Prestige Pulsefire Thresh (2022)

Not gonna lie, when Riot announced the 2022 Prestige re-releases I was skeptical about most of them. Prestige Pulsefire Thresh felt like an odd pick for the treatment. The original Prestige version already existed and looked fine. But then I loaded into a game around 3 AM on a random Tuesday and someone on the enemy team was running it. Changed my mind on the spot.

How the Prestige version holds up visually

The Pulsefire line has always gone hard on the sci-fi chrome aesthetic, and Prestige Pulsefire Thresh (2022) pushes that further with a gold and white color scheme that separates it from the standard Prestige release. Think cleaner lines, brighter energy trails, more refined plating on Thresh’s armor. The lantern especially looks different – gold trim with that signature Prestige shimmer that Riot started doing better around season 12.

VFX got updated. The Q hook trails gold particles instead of the base Pulsefire blue-green, and honestly the hook animation reads cleaner against the Rift backdrop. Could be wrong here but I think the hitbox visual actually matches better on this version than standard Pulsefire. Been running this in Diamond support games and the Death Sentence feels crisp to land.

The W lantern is where the Prestige glow really shows. Bright gold beacon sitting on the ground, your ADC cant miss it. (sidebar: they still wont click it, Diamond or not, but at least it looks pretty.) Flay gets the gold particle treatment too, and the Box ultimate drops these shimmering golden walls that look genuinely intimidating in a teamfight choke point.

Recall animation carries over from the Pulsefire base with the Prestige color shift. Thresh does the time-travel sequence but everything pulses gold and white instead of the standard palette. Clean stuff. No new voice lines though, voice stays default, which is expected for a Mythic Prestige skin. Mark Oliver’s base Thresh VO still hits hard enough that I dont mind.

The Pulsefire line and where this fits

Pulsefire as a skinline has been around since the original Ezreal Ultimate skin. Thresh got his Pulsefire treatment and then the first Prestige variant, and this 2022 version is essentially the updated Prestige pass. Riot did a whole batch of these re-releases in 2022 for skins where the original Prestige had been locked away.

Prestige Pulsefire Thresh (2022) dropped April 1, 2022. Season 12 was in full swing. Kudos Productions handled the artwork and they delivered on the splash. The composition keeps that time-displaced energy the Pulsefire skins are known for, but the gold accents make Thresh look more like a final boss than a support champion.

Mythic tier skin. Special pricing, not your standard RP purchase. You needed Mythic Essence to grab this one, which meant either saving up from event passes or getting lucky with drops. Sits in the vault now, so if you missed the window you’re waiting on a rotation. Loot eligible at least, so theres always the random chest prayer.

Played maybe 30 games with this last season specifically in bot lane. The gold VFX read well against most map skins, which matters more than people think. Had a game where I landed a max range hook on their Katarina near dragon pit and my duo said the gold trail looked like a laser beam cutting across the screen. Real talk though, the visual clarity on this skin is above average for Thresh.

Worth the Mythic Essence?

Straight talk: Prestige skins live and die on whether the color shift actually improves the base. For Pulsefire Thresh, I think the gold treatment works. The base Pulsefire skin has that blue-green techy vibe that’s fine but gets lost in the sea of similar colored sci-fi skins. Gold stands out. Simple change – huge impact.

The competition in Thresh’s skin catalog is fierce. High Noon Thresh exists. Dark Star Thresh exists. Steel Dragon exists. All strong picks. But Prestige Pulsefire Thresh (2022) fills a different niche. Its the flex pick. The “I’ve been playing Thresh since season 3 and I have the rare stuff” energy. Not sure if it’s just me but every time I see one in my games I assume that player knows what they’re doing on the champion.

No chromas on this one, which makes sense for a Prestige. The gold and white IS the variant. Kinda feels like adding chromas to a Prestige would defeat the purpose entirely.

If you main Thresh and you have Mythic Essence sitting around, this is a strong pickup. It wont replace your High Noon or Dark Star for everyday use maybe, but for those nights where you want to lock in Thresh and look premium doing it, Prestige Pulsefire Thresh hits. Been daily driving it on and off since I rolled it from a chest back in late 2023. The peel plays look better in gold. The engage looks better in gold. Even the lantern your team ignores looks better in gold. (random aside: I have genuinely considered making the splash my desktop wallpaper, the composition is that clean.)

For Thresh mains specifically, this belongs in your collection. For everyone else, maybe wait until it rotates back and you have the Essence to spare. S-tier Thresh cosmetic if you can get your hands on it.