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Funballer's BuildBasic Attack Crits (With LifestealUnicornTranscendence UnicornPower + Pen
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Ichaival
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You should be trading out Ichaival for the Crusher. I know that it may be better on ability based hunters, but it has attack speed and penetration, and 1 second off your cooldowns can help in a clutch situation.
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Warrior Tabi
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You get Warrior Tabi in the early game so that your autos can deal damage. This is all well and good when your boots are your only source of power, but late game, 20% attack speed helps a lot more.
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Ninja Tabi
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Asi
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Asi is a nice, cheap source of attack speed, penetration, and lifesteal, but you should trade it for Bloodforge late game. You can make up the attack speed with Ninja Tabi, and the penetration with other items you may have, but the 75 power in that stage of the game is too good to pass up.
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Hastened Fatalis gives attack speed and penetration and the passive, but if you feel like your damage is lower with it, then don't buy it and buy either Brawler's Beat Stick or the Crusheer - whichever one you want. Choose Brawler's however if the enemy team has healers, because then they can be countered.
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Hive gives 50% attack speed and 30% movement speed, which is basically a permanent steroid as long as he can keep a hive up, which lategame, is most likely going to happen. His 
Honey acts like a Frostbound Hammer without needing to buy it, and it has good damage scaling too, and his 
Stinger is mainly used to cripple enemies who are about to run so he can finish them off.
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Enfeeble lets him deal true damage to most ADCs in the early game. His steroid is 
Shifting Sands, and that lets him slow the enemy and gain a hefty damage increase on anything caught in the sands. 
Impale knocks back the enemy, and if they hit a wall, they are stunned, letting you get off a couple more autos onto them. 
Disperse is a decent escape, and can be used offensively if you see the opportunity. Just don't use it to engage. Finally, 
Desert Fury deals a lot of damage if you can land all of the spears. Anhur's ideal combo is to use Shifting Sands, Impale them into the obelisk, and either auto away or use Desert Fury. Shifting Sands to block them if you can, and it can be used for zoning. Nobody wants to get slowed, so use it in a way so that they get close to a wall, and then use Impale. If the enemy gets in close and there's no one else nearby, you can use Disperse in the same spot to give yourself a window to beat the opponent, or situationally, get away. Desert Fury should be used when the opponent is CC'ed, or under the effects of crowd control for maximum effectiveness. The applications can be endless.
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So Beautiful, Apollo is good again. Apollo is also fairly good in the early game, combined with his passive, 
Audacity. So Beautiful is your standard wave clear, and is good poke early game. 
Serenade adds physical protection and mesmerizes enemies, which helps while boxing your opponent, or if you're getting ganked. 
The Moves is an escape, and a good one at that, and also functions well as a chase ability. 
Across The Sky gives Apollo his trademark high mobility and split pushing potential, letting him get out of a sticky situation. Audacity to 9 auto attacks, and then when you next fight, all you have to do is land one auto and then blow them away. The other trick you can do is while split pushing. Say you're attacking an enemy objective, and one of the people on the enemy team comes to fight you. Use Across The Sky to run away and join your team. You'll have a 5v4 matchup for a good long while if the person that went to fight you doesn't have any mobility, although if they came to fight you, they had mobility to get there... still, a 5v4 for any amount of time is a good thing.
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Transgressor's Fate, 
Suppress The Insolent, and 
Calydonian Boar can be used to open up opportunities for Artemis to attack, dealing very high damage with the combined effects of 
Still Target and 
Vengeful Assault.
Odysseus' Bow can be made for her, and if you buy it, you buy it after your second item and skip Hastened Fatalis. Transgressor's Fate can be placed directly in front of where an opponent is moving, or at the jungle entrances to your lane to help deal with incoming ganks. Suppress The Insolent helps get a slow on your opponent - fair ans simple, but Calydonian Boar can be used for a long amount of CC immunity and hits hard. Deploy it in teamfights to gain CC immunity.
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Masterful Shot off. He has some supportive capabilities added in as well, like a CC cleanse on his 
Training Exercise, or his passive
Herbal Medicine. His ultimate, 
Centaurus, adds a targeter for Masterful Shot, that can deal some clutch kill secures. Sadly, he's not in that good of a spot because he barely has any CC, attack speed, 
Giddyup! can be easily cancelled, and Centaurus can be hard to hit. But he is still decent and can take some names. Masterful Shot, and Executioner synergizes with Masterful Shot for a 40% protection reduction. The Power + Pen build can also be used because his cooldowns are long. Training Exercise either for waveclear or to help cleanse CC for his allies because there is more utility from that. Other than that, Chiron is fairly simple to use - support your allies while dealing damage.
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Lovestruck up for max effectiveness on his abilities. 
Heart Bomb has amazing scaling and the slow that it has when it is fired at max passive, plus the stun, gives you a huge boxing advantage. 
Share The Love helps Cupid sustain and can also help his support sustain too. 
Flutter gives extra attack speed, giving him 1.6 attack speed at Level 20 without any items - pretty impressive. 
Fields Of Love is extremely useful in teamfights to prevent people from getting away and for zoning. Heart Bomb without full stacks for an instant burst of damage - good to finish off an opponent. Share The Love can be bounced off a wall so that the distance between dropped hearts becomes smaller, and Fields Of Love can be used at the beginning of a boxing match to give a huge advantage.
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Ricochet is waveclear, but can be also used for insane trickshots, and for jungle camp clear. 
Mark of the Golden Crow helps gain an advantage in a boxing match, and gives his other abilities additional effects. 
Divebomb is an escape that is also pretty good because it counts as a leap and removes you from the fight for a bit. 
Sunbreaker has massive base damage and scaling, but is a ground target so you're more likely to get off 4 or 5 suns however. Divebomb open up opportunities for auto attacks, and using Divebomb onto a marked target can help land Ricochet better. Sunbreaker, like any other huge ult can be used to zone and gain an advantage while boxing a target.
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Death Draws Nigh, lets her get more dangerous the longer a boxing match progresses, but caution should be taken with this because one wrong move and she's dead. 
Sickle Storm gives her deadly boxing ability and some of the best objective push in the game. 
Spectral Projection is mainly used for waveclear and the slow you get. 
Fade Away is another of her weak points, however - the windup is long, and experienced players can track your stealth. 
Dark Portal is like your typical high damage mage ult, but the silence can be useful during a gank to throw the attacker off course. Sickle Storm during boxing matches and teamfights, and Fade Away can be used well to gank, but you sacrifice your escape if you do that.
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Rapid Reincarnation. This makes her one of the safest hunters in the game because she can return to base while barely losing any farm, and in other gamemodes besides Conquest, she can get hit, return to base, and be back in an instant to resume the fight while everyone else is at low health. 
Persistent Gust and 
Explosive Bolts are her waveclear, which double as excellent boxing tools. 
Agility is a dash, plain and simple, and 
Air Strike adds to her high mobility by allowing her to take herself out a fight and reposition herself. Her combo is to load up Explosive Bolts beforehand, knock up an ememy with Persistent Gust, auto away, and then chase with Agility or Air Strike Persistent Gust and get knocked up by it, because she can pull you. You can activate Explosive Bolts in base and by the time you're in lane, you can activate it again when the charges run out, so that you effectively have 6 shots with increased crit chance, letting you blow people away. Another caveat is to not get get knocked up by your Persistent Gust and then use Agility into a fight because Agility no longer provides a removal of the basic attack penalty.
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Sidewinder, lets her box as well. 
Viper Shot lets her get a lot of damage off on 3 basics if she can hit them, adding residual damage while boxing. 
Acid Spray is her waveclear, which can hit the opponent easily if they're foolish enough to stand in the spray. 
Lacerate keeps the enemy from escaping and deals a lot of damage. In fact, it can be used to initiate in a 1v1 scenario while dumping her kit onto them. 
Petrify can hit hard and gives an opportunity for Medusa to dump her kit on an enemy. Her combo is to load up Viper Shot, initiate with either Petrify or Lacerate, Lacerate if you initiated with your ultimate, and then fire Acid Spray and Viper Shot. Petrify on taunted enemies because this will guarantee the stun. A popular duo lane team composition is Athena and Medusa for this very reason.
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Broken Weave. It can deal more damage, or heal more, so you need to figure out how to use them to your advantage, and use 
Spirit Arrow and 
Unravel accordingly. 
Back Flip is a lousy escape because your opponent can see where you're going to land, and this can let them come after you again when you land. 
World Weaver is a good kill secure, but value can come out of using the stun as well so your allies can get the kill.
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Pick Me Up
Astral Strike and Pick Me Up are potent steroids, which can potentially let you keep stacking a slow on an opponent come lategame because your supply of Astral Arrows will keep being replenished due to Pick Me Up]'s effect. [[Rolling Assault is a chase/escape that can keep an enemy from escaping, and 
Astral Barrage is used as a kill secure, not a primary means of attack. Astral Barrage can bide you some time so that your 
Rolling Assault can come off cooldown. Also, while you clear the wave with Astral Strike, you don't last hit because you only get 5 Astral Arrows and they are better suited to boxing. Finally, if you're going to activate both your steroids, activate Pick Me Up before Astral Strike else its going to be an extra second to activate Astral Strike again, which is precious time in a boxing match.
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Piercing Cold is your waveclear, slows your enemy, and lets Kaldr deal double damage on a hit target for a time. 
Rune Of The Hunt gives Kaldr a target. A combo with Skadi is to use Rune Of The Hunt and just before Kaldr uses his dash attack, use Piercing Cold, and Kaldr's dash attack deals double damage. Then, you can keep up the pressure and auto away. 
Permafrost is the closest thing you have to an escape, so you can't throw it out wily-nily, but it can let you get the advantage on your boxing opponent due to the slip and slide. Finally, 
Winter's Grasp lets you stick to the opponent further and heals up Kaldr. An extension to the former combo is that when Kaldr is about to lose his last point of health, activate [Winter's Grasp]], which heals Kaldr and prevents him from taking damage for a short amount of time - basically 9 ticks of damage plus the invulnerability time.
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Wield Axes
Bladed Arrow is your waveclear, Expose Weaknes is your power steroid in a boxing match or teamfight, which will give a little more oomph to your abilities and autos. 
Hail of Arrows has huge range and great scaling - 120%, but it's super hard to land, which is where your combo comes in. All of Ullr's combos begin and end with landing your 
Thrown Axe. If you're in close range, say, an assassin came in close and you landed the axe, just keep autoing in axe stance because it'll cost you valuable time to switch stance and use your abilities. If you're in mid range and you land your axe, switch to bow stance, auto attack, Hail of Arrows, auto attack, and then Bladed Arrow. Getting through this full combo in the time the opponent is stunned will take a lot of practice, but if you manage it, it'll be deadly. Finally, there is the long range combo. If you land your axe at max range, Hail of Arrows and then Bladed Arrow. Finally, 
Glory Bound is your escape or chase ability.
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Dead of Night. The exchange is that his early game is hot garbage, although its easier than Artemis' because he has an escape. His 
Branching Bola adds even more damage onto his auto attacks, but there is a high mana cost, so its not recommended to put points into it in the early game. His 
Poison Darts is his waveclear, but you need to stand to the side of the wave in order to clear efficiently with it. 
Rising Jaguar is one slippery escape that can be used in conjunction with Poison Darts to deal heavy damage to your opponent. In fact, the combo is to use the latter, and then use the former to circle towards your opponent to hit them, and then circle back. Finally, 
Darkest of Nights is one of the best teamfight ultimates because it blinds the opponent and forces them to stop moving else they be stunned, either way allowing for your team to catch up and kill them. Poison Darts, Xbalanque fires from right to left. You can move your mouse to the right while firing to make the darts come out in a smaller arc, ensuring more would hit an opponent. You can also move your mouse to the left to make the darts come out in a bigger arc to hit more people. Look at the situation and act accordingly. Darkest of Nights can also be used against a single opponent. If they run, they'll be stunned, and you can catch up to them, and if they stand still, you'll catch up to them. It can also be used so that you have a range increase on your autos and hit your opponent under their tower.
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Hastened Fatalis
Deathbringer
Apollo
Artemis
Cupid
Izanami
Jing Wei
Rama
Titan's Bane
Ichaival
Qin's Sais
Anhur
Hou Yi
Medusa
Xbalanque
Transcendence
Asi
The Crusher
Ah Muzen Cab
Chiron
Ullr
Jotunn's Wrath
Bloodforge
Malice
Hydra's Lament
Neith
Skadi
It's just that when it comes to waveclear, she isn't the go-to god.
Well, hopefully we'll at least see a few more pro games with her. Great guide btw ;p
I mean,
But we do need someone for the mages. We've got every class but them now, and there are more mages than any other role.
Anyone volunteer? x)
Also, I can't find the "Become the [...]" Assassin variant because it has a different name. How is it called?
These guides should all link the other existing ones...
U know how people like to type?
That's where l2rave comes in, master of guides!
All jokes aside, for your FIRST guide, this is awesome, and I think you're gonna like it here at SF!
Haven't gotten around to reading it, but just skimming it took me a full minute. Excited to start! Nice job!
With regard to builds, I wonder how popular FunBaller's early crit build will be now...a lot of people jumped on that as soon as they heard he was using it, but the price for
Don't know then that I'd call it the current meta build. That still defaults, I think, to standard crit. You might also indicate that
Funny enough, I thought Trans Unicorn would fall off more, but it's still being used commonly for
The Unicorn builds do often consider the use of
Also,
Anyway, you explain things well, and again, good addition to the series.
As long as the shurikens have attack speed, they will be considered "meta". Rushing lategame DPS early is too good to pass up, and if the opponent picks up shurikens, you'll have to as well or you'll be out boxed.
I know that Devo's balances out Ninja Tabi, but at that point in the game, you want your autos to hit hard, not fast, so that's why I put Warrior Tabi.
I think Trans Unicorn is still good because you have power for abilities and attack speed for autos. What's not to love?
I did consider
It's true that
Again, thanks for the criticism.