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Smite God: Xbalanque

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Xbalanque Build

Main Items

Warrior Tabi

Devourer's Gauntlet

Qin's Sais

Jotunn's Wrath

Rage

Deathbringer

Considerable items / Situationals

Shifter's Shield

Transcendence

Breastplate of Valor

Titan's Bane

Bulwark of Hope

Magi's Cloak

Good Actives

Enfeebling Curse

Girdle of Inner Power

Purification Beads (Old)

Heavenly Wings

Xbalanque's Skill Order

Branching Bola

1 X

3 16 18 19

Poison Darts

2 A

2 6 8 11 14

Rising Jaguar

3 B

1 4 7 10 12 15

Darkest of Nights

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

3 16 18 19

Branching Bola

1 X

When Xbalanque toggles on this ability, his Basic Attacks deal additional damage. When the bola hits, it splits into 2 that hit enemies up to 30 units behind the target for 37.5% damage (on-hit effects do not apply). Pressing the ability again cancels the toggle.

Ability Type: Area Basic, Damage
Damage: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50
Range: 55/30
Cost: 4 / 7 / 10 / 13 / 16 per shot
Cooldown: .5s

2 6 8 11 14

Poison Darts

2 A

Xbalanque shoots 15 darts in a cone in front of him, dealing damage with each one. An enemy can be hit by 7 darts, with the other 4 doing 30% damage. Enemies hit are poisoned, taking additional damage every .5s and are Slowed.

Ability Type: Cone, Slow, Damage
Damage Per Dart: 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 (+35% of your Physical Power)
Poison Damage: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 (+15% of your Physical Power)
Poison Slow: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30%
Poison Duration: 3s
Range: 55
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 15s

1 4 7 10 12 15

Rising Jaguar

3 B

Xbalanque rushes forward and then jumps into the air, becoming immune to Crowd Control. While in the air, he fires darts at all nearby enemies, dealing damage to all in the area. Any enemies that were poisoned by Xbalanque take additional damage.

Ability Type: Dash, Damage
Damage: 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (+50% of your Physical Power)
Additional Poisoned Damage: 40%
Damage (Max): 112 / 182 / 252 / 322 / 392 (+70% of your Physical Power)
Radius: 30
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 16s

5 9 13 17 20

Darkest of Nights

4 Y

Xbalanque shrouds enemies in darkness for 3s. During this time, Xbalanque's Basic Attack range, Attack Speed, and Movement Speed are increased.

Ability Type: Buff
Attack Speed: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60%
Movement Speed: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60%
Basic Attack Range Increase: 40
Range/Radius: 95/35
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

Introduction

Behold the Majesty

Hi guys! This is FerrumSlash, and this is my first guide ever on Xbalanque, the first-ever Mayan god on Smite!

Xbalanque (I'll refer to him as Xbal) is a really fun god to play. His skill-set is awesome and he really excels in hunting down kills.

Remember that guides are not the Holy Bible. You're always welcome to improvise and kick-*** with it. I'm actually just an average player trying to help out since i don't actualy see many people playing Xbal.

DISCLAIMER : I'm afraid i cannot input much about conquest, since i rarely play conquest. Will try to fix in the future.

Pros / Cons

Pros

High Damage
RIDICULOUS mobility
Great team presence (probably the best for carries)
Great harass
Strong all-around
Global ultimate
Bad-***

Cons

Squishy
Passive is useless if not fed
Mana-hungry early game
REALLY susceptible to cc

A Hunter must always be careful. Mind your positioning,aiming,and skill usage. Master this, and you could actually overgrow his cons.

Skills

Passive :

This passive gives Xbal an extra 5 physical power every kill he makes. Maximum stack is 6, so at maximum the bonus you get is 30 physical power. Handy. A fed Xbal is always the best (or is it a fed god is always the best?)

Of course, when you don't get fed, the passive's dead.

Skill 1 :

This skill is pretty useful. Some notable examples are:
1.That extra "Oomph" to kill minions and attacking towers
2.Disturb enemies in teamfights with it's splitting
3.To damage enemies that use minions to body-block.

This skill is usually taken last. Early game when mana is crucial you don't want to be wasting it by using this skill and then missing your basic attacks. Late game, when the skill is at a higher level, the extra damage is actually useful to take out enemy gods, who may have actually purchased protection items by then.

Skill 2 :

These darts spread out in a cone and the farther they get, the gap between the darts are bigger. It is possible to hit someone with 2 or 2 darts, but then you'd have to be pretty close to the enemy. And we don't want that. This skill's usefulness lies not in the damage, but the poison and synergy to his 3. The poison does damage over time and slows.

Don't waste this on minions. It is far better to use it to harass enemies and poison the and take them out with Rising Jaguar.

Max this second. The damage increase is actually pretty useful for those times when the enemy retreats to their tower, at low health, and dying. (Remember ?)

Skill 3 :

Your main damage skill. Your escape. Your chase. Your kill-steal (no,really). Rising Jaguar IS, no doubt, your main skill.

It's so awesome i'm gonna have to divide it in 3 parts.
1. The dash. Especially useful for escaping or chasing.
2. The leap. The leap gives Xbal CC immunity.
3. The overkill. When Xbal is mid-air, he can "steer himself" and fire at every god and minion within range of his skill. Pay attention to the circle under you. That's the range of his skill.

The skill works in conjunction with Poison Darts, that is if enemies are poisoned by Poison Darts, this skill will deal extra damage. Handy for securing kills, or forcing the enemy to retreat.

Skill 4 (Ulti) :

His ulti is NOTHING like 's or 's or 's. Or 's for that case. His ulti's worth lies in the utility and situation. It increases Xbalanque's movement speed AND attack range by 40ft.(Snipe 'em). As for the enemy gods, their vision is SEVERELY limited and when they still move after the darkness, they get stunned.

Pretty confusing? Let's take a look at how many situations can Darkest of Nights avert/synergize/avoid

1.Enemy is dying. Just you and him. Enemy is making a run for it and your Rising Jaguar is not ready. Pop in your ult. Enemy will either stop moving or make a run for it and get stunned as well. Better players usually get the timing so in this case use the increased range to your advantage.

2.You/a teammate is dying and need to retreat. Cover your retreat using the vision block to hinder the enemy. In Conquest it is pretty useful to help lanes.

3.Teamfight has begun and it is a 5v5. A surefire way to create chaos is to pop in Darkest if Nights. Plunge them into darkness (read:chaos) and take them out

4.Tank initiates using hard CC (for example Ares), then after they are stunned you follow in with your ulti as well. CC after CC.

Many more scenarios could be thought of. Key words for this skill : Timing is Everything.

Items

Main Build

1. Power Shoes (either or )
This is actually interchangeable. Warrior is when you need that penetration so bad and Ninja is when you need that CDR for your 2-3 harass-combi.

2.
The power and lifesteal bonus is pretty useful on Xbal, especially when he needs to sustain a lane

3.
Everybody loves this item. Not only it gives Power and Attack Speed it also has that nice passive useful for chewing down the enemy.

4.
Pure Power. Penetration. CDR for the skills and combi. Dare you ask for more?

5.
Power. Attack speed. Crit chance. All the things a ranged ADC needs.

6.
The name lives up to it's expectations. The crit boost is amazing and it provides raw power.

Items you could consider buying

1.
Provides protection and power plus a pretty handy passive.

2.
Provides protecton,mana,and cooldown reduction.

3.
More kills = More mana. More mana = more kills. I know. It's a never ending cycle with Transcendence. And mana converted to power? Gimme gimme!

4.
Enemy tank troubling you and your team? Get this item. Penetration helps.

5.
My choice of magical defense. Gives a great bonus to health and magical defense. The passive is also useful to get out of tight spots.

6.Magi's Blessing
Provides both magical and physical protection, and reduces cc effect, this is a recommended item if the enemy has hard cc like .

Good Actives

1.
Slows the enemy. Great for either 1v1 battles or makes you more of an asset in teamfight.

2.Sprint
Extra speed is always nice for Xbal. Helps chase down kills. Synergizes well with Enfeebling Curse

3.
Moar power is always nice. More teamfight presence? Go for .

4..
Let's face it. Xbal is gonna be stomped when hit by or ' CC and then focused upon. That's why you get beads. the cd reduction is nice as well.

Summary

Playing Xbalanque is really fun, but you should also be careful. He is not as punishing as Artemis but he should also be played with caution. One wrong move and placement and boom. Stunned. or silenced. or roflstomped.

To sum it up with a few words:
"Strike hard. Strike fast. Strike often".

Let me know how to improve this guide.I eagerly await feedback. If you decide to give the guide a downvote, do tell me the reason in the comment section. I will address the issue as soon as possible to make it better.

Thanks for reading my first guide on SmiteFire. FerrumSlash out.

Xbalankat approves

Changelog

25/03/2014 Initial Release

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Thanks for the feedback.

For the rising jaguar part, actually the timing is too difficult,because at the dash there is no cc immunity, just the leap which is also a pretty short window. The timing is not effective and i don't recommend newer players to try it out. I'd rather get pulled and scram using RJ than missing my RJ cc immunity timing then can't escape once i'm pulled. Still, it's worth mentioning. Thanks for pointing that out.

Thanks for replying!..Well, I find a very easy counter for ultimate more like . The only problem is, one has to be careful whether is available or on cooldown. Then of course beads is a safe choice just to keep it as a backup. Beads + rising Jaguar = Ares shutdown.

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is a late game monster!. The guide overall is very efficient. May be a bit less of BBC would have been fine, I am talking of too much use of the center alignment. Also can use larger icon images using "icon=Jotunn's Wrath size=50", just put braces [ ] instead of " ". It would be like this .

Just two things to point out on contents:
- Use of even on him.
- U can mention for new players that with you need no beads against
ultimate.

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I appreciate your review. Thanks for the feedback.

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There are a couple of problems I have with your build, but mainly, the CDR. As all Hunters aside from , Xbalanque is not ability reliant. He is up there with Artemis for having the most of his damage output from basic attacks. The CDR, while useful as Xbalanque has long cooldowns, isn't as good as other stats. Xbalanque has the hardest hitting auto attacks and the most power out of all the Hunters.
Bottom line: Build purely around your auto attacks. I don't like the choice of that many defensive items, aside from magi's blessing perhaps. is always the choice over , isn't as useful as an item like . If you do want flat pen, I'd recommend .

As for the skills, I'll have to disagree on this one. actually does more damage than , on top of having its cooldown scaling, on top of having the slow scaling. (look at the minimum damage in poison darts and compare it to the damage of . Leveling is better. And even so, if you say that is better, why the skill sequence? I mean, you seem to jump between and , when you say RJ is better. Additionally, you don't need to level past level 5, until you've maxed the rest of your skills.

If by saying "strong all-round" you meant strong throughout all the game phases, you are wrong my friend. True, Xbalanqe isn't as punishing and as risky as Artemis, but he still has a worse laning phase compared to her and the worst out of all the hunters. His clear is very, very rough and he is extremely mana hungry. His clear is too dangerous, as he has to position himself in the side of the wave to hit posion darts instead of being behind the wave. You could use , but it's not as effective.

I suppose you've already understood, that there is a lack of laning explanation. There is also a lack in gameplay and team fights.

The guide itself looks nice - the BBCoding is good; not too obstructive but highlights what needs to be highlighted.

This guide isn't enough. The build isn't good, the skills are messed up, there is a severe lack of gameplay. A downvote by me.
I hope my review helped you and that you take my words into consideration. I suppose you know about TT's general guides to guidecrafting and BBCoding so I wont' link them. Farewell.

P.S - Xblanket

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Pros / Cons

Skills

Items

Summary

Changelog

Xbalanque : Death Comes By Night

Smite God: Xbalanque

Xbalanque Build

Main Items

Considerable items / Situationals

Good Actives

Xbalanque's Skill Order

Branching Bola

Poison Darts

Rising Jaguar

Darkest of Nights

Introduction

Pros / Cons

Skills

Items

Summary

Changelog

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