Jungling Thanatos, the Pants Stealing Way. W.I.P.

Thanatos is a unique god, he uses primarily HP on his skills instead of mana, but in return he has a built in Bumba's Mask and has a good swing chain, which gives a swing that does an AOE and 2x your base damage. He is one of the best junglers in the game because of his ability to kill camps quickly and move on with his life and gank a lane by using his moves that disable. He also has a built in sprint, his "Scent of Death" allows him to pick up speed and when there is an enemy god at low health he gets bonus speed according to the level, this move also gives extra penetration allowing for easier killing. He also has an outstanding silence skill called "Soul Reap" which does a tremendous amount of damage that is in a cone area in front of him which is an easy aim, which is why you priority target it. His other skill is called "Death Scythe" that is a single target scythe you throw at a slow speed that slows the target and knocks off 10% of their health plus additional damage, it also does more damage than soul reap, BUT at the cost of accuracy, it tends to be harder to aim because people can see you throw it at the speed of an icecream truck going down your street. On top of all that he has an ultimate which instantly kills the targeted god if he or she is below a certain percentage of HP, if it doesn't kill the targeted god it will stun and do some damage, this move should be used to secure kills or initiate a battle such as they killing a tower, stun them, silence them, the hurl your death scythe.

Soul Reap AKA "Mage Bane" is Thanatos' best skill, not because of the damage, not because of the silence, but because of the combination of both. The silence insures that whoever you surprise gank can't react to the gank because they can't cast, it is also easily the most forgotten skill because people usually focus death scythe, which is a huge mistake. If used correctly it can secure the kill, especially when used on someone like Scylla which relies on her abilities to save her, and without those she is a pile of memory foam.

This move is used mainly to secure kills. Because of it's amazing ability to speed you up when they are low hp it can possibly be the only factor that makes Thanatos a good sweeper, it even surpasses Sprint in speed. This move also gives you penetration which makes for tank busting.

Another good skill from Thanatos, it rips off one tenth of someones HP with additional damage behind it and heals you for three fourths of the damage you did, don't be fooled though it's the worst skill to upgrade first. Because of it's already given 10% hp off and 20% slow it's already good at level one, you only level this up when you have no other skill points to use. The downfall of this skill is it moves at the speed of two miles an hour which makes it easy to dodge at far away, so you have to get close first to use this skill, but they'll run away or stun you, which is why you focus the silence first so they can't do these things as easily.

This is by far the best initiation skill Thanatos has, because if the enemy is below a certain percentage of HP it will warn the enemy that you are about to land, so he could use a multitude of things, movement skills, meditation, aegis pendant/amulet, sprint, ect. so you use it to stun them allowing you to chain all your other skills along with any passives if you have any, which is the only reason to get Fist of the Gods.

Some of the most common mistakes I see are people buying Bumba's Mask, and Hand of the Gods. As Thanatos you need neither of these things. Bumba is an alright starter choice because if you kill an encampment you basically get all your HP back, but Hand of the Gods is outright bad, unless you buy it for the end game stun, but you should still keep a slot open for countering gods. Hand of the Gods is bad because your Soul Reap and your basic attack swing chain should suffice the encampment killing, because of the high area damage Thanatos puts out. Deaths Toll is by far the best starting item because of it's HP, attack speed, and life steal enhancements.