I am just a small lad who really likes offmeta champs. I started playing Thresh top and saw how amazing the pick was.
I currently have 400k+ mastery points and have started to do some livestreaming

The biggest reasons I like picking Ghost over Flash is because you can escape bad situations for example ganks easier or just run away from the enemies and because the cooldown on Ghost is not as long, you can use it more often

The biggest downside I can think of is not being able to flash over walls and you can't dodge over for example Veigar's wall or something similiar.
Ofcourse you can pick Flash if you want to, but I don't take it anymore, since Ghost just brings more value for Thresh.

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Remember that you can mix and match all the lesser runes as you see fit.

Titanic Hydra

Great tank item for Thresh. It helps with clearing the wave, allows you to poke and gives good stats

Heartsteel

I see heartsteel (and Jak'sho)as the only mythic that fits what we need as Thresh top plus the hp scaling can get goofy in long matches with your passive.

Jak'sho the protean

Jak'sho is a great, since it covers both defence types well, and building this means you can get Titanic hydra earlier, since you don't build this first

Sunfire Aegis

Sunfire is okay now... Nothing special, since it's not a mythic anymore. Bit more situational

Wit's End

It's great. I would say this is a must build as a second or third item and is great even againts mostly AD teams.

Thornmail

Thresh can apply grievous wound with this easily with E and Q, plus it gives some good armor.

Deadman's plate

Can work with many builds, it gives movement speed and HP and armor. It helps with gap closing so you can hit Flay better.

Abyssal mask

Abyssal Mask is a good way for Thresh to get magic penetration and it helps the team. You also get magic resist so that doesn't hurt.

Anathema's chains

Basically this item gives damage reduction (from a single enemy) and reducec tenacity from whoever you put it on so thats a nice bonus. Activate this item on the enemies carry or ADC.

Blade of the ruined king

It's a great item to add into your build when going againts a tanky opponents and is great extra damage into your build if you aren't interested in Wit's End

Frozen heart

Pretty situational item since usually you don't have any reason to make this and you are better off with building some better items (The only reason to build this is againts some high attack speed opponents).

Force of nature

This is a great item for Scout uuh I mean Thresh since the magic resistance on this item is great againts heavy ap enemies and to movement speed is also good.

Silvermere dawn

Really situational. Mainly used if the enemy team has a Mordekaiser, but you don't have to build this if you don't think that you need it. Also can be build it the enemy has Malzahar. But the health and attack damage this item provides is okay.

Heartsteel is a great item to get some health and since Thresh has some range he can proc it quite easily, but sadly this item doesn't bring alot of value to Thresh all things considered.
Heartsteel is better than Jak'sho in specific matchups, but you can build it instead if that is what you feel like!


Jak'sho is the primary mythic to go for if you want to pick what is "better" since the resistances are great and now you'r ability to last in longer fights is increased because the boost Jak'sho gives. The healing is also quite juicy.

In conclusion Jak'sho is better in most of your games, but that doesn't mean that Heartsteel sucks or you should never build it. You can also experiment with what works better for you.

Thresh's passive is Damnation. Soul's will drop from minions, monsters and champions when they die. There is a chance that a soul drops from small minions and a guaranteed drop from large minions, monsters, and champions and we discussed what a soul provides ofr Thresh

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Thresh's Q is the hook aka Death Sentence. when you hit your Q Thresh will pull the enemy towards him, but if you recast iy you will swing to the enemys location instead.

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Thresh's W is Dark Passage. You can use it to help allies escape dangerous situations, surprise attack or give them shields. And also remember to shield yourself and collect Souls from a safe distance by throwing your lantern at them.

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Thresh E is Flay and we discussed it's passive earlier. Flay gives Thresh some CC and its good on top because you can push people at or away from you. The Flay starts at the backside you can try in practice grounds to see what I mean if you don't get it

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Thresh's ultimate is The Box You can use it to secure kills, stall for your team, or just as CC.

In my opinion playing AP Thresh has been fun, but it obviously comes with it's challenges and those being that you really aren't that tanky compared to most other toplaners, but Thresh's lantern, souls and his HP scaling helps with that. (The build is really good in mid lane if you're interested in that plus the part about being tanky doesn't affect mid so all the power to you!)

Well now I have finished playing enough AP Thresh mid to finally say that this is amazing, since you don't need to be tanky so you can focus on going full monkey mode and start building AP. And since Thresh's souls give 1 AP per soul you can easily get over a 1000 AP in a game (atleast I have been able to) plus Thresh's abilities have some juicy AP scaling meaning that you can oneshot people and it feels quite nice to hit a hook that oneshot kills the enemy ADC.

This is also great on top, but don't build Hextech Rocketbelt you MUST build Riftmaker (If you find a better AP mythic for top feel free to tell me!) since it gives some tankiness, omnivamp and that AP you'll want.