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Thanatos - The unstoppable Hand of Death (Jungle guide)

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by H4Z4RDZ0NE updated July 14, 2016

Smite God: Thanatos

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Thanatos Build

Agressive start

Build Item Death's Toll Death's Toll
Build Item Potion of Power Potion of Power
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
3
Build Item Multi Potion Multi Potion
2
Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet

Safe start

Build Item Bumba's Mask Bumba's Mask
Build Item Boots Boots
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
4
Build Item Multi Potion Multi Potion
4
Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet

Item #1 (Your preference)

Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item Talaria Boots Talaria Boots

Item #2 (Core)

Build Item Jotunn's Wrath Jotunn's Wrath

Item #3 (Core)

Build Item Hydra's Lament Hydra's Lament

Item #4 (Core)

Build Item Void Shield Void Shield

Item #5 (Situational)

Build Item Ancile Ancile
Build Item Runic Shield Runic Shield

Item #6 (Situational)

Build Item Bloodforge Bloodforge
Build Item Hide of the Urchin Hide of the Urchin
Build Item Titan's Bane Titan's Bane
Build Item Stone Cutting Sword Stone Cutting Sword
Build Item Shifter's Shield Shifter's Shield

Second relic (Pick one)

Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads
Build Item Heavenly Wings Heavenly Wings
Build Item Cursed Ankh Cursed Ankh

Example of full build

Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item Jotunn's Wrath Jotunn's Wrath
Build Item Hydra's Lament Hydra's Lament
Build Item Void Shield Void Shield
Build Item Ancile Ancile
Build Item Bloodforge Bloodforge
Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet
Build Item Cursed Ankh Cursed Ankh

Thanatos's Skill Order

Death Scythe

1 X Y
Death Scythe
1 4 6 7 10

Scent of Death

2 A B
Scent of Death
3 15 16 18 19

Soul Reap

3 B A
Soul Reap
2 8 11 12 14

Hovering Death

4 Y X
Hovering Death
5 9 13 17 20
Death Scythe
1 4 6 7 10

Death Scythe

1 X
Thanatos flings his scythe at an enemy, dealing damage and an additional 10% of the target's maximum health against enemy gods. Enemies hit are slowed for 3s and heal Thanatos based on damage dealt. Consumes 4% of Thanatos' current HP when used.

Ability Type: Projectile
Damage: 100 / 170 / 240 / 310 / 380 (+60% of your Physical Power)
Bonus Damage (Gods): 10% of Max HP
Healing: 50% of damage dealt
Slow: 20%
Cost: 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65
Cooldown: 12s
Scent of Death
3 15 16 18 19

Scent of Death

2 A
Thanatos senses death, gaining immunity to Slow effects and additional move speed and Physical Penetration for 6s. His speed bonus increases up to double when moving toward an enemy god within the instant kill health threshold of his Ultimate. Consumes 4% of Thanatos' current HP when used.

Ability Type: Buff
Penetration: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30
Move Speed: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30%
Bonus Speed (Low Health): 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30%
Cost: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40
Cooldown: 13s
Soul Reap
2 8 11 12 14

Soul Reap

3 B
Thanatos swings his scythe, dealing Physical damage and Silencing enemies he hits. Thanatos moves at a reduced rate while swinging. Consumes 4% of Thanatos' current HP when used.

Ability Type: Cone, Silence, Damage
Damage: 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 (+70% of your Physical Power)
Silence Duration: 1s
Cost: 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45
Cooldown: 14s
Hovering Death
5 9 13 17 20

Hovering Death

4 Y
Thanatos flaps his wings and ascends for 5s, unable to be hit. While airborne, he moves unimpeded at an increased speed before diving to his target location, dealing damage. Enemies below a Health threshold are instantly killed. All others are Stunned. Consumes 8% of Thanatos' current HP when used.

Ability Type: Circle, Stun, Damage
Damage: 110 / 145 / 180 / 215 / 250 (+80% of your Physical Power)
Kill Health Threshold: 24 / 28 / 32 / 36 / 40%
Stun Duration: 1.5s
Bonus Move Speed: 150%
Radius: 15
Cost: 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80
Cooldown: 90s

Introduction

Introduction


Welcome to my guide for Thanatos, Hand of Death !


Hey everyone ! My IGN is Azraël (yeah, I changed it :P) and this is my second guide on Smitefire. You can find my other one on Anubis here.

Thanatos is one of my 5 diamond gods and probably the one I enjoy the most. He can be truly devastating if you manage to get ahead early, and this is a good thing, because this is what Thanatos excels at.


Anyway, let's move on to the grim reaper himself, Thanatos !

Stats

Stats


General
Health: 465 (+75)
Mana: 278 (+38)

Movement speed: 370 (+0)
Range: 12 (+0)
Attack speed: 1.02 (+1.7%)
Regen
HP5: 8.67(+0.67)
MP5: 4.78 (+0.38)

Protection
Physical: 17 (+2.9)
Magical: 31 (+0.9)
Basic Attack
Damage: 41+2.3(+100% of Physical Power)
Progression: 1/0.75/1.5x damage and swing time, hitting in an AoE on the final blow
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Pros and cons of Thanatos

Pros and cons of Thanatos


Pros:
  • Insane damage early and mid game
  • Great long-range poking with Death Scythe
  • Good waveclear with Soul Reap
  • Good mobility with Scent of Death and Hovering Death
  • Can execute ennemy gods with Hovering Death
  • Can greatly heal himself with Death Scythe
  • Has an awesome movement speed, slow immunity and penetration steroid with Scent of Death
  • Has quite a good amount of CC (a slow, a silence and a stun)
  • Good AoE auto attack chain
  • Least mana hungry god in the game !
  • He is a f*cking fallen angel, and that's cool af.
Cons:
  • Very squishy if you don't build protections
  • Extremely ability-reliant early and mid game
  • Falls off late game
  • His main damage output is a hard-to-land skillshot
  • All of his abilities cost health (5 to 10% of Thanatos's max health) in addition to mana
  • If you are below 10% health, you won't be able to cast any abilities, because of his health consumption
  • If you fall behind early, you're pretty much useless for the team besides executing ennemy gods with Hovering Death
  • Very vulnerable to CC
  • High-risk high-reward type of god
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Pros and cons of the build

Pros and cons of the build


Pros:
Cons:
  • No attack speed or crit items, and therefore your basic attacks pretty much sucks
  • Highly ability-based build, you will need to be really accurate with your skillshots
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Items

Items


Starter - Agressive start


Death's Toll is my preferred starter item for Thanatos. It gives you a lot of power early game (with [Red pot), 90 health (really really good on him !) and an "okay" passive. Thanatos is the only jungler that doesn't necessarily need Bumba's Mask because Death's Toll passive + Harvester of Souls provides him enough health sustain. However, you will need to go ham for the kills, in order to make use of the Red pot and to get ahead early game. Don't play TOO agressive tho, because if you die, you loose your pot and 450 gold, wich will make you fall behind the other jungler. This start is basically the definition of "High risk, high reward".


Starter - Safe start


Bumba's Mask + Boots is a lot safer than Death's Toll + Red Pot start. You don't have the risk to fall behind if you die early game and you still get that extra gold when clearing buff camps with allies. You also have more pots than with the agressive start. You will loose a lot of power though, and, with that, a good chance to get strongly ahead.
I highly recommend this start for less experienced Thanatos and/or Jungle players.

Item 1 - Your preference


Warrior Tabi are in my opinion the best boots for Thanatos because of the big power spike early game. But you can get Talaria Boots instead if you prefer to have more movement speed and HP5 over more power.

Item 2 - Core


Jotunn's Wrath is core item on most assassins and warriors. Here's the reason : It gives a good amount of power, pen, mana and a lot of CDR. In short, everything you need at this stage of the game.


Item 3 - Core


Hydra's Lament is a great item for Thanatos. It provides power, CDR and an deadly passive : For 8s after using an ability, your next basic attack will deal an additional 30% damage. You gotta make use of it in your combos (refer to the Combos section of the guide for more informations). Thanatos needs a lot of power early/mid game if you don't want to fall behind late game. Therefore, Hydra's Lament is the perfect 3rd item.


Item 4 - Core


Void Shield is, in my opinion, a very underrated item. It provides a good amount of power and physical protection, which will allows you to dive towers a lot easier. You will also be harder to kill for adc's, assassins and warriors. Not only that, its passive reduces every god's within 55 units from you phys protection by 20.


Item 5 - Situational


Ancile is also a very underrated item, it gives you power, a lot of magical protection and finishes off your CDR. But don't forget about its awesome passive that is truly life-saving for Thanatos.
Build Ancile if your opponents have at least 2 magical gods who aren't Freya, Chronos and Sol.

Runic Shield is also a really cool item, giving you power and magical protection. The real interesting thing about it is its passive. It reduces every god's within 55 units from you magical power by 50 and attack speed by 20%.
Build Runic Shield if your opponents have 2 or less magical gods and if one of them is Freya, Chronos or Sol.


Item 6 - Situational


Get Bloodforge if you are ahead or at least doing well and about at the same level of everybody else. Provides an insane amount of power, lifesteal, and an overpowered passive.

Get Hide of the Urchin if you are behind or if you and your team are not doing well. Provides a lot of protections, health and mana. The stacks are not a problem since you can get stacks with assists as well, and late game you get assists often.

Get Titan's Bane if the ennemy team has a lot of tanky gods (like a support Bacchus, a jungle Cabrakan and a tanky solo like Sun Wukong. The 33% pen also shreds Objectives so don't forget about that.

Get Stone Cutting Sword if you are not behind and if the ennemy team has a lot of boxing gods (like a solo Bakasura, a jungle Arachne and an adc Rama. Provides a lot of power, movement speed and a nice boxing type of passive.

Get Shifter's Shield if you are not behind but still aren't doing good. Provides a lot of power (60 when above 50% health) and quite a good amount of protections (40 when below 50% health).


Relics - Situational

SanctuaryPurificationSprintCurse

Get Sanctuary as your first Relic no matter what. this is just the best Relic in the game for most Assassins, Mages and Hunters. I can't think of the number of times Sanctuary saved my life. Core.

Get Purification if the ennemy team has a lot of CC or if they have a Ares, Hades, ***bakharna, Fenrir, Nox, Thor, Tyr, Xing Tian or Ymir.

Get Sprint if you want it (synergizes well with Scent of Death !) or if the ennemy team has a Arachne, Bakasura, Freya or Nemesis

Get Curse if you want it (can be life-saving when like 3 or 4 people are chasing you !) or if the ennemy team has a Aphrodite, Chaac, Chang'e, Guan Yu, Hel, Hercules or Ra.

Combos

Combos



GANKING/FIGHTING AN ENNEMY GOD WHO IS AT FULL HEALTH

Scent of Death > Soul Reap > basic attack > Death Scythe > basic attack > Hovering Death

Explanation



GANKING/FIGHTING AN ENNEMY GOD WHO IS AT ABOUT 1/2 HEALTH

Hovering Death > Death Scythe > basic attack > Soul Reap > basic attack > Scent of Death

Explanation



GANKING/FIGHTING AN ENNEMY GOD WHO IS UNDER THE HEALTH TRESHOLD

Scent of Death > Hovering Death

Explanation

Conclusion

Conclusion



Thanks for reading my guide !


If you liked it or used the build, which one worked for you, make sure to smash the upvote button !

Feel free to post a comment if you have a question, want to add something or correct some of my english mistakes (because as I said in my first guide, English is not my main language) !

I'd also like to thank Zilby and his amazing "Guide for guides", helped me a lot making this guide !

I truly appreciate any kind of feedback, as long as it is constructive critisicm !

VVGL & VVGF !

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