Infinite scaling stats: Thresh's passive, Damnation, allows him to collect the souls of dead enemies and minions, which permanently grants him armor and ability power. This means that, unlike most champions, Thresh's stats can continually improve throughout the game without needing items. The longer the game goes, the stronger Thresh becomes defensively and offensively, making him a formidable presence in late-game team fights and skirmishes.

Amazing crowd control: Thresh excels in crowd control with his robust set of abilities. His Q Death Sentence, E Flay and finally, his ultimate, The Box. This combination of crowd control abilities allows Thresh to disrupt the enemy team effectively and protect his allies.

Dark Passage gives optimal ganks: Thresh's W, Dark Passage, is a lantern that can shield an ally and provide them with an escape route. This ability is particularly useful during ganks, as it allows Thresh to pull in his jungler or provide a quick escape for a diving ally. The lantern can be thrown over walls or into the midst of a fight, creating opportunities for surprise engagements or disengagements. This utility makes Thresh a prime choice for supporting aggressive junglers and setting up successful ganks.

High damage potential: Despite being a support, Thresh can deal significant damage, especially if he accumulates a high number of souls. His abilities scale with both his collected souls and his items, making his auto-attacks and abilities hit harder than many expect from a support champion. This high damage potential allows Thresh to threaten squishier targets and contribute meaningfully to team fights beyond just providing utility.

Useful even when behind: Thresh remains effective even when his team is behind due to his strong utility and crowd control. His ability to peel for carries, set up picks with Death Sentence, and provide safety with Dark Passage means that he can still contribute to his team's success regardless of his personal gold or item situation.

Enemies won't know what to expect: This pro is only achived if you're playing Thresh top, mid, ADC or the AP support. The enemies have no idea what you're actually cooking.

No mobility: Thresh lacks mobility in his kit, making it difficult for him to escape from sticky situations or quickly reposition during fights. This can leave him vulnerable to being caught out or focused by the enemy team, especially if Ghost/ Flash is on cooldown.

Skillshot reliant: A significant portion of Thresh's effectiveness hinges on landing his skillshots, particularly Death Sentence (Q). Missin. His kit requiresg Death Sentence can be the difference between securing a kill or letting an enemy escape. Since Death Sentence has a relatively long wind-up and can be dodged, you must have good aim and predict enemy movements.

Hard to master: Thresh has a high skill ceiling, making him a hard champion to master, especially if you dedicate yourself to the off-meta playstyle, it's trickier than just plain old support.

High cooldowns: Thresh's abilities have relatively long cooldowns, especially at lower levels. This means that if he misses a key ability like Death Sentence or Flay, he can be left without his primary crowd control tools and your biggest threat in toplane, being your hook

Mana dependence: Thresh's abilities cost a decent chunk of mana, especially in the early game. If he uses his abilities too frequently without proper mana management, he can quickly run out of mana. That's why I have Presence of Mind used in most of the builds (Every rune set that needs it)

When Thresh and Senna are againts each other, they will get an unique quest at the 15 minutes to kill each other. First one to manage to get a kill/assist againts the other will get some bonuses, but lose all their souls. If Thresh manages to take down Senna, he takes all of her souls and gains 40 Attack Damage, 50 attack range and 30 percent critical strike chance. It's really good, so don't die!

Riftmaker is the item to rush for all fo your AP shenanigans. It's main appeal is it's first passive that gives 2% increased damage for each second in combat and at max stacks (10%) you'll get 6% omnivamp. The second passive isn't as noticeable, but Thresh does have a good base health per level. But if you're mixing it into items from the bruiser part of the guide, both passives will be quite amazing.


Nashor's Tooth is amazing for Thresh. First of all you get a decent chunk of attack speed, since you won't build Berserker's Greaves with this it'll be what Thresh needs. You also get ability power and haste, what's not to like?


Rabadon's Deathcap is a big powerspike for Thresh due to his insane AP scaling. This item is quite simple.


Cosmic Drive is great, I like building it because it fixes Thresh's low mobility and the stats are good.


Stormsurge for Thresh top is a bit tricky. Yes the stats it gives are great, but the passive can't be activated as easily againts the usual top enemies (tanks and bruisers) due to their high healthpool.


Horizon Focus is a classic. If you hit a hook from afar, you can go to town on them with 10% extra damage. It's great


Malignance is simply beautiful. Thresh gets faster ults and his ults hurt more, a win-win in my book.


Void Staff and Cryptbloom both essnetially do the same thing. Magic penetration. But I'd buy Cryptbloom over Void Staff IF the enemy team doesn't have as much MR, so you can get the juicy heal!