Next video :”why no one takes the lantern

"Hey we have this ghost warden guy, his whole lore is that he's an asshole who loves torturing people" "Yeah, make him a support."

Nothing beats throwing a lantern into the river brush, when nobody is there. and seeing the enemy duo go into an all out panic thinking your bringing your jungler to the fight.

because everyone wants to play the lee sin equivlant of support

In these clips alone there were so many times where the players just DIDN'T FRICKING TAKE THE LANTERN

Thresh is an enigma to me. How they made a champion so overloaded (like Azir or Kalista) yet keep him relevant and balanced is beyond me. Such a good job

-Fun -Skill expression -Well design and balanced kit -Play making potential -Multiple build paths, including troll and non-meta builds.

Because he's the only champion with built in wifesteal in his kit

5:00 every thresh main's lantern throw:

"no one can save a teammate they way he can" *cries in tham kench w*

He is very cool Resembles an undead but isnt in the 'ugly' section Can save allies from impossible situations hence looking badass Can make predictions of dashes --> looking cool Has one of the best engage and disengage potential

Soraka only heals Leona only engage Velkoz deals dmg Thresh is versitale *Rakan cries in the corner*

Funny how Spirit blossom skin expresses his ingame (not exactly lore) personality. He is a nice caring guy helping his ADC, almost acting like a parenting figure, but to the enemies? He is like a warden, jury and judge in one person. Because executioner is his little ADC.

I want to summon Cryobeats here. He needs to be here even if he's a Thresh top main, I'll start some chant. Crit Thresh, Crit Thresh, Crit Thresh.

"Any supports worth their salt has Thresh in their back pocket" *Sweats nervously of Morgana*

I've been a thresh main for years. we need more control type champions in the game. the main reason I love thresh so much is because I have a huge influence on where everyone is. enemies and allies alike. If I want some one somewhere I can in most cases put them there. and this fantasy is brought even further by spirit blossoms voice lines like "you know better" when landing a hook or flay, or when he says "wrong way" when hooking an enemy.

5:02 sylas refuses to click on lantern and burns his zhonyas

To me Thresh is the perfect example of a fantastic overloaded kit. He does a lot, and he does a lot right, but he still feels fair to play against. Champs like Yone IMO are examples of terrible overloaded kits (partly duo bad balance). You have to be good at thresh to hard carry games.

You’re right in that the flay passive isn’t very useful outside of one shot cheese late game, but early on it’s super useful for lane trading and securing cannon executes

Because: He's the biggest troll lorewise just hear his voicelines in LoR What's that word you like using, oh yeah "agency" he got that He had wifesteal People watch Cryo His personality, unlike a certain overtuned pony he's an undead with a personality Too many people hold out the hope that they'll find that adc who knows how the lantern works H O O K

I find it sort of mind boggling how a champ has become arguably the best character in his role thanks to the sole purpose of being able to move himself, his teammates and his enemies. It’s insane, his hook allows him to move himself and enemies, his W allows him to reposition his allies, his E is great for follow-up to his Q, as a peel tool, or just a simple engage to a skirmish. Of course his ult is among the strongest zoning tools in the game as well, buying his own team valuable space and potentially locking enemies out of a choke point.

Spoiler, people play thresh bc every one of his abilities are play making abilities. He's loaded. Now time to see if I'm right.

i think thresh is awfully attractive and i don't know why

You forgot one of the lanterns extra utility functions. It actually has a small collision box that you can use to stop people from moving through certain areas if they take a corner too closely. Its extremely small though so very hard to use properly and rarely worth throwing your lantern at an enemy but it does exist.

People have accepted Thresh because he's been there for a long time now, but he's still a 200 years champion. That guy can do anything a support would want to do but heal, and he deals much more damage than you may think

I kinda expect "Why Everyone Plays Kai'Sa", But this one is probably a good alternative.

I watched this after recently picking up thresh just looking learn about his lore and history but there seem to be many tips and tricks on how to play the champ in game and play mind games on the enemy. 10/10 video. Awesome stuff dude!

Bard may not have as much disruption in a fight as chain skeleton, but he is very good at messing with enemies like a Shaco. This champ is the expert of tilting people who chase him through the jungle just to get stapled to the wall and watch the cosmic beanbag skip away unharmed or jump into his glowing wormhole (and if you follow through that you will just get stunned again and be in a worse position).

The music in this video is like, 75% the Skyrim main theme and I can't pay attention on anything else

5:00 when will people learn to TAKE THE LANTERN

He does have an overloaded kit for a catcher support, his q has a long range and stuns for white a while as it drags you, and recasting it allow you to gap close to flay them towards your team. W is probably one of the strongest basic abilities in league and its defensive and offensive utility are great. I'd say the main thing that defines thresh his kit is one of the best engage and best disengage at the same time depending on the situation

"When u stare down a really good thresh player, you play by HIS rules" got chills from that

Loved your video! Also adding to what you said about the support role, most people think that a support player is the one that gets carried yet most teams wouldn’t win a 4 vs 5 without a support

This one only needs 1 sentence of explanation: Because he has everything, both things needed and things being fun gimmicks. To write it out: His lantern is both massive utility AND fun to use, his Flay is so multi-purpose it´s almost criminal and he has a non-commiting Blitzcrank hook that stuns for longer. His passive soul-collecting feels rewarding to look at, his ult is great at zoning and debilitating enemies and last but not least his E passive, which grants this satisfying one HUGE auto attack after not attacking for a while. In other words, he is legitimately the best support Riot ever intentionally created. And while I believe Braum is the best support thematic-fitting-wise, Thresh is the best in pay-off.

I stand by my statement 8 years ago. Even if Thresh's abilities did 0 damage, he'd still get picked for his utility.

Hello Vars. I've loved your content for a bit, and saw in a poll you were starting a series called "perfectly designed." May I suggest Rakan? I might be a little biased here because I main him, but I believe I main him because of his great design. Here is a few reasons I believe he is a perfectly designed champion: [1] Rakan is an extremely mobile champion done right. Most players like high mobility champions, but dislike dealing with them. Specifically, because they one-shot you and get away instantly (*ahem* Katarina). Rakan, on the other hand, rarely ever can one shot you, unless very fed while building ap midlane. Rakan's mobility is also tied directly to his team, which creates the challenge for rakan players to keep an eye on their team at all times, as your team is your engage, your disengage, and one of the main ways to hit R. [2] Rakan's kit is lore accurate, and he fits into the lore of League. Rakan and Xayah fit very well in the universe of runeterra, and therefore feel more like a real League character compared to a lot of other new releases, not naming names. More importantly, I believe Rakan's kit accurately represents his lore and personality extremely well. He is a dancer, and while playing rakan, you truly feel like you are dancing through the battlefield, dodging attacks and charming enemies. Rakan also rewards a very high risk high reward playstyle, where if you go in and hit a massive 3 man W and R, you can turn the tides of a fight instantly. However, if anywhere in that process you get hit by a single morgana root, you really can't do much and just die due to rakan's squishiness. It fits very accurately with Rakan's no plan, in the moment style he has in the lore, as with rakan in game, you can't plan everything out. You have to react to where your teammates are so you can E, where your enemies are in relation to your team, and everything in between. [3] Rakan is a unique champion. Rakan's design is unique from every other champ in the game. He plays a role similar to that of engage tanks such as rell, but isn't tanky (unless you build tank but I'll get to that later). Rakan is a hard to kill engage support not because of raw armor and MR numbers, but because he is hard to hit. He is basically a movespeed champion, as his dash's speed scales with his movement speed, and rakan often builds items such as Shurelya's (r.i.p. mythic passive), staff of flowing water, and mobility or swiftness boots. [4] Rakan is versatile. Rakan is an extremely versatile champion that can be played in many ways. Both me and a friend of mine play a ton of rakan, but we play him completely different when it comes to runes and items. Some play rakan with Aftershock and build a mobile engage tank. Some build rakan with guardian and build an mobile engage enchanter style. Some go electrocute in the midlane. He can fit into most team comps well, and build what is needed for his team at the moment. [5] Not many people hate Rakan. Despite being a mobile skill champ, which are often disliked, very rarely do you see people ban rakan or go "ugh, this champion is overloaded." Playing as or against rakan always feels like a skill matchup, and not really that rakan himself is an overloaded champion. Anyways, thanks for coming to my TED talk. I probably forgot a few things, but I feel like this should be enough reasoning.

"Oh the eternity we shall spend together."

Versatility. You have a number of options to do, instead of one combo over and over and over. Good CC, skill required kit and overall amazing personality

Really great video as always. Thresh and Bard are just the best supports, there are so many different ways they can play the game

Thresh is what made me get into league. His design seemed interesting to me. Thresh will always be played because his kit is dynamic and will always work. Even if he isn’t meta he is still playable.

For thresh being supportive of his allies despite his character and design is for some reason why i liked him

great video - that throwback to Piccaboo at worlds shows why Thresh is the best support. No other support could have done that play

When you get hooked through 3 Teemo mushrooms.

Great video. Are you planing to make this kind of video (Wnop, why everyone plays or perfectly designed champion) for every character in league?

What I love most about Thresh is that he incredibly different from the rest of the supports; he isn't designed to be cute or "E-girly" but as a relentless monster, in fact he is the first scary monster champion that happens to be a support. When I see supports like Soraka, Lulu or Leona I always think that these champions can't really defend themselves not just because of their kit but also their design. But as for Thresh I always see him having the ability to carry for his adc for how versatile his kit is and his appearance backs up the fact he can do it. And he feels really oppressive when you lane against him.

Im a top lane main but whenever im autofilled, i always go thresh. His playstyle is amazing. Beautiful design. Amazing lore. Doesnt have almost any weakness tho.

I just love him because he doesn't require seven fingers per hand and the hand speed and flexibility of a Power Metal guitarist to play. The cool Thresh plays are usually mind games. Lee Sin players have to, like, hit Q, take the dash, put down a ward and W to it to cancel the animation, then buffer the kick and flash behind the enemy for some fancy schmancy compilation play. Meanwhile, I just gotta read someone's mind :>

I FINALLY KNOW THE SONG! But on another note, beautiful video my guy. I now want to dump time into Thresh now.

5:03 did that sylas just decided to waste his stopwatch instead of clicking the lantern?

Yummi players quietly reading the book Vars : Shutttt upppp

Thresh is the ONLY engage type support champion that I play because all the others ones bore me to tears lol. Naut, Leona, Blitz all have basically one job but Thresh is so so versatile in every situation that it seems like he was made for my style of playmaking. He's a very safe first pick if you're experienced on him and his potential grows the more you invest time into him. I have most of my points in Soraka lmao, but ever since picking up Thresh, I've realized how game changing he can be. Love this video, what an awesome champ!! :D

Nice vid Vars, keep it up 👌👌👌

Honestly to me it's the fact that he's a ranged tank usually a tanks biggest weakness is you have to get in melee range and can't do much poke or can be kited easily and he infinitely scales because of his souls scaling champs are fun Senna and bard also scale like this so you constantly feel like you are growing stronger

Finally someone makes a video about my precious boy, my main. Another cool thing, Thresh was the first support who was really dark, before tahm kench, pyke and senna, he was the only non-cutsy/goody supp

11:40 now we know why lucian isnt really a viable adc. Cause he can dodge everything and still get autod to death by a thresh.

i remenber i played thersh for the first time 2 years ago , might start playing him again this seassion

The music this episode was so good, so fitting, amazing.

When I got into League I remember the client had images of champions while the game was downloading And I instantly fell in love with thresh just by looking at him I just thought "wow that guy looks sooo cool" Then I rerolled three champion shards because back then you could do that since blue essence wasn't merged with influence points just yet and I got Thresh He was also the first skin I ever got in the game I love playing him so much, he's just so versatile and fun

Ooo im hyped for this one but too bad ill be in classes when this premiers

When is the video of the Best Abililties for Support coming? I loved that series :(

Around the end of the video you mention playing neutral. As a big fan and long time player of smash bros, rivals of aether and other fighting games, it's a familiar term but I don't really know how it applies to league. Considering how in-depth it could be, it would make a great video idea! Love the videos and keep it up!

“Someone you’d probably crack open a cold one with” I mean yeah, if by “cold one” you mean a corpse

I find zed to be an insanely interesting and expressive character, but idk if I see him enough to warrant a why everyone plays

He is probably the best designed Support, Same with Yuumi and Bard

8:27 the enemy Pyke hooking my 5/0 ulting Aatrox in Q3 animation onto himself agrees xD

Riot games needs to take a long hard look at thresh for their champ design. He is built to fit a class, but not bound to it like how Nilah is made to be an ADC and punished if she isn't (passive) or how Pyke is made to be a support but can't solo lane (passive, q, e). Thresh can go top, jungle, mid and sometimes even crit adc. His abilities are everything you could need but at the same time so simple. Thresh's kit is perfect. His identity is clear and his champion design and lore fit it. He has scaling, a hook with a self dash and 2 pulls, a self/ally shield and ally dash, an aoe multi-purpose enemy displacement in any linear direction and a cage of walls that basically root but are difficult to make super useful. Thresh has a low-medium barrier to entry but an unlimited skill cap. Additionally, Thresh either has no counterplay or all the counterplay in the world. It just depends on how good you and your opponents are. Despite how packed with options Thresh's kit is, nothing is out of place. When you're building a champion, your reason for adding anything at all into their kit should never be "because why not." And to tell if a champion has been built really well, look at their abilities and try to reason their existence as if you were a Riot employee. E.G. Thresh lantern, "so that he can get his allies to enemies that he has captured." Now, try to reason something like Akshan passive shield with his design/identity and you hit a roadblock. Why DOES a rogue Sentinel of Light get a shield when he shoots someone? or Why DOES a marksmen who stalks enemy champions in stealth and bursts them get a shield? It just doesn't line up in the way Thresh's abilities do. So, in conclusion Riot games should do the following to design GOOD champions that will last a long time. - Design them to fit a role but make them flexible and don't lock them to it. - Give them abilities that work with and off each other. Do not load them with tools for every scenario, give them a distinct specialisation and make their abilities fit. - The champion has to have a good design. Lore is often left out of the equation nowadays but champions like Thresh and Jhin really make you feel like an evil terrifying ghostly abomination that stalks enemies and binds them in chains, dragging them to their doom. Or an unnerving, psychopathic murderer with OCD on the number 4 that creates art in the face of death. These things are reflected in gameplay. - Finally, nothing should be thrown into the champion because "why not." Everything, every single part of that god damn champion needs to be intentional, needs to fit and needs to make sense. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

I hope one day u make a: Why nobody plays: Bard, hope he's on your list!

I just love the voice crack at the start 😆

Now you see it: 1:57 Now you don't: 2:02 *M A G I C*

When I first started playing, thresh was the first champion that really caught my eye. Of course i was brand new to mobas, so those growing pains were a bit rough lol. Eventually, he became my first m7 champ. The only game merch i ever got is thresh related. I guess i do love him

hey man, i found you a while ago and these videos are amazing quality and i genuinly enjoy them. I just have to ask, is WNOP xin zhao on the way? It is my main and i would love to see your points on him

You didn't mention you can throw lantern to grab souls! Great for early game when the minion line pushes up past them and you don't want to walk near. Also great for making the enemy think your stealthed Twitch is hanging out nearby waiting for an ambush and easy escape.

i almost didn't realize the FF15 track in the background - - nice touch, sufficiently epic.

Can I just say you’ve picked A1 songs for every single video I’ve seen of yours so far. Music Taste: S+

I would guess Thresh ult is called the Box as that what Pinhead from Hellraiser series calls the Lament Configuration - the similarities for those who don't know the horror franchise from the 80's - The main threat of that universe is a bunch of chain whipping masochistic demon-like humans who went into such extreme physically hedonism that pain and pleasure became one to them and they wish to share their experience.

Yep. Been playing basically only Thresh since 2014. Love that dude

Climb to silver 3 back in 2014 with thresh and barum. Main bard and shen nowadays. Though tresh still have a special place in my heart

He has some of the best lines and his laugh it top tier “What delightful agony we shall inflict….”

I absolutely love Thresh. Definitely one of my favorite champions as a support main. I play him on Wild Rift. Few team mates understand or utilize his lantern, severely hampering the power of one of his skills, but the rest of his kit is so insane that it doesn't hold me back at all. He still has insane AOE lockdown, a long stun, outrageous late game tankiness, and deceptively high damage. It's not rare for me to go roaming in the mid game and solo kill enemies I bump into. Especially squishy mid lane mages, ooh la la how tasty! The empowered auto attack on Flay is huge for early game trades, chunking enemy ADC's. Being one of the few RANGED tanks is a huge advantage that hardly anyone mentions. The armor from his passive makes him the one support where I can actually feel like a mini raid boss by the end game.

Thank you. We really need that. TBH Yuumi should disable chat to the player whenever they play yuumi. 2:50

0:59 So that's why my ADC's flame when "I don't heal them" as Yuumi literally right after I heal them.

The box is literally a Veigar E but with no stun, less range, more cool down, the walls of the box disappear when they hit an enemy and the slow is shorter than Veigar s stun. And it's still a great ult.

Thresh’s lantern even better then the video describes. The lantern area gives vision, meaning that it can be used as a ward, its best used in the tighter parts of the jungle where you might expect a jungler to be hiding, and from what i know, control wards and oracle lenses dont work on it, but i havent confirmed this but its possible. So you can basically place a short range ward at a long distance, meaning you are much safer compared to placing normal wards. And that sheild aspect of the lantern is also great, if you or a teammate walk into the lanterns circle, you gain a small sheild. Its small but if you are caught with your pants down or is about to get ganked with litte chance to escape, throw your lantern on top if yourself (only if you’re alone ofc). It will give you just that little bit more survivability due to the sheild, i often use the lantern to midigate the damedge a teammate will get if a tower is about to shoot them. Another thing you can do with the lantern is to throw it into a bush in or near your jungle, its hilarious to see two botlaners panic and put it in reverse because they think someone is gonna lantern to you when there isnt anyone there to use it. Its the small mindgames that can really fuck with the enemy team and give them second doubts about jumping onto you. And the ultimate is also a great ”fuck you, not today” tool for escape. If you see both botlaners and a jungler coming for you, just pop the ult so they either have to walk around it or get hit by it and get slowed, either way, you and your teammate are much more likely to survive and you stop the enemy from getting fed.

thresh can do so much things and he is super fun

I should probably get back into playing Thresh. I remember when I washed to play a more engage support instead of just enchantresses, and my roommate suggested I learn blitz first to get a feel for hooks. Now I'm trying to make a point of learning every champ with a hook. Feels especially good when enemy team bans blitz and I jump ship to Thresh or Naut. Still can't get comfy on Pyke, but I think that's my computer and internet. And I'm more of a macro player cause I lag too much for good fight mechanics.

Yo what is the song that is going on in the backround? very epic and cool

I might go back to league to climb with support. I plan on now playing with Thresh, Pyke, and Swain. Might replace pyke with Rakan but I could just add him as a 4th pick.

Nothing beats pulling the enemy vayne back into the vieg w she thought she dodged with her q

Great video! I would also say, that the hook Thresh lands is most self stimulation thing in the game. LIke playing this champion correctly is mentally rewarding :D Thanks!

10:32 AHAHAHHA TEEMO PEEKING FROM THE TOP OF THE SCREEN

Hes a super versatile and skill expressive/demanding support that can adapt to any situation. He enables just about most ADC's, scales late game thanks to his passive, and despite having a high skill ceiling can still be fair to play against after being mastered because hes a support. Thresh is an example of Rito checking all the marks. Meanwhile Irelia still exists who after mastery is a champion and a half.

Thresh does say "It's over when *I* say." He's not just a play making supporter, he is *the* playmaker.

That Final Fantasy in the back

Is that the runeterra artwork as your thumbnail? Awesome if yes.

Could you do a why everyone plays on caitlyn or a why no one plays on varus they're both champion I really enjoy. Great video as always

He's the original overloaded character other than maybe also Yasuo, but although he's about mindgames, he's usually extremely "transparent" about what he's doing. He got a good hook, used lantern, timed his E well, etc. Not getting carried by 10 different passive effects. Everyone is "seeing" what's happening and that's extremely respectable. I always said even if Thresh's abilities literally did 0 damage, he'd still be one of the best/most fun supports to play with/against. That's a great selling point in my eyes.

7:20 only the first wall of the ultimate deals damage :D

13:12 "probably someone you'd crack open a cold one with" XD. Some how I think you'd find your soul taken...

After years of playing dota 1 (the warcraft mod) i decided to try league during s3. I got lucky that at that point there was an event with every champion available. tried lots of champions to see if i could find something similar to my favorite in dota (Pudge). While blitz was more similar, the moment I found found tresh, i inmediatly loved it, and decided i wanted to main it. At that time there was no help for new players, so you had to farm the resource to buy it (influence points, blue essence did not exist yet). It took a really long time, but i eventually bought it. So i had 3 champions in my pool, soraka, kayle, and thresh. two costing 450 and one costing 6300 (in today currency). What a weird champion pool i had. The others newbies i played with must have thought i was smurfing