Izamami Carry - Joust or Conquest Build

Izanami provides a very strong carry god, with the potential from strong protection shredding or crit potential. Her passive allows for up to an extra 20% physical penetration (at 50% or lower health), and her auto attacks provide strong damage to multiple enemies, since they can pass through, and deal lower damage on the way back.

Using the 2 and special auto attacks give Izanami some of the best early game wave clear among hunters, and allow for getting transcendence fully stacked quickly. Once you have the cooldown and additional mana, Izanami's 2 ability (spectral projection) becomes a very good poke or engagement ability, and the slow can help to secure fleeing kills.

The stealth potential can make for some of the best escape for a hunter, since after a long dash, you can move in un-expected paths to try and throw off any pursuit. While ahead, with nearby backup, or against low enemies, the dash can become a good mid-to-late-game engagement or kill secure tool, dashing to nearby locations to a lower enemy and using your 2 from unexpected close range, to nearly guarantee an unexpected hit.

Be very careful of over-extending as Izanami, especially in early game. While you will have strong burst and overall damage potential even early on, using the dash and invisibility too aggressively early on can be one of the easiest ways to get killed and fall behind. For new Izanami players, I would highly recommend keeping the 3 as solely an escape tool, until you get a good feel for playing Izanami and her damage potential.