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Definitive Anubis Conquest Mid Lane Guide

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Smite God: Anubis

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Anubis Build

Start for Sacrificial Build

Vampiric Shroud

Lost Artifact

Healing Potion

Multi Potion

Sacrificial Ability Build

Notes If Anti-Heal is needed, swap out or for .

should be core for any build.

could be swapped out for an alternative damage item into less tankier/less HP heavy enemy comps.

Sacrificial Shroud

Chronos' Pendant

Spear of Desolation

Typhon's Fang

Calamitous Rod of Tahuti

Soul Reaver

Sacrificial Ability Build (Rejuvenating variant)

Sacrificial Shroud

Bancroft's Claw

Spear of Desolation

Typhon's Fang

Calamitous Rod of Tahuti

Rejuvenating Heart

Start for Timeline Build

Sands of Time

Tiny Trinket

Healing Potion

Multi Potion

Timeline Ability Build

Notes Swap for if anti-heal is needed.

Can swap for (get after ).

The Alternate Timeline

Bancroft's Claw

Book of Thoth

Typhon's Fang

Calamitous Rod of Tahuti

Soul Reaver

Relics and Shard

Notes Replace at level 12 for .

Upgrade relics to their upgraded versions once you're full build. especially is the more important relic upgrade to prioritise.

Temporal Beads

Aegis of Acceleration

Horn Shard

Alternative Items

Notes - Standard Anti-Heal option, can still be bought for the on-hit passive and for more squishy focused burst if desired.

- Alternative glyph choice for if you wish to gain a small extra source of cooldown, but not generally as good as on .

- Has a good early starter but the upgrade generally is less useful for compared to .

- Strong early starter, and provides a good upgrade especially paired with , but again is not as strong generally as for .

/ - Alternative % pen option to .

(and upgrades) - Alternative aggressive relic to .

Divine Ruin

Perfected Rod of Tahuti

Pendulum of Ages

Gem of Focus

Obsidian Shard

Charon's Coin

Blink Rune

Anubis's Skill Order

Plague of Locusts

1 X

1 8 11 12 13

Mummify

2 A

4 15 16 18 19

Grasping Hands

3 B

2 3 6 7 10

Death Gaze

4 Y

5 9 14 17 20

1 8 11 12 13

Plague of Locusts

1 X

A plague of locusts bellows forth from Anubis' mouth, smothering all enemies in the area and doing damage every .25s for 3s. Anubis is immune to knockback while channeling and moves at 50% speed.

Ability Type: Cone, Damage
Damage Per Tick: 18 / 26 / 34 / 42 / 50 (+22% of your Magical Power)
Range: 35
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 10s

4 15 16 18 19

Mummify

2 A

Anubis fires a bandage projectile, mummifying and stunning his target.

Ability Type: Line, Stun
Stun Duration: 2s
Range: 70
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12s

2 3 6 7 10

Grasping Hands

3 B

Anubis calls for help from the underworld as hands penetrate the ground and claw at his enemies, doing damage and slowing every 0.5s for 2s.

Ability Type: Circle, Slow, Damage
Damage Per Tick: 25 / 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 (+35% of your Magical Power)
Slow: 25%
Range/Radius: 55/20
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12s

5 9 14 17 20

Death Gaze

4 Y

Anubis focuses all of his energy into a piercing gaze, doing damage to all enemies in the path, every 0.1s for 3s.

Ability Type: Line, Damage
Damage Per Tick: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 (+13% of your Magical Power)
Range: 70
Cost: 90
Cooldown: 90 / 85 / 80 / 75 / 70s

Intro

Hi, this guide is brought to you by Kriega1, I started playing Smite on PS4 in 2016 around Erlang Shen's release in Season 3, and eventually long term migrated to PC Smite around mid Season 7. I have peaked GM/Masters on PS4 and Masters in Ranked Conquest on PC. I also am a Mentor on the Official Smite Discord where I focus on general building for each role. I hope you find this guide as a useful learning resource for playing Anubis in the Mid lane.

Abilities

Anubis' Abilities

Passive -

This passive is one of the main reasons you itemise into some lifesteal (especially ) as , outside of his high base damage and very high scaling working well with .

At max stacks it grants 21 Protections (of each type) and 60% bonus lifesteal healing.

Ability 1 -

's main early wave clear, before is levelled up and in scenarios where he is safe to walk up to clear. Can also be used (if timed correctly) for self peel purposes into enemies trying to use Knockup CCs or trying to displace you with a Knockback (e.g. ).

Ability 2 -

A setup / self peel stun ability. Best used to guarantee landing ' first 2 damaging abilities in his full kit rotation or to simply just make it easier to poke with his to keep targets inside it.

Ability 3 -

' main ranged poke / zoning ability (that normally requires his stun for setup due to the delayed cast time) but also his least damaging ability, best to use before either or , especially to fully stack his passive to maximise dps on the subsequent damaging ability (also unlike his 1 or 4 it is not channelled / doesen't lock you in animation for long).

Ultimate -
' highest damaging ability and one that puts his objective shredding potential above many other mages. Can go through walls.

Example Combos:

Main Combos:

> > >

> > > (Saving ult till last to finish off enemies at range)

> > (Assuming ult not available)

(In some situations you can consider casting and then to maximise the DPS from , but generally you're going to rely on as setup for your burst).

Poking:

>

How to Play

Gameplay Start / Early Game:

Start at the Fire Giant side Speed/Red buff. When it spawns, hit it with an auto attack to leash/aggro the camp and pull it towards the intersection (towards mid lane) between the Speed and Red buff camps, at the same time your Jungler will have leashed the Red/Speed buff towards the intersection.
As the 2 camps position together use Plague of Locusts to clear the camps. Make sure to pickup the Red buff once it has dropped. After these camps are cleared you will be level 2.
Now quickly make your way to the Gold Fury side Speed buff, if your jungler has not reached it yet (they should be) then leash the camp yourself towards the mid lane while you use Grasping Hands to clear the camp. Avoid pulling the camp into tower range if possible. After this you will immediately head to lane while your jungler will typically clear the xp camp to the side of the green buff.
From here you will usually meet the enemy mid in lane on the first wave. Depending on yours and their early pressure/clear and positioning you will decide whether you'll be able to fight or not and whether you'll be able to use Grasping Hands on the whole wave or just be able to hit the front melee minions.
How it goes from here will determine: if it's just a stalemate, you or your jungler has kill potential, if you will have mid camp pressure or if you'll have to back towards your tower line and safe clear.
From here you'll mainly be looking to clear waves, contest mid camps, clear the damage buff, assist support with health buff clear (once they rotate over from duo), and being aware of rotation opportunities.
In some cases you may be able to steal enemy side jungle farm but it is risky and not that generally beneficial for direct farm compared to your own side's farm and controlling neutral farm, but can be useful to put the enemy further behind.

Mid Game:

As the match goes towards the mid game, other than the usual farm opportunities you'll be looking to control the Stygian Beacon for your team and try attempt, contest and steal (if the enemy is attempting to kill them) the Gold Fury and Pyromancer objectives.
When the Beacon spawns often both teams will try rotate over to control it, especially the mid, support and jungle. In 1vs1 cases you'll have to decide whether you or the other enemy has more kill potential and who is more likely to have their teammates to rotate over first to impact your decision if contesting the beacon will be worth it.
As for Gold Fury and Pyromancer opportunities they will vary on factors such as: your team's overall objective shred, your ADC's current objective shred / build, your team's map pressure, how strong each team's teamfight is, where on the map everyone is (i.e. if one team is doing Gold, the other may decide to do Pyro as a smaller trade), if any members of the enemy team are on a respawn timer, etc...

Late Game:

At this stage you'll mainly be looking at wave pushing, contesting Fire Giant, and Phoenix sieging / Phoenix defense, though Pyromancer and Gold Fury (especially Oni variant) will still be somewhat relevant but less important.
As for late game teamfights, most often you will be positioned in the "backline" (behind your team's solo and support - who generally are the "frontline") and will play around your ADC to deal with the enemy frontline and jungler, while making sure to put out as much damage as possible to the highest threats on the enemy team.
When it comes to Fire Giant opportunities, often there can be stalemates where both teams will try to force a teamfight or look for lone picks in order to gain an advantage, sometimes involving one team going for a non fully committing attempt at doing the objective to bait the other team to step up.

Warding

Mid Warding:

Here are your regular warding spots for mid, to help your team be aware of the enemy team's general rotations especially when you're not in mid lane. Generally with good map awareness you shouldn't need to rely on wards much yourself for safety.

Green: Placing wards at these locations on both sides of the lane give you good general vision of the nearby jungle, giving vision of the entrances to your lane so you can see incoming ganks.
Purple: You can place a ward directly in front of the enemy tower (but not within its range), which can give you a lot of information if you keep an eye on the mini-map. If they are sitting on the ward in mid, you know where they are. If their icons push further into the lane, you can assume they are pushing. If they go towards the right or left jungles you can make early calls on "Be Carefuls" or "Enemy Incoming" or you can assume they are doing their buff camps. If their icons move backwards towards their tower you can generally assume that they are going to one of the back pathways into the jungle, likely to clear camps.

Late-Game Warding:

Over here is shown the ideal lategame warding spots around Fire Giant, though often you will be sharing the responsibility for this rather than handling it alone, especially when it's not safe for you to step up to place deeper wards. Any wards placed closer to the objective within the Fire Giant pit tend to get destroyed by Sentries more often than not, so they tend to not be reliable.

Remember, minions act as moving wards in the lanes, and are able to spot nearby gods. If your towers are down, keep your minions pushed up as much as possible to provide an extra set of eyes.

White Circles: These are all offensive locations that allow you to spot enemies near to or approaching objectives, and are helpful in covering multiple approaches. The closer you get to the Fire Giant, the more contested those spots will be and the more likely enemies will try to counter-ward.

The ones closest to the enemy base can give you very early notice.
Red Circles: Fairly obvious, but it's always good to have vision on the main jungle objectives, especially the Fire Giant. Sentry Wards are key here, as they allow you to spot and remove enemy wards. You can place wards directly on top of the objectives, or put them slightly to one side to try to spot enemy wards or protect yours from being detected.

Counter-Warding: Enemies may drop wards on your defensive side in similar (opposite) spots to where you would place yours. If the Fire Giant is already covered and you have a spare , place them in these spots to limit the enemy's vision on your team.

Defensive Warding: If you're pushed back to your phoenixes or inside your base, locate your wards in the nearby jungle and general approaches.

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Great build, especially in late game.

(1) |

Love the build. Big fan of yours 🙌🏾

Spear of the magus died ?? because it was op before

(143) |

Passive is much weaker than it used to be and there's better items for percent pen / power. If it had flat pen it could at least be an ok early game item / alt to Bancroft's/Deso but it doesen't. Last time Magus was op on Anubis was when it had the flat shred reduction that could remove up to 50 or so prots.

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Could also add and as alternative items.

(143) |

Don't really think Pythag's is too good in Mid. Mage power nerfs didn't do well for the item plus it no longer has percent pen. Shard im not sure about because in generally sure Rod is a better option.

(35) |

That's fair.

I think most of the appeal for Pythag's is in the early sustain it provides while still having decent stats (comparable to Chronos' Pendant), and at a cheap price point.

And while I do definitely like Tahuti, I believe Shard does more against tanks. You'll usually want to time the passive to apply to your ult, which when combined with Tyhons is going to absolutely shred enemies by 60% plus whatever flat pen you may have.

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(143) |

Added them but im not really sold on Pyth. Also think you're forced into Typhon's 2nd if building it first to get the most out of the item.

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Table of Contents

Intro

Abilities

How to Play

Warding

Definitive Anubis Conquest Mid Lane Guide

Smite God: Anubis

Anubis Build

Start for Sacrificial Build

Sacrificial Ability Build

Sacrificial Ability Build (Rejuvenating variant)

Start for Timeline Build

Timeline Ability Build

Relics and Shard

Alternative Items

Anubis's Skill Order

Plague of Locusts

Mummify

Grasping Hands

Death Gaze

Intro

Abilities

How to Play

Warding

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