Talk:Thresh/@comment-90.230.59.217-20130205075921/@comment-87.64.162.46-20130205150400

Hi,

I've recently tried Thresh top (I main support, so that's where I usually play him) and I find MR a fairly important stat to get on him. If you don't build MR, chances are you'll get bursted down in teamfights by the AP champs, since neither Thresh' passive nor his innate stats scale his MR. So what I preferred to build is basically like some random guide on Mobafire:

First, I started with boots + 3 pots. I guess Doran's blade is for sustain as well. Then of course, build Phage as fast as you can. Then build Recurve Bow.

The core items then become Frozen Mallet (from Phage) and Wit's End (from Recurve Bow). This item is good on Thresh since it gives him MR, attack speed and an on hit magic dmg effect which stacks with his passive from Death Sentence. Of course, if the laning phase is pretty long, you don't have to finish Wit's End that soon, since you might not be facing any magic damage yet.

Then I build Mercury's Threads, the Bloodthirster and Warmog's. When these are finished, consider going for Maw of Malmortus (you can build Hexdrinker before Warmog's or the others in case you need extra MR/AD).

This makes the build for top:

- Frozen Mallet

- Wit's End

- Mercury's Threads

- Bloodthirster

- Warmog's Armor

- Maw of Malmortus

This build gives thresh AD, health, passive on hit magic dmg (dat burst on the first auto attack!), attack speed and MR. This allows you to do decent damage, while having enough health and MR to survive when you engage. The reason I didn't buy any armor is because if you have average farm, his passive gives you enough Armor and AP. I had 130+ armor without buying any armor items at one point.

I think he works as a bruiser fairly well this way. I don't know if it's the best build though, but it worked for me.