How to use Thanatos?

[BOT_SlenderMan]

Looks very OP :)

[#1 Mai]

1 + 3 + 2 done

[EmethSAS]

Try this video for starters: https://youtu.be/7jRiiG3ZGiY

With Thanatos use your 2 for the speed boost to get to them, your 3 to silence them while you (and hopefully a teammate) get a bunch of auto-attacks in, then finally hit them with your 1 if they are getting away or you need to heal back up from taking damage. Hopefully you will have gotten the kill by now, if not your cooldowns should be back up to rinse-and-repeat or run away... Of course, if your ult is up, you just have to get them down below the %HP threshold, pop 2, then your ult, then chase them down and execute them. Or, as the video states, you can also use your ult as a decent AoE stun for teamfights too.

However, it is a lot easier to overextend with Thanatos than Thor or Serqet or a lot of other Assassins since you don't have an escape move besides your steroid for your 2, so don't take the bait and chase an enemy too far and get yourself killed by their teammates. Since Thanatos lacks any sort of escape like Thor's tele on his 1, or Serqet's zig-zag dash, or Nemesis' double-dash, again, be very careful not to over-extend as Thanatos; you don't want to have to waste your ult on an escape rather than an execute! Thanatos is pretty squishy, so don't get caught out, but you have a surprising amount of regen with your 1, so don't forget that and just use it as a throwaway poke attack, save it for later in a fight when you can get health back also. Also, don't forget Beads/Aegis/Teleport/Sprint are basically a must since he has little else for escapes.

For build, you probably want to max your 1 first for damage and heals, then your 3 for more damage and the silence to keep enemies you're ganking from using their escape moves. Don't ignore your Ult on 4 though (like you need to do with some gods), you still want your Ult to be as high level as you can have it so the %HP threshold for execute is as high as possible. Max your 2 last since its just your steroid. You'll want to focus on auto-attacks for clearing jungle camps, which means your clears might be a bit slow, but you also don't want to run out of mana and have nothing for a gank. Clearing camps should be similar to a gank, except you use your abilities less: start with 3 to get the most of the AoE damage on the multiple monsters, then follow up with auto-attacks to kill them, then hit the last one with your 1 for the health regen before moving on. If you have a build with enough mana or need to clear the camp fast (stealing an enemy buff), then go crazy with your 3 and 1, but otherwise just go with autos. Building CDR and Penetration is a typical Thanatos build so you can fulfill your typical Assassin-Jungler class-role, with maybe some HP and Health Regen/Lifesteal thrown in.

[BOT_SlenderMan]

Haha yeah :)