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i mean seriously, who else has anubis's range, damage and quick fire combo? no one! thats who!

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i mean seriously, who else has anubis's range, damage and quick fire combo? no one! thats who!

Perfect description of Agni and He Bo

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agni only has his meteors as range with, those meteors do not provide enough dps to do what anubis does. hebo as i have mentioned before is a melee range assassin mage.

hebo has the damage but not the range, agni has the range but not the damage.

agni is a mage and not an assassin mage, basicly one of the people anubis would try to pick of at a team fight. hebo can't get close enough to the squishy's in the chinese meta because they are postioned to well.

so no still no one can do what anubis does and he bo and agni are not a good example to fit with the discription i gave.

why did you even mention he bo when i already talked about him? esspecially not with any arguments?

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Because I'm not trying to argue with you o.o? You did perfectly describe Agni and He Bo and here's why

He Bo does have the range with . Not as much range as Anubis with his ult I guess but there's still the range. Agni does have the range and damage. He is a burst mage like He Bo. Spam your 4, put down your and use you'll deal a **** ton of unavoidable damage.. I've played Agni enough to tell you can deal ranged damage very easily lol

Anubis can deal more damage than either of them no doubt- Anubis can pretty much out damage most gods in most scenarios because that's what he's meant for. Anubis is an extreme for pure burst. He Bo and Agni are also pure burst but are better picks due to their mobility and shorter cooldowns. Chang'e is an extreme for sustained burst.

On topic, Anubis might be a good pick for them simply because their meta is different. I'm not exactly sure how it goes down there but that really has to be the only answer. In our meta, Anubis is a bad pick for mid because he has no escape, is extremely vulnerable, and an extreme. His damage is insane. He will win/lose against you in a 1v1 scenario based on 2 things. Whether Anubis lands his stun and/or you are low. Usually if Anubis misses his stun he's dead but if you are less than 75% health w/o an Aegis or insane juking skills you're still toast due to Anubis' insane damage.

The usual items bought to counter Anubis include magi's blessing and . So gawta think even if you have CC immunity he'll still deal quite a lot of damage. My favorite combination of items for him is and . Depends if you're a mobile god then or magi's blessing works better since you can get out of the range of his ult more easily.

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RT already mentioned why anubis works so well in their meta, reason being because they focus on postioning which in turn means that they become a lot stronger with characters that dont have high mobility because they have no need to pull them selves out of danger because they won't get into any.

hebo has one ranged skill that is also his least damaging and is one a 10 second cool down, that doesn't make him a ranged mage, his ult and 1 which is his main damage force him to be in melee range which is why hebo isn't picked over anubis, its just rare for him to get in melee range of the squishies.

agni does a lot of burst AoE damage with his ult and he has a little stun but flame wave is again a melee range skill that he won't get to use on the squishies because of postioning.

agni's burst is also not fast enough to do what anubis does.

anubis late game can use his stun, 3 and ult and in about 1 second time the person he chose to perish is dead. he cancels his ult if neccesary and walks away or continues to use it if he can hit another squishy with it even if it is for a tiny moment.

agni simply doesnt have the same dps. agni again doesn't even forfill the same role as anubis, anubis is ment to kill one person in one second from afar and either die, walk away or continue to do damage. agni on the other hand is ment to bring continuing damage in large AoE's from a far in team fightes.

items cost money and if anubis get's to blow a beads or aegis or both and walk away because he is safe through postioning of him and his team, he waits for his stun cool down and can do it again.

those items are more like niche saves then actual countering mechanics to anubis, this game has so much cc that is can just be hard to deside what to even use beads on, this mez, that stun, that silence, that vortex, this slow, that root. and really while those items may save you from anubis once or twice, his cool downs are faster then that aegis or beads and we all know that his stun,3 and ult is not his only combo so magi's isn't going to save you for ever.

or you do counter him but again cool downs and you had to blow 900 gold on it and now you are an item behind on him while you dont hold enough damage to kill him anymore.

he will win almost all 1v1's based on what combo he uses, he misses his stun and far away? ult aoe slow and ult anyway, he misses his stun and is close? aoe slow and 1.

and that will hardly mather because if you get skilled enough you will hit 95% of all stuns and even then you hold a fighting chance or you can walk away.

anubis is not good in EU or NA because the meta focuses on shot calling over postioning, it's why anubis isn't popular, he is not mobile so he can't get to all shots called as quick as lets say agni or hebo.

if shot calling is less of a problem but postioning is key a lot of immobile characters come back into play, people may want some one with more cc instead of a dash with soft cc or a global ult or a teleport or any mobility like that. so guys like anubis for his insane damage or cc focused tanks come back, or there double mid is the meta.

not to say one meta is better then the other, both have pros and cons and its depended on what you would like to do better.

but if you want to become really good at positioning in this game you better play some one who can't get away for **** like anubis.

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(well if you really wanna learn what and why positioning is important and want to get better i recommand trying some top down moba's because the game focuses really hard on that but people here sometimes shun others like they are monsters for even daring to speak of other moba's... so i did it this messages in between these things ()...)

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I feel sorry for them once the other team gets rank 3 beads, rank 3 aegis and magi's blessing

Rofl...

I've had it happen where almost the entire team had all 3 of those items....

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Yeah Spirit Robe is a pretty damn hard counter to Anubis. Never considered it, but also haven't seen him in many many games.

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When I discovered that item, I never lost to another Anubis in 1v1

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