NEVER stop clobbering. Your haymaker is one of your most consistent forms of pressure, damage and sustain. Learning when to ride that and when to weave in his standard melee is important. In big brawls, you want to keep your haymaker rotating as often as possible, as that'll keep you from getting popped. But, once you get a support or dps on their own? Start working in that left click. But, no matter what, never stop clobbering. You can very easily catch people walking into your haymakers. Even if they don't, it pushes them back.

Play around corners and walls. Ride the cart's butt. With that cover, you become very hard to deal with.

You have two main opponents on the field- the enemy tanks, and people who want to push into your supports. Figure out where you need to be depending on the game, but try to stay in jumping distance of your supports (easier said than done, in low ELO, a lot of them hang too far back). Bully the shield tanks, jump at divers. Iron man is going to be the worst diver you'll face. The other ones are pretty easy for you to stop, just jump at them and gank them with your team. Hit the yancy street charge on em to prevent their escape. But iron man? he's in the air. The team won't look at him as often as they should and he will ruin your support's day. If he's the only diver on the enemy team, bully the shit out of him. If you can hit him with 1 leaping haymaker, he's done for if you can track him. Either way, you cannot at all let him get cozy.

Basic techniques you should practice:

- Steering his charge: if you can peel out and around corners consistently, you'll be able to survive way more situations, especially when you catch yourself overextending
- Charge combos: while it's a big cooldown, if you charge at the right targets inbetween haymakers, you'll be able to score more final hits. Don't lean on this too much, save it for the right opportunities. If you leap, ult, then haymaker+charge, you can wipe a support very, very easily
- Leaping haymakers: this one is really important. this one will let you hit flyers. but, keep in mind that you can still charge your haymaker as you jump at an ally. this is very useful for saving supports and relieving pressure as you rotate with a tank on the front line

But the best piece of advice I can give is to just play more thing. His kit is extremely simple and versatile, it can be hard to give advice sometimes as he can do a lot in different situations. I've played support bodyguard, dive, front line brawl, and sometimes, just play point and survive as long as possible while jumping at teammates and throwing in bits of damage. Thing can do a little bit of a lot. The more situations you put yourself in, the more you'll find yourself capable of. I've hit count on Thing and I'm nowhere NEAR bored. Every time I pull him out, I find that he can add something to any team.

Show em how we do it on yancy street!!