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I played two matches with Thanatos, the first match I got **** on :) Like legit 0-7

The next match I went like 10-7 or something like that.

These are just things I picked up in my two matches.

MAJOR PROBLEM : (NO ESCAPE besides ult)
- Thanatos can't attack on low hp. Actually you can but you will die trying to. If you have someone like chronos smacking balls in your face and putting you on half HP, its really a pain in the *** because if you choose to attack you will lower your hp further making it easier for him to kill you.

So thats probably the hardest thing about him, is fighting on low hp because you lower your own making it easier for them to kill you.

WHAT I REALIZED
- I didn't notice until the end of my first match when I got **** on that Thanatos gains HP back when he kills minions. This is a damn good thing to know.

How I Played
- To me he feels like loki fused with chronos to me, he kind of has that chronos look too. He will die fast especially if you start using skills. I make sure when I hit minions I get my hp back.

I noticed that using your 2 then 1 does alot of damage, I'm not sure but I was assuming that it gives your 1 + 3 pen. Even though your ult can't kill a god who is not in the threshold for an instant kill its actually usefull for chasing gods down and still getting a kill.

Also His ult is useful for escaping.

Warning : His ult is damn slow to start up, its like double the amount of a chronos ult but half the time of a athena ult.

I'm not sure how to build him item wise as he is new.
- My thoughts was to buy pen items that favor his abilites but then again I was building rage because his auto attacks are pretty good too.

I was even building him slight bruiser because I figured I needed defense.

As of now just experimenting with item builds.

I Jungling might be possible with his ult to gank.

Also I noticed his 3 SILENCES because I was getting very pissed as I didn't know this so when a Thanatos would hit me I was getting mad that none of my abilites were able to be used.

I noticed its because it siliences you.

THE MAIN CONCERN IS FIGHTING ON LOW HP from what I seen when I played him. When someone is on you and you are low its very dangerous.

All the Thanatos I have seen have went negative so far, probably because of this, plus people don't understand how to play him yet.

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Thanatos is pretty much master ganker. His Ult is actually insanely powerful due to being able to insta kill people under a certain health percentage.

I've seen a lot of people going lifesteal builds with him too to off set his health usage. I tried a 1v1 practice joust with him going a lifesteal build and I wasn't loosing any health at full build.

Also, Thanatos should never lane. He's pretty much the new alpha jungler/ganker. With his Ult being able to insta kill people, he can gank and tower dive with near impunity. Getting 10 kills will be chump change once people start getting good with him.

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he looks cool but the onley reason why i was happy is bacuse i wanted zong
now he costs less

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I think Thanatos is supposed to be a tank-buster, pure and simple. His 1 and ult both seem to be best used on tanks because of their builds which focus on HP. And his 2 has high penetration at later levels, that combined with the speed buff and slow immunity makes him immune to Ymir's and ult.

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Hades has a pull, not a slow. You're not going to be able to laugh at it with a slow immunity.

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Hades has a pull, not a slow. You're not going to be able to laugh at it with a slow immunity.

Edited post accordingly.

But still, his abilities and ult does lean towards Thanatos being designed to crush tanks.

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Edited post accordingly.

But still, his abilities and ult does lean towards Thanatos being designed to crush tanks.

Thus negating those people who build full or hybrid tank.

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If I am to put anything here, it's that he can be built hybrid, but you need your item build to be MOSTLY tank items. I find Eye of Retaliation to be a god-like item on him. He also needs combat blink, even though he's a jungler - reference ICEN's comment about low health. I mostly want to see how it would work to upgrade your 2 first, or your 1 and 3 alternately. I want to see how it turns out.

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Wouldn't sprint be preferred over combat blink?

Also got to play him in a match finally. His three basic attacks are quite fine. His Ult I still think is OP.

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He's average for me as far as conquest is concerned. Moderate slows, no gap closers outside ult, he's a glorified Kali. However, if you DO let him near you, and for SOME reason you can't create distance between yourself and someone with 0 leaps, he will kill you.

IMO, this means carries outside Artemis, and mages will **** on him, but melees will NOT be able to go toe to toe with him.

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