Thanatos, Hand of Death
Intro
Hey yall welcome to my guide for thanatos jungle. Thanatos is a high damage skill shot character with a lot of potential to carry games, but also can be easy to put behind and make irrelevant. Lets get into it
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Items, Items, Items
While this build seems a little strange, sunbeam bow is decent on thanatos, because it adds a ton of damage, and you don't have to manage your mana on it. It can just always be on. The rest is strong scaling items that will cause you to be a late game menace.
Ability Leveling Order
4>1>3>2
Basic Attack - Melee
Deal Physical Damage to an enemy in front of you
Stats:
- Damage Scaling: 100% Strength + 20% Intelligence
Notes:
- Thanatos has a 3 hit chain. Attacks in the order of 1/0.75/1.5x damage and swing time.
- The final swing of the hit chain cleaves
Passive - Harvester of Souls
You revel in the deaths of your foes. Enemy gods at low health are revealed to you. Killing an enemy heals you. Killing a god reduces all of your cooldowns. Your abilities cost health instead of mana
Stats:
- God Kill Heal: 20% of their max Health
- NPC Kill Heal: 7% of their max Health
- Cooldown Reduction: 5 seconds
Notes:
- The health threshold is determined by the rank of Hovering Dealth, using the first rank value when hovering death is unranked.
Ability 1 - Death Scythe
Fling a scythe projectile that deals Physical Damage and Slows the first target hit. You Heal for 50% of the total damage done. Gods take 10% of their max Health as bonus Physical Damage.
Stats:
- Damage: 95/165/235/305/375
- Damage Scaling: 70% Strength
- Slow: 20%
- Range: 11.2 meters
- Radius: 0.48 meters
- Cooldown: 12 seconds
- Cost: 6% Health
Ability 2 - Scent of Death
Sense death, becoming Slow Immune and gaining Movement Speed and Penetration. You also deal bonus damage to and run faster towards enemies at low health.
Stats:
- Movement Speed: 8/12/16/20/24%
- Bonus Movement Speed: Up to 8/12/16/20/24%
- Flat Penetration: 8/12/16/20/24
- Bonus Damage: 5/7.5/10/12.5/15%
- Cooldown: 13 seconds
- Cost: 4% Health
Notes:
- Bonus Movement Speed scales from 0% of listed boost when target is at execute threshold to 100% of listed benefit when target is at 1 health.
Ability 3 - Soul Reap
Swin your scythe, dealing Physical Damage and Silencing enemis in front of you
Stats:
- Damage: 100/150/200/250/300
- Damage Scaling: 80% Strength
- Silence Duration: 0.75 seconds
- Cone Angle: 110 degrees
- Cooldown: 14/13.5/13/12.5/12 seconds
- Cost: 4% Health
Ultimate Ability - Hovering Death
Fly into the sky, then dive to a location dealing Physical Damage and Stunning enemies hit. Enemies at low health are Executed instead
Stats:
- Damage: 110/145/180/215/250
- Damage Scaling: 80% Strength
- Execute Health %: 24/28/32/36/40%
- Stun Duration: 1 seconds
- Cooldown: 90 seconds
- Cost: 6% Health
Notes:
- Thanatos gains 125% Movement Speed while flying.
- Execute kills enemies even if their death would normally be prevented by other god abilities
- If thanatos is aiming at an invalid location when the ult expires, he will land on the last valid aimed location.
- Thanatos is fully CC Immune during buildup, ascent, flight, and descent.
Gameplay
Thanatos does a ton of damage and can snowball like crazy early game. The key to his gameplay is hitting his 1 consistently. You likely wont be able to 100% someone without your ult so in the early game you should look to flank an enemy that has already taken some poke. Thanatos is fairly safe as long as his ult is available so you can look to play aggressive and in the enemy's jungle, looking to invade and steal their camps and farm. In the mid game you should be able to chunk people fairly well with your 1 so a little help with damage and youll be able to eliminate targets easily. You should try to stay somewhat out of site as thanatos is easy to kill if he gets caught out of position. Additionally try not to make it obvious when you want to throw your 1. Its a slow moving projectile so it can be easy to dodge. In the late game youre likely going to die if you take a full on fight so play the edges of fights looking to hit targets with your 1 and potentially find a pick
Conclusion
Thanatos can bully and snowball really well, but he can just as easily die quickly and fall too far behind to be relevant. Be cautious of your fights and positioning and you can really run a game.
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