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.
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.
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