Smite Danzaburou Build Guide: Beware the tall grass! - Danzaboru Guide for Carries (S9, 9.6)

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Smite God: Danzaburou

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Danzaburou Build

Crit Build

Notes Build using crits to burst squishes.

You may pick instead of asi for a more late-game oriented build

is a replacement against lifesteal and HP regen in general. So if you are facing an , , , etc. Consider building it if needed.

Death's Embrace

Ichaival

Atalanta's Bow

Silverbranch Bow

Wind Demon

Deathbringer

No-Crit Build

Notes Build avoiding crits for high DPS against tanks and structures late game.

You may pick late game if you want.

or is a replacement against lifesteal and HP regen in general. So if you are facing an , , , etc. Consider building it if needed.

Death's Embrace

Ichaival

Asi

Silverbranch Bow

Qin's Sais

Dominance

Situational Items

Notes Situational items that might serve you well in some very specifics situations.

Asi

Brawler's Beat Stick

Bloodforge

Toxic Blade

Magi's Cloak

Jotunn's Ferocity

Transcendence

Titan's Bane

Relics

Notes - Pick this whenever you want to block massive burst damage like posedon's

- Pick this relic if the enemy team has a lot of Hard CC's like stuns, taunts...

Aegis of Acceleration

Aegis of Judgement

Chaotic Beads

Temporal Beads

Danzaburou's Skill Order Notes Skip a point at level 8 so at level 9 you can upgrade both ulti and your 1.

Notes

Skip a point at level 8 so at level 9 you can upgrade both ulti and your 1.

Fool's Gold

1 X

1 4 6 7 8

Alluring Spirits

2 A

2 10 11 12 14

Tanuki Trickery

3 B

3 15 16 18 19

Uproarious Rocket

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

Danzaburou Threats

Tap each threat level to view Danzaburou’s threats

Max

Major

Even

Minor

Tiny

Danzaburou Synergies

Tap each synergy level to view Danzaburou’s synergies

Ideal

Strong

Low

None

Introduction

Art by Hadassa

My name is x MysTeRioN z, a majority Xbox Player but sometimes I play on PC too. I'm a Brazilian nice guy who likes to play FPS, Racing, Plataform and RPG games. I like to study and read when I'm not playing and I'm also studying to be a lawyer. My xbox gamertag is the same as here: x MysterioN z.

I'm here to bring you this guide to play with . I will tell you everything you need to be a very good tanuki in battle. So, with no tricks, let's go

Credits for HiRez via Youtube

Why don't you join me? - Danzaburou

I want to tell you everything you need to know about this cute little ~~raccoon~~ tanuki so you can play with him as ADC on conquest. I personally love this character because he is fun, funny and his kit is so well made that is impossible to not fall in love with him!!!

Stats

General
Health: 460 (+78)
Mana: 230 (+38)
Speed: 370 (+0)
Range: 55 (+0)
Attack/Sec: 1 (+1.4%)

Regen
HP5: 7 (+0.69)
MP5: 4.4 (+0.38)
Protection
Magical: 30 (+0.9)
Physical: 13 (+2.9)

Basic Attack
Damage: 40 (+ 2.6) (+100% of your Physical Power)
Progression: None
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Pros/Cons

Pros

High Crowd Control
Great Burst Potential
High boxing potential
Good mobility potential
Free power on passive
Great self peel
Good gank potential
Very cute tanuki

Art by HiRez via Youtube

Cons

Very Squishy
0 Attack Speed buff
Your escape can be easily shutdown
Your taunt can be easily avoided
Reasonably dependent on his skills
Mediocre VP (the default)

Skills

Dubious Savings
Type: Passive

Every time actively gains gold, he stores 10% into one of his money pouches instead. When a pouch is completely filled, Danzaburou gains bonus gold and a permanent Physical Power increase before switching to a larger money pouch.

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Fool's Gold
Type: Projectiles
Cooldown: 12 secs

Hit Damage: 70/115/160/205/250 (+80% of your Physical Power)
Explosion Damage: 30/55/80/105/130 (+30% of your Physical Power)
Intoxicate Duration: 0.6/0.8/1/1.2/1.4s

rolls out 3 money bags that pass through and damage Enemy minions but stop on Enemy gods. When a money bag stops moving or hits a god, it reveals to be an explosive which detonates after a short delay. Gods hit are damaged and Intoxicated, dropping a gold coin that both Danza or any ally can pick up to provide him 10 gold.

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Subsequent hits of the money bag or explosions deal 15% damage.

Alluring Spirits
Type: Ground Target
Cooldown: 16 - 12 secs

Healing: 30/50/70/90/110 (+20% of your Physical Power)
Damage: 80/130/180/230/280 (+70% of your Physical Power)

takes a swig of his sake bottle, gaining health, before hurling it in front of him dealing damage to Enemies in the inner circle. The bottle of sake applies stacks to Enemy gods in the area slowing, and upon reaching 3 stacks, taunting (with no diminishing returns) them towards the sake bottle.

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Enemies that take more than 30% of their max. Health while taunted are broken out early

Tanuki Trickery
Type: Ground Target, Self buff
Cooldown: 16 secs

Movement Speed: 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%
Leaf Movement Speed: 20/25/30/35/40%
Reduced Basic Attack Damage: 20%

Danzaburou creates a field where he moves faster, is slow immune, takes less basic attack damage, and has no basic attack penalty ~~(pretty balanced)~~. Enemies in the field are slowed by 20%. If Danzaburou leaves the field it fades turning him into a leaf with other decoys that mimic his movement. As a leaf his movement speed is increased, he is slow immune and can pass through Enemies.

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Any hit from Enemy gods or if Danzaburou himself attacks, he will revert back

Uproarious Rocket
Type: Projectile or Charge
Cooldown: 90 secs

Damage: 300/360/420/480/540 (+100% of your Physical Power)

summons a magical leaf that transforms into a large bamboo rocket! While preparing, Danza can aim the rocket within 180 degrees to lock onto Enemy gods or he can refire this ability to become the rocket, also becoming untargetable. Once fired the Rocket will pass through and damage Enemy minions, stopping on the first Enemy god hit damaging and stunning them while dealing 50% damage in a larger area.

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You have 2 seconds after fired to choose if you want to go with the rocket or not

Skills Combos

Wave Clear

The combo when you need to simply clear camps/waves. Hit the minions with at least 1 of your bags and finish with basic attacks. When clear camps try to hit multiple bags and bring the minions to the explosion range.

Attacking and Enemy (Far away)

The combo when you are attacking an enemy far away from you. Use the rocket to get very close to your target, preferentially hitting him. Taunt him to CC chain him then try to hit all your bags and finish with basic attacks. If necessary for boxing/chasing proposes use your 3 else hold it to escape if necessary.

Attacking and Enemy (Close)

The combo when you are attacking an enemy close to you. Taunt him then try to hit all your bags and finish with basic attacks. If necessary for boxing/chasing proposes use your 3 else hold it to escape if necessary. In the last case, if the target is running away use .

How to play

Early Game

Key parts of early gameplay: Farming, HP and Mana Care, (Moderate) Aggressive playstyle, Attacking the tower, Wards, Ganks, Positioning, Fighting, and Poking.

early game in details

Farming: As you probably know, farming is the most important thing in a game of conquest. At the early stages, you have a good clear, so you just have to focus clear the wave. The more you farm, the bigger you get and by getting bigger you may help your team and do your job, carry the game, as soon as possible. Start on the red buff then go to the purple near your lane and GET the buff. It provides a minor protection reduction and Attack Speed, very helpful to you. Then farm your lane minions. Once you got to level 2 you may go and farm the harpy close to your lane but be careful it takes some time to kill and you need to clear it with your support, farm alone is a waste of HP and time. Keep farming your wave and avoid unnecessary backs to not lose the farm.
Watch you Health and Mana closely: Watch your Health and Mana. If you are out of mana, you are an easy target because you won't have Tanuki Trickery and/or Alluring Spirits, your escape/self peel. Don't try to force fights unless you're confident you can either kill your opponent or escape alive. If in doubt about your mana or HP, return to base. BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY!
Be careful with the mini-gods...I mean minions: Early fights usually happen with minions around. When you attack the enemy gods, their minions turn to you and start to hit you. Be careful. Minions at the early game are almost like gods and can do more damage than the enemy gods (mainly the ranged ones) so be careful fighting around enemy minions, also you can use this tactic in your favor, trying to force the enemy to fight near your minions. Also, the wave has always priority over harpy and even your purple buff!
Be aggressive (but with moderation): Yes you can attack enemy gods and try to hurt them even though you are not a kinda early game God. Watch your support behavior, try to use VGS to sync your behavior with his, and work together. Remember that you have a taunt and intoxicate allied with good damage and can be useful to you since your support probably will have another hard cc to help. Combining CCs early game may result in a kill. However be careful, you are "extremely fragile and breaks for everything!", in other words, you also die easily, so it can be too risky to be too aggressive, so use your brain, be aggressive once you have cleared the wave, or when the enemy cannot avoid your attacks and/or you know the enemy JG/mid is not around.
Attacking the enemy tower: Just attack the enemy tower if you have a good vision of the enemies on the map. Sometimes you might see yourself alone in the lane and you look at that tower asking to be shut down, but if you don't have any vision of the JG or enemies, don't go because it's too risky and you might get ganked and die.
Wards: An important habit to play at conquest and mainly as ADC is ward. Check the ward section to where I explain the right spots to ward here on my other guide. Buy Wards is something extremely important and with well positioning you can run for your life even before a gank happens. Remember that people (usually) are not idiots, if they are passive and suddenly they become aggressive that means a possible gank is coming and if you don't have any wards you won't be able to confirm it so you can miss a chance of turn the fight at your favor and punish the enemy. So, never forget wards especially at the early game where ganks are more deadly. Also, DO NOT STAND NEAR THE ENEMY TOWER YOU ARE A FREE GANK DOING THAT. Not even wards can save you sometimes if you have a bad positioning like this. Also, remember that until LVL 12 everyone has a free ward called Vision Shard
Ganks: Gank is when you start a fight with help of a teammate surprising the enemy. Use vgs to request ganks or to cancel them. Don't let your teammate start a fight and retreat without saying anything. Usually, I would recommend you follow the ganks and help your teammates but try to get the kills, you need to get bigger :p. Use "VG3", "VG1", "VGG", "VVX" are examples of commands you might use. Also always remember to say when the enemy is missing so the JG won't waste time going there when there are only minions. Don't ask for ganks when the enemy is under the tower, early game it's too hard to dive, Retreat and let the enemy farm away from his tower then you engage.
Positioning: About your positioning my comment is, stay behind the support whenever he is there and don't go in the middle of the wave else you will be hit by both minions when attacking the enemy. Also, don't stay too close to the enemy tower when you don't have the vision of the enemy mid and JG, else you are asking for a gank.
Fighting and Poking: Fight behind your support if possible and do not stay near the wave, minions will melt your HP and for the enemy turn the fight in his favor later it is extremely easy. Also, try to poke your enemy with some basic attacks and maybe Fool's Gold. If you are against an ADC without sustain (rushing Transcendence and no lifesteal/ Death's Toll in the kit) at this game stage you can win the lane by using this tactic. You also have some CCs on your kit that can be something REALLY powerful in the first early stages mainly if you have aggressive support.

DON'T CHASE AN ENEMY IF YOU ARE NOT SURE YOU'LL KILL. DON'T GO IF THE ENEMY HAVE TEAMMATES NEAR HIM or IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THE ENEMIES ARE.

Prefer to don't try and stay alive instead of dying trying and feed the enemy.

Mid Game

Key parts of mid gameplay: Keep the Farming, Staying alone at lane, Aggressive playstyle, Rotating, Wards, Objectives.

Mid gameplay in details

Staying alone at Lane: At some moment, mainly in mid and high elos you will be alone with the other ADC on your lane. Remember the poking and fighting scenario from the early game, try to poke your enemy, and then, when he is at Medium/Low HP finish him with a burst combo using your ulti+2+1. Watch out with enemy ganks, DON'T FORGET TO WARD, and if you don't have any vision of the enemies be careful, better safe than sorry. If you feel (or hear) that enemies are coming for you, retreat. DO NOT STAY "UNDER" the enemy tower facing the enemy ADC else you will be asking to die there, your lane is longer than others and you don't have anything to escape than pure movement speed. Once you took the enemy tower rotate. If it's too early like 10min then stay in the lane but keep farming and don't stay too close to the Tier 2 tower.
Keeping up with the Farm: Just because the lane phase ended that doesn't mean you shouldn't farm anymore. Farm the neutral camps and buffs (with allies) to still getting bigger. You must not forget your farm or you will fall and won't be able to do anything.
Aggressive playstyle: Now it's time to become a little aggressive. Your damage scales very well now (mainly with the build I did). I recommend you start playing a little more aggressively, but not too much. Remember that your kit has strong flaws and CANNOT save you from some hotter situations. So you can blow enemies with your combos and your ganks, mainly with the ulti so use it in your favor.
Rotating: After you destroyed the enemy tower unless it's too early and you didn't even finish your stacks you will want to rotate, going to other lanes to help in fights and ganks or to do some objectives. Just don't forget to come back often to your lane to defend it, else the enemy will split splash (push) your lane and will destroy both towers and sometimes even the phoenix. And yes, some people are pure bots and won't rotate, that doesn't mean you also should stay there too, just mean that you need to return often to defend it ;)
Objectives: REMEMBER THAT OBJECTIVES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN KILLS, so it's time to start do your job, carry the game doing the objectives. This means that whenever your team starts an objective like fire giant or gold fury you must be there because from mid to late game you are the highest DPS of the team, and these objectives and structures are killed/destroyed with DPS, Basic attacks, so, help them.
Wards: This is the time you will need to pay a lot attention. When you stay alone on your lane it means you have 0 help, so if someone ganks you, there's nobody to help you so, ward the map. Check the section "Warding" to learn how to do it.

Late Game

Key parts of late gameplay: Farming Occasionally, Grouping Up, Self Peeling, Wards, Objectives, Late game Teamfights.

Late gameplay in details

Farming Occasionally: Just because the match is at advanced stages that don't mean you don't need to farm. Remember that even full build you can buy potions like Elixir of Speed and Potion of Power or even Elixir of Power. So, even though you already finished your build keep getting some farm OCCASIONALLY to stay ahead of your enemy and get these consumables that can change your match. Of course, you won't leave your team to farm away from them but if you notice some EXP, buff, or minions near F A R M.
Grouping Up: At late game, a key point to the carry is group up with your team. They do need you and you do need them. You are probably the highest DPS on the team and they really need you to destroy any remaining objective, be the constant damage on the teamfight and you also need them because you are a big glass canon walking around any engagement on you can be a sentence to death. So you help them and they help you gotcha? (In theory, of course, :p). Stay behind your team, especially your tank (support and or solo) and DO NOT walk alone or stay in the front line.
Self Peeling: Unfortunately, you are very squishy, so YOU DIE VERY FAST at the late game for other mids, carries and some jgs so DO NOT AVOID the "self peeling". Peeling is when you basically protect a teammate to help him get a kill, if someone dives into the backline to kill you, do not avoid using your ulti on your feet or fight back, yes try to run but if you can't better die fighting than just die. You have enough CC for self peeling against most part or Gods that dives you, so use it, you won't help the teamfight if you die before it starts, so forget the TF for a moment and defend yourself. Call for help if necessary!!!!!
Wards: Late game wards are important to know your enemy position. Don't forget especially to ward the Gold Fury AND the Fire Giant, these objectives can change the game's destiny depending on when and how they are made. You also must ward the JG so you can see enemies and maybe get a kill on someone walking randomly and then force a teamfight while they are 4 vs 5.
Objectives: These are the priorities late game. Stop rushing for killS and start to destroy/kill objectives. Remember that you can't split splash (split push) because you don't have the highest DPS of the entire game (there are better hunters for that like Izanami) nor has a great escape to get out of there without dying so I recommend you group up with your team and rush objectives together.
Late game Teamfights: This is where you shine, teamfights. Your ulti really hurts and can easily force relics from enemies to your team attack. While fighting, focus always on a single target, preferentially the squishes first, and then tanks, and don't forget to run for your life if someone dives you.

Builds and Itemization

There are important thing wrote on notes section on each build so, please, read them before start reading here!!!!!

How to Build

Now I will talk about how you should build the little tanuki boy properly, what your build must have to be decent and viable.

how to build

Builds

Details

Situational Items

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Relics

These are active items with a large cooldown that can help you in the battle or even save your life, so don't forget to get them before going to the battle. Relics are free, but can be upgraded for 300g. Then you can choose between 2 variants that has additional effects for extra 500 gold. Players unlock their first Relic at level 1, and their second Relic at level 12 over .

details about the relics

Random Facts

On the Skin Don Zaburou, Danzaburou is a common Raccoon. Although both animals are similar, to the point of western media translating Tanuki to Raccoon, they are in fact not the same. This skin shares its theme with Crime Boss Kuzenbo.
Danzaborou was the first god to receive a skin above tier1 at the release (he was launched with Don Zaburou skin).
The Danzaborou Ascended Skin card art (the skin on the image) makes a reference to the myth of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. In the skin full card art there are the following yokais Gashadokuro, Rokurokubi, Chochin-obake, Kasa-obake, one of Kuzenbo's Kappas, and Kitsunes carrying the platform where Danzaburou is standing. You can see them all only on the full card art. From all the season 7 gods with an Ascended skin, only Danzaburou and Mulan don't use a red color scheme.

Art by HiRez via smitegame.com

Don Zaburou is the only skin where the entire name of the skin sounds exactly like the god's name itself, except with slightly different spelling and two words. His line for Uproarious Rocket, "Say hello to my little friend." is a reference to the movie Scarface. Crime Boss Kuzenbo, which shares its theme with it, also makes the same reference to this line when firing a Nene.
Danzaburou was the last god release in 2020 and in Season 7.
The sake bottles that are hanging around Danzaburou's waist are an allusion to how Tanukis in their myths are depicted with large testicles.
Danzaburou's joke line "Do not compare me to a kitsune! We Tanuki are the best, don't you forget it!" is a reference to his hatred towards Kitsunes.
The name of his recolor is a reference to the "full name" of the yokai Bake-danuki.
The Kero Kero skin changes Danzaburou from a Tanuki to a Frog and its name is possibly a reference to the "ribbit" sound on Japanese language (I guess?).

Final considerations

"You ever see a gun this big?"

My final considerations are that he is very fun/funny to play and is one of the best ADCs ever. He is not the easiest hunter and might take a while to learn him but he also isn't the hardest.

If you follow the tips and the builds here I'm sure you'll be THE TRUE LEGENDARY TANUKI.

Check my other guides:

Check my guides:

Art by Zennore via DeviantArt
and HiRez via Youtube

This guide took me a lot of efforts to be made so let me know your opinion and if you liked it, don't forget to leave your comment and especially your upvote ;)

That's it, thank you for reading my guide.

Item		Explanation
		Asi Whenever you look for a good sustain via lifesteal, this is your choice 'cause all the stats here are awesome to you in any stage of the game.
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		Bloodforge This item offers a decent amount of lifesteal allied with a great amount of power. It may be useful when you are looking for lifesteal and extra survivability on long teamfights due to the shield and movespeed.
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		Toxic Blade Whenever you are facing a lot of lifesteal or healing like Anubis, Freya, Aphrodite… Perhaps anti-healing is a good option.
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		Shadowsteel Shuriken Whenever you are facing a lot of lifesteal or healing like Anubis, Freya, Aphrodite… Perhaps anti-healing is a good option.
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		Magi's Cloak If the enemies have a lot of CCs and your Purification Beads isn't enough, then this item may be helpful.
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		Jotunn's Ferocity This item might be usefulon boxings, increasing your damage while also providing solid stats, including CDR to spam more taunts and rockets. If you are boxing a lot (1 v 1), this item can be useful to you.
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		Titan's Bane When Executioner or Dominance isn't enough pen for a burst power via abilities, this is your choice. It offers huge 40% pen on your first damage skill.
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		Transcendence This item is useful if you do want to gain a lot of power. It offers almost 100 PP once stacked and if there are more mana items on your build it can increase. It also deletes the "out mana" calls you'd do.
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		Brawler's Beat Stick Whenever you are facing a lot of lifesteal or healing like Anubis, Freya, Aphrodite...Maybe anti-healing is a good option. Prioritize this item instead of toxic because you can apply AoE damage so you can apply the debuff on multiple targets.

Beware the tall grass! - Danzaboru Guide for Carries (S9, 9.6)

Smite God: Danzaburou

Danzaburou Build

Crit Build

Notes

No-Crit Build

Notes

Situational Items

Notes

Relics

Notes