Thresh ARAM Mayhem Build

The Chain Warden. A middle-of-the-pack pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: #52 of 173 champions.

BPatch 26.21SupportTankNo runes in Mayhem

Tier: B
Win rate: 50.8%
Pick rate: 6.9%
Rank: #52 of 173
Games: 1,598,102
Patch: 26.21

How to play Thresh in ARAM Mayhem

Thresh is a solid, middle-of-the-pack pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: tier B, #52 of 173 champions, with a 50.8% win rate over 1,598,102 games.

Thresh's damage is mixed (32% physical, 62% magic), which makes it awkward for the enemy team to itemize against. It keeps its team alive with 3,416 shielding on teammates in an average game; stay behind your frontline and save it for the fights that matter. It soaks 63,013 damage per game and mitigates another 87,388, so it belongs at the front: start fights and absorb the poke your carries can't. With 51 seconds of crowd control per game it is one of the team's main sources of lockdown.

The Tank build, tank items, is both the most played and the top-ranked path: Heartsteel, Unending Despair and Warmog's Armor, with a 49.9% win rate over 1,059,971 games. On this build 51% of players skip boots and spend the slot on another item.

The cards that do best on Thresh are Armored Impact, BEES!!! and Omni Soul. Cards built around ability haste fill most of the top of its list, followed by movement speed. Skip Echo Cast and Heavy Is The Crown when you can: they do worst on Thresh. A pair to look for: Forged By The Master with Armored Impact.

Take Flash and Mark (93% of players). Max Q (Death Sentence) first, then E, then W.

Thresh ARAM Mayhem build

ARAMKit groups every Thresh game by build path. The top-ranked path comes first, with the items most players start with, buy first and add later.

Tank build · top ranked

49.9% win rate · 81% of Thresh games · 1,059,971 games

Start

Giant's Belt
Ruby Crystal

Core items, in buying order

Heartsteel
Unending Despair
Warmog's Armor

Boots on the Tank build for Thresh, top ranked first, with the share of players who buy them
Boots, best first	Players
No boots	51%
Mercury's Treads	33%
Plated Steelcaps	12%

Situational, after the core

Riftmaker4% buy it
Overlord's Bloodmail6% buy it
Jak'Sho, The Protean22% buy it
Hollow Radiance6% buy it
Spirit Visage14% buy it
Winter's Approach11% buy it

Most bought items

Heartsteel84% of games
Warmog's Armor61% of games
Unending Despair46% of games
Thornmail38% of games
Mercury's Treads34% of games
Jak'Sho, The Protean29% of games
Winter's Approach26% of games
Kaenic Rookern23% of games
Randuin's Omen18% of games
Spirit Visage13% of games

Best augments for Thresh

Every card with enough Thresh games, by tier and best first within each tier. Tiers are Thresh's own: a card can be S tier here and C tier on another champion. As Riot's policy asks, cards are shown by tier and order only, never with a win rate. Click a card for its own page; the augment tier list ranks them over all champions.

PrismaticBest prismatic cards

1Omni SoulTier S
2Mad ScientistTier S
3Giant SlayerTier S

GoldBest gold cards

1Armored ImpactTier S
2BEES!!!Tier S
3Shrink EngineTier S

SilverBest silver cards

S- and A-tier cards for Thresh

11 S tier and 37 A tier, best first.

The S- and A-tier augments for Thresh in ARAM Mayhem, best first, with their rarity and what they do
Augment	Rarity	Tier	What it does
Armored Impact	Gold	Tier S	After casting an Ability, your next Attack deals (50–125 (by level) +250% Bonus Armor) bonus physical damage to nearby enemies.
BEES!!!	Gold	Tier S	Every 15–10 (by level) seconds, your next Ability hit against an enemy champion throws a beehive at the target. Upon arriving, the hive…
Omni Soul	Prismatic	Tier S	Gain 3 random Dragon Souls.
Shrink Engine	Gold	Tier S	Takedowns grant a stack that makes you 4% smaller, grants 8 Ability Haste, and 1% Movement Speed. Lose 65% stacks on death…
Sap Magic	Gold	Tier S	Every 20 seconds, your next Attack deals (80–300 (by level) +5% Bonus Health) bonus physical damage and restores (50–250 (by level) +8% Max…
Mad Scientist	Prismatic	Tier S	On each Revive, you grow large (gaining 30% Adaptive Force and 20% Health) or tiny (gaining 70 Ability Haste and 40% Movement Speed).
Fruitify	Silver	Tier S	Scoring a Takedown causes the slain champion to explode into 3–6 (by level) Fruit. Fruit restores 6% of your maximum health and restores 6%…
Giant Slayer	Prismatic	Tier S	Become tiny, gain 20% Movement Speed, and deal between 10% and 30% bonus damage to champions based on how much larger they are than you.
Forged By The Master	Silver	Tier S	Your Item and Augment damage are increased by 45%.
Back To Basics	Prismatic	Tier S	Your Ultimate Ability is sealed. Gain 35% Ability Damage, Healing, Shielding, and 70 Ability Haste.
Escape Plan	Silver	Tier S	Gain a massive (65% Max Health) decaying Shield, decaying 150% Movement Speed, and a decaying shrink effect upon reaching 35% Health (75…
Ocean Soul	Silver	Tier A	Gain the Ocean Soul, granting high Health and Mana Regen after damaging enemies.
Leg Day	Silver	Tier A	Gain 50 Movement Speed and 50% Slow Resist.
Hand of Baron	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 25% Adaptive Force. Nearby allied minions are greatly empowered.
Tank Engine	Gold	Tier A	On takedown, gain a stack that grants 5% increased size and 5% max Health. Lose 65% of stacks on death.
Flashy	Gold	Tier A	Your Flash has 3 charges. After 120 seconds, regain all charges.
Infinite Recursion	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 60 Ability Haste, plus 3 Ability Haste per takedown.
Final Form	Prismatic	Tier A	After casting your Ultimate, gain a 50% max Health Shield, 20% Omnivamp and 30% bonus Movement Speed for 10 seconds. (20 seconds Cooldown).
The Boom and the Bass	Gold	Tier A	After casting an Ability, your next Attack within 6 seconds is faster, deals Melee (50–200 (by level) +50% Bonus Attack Damage+30% Ability…
Heavy Hitter	Silver	Tier A	Your Attacks deal additional (3.5% Max Health) physical damage.
Warlock Juicebox	Gold	Tier A	Gain (10%+3.5% Ability Power) Omnivamp.
Steel Your Heart	Gold	Tier A	QUEST: Possess Heartsteel with 300 stacks. REWARD: Multiply Heartsteel stacks by 3.
Ravenous Bind	Gold	Tier A	Minimum healing: (50–200 (by level) +5% Ability Power +10% Bonus Health) Healing increases up to 50% based on spell cooldown.
Weapon of Destiny	Gold	Tier A	Your first Legendary Item becomes the Weapon of Destiny. When a champion you damaged within the last 3 seconds dies, increase the Weapon of…
Courage of the Colossus	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain (150–450 (by level) +4% Max Health) Shield after Immobilizing or Grounding an enemy champion.
Donation	Gold	Tier A	Receive 1750 Gold. Thanks chat!:)
Growth Spurt	Gold	Tier A	Gain Growth Spurt as a Summoner Spell. Growth Spurt suddenly increases your size, Knocking Up nearby enemies for 1 second and granting…
Dawnbringer's Resolve	Gold	Tier A	When dropping below 50% Health, heal for 30% max Health over 3 seconds. Resets on death or every 45 seconds.
Rite of Ascension	Prismatic	Tier A	Champion takedowns within 3 seconds of damaging them causes them to leave behind their Essence for 8 seconds. Attacking an Essence consumes…
Kill Secured	Silver	Tier A	Gain 60% Movement Speed towards enemies below 40% health.
Marksmage	Gold	Tier A	Your Attacks deal an additional (75% Ability Power) physical damage.
Biggest Snowball Ever	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 100 Ability Haste on Snowball. Your snowball is BIG and will pass through minions. It Slows enemies for 20% for 2 seconds, Knocks Up…
Stats on Stats!	Gold	Tier A	Gain 3 Stat Anvils, with a higher chance of Gold and Prismatic Anvils!
Spin Me Right Round	Silver	Tier A	Replace a Summoner Spell with Heroic Swing. Heroic Swing fires a grappling hook, sticking into terrain, after which you can Recast to swing…
Lonely Warrior	Silver	Tier A	Gain 15% Attack Speed, 10 Armor, and 10 Magic Resist for each nearby enemy champion within 600 Range.
Stats!	Silver	Tier A	Gain 2 Stat Anvils!
Mountain Soul	Silver	Tier A	You gain the Mountain Soul, gaining Shield after being out of combat for a short time.
Soul Eater	Gold	Tier A	Immobilizing an enemy champion grants 20 max Health. If taken as your second Augment, starts with 300 Health.
Recursion	Gold	Tier A	Gain 60 Ability Haste.
Goliath	Prismatic	Tier A	Become large, gaining 35% Health and 15% Adaptive Force.
Bread And Jam	Gold	Tier A	Your selected ability gains 100 Ability Haste.
With Haste	Gold	Tier A	Gain (70% Ability Haste) Move Speed.
Clown College	Prismatic	Tier A	Backstab: You deal (20–35 (by level) +35% Ability Power +50% Bonus Attack Damage) bonus physical damage when striking from behind. Deceive…
Lich Brain	Silver	Tier A	Gain (30+4% Bonus Health) Ability Power.
Upgrade Immolate	Silver	Tier A	Hollow Radiance and Sunfire Aegis grant 12 Gold per target affected with Immolate. Gain 250 Gold.
Draw Your Sword	Prismatic	Tier A	You are now melee. Gain 24% Attack Damage, 24% Health, 20% Attack Speed, 20% Lifesteal, and 20% Move Speed (each further increased based on…
Nature is Healing	Gold	Tier A	Entering Brush restores 40–300 (by level) + 15% Missing Health, 20 second cooldown per brush.
Hextech Soul	Silver	Tier A	Periodically your next damaging Ability or Attack triggers a lightning blast, chaining through enemies to deal damage and Slow.

Average on Thresh
54 cards, best first

Below average on Thresh
30 cards, best first

Weakest on Thresh
16 cards, best first

Best first augment for Thresh

Your first card decides the early fights, and a card that is great as a first pick can be a weak fourth. ARAMKit ranks Thresh's cards for each pick on its own; these are the top five per pick, with their tier in that pick. For the first pick, Armored Impact, BEES!!! and Omni Soul come out on top.

The best augments for Thresh in each pick of an ARAM Mayhem game, best first, with their tier in that pick
#	First pick	Second pick	Third pick	Fourth pick
1	Armored ImpactTier S	Bread and CheeseTier S	Hand of BaronTier S	Armored ImpactTier S
2	BEES!!!Tier S	Bread And ButterTier S	Armored ImpactTier S	Sap MagicTier S
3	Omni SoulTier S	Armored ImpactTier S	BEES!!!Tier S	FlashyTier S
4	Ocean SoulTier S	BEES!!!Tier S	Giant SlayerTier S	Giant SlayerTier S
5	Escape PlanTier S	Omni SoulTier S	Shrink EngineTier S	Omni SoulTier S

Strong card pairs

Two cards that do especially well together on Thresh, best pair first.

Summoner spells and skill order

Summoner spells

Flash + Mark93% of players · 50.9% win rate
Flash + Ignite1% of players · 51.8% win rate
Flash + Ghost5% of players · 50.3% win rate

Skill order

QDeath Sentence
EFlay
WDark Passage

Max Q first. 75% of players use this order (51.3% win rate); put points in R whenever you can.

Thresh in an average Mayhem game

Averages per game over every game on this patch.

K / D / A: 7.7 / 10.1 / 32.5
KDA: 4.59
Damage to champions: 32,363
Damage taken: 63,013
Self-mitigated: 87,388
Healing on allies: 6
Shielding on allies: 3,416
Crowd control: 51 s
Kill participation: 72%
Game length: 16:44

Damage type

Physical 32%Magic 62%True 6%

Questions and answers

What is the best Thresh build in ARAM Mayhem?

On patch 26.21 ARAMKit ranks the Tank build first for Thresh: Heartsteel, Unending Despair and Warmog's Armor. It is also the most played build.

What are the best augments for Thresh in ARAM Mayhem?

The S-tier cards for Thresh, best first: Armored Impact, BEES!!!, Omni Soul, Shrink Engine and Sap Magic. The full list by tier is on this page.

Is Thresh good in ARAM Mayhem?

Thresh is tier B on patch 26.21, #52 of 173 champions, with a 50.8% win rate over 1.6 million games. That makes it a solid, middle-of-the-pack pick in ARAM Mayhem right now.

What is the best first augment for Thresh in ARAM Mayhem?

For Thresh's first pick on patch 26.21: Armored Impact, BEES!!!, Omni Soul, Ocean Soul and Escape Plan, best first. Cards rank differently in later picks; the table on this page has all four.

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ARAM Mayhem tier list
Every champion by tier on patch 26.21.
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ARAM Mayhem rules
Augment levels, rerolls and why there are no runes.
ARAM Mayhem guide
How the mode, the cards and the picks work.
Thresh counters
Its lane matchups on Summoner's Rift.
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Source: ARAMKit, used with permission. Patch 26.21, 23,177,263 ARAM Mayhem games, data of October 28, 2026. Riot keeps Mayhem games out of its public match API, so these aggregates come from ARAMKit. Card tiers are shown without win rates, as Riot's developer policy asks.