Grandmaster Thanatos Jungle

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• Star at the Fire Giant side Speed Buff (or Red Buff), and group up the jungle camps with your mid laner. Once the Red and Speed buff jungle camps are cleared together, head towards your remaining speed buff. Your mid laner should help you clear this buff camp. Finally, head towards the exp camp near the Tier 1 Mid tower, presume you will clear this alone.
  
  
• You now have 2 choices. You can stay in the Jungle towards the mid lane, looking for a gank on the enemy mid laner or clear the Mid-Harpies. The second option is to head straight to duo lane, and look for a gank on the enemy duo lane (and clear Scorpion). Heading to Duo lane has a greater risk, but much greater reward if successful.
  
  
• While Thanatos does a large amount of damage early game, if you miss your Death Scythe you become very vulnerable. If the enemy jungler has a form of CC, it's better to back away and let them pressure. It's important you don't risk your early game in the first minute by stepping up too far on the first mid wave.
  
  
• Your fight in the jungle is much stronger, as the enemies cannot hide inside the minion wave to avoid Death Scythe. Path confidently.
  
  
• The standard priority of a jungler should be: Buff Camps > Rotations > Harpies. Thanatos has strong rotations, so if you see a nearby enemy laner pushed up it may be a good idea to fight them.
  
  
• Scent of Death has a low mana cost, so don't be afraid to use it to travel around the map quickly.
  
  
• At level 5, you gain your ultimate Hovering Death. You could use it to execute a low health tank, or to initiate on an enemy backliner. Having a cooldown item at the beginning of your build is important to keep pressure with Hovering Death uptime.

• Begins around ~14 minutes, or when most people have hit Level 12 and unlocked their Second Relic. Most enemy teams have gotten around to warding by now, and team fights become increasingly common. Most builds have started to show effectiveness.
  
  
• At this stage of the game, it is important you play around your team. While you have strong fights, the enemy team will counter rotate effectively, and Thanatos has poor disengage outside of his ultimate. Your 1v1s are still strong, so if you out rotate an enemy or find the enemy jungler alone, you could look for the fight.
  
  
• Buff Camps > Rotations > Harpies still stands, but running to a team fight/objective is more important. Use Hovering Death if the fight has already begun. If you spot the enemy jungler mid-air, it may not be a bad idea to land on them as they are most likely waiting for you attack first.
  
  
• Waiting for a enemy frontliner to become low health may be a free execute with Hovering Death, but sometimes your team might loose the fight before you have the chance to go in. Play fights to your best judgement.

• Almost everybody has hit Level 20, Fire Giant is the most important objective on the map. Starter items become unlocked at Level 20, which results in a damage/defensive spike. This means that everybody dies faster, and Team Fights are the most important thing.
  
  
• You should always initiate fights 2nd. Engage with your Blink Rune, or Hovering Death if it is down. If you have neither of these abilities, it's better you hang back and peel for your backliners. Enemy junglers will try to blink on you to prevent you from diving, so watch out for them.
  
  
• During a Siege fight, it is recommended you split push. Looking to Blink Rune into 5 people is not a great idea, as you have no way of protecting yourself. You are better suited to force the enemy jungler into a 1v1 (or 2v2 with solo laner) at Mid Phoenix, and decide if you want to fight them or use Hovering Death to rotate to the impending teamfight at the other phoenix.

Thanatos is one of the most punishing junglers, both for your team and the enemy team. You could hit every Death Scythe and make the game feel unplayable for the enemies, but you also have the chance to miss it. Putting Death Scythe on "Quick Casting" or "Instant Casting" may improve it's fluency, and your accuracy will improve the more experience you have. Also, you are the god of death. Anyone telling you death isn't the best CC in the game is incorrect, it could last over 90 seconds.

Revel in your power! <3