Thanatos

## Overview

With access to Full Offense, three Multi buff auras for supporting damage, passives that support those buffs further, and the Heroic Assault shift passive, Thanatos stands out as one of the strongest buffers in the game, able to significantly boost an ally's damage. It's a reasonable healer as well, and loses basically nothing from taking its healing skills. It's only major drawback is that magic weakness means it'll be taking extra damage often.

On the flipside, Thanatos can try to use its strong buff support and numerous damage-boosting passives to enable its own attacks, but it doesn't have great attacks, and offensive Thanatos is extremely frail.

## Standard Buffer

#### Equipment

* Fishing Rod / Restoring Wand / Large Shield
* Hide
* Crown
* Drum / Slime Skin / Medallion

#### Food

* Banana x2
* Peanut x1

### Build Details

Full Offense is our primary skill, allowing Thanatos to significantly boost the damage of an ally. It can stack up to 3 instances of Might, Sorcery, and Glory, as well as supporting them all with additional buffs. Duality allows it to stack Might and Sorcery even faster, and Deep Wounds boosts the team's Bleed damage. On Might teams, it can switch to using Riot, which allows it to trigger Shared Might or Shared Glory on the whole team. We then want to maximize our toughness, so we take every Health Plus and Defense Plus that we can, and Critical Defense (plus one Crit Damage Plus to support it). We still have plenty of skill points left, so we're taking the healing tree to increase our utility. Thanatos doesn't have the biggest heals but they're sufficient for offensive teams, and Hexing Support and Warlock Healing allow us to boost our toughness further with Disease Control. Extra points can be thrown into getting Shadow Grasp for some utility and to break protect, or some Magic Plus to boost our healing a bit more.

Fishing Rod is the most aggressive choice of weapon, providing an extra buff, which will add combo when used with Full Offense or Riot. Large Shield is the pure toughness option, but on a mon with such weak defense, you're getting significant toughness from the shield, while Restoring Wand is the middle ground, offering just a bit of defense while also being Thanatos' only way to remove debuffs. Purifying Mace can also be used if you're struggling with harmful stacks. Hide and Crown are the staple toughness accessories, while Drum can boost healing, Medallion is a strong toughness boost that comes with some Mana Regen, and Slime Skin can be used in combination with Large Shield for the maximum possible toughness. Because of Thanatos' very unusual stat spread, Peanuts are viable as food on it, though you generally only want to run one, and it varies based on your equipment (a Large Shield build would run Bananas).

### Team Options

* Access to Duality makes Thanatos a core piece of the strongest team in the game alongside Megataur and Ucan.
* With its great buff support and Deep Wounds, Thanatos is a core piece of almost all aggressive Bleed teams, supporting monsters like Manticorb, Elderjel, and Spinner.
* Fellow support Sutsune works great with Thanatos, providing Bleed Out and Splatter as well as a Multi Buff aura for another buff that can be applied by Full Offense, and can cleanse debuffs for the team.

## Checks and Counters

* When built for full toughness, Thanatos can reach reasonable levels of damage reduction, but Magic Weakness can really undermine that and most teams use magic damage.
* Thanatos can't remove debuffs, which makes debuff stall and especially Weakness problematic.
* Support Thanatos does nearly no damage by itself, so it can't pivot into a damage dealing role late game like some other supports can, which can leave you in a poor position if you're stuck with only supports left.