therefore he cannot be his normal animated self

in this intro. Luckily most of the audio was recorded before he started feeling

sick

Great timing Trendkill, welcome to Know Your Enemy

Dramatic intro Dun Dun Dun

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If you're new to the series click here for Episode 1

where Trendkill explains what these videos are all about

If you're new to the game click here for Trendkills beginner's guides.

These videos will help you get caught up with some of the terminology

used in this series. Without further ado let's take a look at Anhur

The Egyptian Slayer Of Enemies

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Alright we start off with a visual representation of what the god

is good at in graph form.

and this is going to be a fairly standard looking graph for most hunters.

You're gonna see control, mobility, and utility kinda fluctuate on Hunter's

they're all going to have next to no healing low defense and high damage that's just

the nature of the role

Now Anhur's second highest stat would be control, he's got a lot of control in his

kit with slows and knock ups, knock backs

stuns, but his utilities really low because his really only gonna be played in really one role and

his abilities aren't that complex. The complexity of Anhur comes in how you use

his abilities together

and speaking of his abilities haha segue. Let's go ahead and take a look at some

of the more intricate details of his kit. This is going to be a fairly short

section because again

Anhur's kit is very simple. His passive Enfeeble reduces the physical protection of

every enemy he hits with his basic attacks by 15

for three seconds so Anhur comes out of the gate with penetration which is a

pretty big deal early on

His first ability Shifting Sands quite obviously has a slow on it, if you walk

through the sands you'll absolutely notice that you're being slowed. What you may

not know about this ability is it also gives

Anhur a damage buff on his basic attacks to any target who is standing in the sand.

That includes gods, that include minions, that includes objectives like Fire Giant

and Gold Fury

So always understand that if you're standing in his Shifting Sands you will take

anywhere between four and twenty percent more

damage from his auto attack so late game this is absolutely devastating

His second ability Impale, is a one-of-a-kind ability this is the only

ability that knocks back an enemy

and if it knocks that enemy back into a wall it stuns them

on impact its kind of an interesting mechanic it's basically the equivalent of him

pinning you to the wall with his spear.

The second thing you need to recognize about this ability is that while Impale goes

through minions it does not go through god's.

So as soon as Anhur impale hits a god it will knock them back and stop traveling.

Early game this can actually be used to your benefit and will talk about that in the tip

section and his third and fourth abilities Disperse in Desert Fury are

very straightforward so assuming you've read the abilities there's nothing

really super special about them

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Ok now before we get into the mechanics section I have a very quick story tell you

during the inception of this series or during the storyboarding phase of this

series I was trying to figure out how I wanted it to flow

and I was thinking about all the gods that I used to be bad at and now I'm pretty good at

and I was thinking about that moment where it all clicked and that eye opening

experience

and the number one god on that list of, oh my gosh

that's how you play him, was Anhur. If you know me and you watch me stream at one

point I thought I was the worst

Anhur in the world I just I couldn't figure out his kit, none of his abilities seem

to work together. So I sat down I watch some pro players play and I was like Im going to

figured this god out and when I saw some of the stuff they were doing it all

clicked and it was the most eye opening experience

I've had in smite yet. So I was super excited that he was in free god rotation

that he could be the first god that I could do

outside of the 5 free gods. Hopefully this guide helps you have the same eye opening

experience that I had originally

and let's get into the mechanics. Alright so for the first ability Shifting Sands, I've

got one major tip thats going to be broken down into two smaller tips.

First of understand that Shifting Sand is a large

area of affects slow, that last for seven seconds but in the center of that slow

is an obelisk or a pillar that works exactly like

any other player deployed wall. So what that means is its exactly like

Ymirs wall except a much smaller version. Now understand because it is exactly

like in Ymirs wall

it does everything that Ymir's wall does on a smaller scale because it's smaller wall.

So it will still obstruct vision, it will still block auto attacks, and abilities

that don't go through walls

and even though its smaller it still has the capabilities of trapping you

against a wall.

Heck even if you're running from Anhur in the lane he has the ability to throw

that in front of you

allow you to run face first right into the wall and then be stuck in the middle

of a slow

it's not likely you're gonna get out of that, and as far as the second part of

the tip is concerned because it is deployed exactly like Ymirs wall Anhur can

also as long as he's got rank 2 in boots

cast his ability at his feet and run through the pillar before it actually

spawns leaving you stuck in the slow behind it.

So even though it doesn't have the size and the shape and the blocking potential

of Ymir's wall

it's still probably going to help him get away from you. Now moving on to Impale

his second ability his bread and butter, by far his most important ability

and the one ability that is involve in pretty much every advanced mechanic that Anhur 's kit

offers.

So first off remember that Impale knocks you back and if it knocks you back

into a wall it sticks you to that wall for one-and-a-half seconds at max

rank. So for my first tip do not stand close to walls were Anhur can get an

angle on you where he can pin you

to that wall. A one second to one and a half second stun can be devastating

especially against a ADC

Now impales is a very versatile ability it helps set up other abilities and other

abilities help set it up. So first off let's talk about the abilities that are used to set

up an Impale stun, and imperative part of Anhur's kit

is using Shifting Sands, in combo with Impale.

If you're playing a good Anhur you will see him throw up an obelisk or pillar behind you

and try to stun you to it with impale. That is an imperative part

of his kit. Now for those of you who are using this video to your advantage because you

want to use these tips to play Anhur

this is a very hard thing to get used to and a very hard thing to set up.

Once you figure it all out, you've got your timing your speed your positioning all set up

it becomes almost second nature, but starting out it is an impossibility to

hit these

and when you hit one your gonna be like yeeeeeaaah I did it.

Now another thing your gonna have to watch out for is

Anhurs setting up an Impale stun with Disperse. Now Dispersed

is his jump but from where he lands, there is an aoe

around him that creates a knock back affect and if he knocks you back towards a wall

it makes it very easy to telegraph where you're going to land so that he can stick you

to that walk

Now this is gonna be kind off a rapid-fire tips section, cuz there's a lot of tips

involved in this combo that I want to make sure you look out for.

First off he has the opportunity to once he's stuck you to a wall

throw a pillar up in the direction that you're going to have to run. Now not only do you

have to run home around that pillar

you have to run around that pillar through a slow

all the while he's auto attacking you. So if you over extend and your found vulnerable

he can jump on you with his Dispersed stick you to a wall

throw an obelisk up north of you and then he can use Desert Fury, his ultimate to start

pegging you with damaged

and you can't do anything about it. Your only hope in that scenario is that your playing

a god that has a

jump, even a dash is hard to get out of that scenario

because the obelisk is blocking the path that you wanna dash. Now the good news to

all of that is, if Anhur misses his jump and lands in an area where he doesn't

have a good angle to pin you to a wall he doesn't have anymore escape because he's

used it to be aggressive at that point you can start to punish that decision.

Now understand that he's still got Shifting Sand's slow,

Impale as a knock back and Desert Fury for CC imunity and damage

but you can still stay on top of him with damage

and let's talk about one more thing with Impale, remember I said earlier that

it will go through minions

but will not go through god. Well fortunately for you

if you're playing against an Anhur you or your guardian can stand in front

of your minions and he cannot use his Impale to clear them

because it's gonna hit you first, knock you back through the minions

but the impale stops when it hits you. So if played right he's gonna have to use

his auto attacks to kill your minions

while you're free to use your ability. Alright so lets talk about Desert Fury his

ultimate,

this is probably one of the scariest level 5 ultimates in the game, meaning

that it does an insane amount of damage early on. Now as you get toward the

later game it starts to fall off because your auto attacks end up doing more damage

but in the early to mid game this ability can be absolutely terrifying.

Think of it this way, if Anhur beat you to level 5 and you're still level 4

youre probably gonna have somewhere between 700 and 750 life depending on the items that

you bought

Desert Fury at rank 1 deals sixty damage per spear for eight spears plus

15% of your physical power which at this point going to be negligible

so you can estimate about 480 to 500 damage

and that's not counting any setup. At level 5 his Impale will be probably be rank 2

meaning it's going to do 150 of its own damage plus the ultimate your talking 650

damage

in just two abilities. So even if your at 100% health, you still have to be careful

around an Anhur who's got his full kit available that early. Another thing about

Dessert Fury is that it's a very deceptive

ability for two main reasons: the first one being it's much longer than Anhurs

auto attack, so just when you think you're at a safe distance

he pops Desert Fury end up burning you down.

Another thing is that Desert Fury can be shot through walls, so you turn the corner

thinking that you're safe around the wall

and he ends up using Desert Fury through the trees of the jungle and again this

is all ignoring the fact that he still got a slow from his Shifting Sands and a

jump to catch up to you with Disperse.

Very early on in the game Anhur can be pretty scary

and last but not least Anhur's Desert Fury gives him CC immunity for the

duration the ability.

Now this means three things, first off if Anhurs is in the middle of a Desert Fury

you cannot apply any form of cc to him.

You cant stun him, you cant silence him, you cant root him, nothing will

work, so don't waste those abilities.

Two, if he happens to get stun before Desert Fury goes off

he has to wait until that stun duration wears off before he can cast Desert Fury

He cannot cast out of it as if it were Purification Beads

However, an this is the third scenario if you happen to have Anhurs soft CC

like crippled or rooted he can use Desert Fury

to cleanse those soft CC. So this ability will cleanse things like slows, cripples, and roots.

So just remember if you're somebody like Ymirs, or Hades whose gonna try to take

advantage of the fact

that Anhur's jump is down he can use Dessert Fury to get out of your ultimate.

This concludes Episode 6 of Know Your Enemy

Come back next week when Trendkill will be discussing

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