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Death's Toll
Tabi
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Warrior Tabi
Fatalis
Shifter's Shield
Rage
Runic Shield
Void Shield
Heartseeker
Hydra's Lament
The Executioner
Death's Toll
Deathbringer
Qin's Blades
Death's Toll
Warrior Tabi
Fatalis
Shifter's Shield
Rage
Deathbringer
Qin's Blades
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I am new to writing guides in general, but with over 100 games as 
Xbalanque and God Mastery at 7+ I feel I have enough experience in playing this god to try and help other people learn how to play or improve themselves as Xbalanque
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Xbalanque is the harassing-flying-ninja-jaguar god who can be annoying to play against and is fun to play as. Xbalanque plays as a Physical Ranged AD Carry, containing a kit of many abilities to make him very mobile or aggressive. There are many ways to use Xbalanque's abilities, but knowing WHEN and how to use them are very important in deciding who lives or if you can escape.
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Pros
+ High Mobility + Extremely Good at Harassment with Poison Darts+ Highest Damage Physical Carry (thanks to Branching Bola+ High AoE Damage (all of his abilities) + Global Ult ( Darkest of Nights)+ On-Demand CC immunity (via Rising Jaguar) Xbalanque has a kit filled with answers to almost any situation including an escape, slow, catch-up, AoE, and CC immunity. His high AoE damage make him extremely good to harass arena, and difficult to lane against with his high harassment. |
Cons
- Squishy - Lacks CC - Passive is useless without kills - Cripple hurts his combo/escape - Mana problems early game - Ult timing/use While Xbalanque has many upside, the only way to help his team via CC is through Darkest of Nights which needs to be used at the proper moment to be beneficial for the team. If Xbalanque is denied early kills his passive ( Dead of Night) will grow useless as the game progresses.
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Death's Toll is a great item for early game Conquest which not only allows for some early game sustain, but also provides some good stats (attack power and attack speed) that will be used until you acquire your 5th item, in which case it will be replaced with a more relevant item for late game.
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Warrior Tabi grants movement speed, physical penetration, and physical power. These are 3 things that are helpful to any physical god. Most likely each god will be using boots of some kind so the movement speed is relevant to both escape and keep up with enemy gods, the penetration and power increases the damage that can be done.
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Fatalis is not a very liked item, but has been starting to pop up on many gods in the games I've seen. It's used as both a defensive item via movement speed to get away or an offensive item to catch enemies who are running and to hit them more frequently. Gives movement speed and attack speed
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| eye of retaliation | Eye of Retaliation is a really strong (and expensive) item that allows you to stand toe-to-toe with another carry or even assassin since it replaces health and the amount of damage+lifesteal it gives is based on your current health. Useful for sustain and staying in team fights. Gives Physical Lifesteal and physical power |
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Rage; one of the best carry items due to it's passive that makes sure you are getting crits. It even helps you attack more by providing attack speed. The main part of the item is it's passive but being that it also grants physical power and it's own critical strike chance
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Comboing well with Rage, Deathbringer gives our crits an extra 50% damage making each crit even more deadly. Not only that, but it does it by also giving a large amount of physical power and helps bring in crits with it's own critical strike chance. One of the most upfront items that should be in any build with high amounts of crit or are looking to do more physical damage.
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Qin's Blades, one of the items I personally use as a 6th gives good carry stats, and a passive that will make your attacks do a decent percent of the enemy god's health regardless of their role and also provides attack speed to make it hit more often and the ever-present physical power to contribute to the non-passive damage part of the hits.
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There are games where Heartseeker is going to be a really good item, and it works really well with Xbalanque. The only reason it is not in the core build is that it is not a new player friendly item, it provides tons of physical power and a small amount of movement speed, however, I would pick it up as the first item after getting the first level of Tabi to gain early stacks. Not dying is a key part to using the item and if you feel your team or yourself is doing too bad to warrant using the item, I would suggest selling it earlier rather than later.
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| Focused Voidblade |
An item that is useful for if the other team's composition consists of a lot more physical damage than magical as it provides both physical protection and power alongside a good amount of (passive) penetration. Not only will it protect, but it wont give up a ton of power to do it, allowing Xbalanque to fight longer than the other team.
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Just like focused voidblade, Runic Shield is only used when the enemy team has an excessive amount of a certain damage type. In this case magical protection without sacrificing all of your physical power and without being killed over and over by mages/magical damage dealers.
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Against a team with heavy bruisers or tanks The Executioner provides a way to get through all of the enemy gods' defenses being able to (with the passive) lower their defenses and also add in some extra physical power and attack speed to get the passive stacks in easier.
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Not that often used hydras's lament allows the use of Xbalanque's abilities more often and if used right allow him to do big basic attack hits after using abilities. Provides cooldown reduction and physical power
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Dead of Night, the passive that grants 5 physical power per kill up to 30 power. It's important for Xbalanque to get killing blows early up until at least 6 kills to fully utilize his passive which can be quite amazing early game. However, if you are not getting killing blows it is a dead passive.
Branching Bola is an ability that increases the damage done by each hit and splits apart upon hitting dealing less damage as AoE. This ability is really great late game as it gives more damage and can be used for longer periods of time. It is not taken early because it is mana hungry and it's easier to harass using your other two abilities.
Poison Darts shoots a bunch of darts in a cone that can hit both minions and gods, slowing and dealing damage over time to those it hits. it is important to note that it is possible to hit someone with 3 darts for extra damage and also possible to miss entirely due to the darts' nature in spreading apart. Used in conjunction with Rising Jaguar to do an extra 20% damage.
Rising Jaguar makes Xbalanque rush forward and jump, shooting darts and dealing damage to any nearby enemies, also dealing 20% more damage to enemies poisoned with Poison Darts. The ability that makes Xbalanque hard to catch, this ability does everything, escape, catch, damage, and looks awesome while doing it. Best used in conjunction with Poison Darts, but it can be used to catch an enemy and then dart them. Important to note that it is considered a dash and the path (which you can control in mid-air) can be blocked by gods, minions, and walls alike. THIS ABILITY ALSO MAKES YOU CC IMMUNE
Darkest of Nights is the global ultimate that affects each enemy god regardless of position reducing vision and stunning them if it ends while they are moving. Using this ability also increases your movement speed and range, however, leveling it only increases the movement speed and thus isn't as important as leveling Xbalanque's other abilities first. Can be used as an escape, initiate, or to secure a kill, but being that it is global timing it to benefit as many people as possible can be tricky.
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Past Level 1 Xbalanque can do both solo, dual, or mid laning (although mid is not ideal). However I prefer to solo lane if I get the chance. Xbalanque does not have large wave clears and in these situations it may be wise to take Branching Bola at level 3 to help clear the minions before they get damaged by the tower (as you wont get gold from them then). Blue buff becomes important when using Branching Bola and your jungler should get it for you as often as possible. Xbalanque harassing the other gods in lane should also be a priority, hitting minions as you do it. In this way you force them to either use potions or go back in which case you will be gaining more experience/gold than them. Branching Bola is a must and so is blue buff, you will be relying heavily on your jungler to help gank and your harassment to keep you ahead of the other mid player. Xbalanque properly. There are many ways to play that can either get a kill or miss one. Namely the Poison Darts -> Rising Jaguar combo, most Xbalanque's I've seen refuse to use Rising Jaguar before Poison Darts, but if the enemy is out of range, you can use the jump to catch up and the poison will slow them long enough to kill via basic attacks. It is also good to use Rising Jaguar to put yourself in an enemies' face to body block, or to not allow them to escape. Xbalanque's ultimate ( Darkest of Nights) is a key part in playing well, when to use it is always something that should be on your mind, typically it is to save teammates, since Xbalanque is mobile enough on his own. But if the team is in a good position it can be used to throw some chaos into a teamfight to make the fight in your favor as you can throw really far while the ult is up. Rising Jaguar as an escape or an on-demand 
Purification Beads to dodge 
Ares's 
No Escape (just be in the air during the actual pull) or any other type of CC (
Hades' 
Pillar of Agony also comes to mind) Xbalanque is a fun god to play and takes some getting used to and learning to position and when/when not to use his abilities, but can be really good at securing and catching kills with the ability (with eye of retaliation) to win almost any 1v1 fight.
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I have now read your guide. And I think it is quite good. But in my eyes Eye of Retaliation is good only for tanks. I can explain why. Because of the status of the missing health you will gain more and more attack damage, if you have more life, but Xba has about 2k health points at level 20.
Thats why u could get at most dmg from that passiv of the item 20 damage. And at the same time Xba can�´t survive that long because in a direct fight he is very squishy, so that the item could be very usefull. And a tank you maybe know, how hard it is to get him on low health and in that time u try to bring the tank on low health the Eye of Retaliation should very usefull. And if you play Xba on much lifesteal, you will get per hit much of your health points back, thats why I think the Eye of Retaliation is useless.
It�´s too low in my view. For Xba
It would be much better, if u would take Bloodforge or something else like that.
Hope u know what I mean.
But I tried out the Guide it´s very nice.
Quote up from my side ! :)
So the question is, is 45% attack speed better than 20% attack speed, 30 power, and 21% physical penetration? My answer is no.
I'm going to try him in a few Conquest matches and see how I do... I'll probably update the guide after that. He's definitely my favorite carry.
The only thing I dislike is