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Hello Fellow Smite Players!
I am a level 30 smite player that mains Thanatos in the jungle. Now before you click off the build thinking that this build is just a standard Titans bane/Jotunns wrath build look at the items. Thanatos relies heavily on his Death Scythe in the early game to secure kills and get himself fed. A level 3 Death Scythe will half health hunters, warriors and mages in the early to mid game. After his death scythe falls off due to players building more tank items or just relying on the health progession he has to turn into this back line Assassin that can only kill people with his Execute ultimate. This build totally wrecks that mindset. This build will not only make his early game even stronger but make his late game Auto Attacks critical hit over 1000! Thanatos's 3rd hit (AOE) if crit on mages, adc's, or some warriors will crit over 1000 and 2 hit them. I personally find myself easily destroying gods like Nu Wa, all hunters, and Mages like Poseidon, vulcan, etc.
Also, this build includes TONS of lifesteal. This lifesteal will allow thanatos to steal over 200 health per hit. What makes it even better is if he has an enemy minion wave in front of him that he can AOE hit while hitting the enemy god. This will allow thanatos to regain health much faster than his enemies can burst him.
#1 Early game rule: ALWAYS upgrade death scythe until full unless you can upgrade your Ultimate (ultimate comes first)
Tell me if you found this guide usefull and spread the build! We need to make this the new Thanatos META as he has always been out of Meta and tends to fall off late game with the Jotuuns and Titans bane/Talaria boots builds.
Thanatos counters: tanks (any support that can damage you late game), Rama (dash), Bellona
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I disagree with what you say about HOG
The HoG nerf made HoG worse then starting with a red pot.
the only reason you should get HoG is if you really need Fist of the Gods or if you plan on actively counterjungling the other jungler (aka take lvl 2 HoG and then use it to clear the buff/big creep and 1 of the small once leaving 1 of them alive (as that way the camp won't respawn)) and you are not Bakasura