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Anubis: Judge of Souls (8-27-14)

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by Ahrah updated September 27, 2014

Smite God: Anubis

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Anubis Build

Start

Build Item Vampiric Shroud Vampiric Shroud
Build Item Tiny Trinket Tiny Trinket
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion
2
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion

Core

Build Item Bancroft's Talon Bancroft's Talon
Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Divine Ruin Divine Ruin

Full Build (Sell Vamp Shroud)

Build Item Bancroft's Talon Bancroft's Talon
Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Divine Ruin Divine Ruin
Build Item Gem of Isolation Gem of Isolation
Build Item Rod of Tahuti Rod of Tahuti

Actives

Build Item Greater Sprint Greater Sprint
Build Item Greater Purification Greater Purification

Anubis's Skill Order

Plague of Locusts

1 X Y
Plague of Locusts
2 15 16 18 19

Mummify

2 A B
Mummify
3 8 11 12 14

Grasping Hands

3 B A
Grasping Hands
1 4 6 7 10

Death Gaze

4 Y X
Death Gaze
5 9 13 17 20
Plague of Locusts
2 15 16 18 19

Plague of Locusts

1 X
A plague of locusts bellows forth from Anubis' mouth, smothering all enemies in the area and doing damage every .25s for 3s. Anubis is immune to knockback while channeling and moves at 50% speed.

Ability Type: Cone, Damage
Damage Per Tick: 18 / 26 / 34 / 42 / 50 (+20% of your Magical Power)
Range: 35
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 11s
Mummify
3 8 11 12 14

Mummify

2 A
Anubis fires a bandage projectile, mummifying and stunning his target.

Ability Type: Line, Stun
Stun Duration: 1.6 / 1.7 / 1.8 / 1.9 / 2s
Range: 70
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12s
Grasping Hands
1 4 6 7 10

Grasping Hands

3 B
Anubis calls for help from the underworld as hands penetrate the ground and claw at his enemies, doing damage and slowing every 0.5s for 2s.

Ability Type: Circle, Slow, Damage
Damage Per Tick: 25 / 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 (+35% of your Magical Power)
Slow: 25%
Range/Radius: 55/20
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10s
Death Gaze
5 9 13 17 20

Death Gaze

4 Y
Anubis focuses all of his energy into a piercing gaze, doing damage to all enemies in the path, every 0.1s for 3s.

Ability Type: Line, Damage
Damage Per Tick: 23 / 28 / 33 / 38 / 43 (+15% of your Magical Power)
Range: 70
Cost: 90
Cooldown: 90 / 85 / 80 / 75 / 70s

Introduction.

Hello. My name is Ahrah. I've reach rank 10 Anubis recently, and I felt I could help players, new and old, to Anubis. This guide will feature Abilities, Items, Gameplay, Do's and Don'ts, as well as a few Tips. This guide is for players who are new to playing Anubis, as well as some extra advice for more seasoned players.

So who is Anubis? Anubis is the Egyptian god of the dead, who weighs the hearts of humans on the scales of fate. If the heart ends up light, he allows the soul to pass on. But if it's too heavy, the heart is eaten by the monster Ammit, and the spirit never returns. In Smite, he is a Mage. In Conquest, you will usually see Anubis in the middle or solo lane. But he can function as a jungler or a support, if you play him correctly.

Change Log

August 27th, 2014-

[*] Guide Created

August 31st, 2014-

[*] Added coding to items, abilities, and gods
[*] Added Matchups and Counters
[*] Added Change Log
[*] Added content to Gameplay
[*] Fixed 'Death Gaze' section repeating 'Itemization' section
[*] Combined all Ability sections into one

September 27th, 2014-

[*] Fixed example numbers related to Might Yawn in passive description

Pros + Cons

Pros
-Deals High Damage
-Flexible in many roles
-Takes down enemies quickly
-Uses lifesteal very well.


Cons
-Squishy
-No escape or mobility
-Rooted during 2 abilities
-High cooldowns early game

Ability Overview

Passive: Sorrow

All of Anubis' abilities steal 7 physical and magical protection per tick from the target and he gains 33% scaling to his item-based magical lifesteal per tick, for 5s. Max of 3 stacks. In addition, Sorrow grants Anubis an additional 30% reduction to all crowd control durations (does not stack with Resolve).


There's a lot to take in here. Let's start with the easy stuff. 30% crowd control (or 'CC') reduction is an often overlooked feature. This means if Kumbhakarna were to use his full rank Mighty Yawn against you and another teammate (without any other factors), they would be mesmerized for 3 full seconds while Anubis would be mesmerized for roughly 2 seconds. That difference could mean the difference between life or death.

Secondly, he steals protections from enemies he hits with his abilites (max 3). This means each tick of an ability deals more damage for the first three ticks, making the enemy weaker against other forms of damage while making Anubis tougher for a short while.

Last, 33% item lifesteal scaling. This is pretty nice, since solo and mid-laners neat a good amount of sustain to stay in the lane. Let's take Bancroft Talon for example. On it's own, it gives the user 12% magic lifesteal. With the addition of Sorrow, Anubis gets 15.96% lifesteal!
Ability 1: Plague of Locusts

A plague of locusts bellows forth from Anubis' mouth, smothering all enemies in the area and doing 35/50/65/80/95 (+40% of your magical power) damage every .5s for 3s. Anubis is immune to knockback while channeling.
Cost: 60/70/80/90/100 mana.
Cooldown: 15/14/13/12/11 seconds.


This ability is a simple damage dealer. The catch here is that while he's immune to knockback, he becomes rooted, and can't move until the ability ends or is canceled. It does apply his passive, and he can swivel around to sweep any target within range.

I personally put one point into it at level 2, and max it last. But if the enemy can be easily CC'd by a teammate, max it earlier for more damage output.

Use this ability in conjunction with Mummify and Grasping Hands if your ultimate is on cooldown.


Ability 2: Mummify

Anubis fires a bandage projectile, mummifying and stunning his target for 1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8/2s.
Cost: 60 mana.
Cooldown: 18/17/16/15/14 seconds.


This ability his Anubis's only form of hard CC. A solid 2 seconds of stun can really turn the tide in a battle. There are a few reasons to use this in battle.

1: Save yourself or a teammate.
If an enemy is preparing to use an ability, Anubis can stop them for a brief moment to allow himself or teammates to escape.

2: Initiate
Enemies can easily move out of range from Anubis's abilities, so stunning them first makes it much easier to deal damage.

3: Chasing
Anubis does not have any way of boosting his speed, so to close in on a fleeing enemy, use the stun to prevent a kill from getting away.

Max this ability second if you want to give your enemies a hard time, or max it last if you'd rather deal more damage.


Ability 3: Grasping Hands

Anubis calls for help from the underworld as hands penetrate the ground and claw at his enemies, doing 25/40/55/70/85 (+35% of your magical power) damage and slowing them by 25% every .5s for 2s.
Cost: 70/80/90/100/110 mana.
Cooldown: 15/14/13/12/11 seconds.


Grasping Hands is Anubis's main damage dealer and waveclear. The slow acts as soft CC, but it should be used for damage over utility.

Place this ability underneath an opponent hit with Mummify, to ensure each tick of damage lands.

This should be the first ability you put a point into, as well as the first to max.


Ultimate: Death Gaze

Anubis focuses all of his energy into a piercing gaze, doing 23/28/33/38/43 (+15% of your magical power) damage to all enemies in the path, every 0.1 seconds for 3 seconds.
Cost: 90 mana.
Cooldown: 90/85/80/75/70 seconds.


This does a lot of damage. I mean, a lot of damage. Sure, each tick doesn't seem like a lot, but adding 15% of magical power, along with your passive and item bonuses, ticking 30 times in 3 seconds, this is sure to kill something.

However, it is a skillshot. The beam itself is very thin, so the enemy should be locked under heavy CC. And if you want to deal all that damage to the whole team, they'd have to be bunched up real close. (I'm looking at you, Ares.)

Now, the fact Anubis becomes rooted during this ability means a few things.

First, you are CC immune while casting. This can be a handy way to not get pulled into a tone of damage, but do not use it for that purpose. Use Death Gaze for picking up kills. Save CC immunity for Greater Purification and magi's blessing.

Itemization- Main Items

NOTE: This build is a suggestion, you do not have to follow it exactly. If you feel a different item is needed, do it.

Vampiric Shroud

This is a staring item for almost every mage. Killing a minion or god gives 10 health and mana, and is a good source of sustain early game. Once you have 5 fully built items, sell Vampiric Shroud for extra gold and an item slot.


Bancroft's Talon

This item should be the first to complete for Anubis, due to the early lifesteal advantage. When at rank 3, every 1% of your missing health gives you 1 magic power. When your'e at the brink of death, you gain about 99 magic power, so you can stave off foes chasing you for the kill.

Shoes of the Magi

Anubis's cooldowns lower as he levels up, so Shoes of Focus are a better choice for a more passive, team-oriented playstyle. But the penetration bonus of Shoes of the Magi can help peel away magical protections, and thus, deal more damage.

Spear of the Magus

Your passive stacks with this item, taking away more protections from hit. At rank 3, it removes 10 protections and an additional 10% per tick, (max 2). When Sorrow comes into play, your abilities take away 41 protections with the first 3 ticks!

Divine Ruin

More lifesteal! Yaay! So, with this thing at level 3, Anubis can heal a great amount of his health from 1 line of minions. And since other mages tend to get lifesteal, the healing reduction shuts them down, forcing them to use more mana and use up their cooldowns. This can be especially handy against gods like Hercules, Aphrodite, Thanatos, and Hel. But buy this in place of Bancroft's Talon if your looking for a cheap item early game.

Gem of Isolation

So, aside from magic power, this is a good utility item, and can help out in teamfights. It gives health and mana, making you a little more tougher. But the real strong point is the slow. Slowed enemies spend more time in the range of your abilities, and thus, take more damage.

Rod of Tahuti

A must have for many mages. It's raw power, simple as that.

Itemization- Situational Items

warlock's sash

If you're going to buy a stacking item, make it warlock's sash. Every minion you kill gives you magic power and extra HP, making you tougher as the game progresses. At max rank and max stacks, it gives about 600 extra health! That makes any mage harder to kill.

Book of Thoth

Unlike the warlock's sash, this item gives you more mana per stack, instead of HP. Normally, a god like Ao Kuang makes better use of it, and it's quite pricey, so if I had to buy it, I'd make it my third item.

Doom Orb

Last stacking item, promise! Anyway, if your enemy is being passive, buy this. You lose half the stacks when you die, so if your laning opponent isn't giving you too much trouble, there's less risk.

Ethereal Staff

This is the item for a tanky Anubis. It turns a percentage of maximum HP into power, so give Anubis either warlock's sash or Gem of Isolation to make the most of it.

Breastplate of Valor

Now we get into a little counter-building. Use this if the enemy has more than 3 physical gods on their team, and the extra mana and CDR is nice to have around.

Pythagorem's Piece

This item helps out a ton if your team has a lot of bursty mages. If you can convince other mages to buy Pythagorem's Piece, the overlapping lifesteal can help you all stay alive.

magi's blessing

Just as the name implies. This item is purely for defense, against teams with heavy CC. It's a good counterpick against gods like Arachne or Kumbhakarna.

Obsidian Shard

This acts like the Spear of the Magus, but is cheaper, and and the penetration is a set 33%. I only buy it if I'm in a rush.

Void Stone

This item is perfect for when both teams have lots of magic gods. It gives you power, it protects you against magic, and lowers protections so your magic allies can hit harder.

Itemization- Actives

Salvation

No matter what god your playing as, ***ualt is the only and I mean ONLY gamemode to buy Salvation in. In every other gamemode, there is a better alternative to meditation of any kind. Get the blue buff, chug some mana potions, buy items with MP5, or learn to manage your mana pool better. Trust me.

Greater Aegis Aegis Pendant

If your against an enemy with an ultimate that has burst ( Poseidon's Release The Kraken! and Scylla's I'm a Monster), then pick up rank 1, especially if you're in the mid lane. Greater Aegis lets you activate it even when you're locked tight under CC. Aegis Pendant allows you to keep moving, but you can't take any other actions. Choose wisely.

Greater Purification

Since Anubis has no escapes, enemies will try to take advantage with CC. Beads are a safe bet against gods like Ares and Ymir.

Greater Blink Combat Blink

Surprise Mutha#$%a! Believe me when I say blink is an amazing active on Anubis. It helps you retreat, and can help initiate despite having no mobility on your own. Greater Blink helps close the gap and land your abilities, with a low cooldown. But Combat Blink is more of an escape under heavy fire, with longer time between each use.

Greater Sprint

This active acts as a cross between Greater Purification and blink. It does many things that help Anubis in a pinch. Retreat from danger, reach the frontlines faster, chase a weak enemy, and even make some mad jukes. And with low cooldown and slow immunity, it's basically a 'Get out of Jail Free' Card.

Gameplay

Anubis's plays the same as any other mid/solo laner. Farm. Ward. Push. Rinse and repeat.

I will say that solo and mid are different. Solo is less susceptible to ganks and have access to mana camps. Mid is easier to gank, but have more opportunities for XP and Gold from the mid camps and take less time to reach.

Use Grasping Hands to kill minions and Mummify to disrupt your enemy.

Anubis chains his abilites together. The order goes

Mummify -> Grasping Hands -> Death Gaze

If your ultimate is on cooldown, use Plague of Locusts instead.

But let's say you can't hit Mummify. If that is the case, use Grasping Hands to slow your opponent and make Mummify easier to land. In teamfights, Anubis contributes a single target stun and a ship-load of damage. Don't stay to close to the center of battle, or you'll be picked off quickly. Save Mummify to help save an ally or secure a kill. Only use your ult when you know you can hit it.

Now, here's a scenario. You've whittled down your lane opponent down to their last bit of health, but you've taken a lot of damage yourself. Your opponent draws closer, knowing that both of you can be easily killed. All of your abilities are on cooldown, so as of now, you have two choices. Either run away and wait for cooldowns to finish, or use auto attacks to attack anyway.

The latter will most likely get you killed. Only use auto attacks against minions and towers. Here's why.

1. Auto attacks slow your movement. Unless you have Hastened Fatalis (which you should never have on Anubis anyway), you will move slower and be easier to hit. Since Anubis has no abilities for his mobility, you'll have to rely on actives and simple running.

2. Magical auto attacks are rather weak. While this may be untrue for Freya and Chronos, most mages do not deal 100% of their magical power in basic attacks, unlike physical gods. If your desperate to deal damage, use your abilities and wait for cooldowns.

Anubis Also works well with other gods that can help 'chain-stun', like Eset, Ymir, and Chronos. Chain stunning is keeping a single enemy locked in stun with the use of several stunning abilities, one after another.

Matchups and Counters

Here, I'll rank enemy matchups on a scale of 1-5. 1 being 'This god counters you completly' and 5 is 'Don't worry about this guy. You can shut him down.' These are some of the more common gods Anubis will face in mid or solo.

Agni 4/5

Agni is a very common mid laner, if not the most common. He has wave clear, poke, stun, and a dash. A smart Anubis can use whatever Agni uses to waveclear against him. Be careful, however,

Noxious Fumes has low damage on its own, but do be wary of the stun. Agni can deploy it quickly so you don't have time to react.

Flame Wave may deal plenty of damage, but it lacks range. If Agni gets close enough to the minion wave to use it, Anubis can easily put his Grasping Hands to reach him. Positioning on this is key.

Path of Flames is Agni's main form of escape. He can dash through the minions to damage, but he'll be right next to Anubis, to get stunned.

Rain Fire has a low cooldown, so chances are Agni will use it to poke. If you are a safe distance away from the minion wave, he can only poke or waveclear. Doing both with this move is tricky.


Vulcan 3/5

Vulcan's main waveclear stems from Magma Bomb with some additional hits from Inferno Cannon. His cannon is easy to take out, due to its low health early game. Grasping Hands can be used to destroy the turret if it's close enough, so the real threat comes from Magma Bomb. Be sure to let the minions that the blunt of the damage, as the stun may set you up to be killed.


Eset 1/5

Isis is Anubis's biggest counter. She has a stun and a silence to hit you with if you use Plague of Locusts. Her Wing Gust Makes her especially mobile, and hard to hit with Death Gaze. Her mobility out matches yours, and can out-CC you. Additionally, if you ult, Eset may pop Circle of Protection, and the damage you deal will quickly charge the circle, and reflecting the damage to you. It's worth mentioning Eset can deal up to 4000 damage with a full charge!


Scylla 1/5

All of Syclla's abilities can counter and annoy the daylights out of you. Sic 'Em pins you down, Crush is like a nuke to you and your minions, and Sentinel acts like a free Ward and escape from your ticking abilities. Even her ult out damages you, and she'll give you a rough time.


Janus 4/5

Janus sacrifices some of his clearing ability for mobility. While his Unstable Vortex deals the most damage out of all his moves (minus his ult), it's not as easy to aim. Play Janus yourself so you know the portal's path like the back of your hand and avoid it. Secondly, Portal. Getting yourself stuck in it is bad news, but if Janus falls through it, he'll be a sitting duck while you can land your Mummify an d Grasping Hands combo. And if he escapes, no worries. Less farm for him. Place a few wards just in case, and use (VFF) if you need to.

Ao Kuang 2/5

Whereas Eset has mobility and CC more than damage, Ao Kuang focuses primarily on power. While Slither isn't the best escape for a mage, it's better than having no escape at all. Tornadoes act as a better waveclear, since they hurt enemies even after they leave the radius. Ao Kuang is a very spammy god, so if you want to stand a chance against him, make sure you are not in his Tornadoes, then waveclear for yourself.

Aphrodite 3/5

You'll probably see her in the solo lane. Being stunned by Kiss is your biggest concern, since she'll follow up with healing herself and damaging you and your minions. Divine Ruin is a good buy against her, along with one other penetration item. You'll want to land your own stun combo before she lands hers, which damage her and cut down healing.

Do's and Dont's

Do-

- Use your stun to help teammates
- Use your 1 and Ult only when you can hit them
- Buy lifesteal
- Dissuade the enemy from diving / initiating.

Don't-

- Buy items with basic attack-attributes (eg, demonic grip, witch blade)
- Initiate against multiple enemies.
- Use Plague of Locusts to clear minions (Jungle camps are okay, though)
- Waste Mummify on a CC immune target

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Fayne | November 27, 2014 9:22am
detailed explanation where really helpful :)
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Ahrah | September 27, 2014 11:29am
markoCAR wrote:

Awesome guide helped alot and I just realised I made a similar one! Should I take it down, since it's made 4 days ago? This is a really awesome guide and better than mine! If you feel like taking it down, just ask, you can check it out here: https://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/arena-domination-with-anubis-god-of-the-dead-5538



It's fine. Any guide can help anyone. Feel free to keep it.
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markoCAR (1) | September 24, 2014 5:25am
Awesome guide helped alot and I just realised I made a similar one! Should I take it down, since it's made 4 days ago? This is a really awesome guide and better than mine! If you feel like taking it down, just ask, you can check it out here: https://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/arena-domination-with-anubis-god-of-the-dead-5538
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SuperTibzz (1) | September 6, 2014 12:40pm
Rank 10 Anubis, 400+ games here. My comments:

I think it's pretty much always better to put a point in plague of locusts first. It does considerably more damage than your 3 when clearing creeps. If you're in solo lane you'll be level 2 before you get to lane, so taking plague first clears the jungle camps faster. In mid lane this ability clears the whole creep wave at level 1 which pretty much no one else can do, it will force the enemy mid to back up or take poke from your archers. The only time I might not get it first is against Isis, since her clear is almost as good as yours and she can stun you out of it as soon as she hits level 2.

I generally wouldn't get shoes of the magi *and* spear of the magus, generally just one or the other, since Anubis gets so much effective pen from his passive. Squishies will rarely have more than 40 or so magic prot, which is reduced by 27 at 3 stacks of your passive. In this case both pen items is overkill. If for some reason the whole enemy team is building magic prot, though, then you might get both I guess.

I agree that Divine Ruin isn't core. Something to keep in mind is that lifesteal gives you a percent of damage done, so it is not only increased by directly upping the lifesteal stat, it's also increased by just doing more damage. So a polynomicon for example has pretty similar lifesteal capability but also lets you do considerably more damage than divine ruin. Poly and Pythagorem's Piece are fine items on Anubis in any situation imo, the stun gives you a guaranteed poly proc before laying down your damage abilities, and pythagorem's gives nearly twice as much MP *and* lifesteal, both, as divine ruin (90/25 vs 50/15), not even factoring in whether or not it benefits your teammates.

If you're using sprint as an active, you might consider heavenly agility instead. Anubis generally doesn't use basic attacks, especially not if he's running away with his actives, so the ability to fire without a penalty from Sprint is pretty useless for him. Heavenly does have a longer CD though so it's still personal preference.

Gameplay comments:

In a teamfight scenario you don't want to just toss mummify out there casually. It has a very long CD and you want to be as sure as possible that it will hit. Usually it will be easiest to hit when one side has initiated, so the enemies aren't watching you and are slowing themselves with auto attacks (or alternately, if they're charging at you, which obviously also makes it easy to hit). Another strategy is to wait for someone else on your team with an easy-to-hit stun to use theirs first and then get a guaranteed mummify as a followup.

If you do catch someone with the stun, and it's a character that has an escape of some sort (which is at least half of them, if not more), don't blow your ult unless you know their escape is down. It's a pretty big waste of your ult to fire it up only for the person to jump away the instant they come out of stun. The exception is lategame with level 20 and 4+ finished items, at this point 2 seconds of your ult can really melt a squishy before the stun even ends.

If you are fighting a character with a stun or interrupt of some sort (again, this is a whole lot of them), wait for them to use it before you start channeling your 1. A Hades or Apollo will pretty much always just silence/mez you indiscriminately at their earliest convenience, if you don't wait for that to start channeling your 1, you'll totally waste it.
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Greenevers (105) | September 1, 2014 4:36pm
Pentargonite wrote:

Sure, it's no top rated guide like Greenevers' Loki guide or my conquest guide, but it's a good guide.

D'aww
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riomhaire (1) | September 1, 2014 1:55pm
Came back, and it was much improved. Upvoted now. Still want to see a bit cleaner guide, but the information is there. +1 from me.
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Pentargonite (62) | August 31, 2014 6:07am
This is a very solid guide. You really seem to know what you're talking about.

Sure, it's no top rated guide like Greenevers' Loki guide or my conquest guide, but it's a good guide.

There are still a few things I disagree with, like the Divine Ruin argument above, but that doesn't make the guide a lot worse.

+1 from me.
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Ahrah | August 30, 2014 2:48pm
Devampi wrote:

Also Divine Ruin is NO core item this item is pure situational. Why because if they don't have a healer the passive is worthless. and why isn't the must-have for all mages rod in your core (aka Rod of Tahuti).




I do agree with that. But I did mention no item is concrete. But I do build Divine Ruin even when there aren't healers.

1. It's the cheapest of all lifesteal items, so it's a quick item to have.

2. I personally build two lifesteal items almost every time. Bancroft's Talon is already there. pythagoreum's peice is situational if you have lots of magic on your team to synergize with them. And Polynomicon doesnt fit Anubis, but it works better with gods like Chronos and Zeus.

3. Divine Ruin reduces all healing, and that's good against any god with HP5, lifesteal, health pots, Salvation or Meditaion. It's also a handy way for a mate to counter rod of ascepulis.

Situational, yes. But it's still a pretty good item to have.
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Devampi (105) | August 28, 2014 8:12am
riomhaire wrote:

Okay, so here goes my admittedly amateurish review of this guide.

First off, I am glad to see that you did use some BBCoding. Most people don't bother to figure it out until after Greenevers or someone directs them to Code Blue. However, the BBCoding almost looks like an afterthought, though, and I would like to see it cleaned up a bit. For examples of excellent BBCoding, look up Jordenito's BBCoding guide here.

So, for BBCoding and Layout: 5/10


This is only partially true. Yes, Goobis will put out more damage to the creep waves if you put the early game points into Plague of Locusts or Grasping Hands, but the higher-ranked stun will make you a lot more damaging to gods (2 ticks of Grasping Hands at any level is more than 1 tick at the next).

Also, the abilities take up way too much room. You would be much better off removing all of the text in those sections that is this color, because there is no need to reiterate what the tooltip says. Oh, wait, those aren't icons, they're just images. Here's how you fix that.
Code:
[icon=ICON NAME size=50]
Inline things, like Bancroft's Talon, are done like this:
Code:
[[ITEM NAME]]

Gameplay is a bit lacking, would like to see a different section for early, mid, and late game (yes, I know that for most players "play Goobis as a mid/solo" should be enough, but it is really nice to add in teamfight roles, matchups, and the like).

Overall, I am slightly leaning towards a downvote. Not because of content that is there, but because of content I feel should be there that isn't. The feeling isn't enough to actually make me click the downvote button, but I do feel you should know this so you can improve your guide. There is nothing I like better on SmiteFire than a guide that was horrible becoming an excellent guide. And yours has all the makings of an excellent guide, it just needs a whole lot of tweaking first.

If I helped (and hopefully didn't offend you), please don't hesitate to +Rep me.


well to help you write better reviews next time. 1st mention bbcoding as last. bbcoding isn't that important. I do agree the other points. also to add something.

your build isn't bad but Anubis gains more from damage then cooldown. So I would sooner take a magi instead of focus.

Also Divine Ruin is NO core item this item is pure situational. Why because if they don't have a healer the passive is worthless. and why isn't the must-have for all mages rod in your core (aka Rod of Tahuti).

I also want to suggest Soul Reaver too giving you a lot of damage (and for Anubis it's a lot better to get more damage).
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riomhaire (1) | August 27, 2014 7:05pm
Okay, so here goes my admittedly amateurish review of this guide.

First off, I am glad to see that you did use some BBCoding. Most people don't bother to figure it out until after Greenevers or someone directs them to Code Blue. However, the BBCoding almost looks like an afterthought, though, and I would like to see it cleaned up a bit. For examples of excellent BBCoding, look up Jordenito's BBCoding guide here.

So, for BBCoding and Layout: 5/10

Ahrah wrote:
Max this ability second if you want to give your enemies a hard time, or max it last if you'd rather deal more damage.

This is only partially true. Yes, Goobis will put out more damage to the creep waves if you put the early game points into Plague of Locusts or Grasping Hands, but the higher-ranked stun will make you a lot more damaging to gods (2 ticks of Grasping Hands at any level is more than 1 tick at the next).

Also, the abilities take up way too much room. You would be much better off removing all of the text in those sections that is this color, because there is no need to reiterate what the tooltip says. Oh, wait, those aren't icons, they're just images. Here's how you fix that.
Code:
[icon=ICON NAME size=50]
Inline things, like Bancroft's Talon, are done like this:
Code:
[[ITEM NAME]]

Gameplay is a bit lacking, would like to see a different section for early, mid, and late game (yes, I know that for most players "play Goobis as a mid/solo" should be enough, but it is really nice to add in teamfight roles, matchups, and the like).

Overall, I am slightly leaning towards a downvote. Not because of content that is there, but because of content I feel should be there that isn't. The feeling isn't enough to actually make me click the downvote button, but I do feel you should know this so you can improve your guide. There is nothing I like better on SmiteFire than a guide that was horrible becoming an excellent guide. And yours has all the makings of an excellent guide, it just needs a whole lot of tweaking first.

If I helped (and hopefully didn't offend you), please don't hesitate to +Rep me.
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