knocking them in the chain's direction, and Slow icon slowing them afterwards for 1 second.

BONUS MAGIC DAMAGE:
Collected Damnation souls (+ up to 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200% AD)

MAGIC DAMAGE:
65 / 95 / 125 / 155 / 185 (+ 40% AP)

SLOW:
20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40%

The second most important ability in your kit. is usually used in sync with . This ability like can be used both offensively and defensively. It can be used to push enemies away or towards your allies. also knocks away enemy jumps( khha'zix's ). Using immediately after makes it cast faster.

R:

The Box:

ACTIVE: After a 0.75-second delay, Thresh surrounds himself with 5 spectral walls, each lasting for up to 5 seconds. Walls break upon contact with an enemy champion, dealing magic damage and Slow icon slowing by 99% for 2 seconds.

Enemy champions hitting any wall beyond the first take no damage and are Slow icon slowed for only 1 second.

MAGIC DAMAGE:
250 / 400 / 550 (+ 100% AP

Just as the name sounds, your ultimate is a box which is spawned a short distance around you. Enemies which pass through the wall take huge amounts of damage and are slowed by a LOT. It can be used as an obstacle against advancing enemies or to trap enemies inside long enough for your team to pick them off. Be careful though as it has a huge cooldown time.

Items

Core Items

or : Both items work well with Thresh. It is upto you to choose one. I prefer the eye of the ascension due to the coins as they provide mana during laning phase which makes it easier for me. However the choice is yours.

: Core item of Thresh's. Rush this item as soon as you are done with one otf the eyes. This item's unique active makes it useful in lane, and teamfights as it shields your allied champions while also providing a burst of movement speed.

Item Pool

: Useful active. Buy this item if you need some extra health, mana and health regen. The active is good for chasing and initiating fights, or escaping.

: Simple item. Provides you with armor and MR. Very useful in teamfights for when you need to soak and tank damage. Especially since Thresh is chosen for his CC and not his damage.

: Buy when you facing an AP heavy team or when you need increased healing.

: Useful item. Provides lots of armor and mana. It is helpful when facing high attack speed champions such as or regular ADCs due to its UNIQUE passive.

: Gives you armor and Health. However its UNIQUE Passives are again the bane of Auto attack based champions. Buy almost every game if possible.

Carries Thresh works well with

Caitlyn

works well with as he can use to knock opponents into 's to make it easy for to land her damage. His if timed right can drag an enemy ally away from blocking 's .

Ashe

has tons of CC. Her slows opponents making it easy for you to land . Her ult: is also very helpful in hooking enemies and trapping them with . The vice versa also works wherein you land your making it easy for to lane her .

Jhin

as an ADC has no mobility whatsoever. He is a very heavy-hitting ADC who can deal huge amounts of damage. works well with him because he() can use to help get into the fight. 's also makes it easy for to lane and vice versa. Using to trap enemies makes it so much easier for to use curtain's call and finish enemies off.

Draven

works well with because of 's . Usually an enemy would be totally protected from by standing behind a minion wave. solves this problem by being able to shove minions aside and creating a clear path for to land.

Lucian

Despite the lore, and work pretty well together. clears minions for to land while traps enemies making it reaaaaally easy for lucians ultimate: to land.

Tricks

's has a unique interaction making it easy for to make his way around the map while utilizing jungle camps and drakes.

Here is a cool video which shows you all the possible ways to get around the jungle.

Note: I did not create the video. All credit goes to Kilo Khaos.

Combos

Here is a list of combos which I hope you will find useful:

Basic Level 2 combo

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Bread and butter combo. Hook your enemy then their butt towards your ADC.

Level 3 combo

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Same thing as earlier except you're throwing your lantern to your ADC so that they are closer to the fight.

Level 6 combo

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Also similar to earlier, but this time you trap your enemies within so that they either stay inside or come out and take massive amounts of damage and get slowed.

The Box Flay combo

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In this combo, you use behind your enemy and then them into the walls of for damage and slow. Kinda simple in theory but a little tougher to execute during game.

Changelog

8.18: Nothing new to report.
8.22: Nothing new to report.

Conclusion

Thanks for taking time to read this guide. It would mean a lot if you could show your support by giving me an upvote. Any questions which you have, I'll be happy to answer. Hope I helped! Good luck on the rift(and the treeline or abyss #allmapsmatter)