Xbalanque help

Hey so just to let you guys know I am not new, yet far from it, I have been playing smite since the old old old guan yu came out, before baka.

I just need to find some help on xbalanque, the adc carry

I am not new to him, I have tried out thousands of guides and builds but always seem to fail miserably.

Help would be greatly appreciated

Xbalanque has one of if not the highest late game basic attack with his 1 active and some incredible early game poke with his 2-3 combo. From lvl 1-4 I add points only on 3 and 2(in that order), lvl 5 I get my 4 and don't add to 4 unless I have to from then on. Early game I'm very poke happy, as soon as my 2-3 are off cd I try to poke the enemy with it, but play a bit cautious because you will be burning your 3 which is your only escape(apart from ult). You must try to pick up early lane kills to achieve 6 on your passive asap, that will be up to your tank to set up plays, I like laning with ymir because early game ymir has good damage as well, at lvl 3-5 with ymir 3-2 combo and your 2-3 combo together should deal some serious damage to any god(even the tanks) and ymir can stun the enemy long enough for you to get close and get 3 poison darts on the enemy, land behind them with your 3 and just destroy with basic attacks, at level 5 you can cast your ult and with ymir's wall you can chase and kill the focus. Also pay attention to whats going on other lanes and use your 4 to help the jungler secure ganks and escape fights. Hope that helps, I play ranked with xbalanque and neith all the time, and usually get pretty fed or break even laning phase, dont forget your goal with hunters is to get fed laning phase and prevent the enemy hunter from getting fed.

Thank you so much! That helps a lot!

Don't level your ultimate beyond the first.

Don't level up your poison darts before your Rising Jaguar.

Don't spam your branching bolas early or you will have no mana really quick.

Your Rising Jaguar is weird. It's your burst skill, your escape skill, and it's also a clearing skill. Try to use it the right way at the right time.

Ultimate is pure chase/escape skill.

Poison Darts > Rising Jaguar, remember that Poison Darts has 6 ticks so it does a ton of damage when you lvl it up and it gets reduced cooldown which is great.

If you just do the math about it you'll see how much damage it actually does.

Poison Darts
Base damage:
30/50/70/90/110 + 60/90/120/150/180 = 90/140/190/240/290 total

Percentage of your physical power:
+40% of your physical power + 120% = 160% total

And you of course get the extra 30% if you hit 2 darts and 60% if you hit 3 darts.

Rising Jaguar
Base damage:
80/130/180/230/280

+16/26/36/46/56 if you use the 2-->3 combo (which you should do ofc).

Percentage of your physical power:
+20% of your physical power

+ 4% with the 2-->3 combo.


So as you can see you get more out of maxing Poison Darts than Rising Jaguar, and you can save the dash for defensive use :P

Other than that most of it is said before :)

Man, this helps a lot, I am finally getting some kills with him, thx guys

I wrote a Xbalanque guide if you check the link in my signature. Also, here: https://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/murder-by-moonlight-an-all-purpose-xbalanque-guide-3368

I cover everything from skills, what they do, when to use them, item builds for various playstyles, and a spattering of strategy for Conquest and Arena that I haven't quite finished yet, but will be in the works if I decide to start playing Smite a lot often again.

If you have any specific questions, feel free to PM or ask here, or in the guide comments.

And people are right, he does have incredibly high basic attack damage when you get the build going right. You can pull out 700-800 damage a crit, and crits on nearly every attack. I went 27/3 in the MotD yesterday because I was literally one-shotting everyone on the enemy team with my basic attacks. The key is skillshotting, you have to work on your aim, if you can't aim your basics then you'll have trouble.