Fenrir Guide to Victory [UPDATED]

Yo whats up guys this is Onag3ZaBoss here with a smite God guide bringing you a Guide for Fenrir. This guide is going to explain what items you need to play Fenrir effectively and why. This guide also tells you how to play Fenrir and get a score of say 28/0/14 (my personal best), so please, settle yourselves down and take the time to read through the information and hopefully it will help you play Fenrir as well as you possible can. Thank you, enjoy.

Mortals must rely on the wisdom of the Gods, but never forget they are fallible. They can be petty, churlish, and worst of all, wrong. What are the consequences for their mistakes? They should have slain the wolf-beast Fenrir, but they chose instead to bind him. Despite the warnings and prophecies he would tear Odin apart at Ragnorok and devour the earth and sky, they did not end Loki's son. Now, terror roams free. It is unknown how, but Fenrir is Unbound.

Thrice they tried to bind him, each time convincing Fenrir that the chains were nothing more than a challenge for his strength, a test to see if he could shatter them. The first two God-forged fetters were easily broken beneath the beast's terrible power, but the third was a ribbon, dwarf made, and Fenrir grew suspicious of the God's intentions. As a show of faith, he demanded one of them place a hand in his mouth, and if the ribbon proved magical in nature, he would exact punishment. Brave, if foolish, Tyr put his fist in Fenrir's maw as the ribbon was secured to the wolf's leg. Fenrir strained and screamed, but could not break free, and in rage, he devoured Tyr's hand.

For a time, Fenrir was forgotten, the dire prophecy just a memory. But they were all warned and the Gods did nothing. Fenrir is hungry now, the first hunter, an alpha among sheep, but no flesh will satisfy his need. It is revenge he craves, and now he is Unbound.

Hopefully you read that, or have read it somewhere else because you when ever you see a tyr on the other team, target him and try take out his other hand :)

PROS
- Good at ganking
- High single target damage
- Great chase ability
- Your a freaking wolf... what else do you want
- Great kill steal ability
- Good early though to late game

CONS
- Squishy
- Targeted more often that not
- Doesn't have very good wave clear early game

Unbound Runes (Passive)
Fenrir gains efficiency as he attacks. Every hit from a basic attack activates 1 rune, up to a max of 5. Each of Fenrirs abilities gain an additional benefit when used at maximum runes and the runes are consumed. Enemy gods that die near Fenrir will fully activate all his runes.
Ability: Buff
Target: Self

Unchained (Keybind 1)
Fenrir leaps forward, dealing damage to all enemies when he lands. At full runes, the leap stuns the enemies hit. If the leap hits a god, the cooldown is halved.
Ability: Ground Target
Effects: Enemy
Damage: Physical
Damage: 95/155/215/275/335(+80% of your physical power
Stun: 1s Cost 65/70/75/80/85
Cooldown: 15s

Seething Howl (Keybind 2)
Fenrir rears back and howls, inspiring himself with a physical power and lifesteal buff. At full runes, the buff is increased by 50%.
Ability: Buff
Affects: Allies
Physical Power: 10/20/30/40/50
Physical Lifesteal: 15/20/25/30/35%
Buff Duration: 6s
Cost: 60/65/70/75/80
Cooldown: 13s

Brutalize (Keybind 3)
Fenrir pounces to his ground target location. If there was an enemy in the radius, he strikes them 4 times, dealing additional damage with each strike while being immune to knockups. At full runes, each strike deals 75% damage to nearby enemies.
Ability: Single Target
Affects: Enemy
Damage: Physical
Damage per strike: 45/75/105/135/165(+50% of your physical power)
Cost: 70/75/80/85/90
Cooldown: 14s

Ragnarok (Ultimate Keybind 4)
When Ragnarok arrives, Fenrir grows massive in size, becoming immune to crowd control while moving faster. Fenrir bites enemy gods, dealing physical damage and carrying them away. Biting a cc immune target deals the damage but ends his ultimate. At full runes, his protections double.
Ability: Single Target
Affects: Enemy
Damage: Physical
Damage: 150/225/300/375/450(+120%of your physical power)
Movement Speed: 50%
Carry Duration: 2s
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

What I think about the skills

Basic Fenrir build

Unbound Runes

It works really well with Unchained for chasing and Brutalize for jungling.

Unchained

This is a really good skill for closing the gap between you and a running enemy so that your Brutalize is in range. It also has nice damage.

Seething Howl

Well, I don't know about this. I just don't find myself using this ability that much. It isn't really good unless you have full Runes, but i like to use them for Unchained or Brutalize because they benefit off the Runes more. Yes it may be useful if your on your own in lane and are at low health and get the extra physical life-steal, but the life steal can easily be acquired from items.

Brutalize

This ability is AMAZING. It is wonderful for getting those kill steals and chasing running low enemies. It is a 4-hit combo that deals 165 damage PER hit at full rank. What more is that your also immune to knockbacks/knockups. I recommend only use this ability on a low target to get the full use of of this. Also, don't be afraid to use this ability to dive towers for recalling enemies, just make sure you have Unchained ready so you can get out of there.

Ragnarok

This ability is your bread and butter for ganking/chasing/setting up a kill for someone else... it is basically your bread and butter for getting someone killed. Only use this ability when you are setting up a kill with someone and make sure they know what you are going to be doing, because if they don't it may be a waste of an ult. Use this when you see someone sneaking away in a team fight with low health, or just it when coming out of the jungle and ganking. Try and grab someone and bring them into a nearby tower for even more damage, or near someone who has a strong AoE ult, like Ymir, Zeus. Poseidon,you get the point.

Beast in the jungle

Unbound Runes

Now, this passive is actually really good for Fenrir if you are jungling because at full runes Brutalize does damage to all near by enemies, which makes camp clearing really easy. Also, at full runes, the life-steal and power form Seething Howl increases dramatically.

Unchained

Seething Howl

Brutalize

This ability is amazing, like I said before. Its really useful inside and out of the jungle. At full runes this ability does damage to all near by enemies for 75% of the damage, so when this ability is maxed which will it will be at level 10, you will be clearing the whole camp just by attack the leader with a fully runed Brutalize.

Ragnarok

In this section of the guide I will explain why I chose those specific items for my Fenrir build

Warrior Tabi
I basically start any god with boots. For example for a tank like Ares i would build greaves first, for a mage, Shoes, and for any AP physical god, Tabi, and i like to upgrade it to Warrior Tabi for the extra penetration to take down those more tanky gods easier.

The Executioner
This is a really good item for Fenrir because it is fairly cheap and it offers nice attack speed and physical power. The passive on this item really helps to take down enemies quick and easy because every basic attacks reduce the targets physical protection (max 3 stacks). This can really help taking down those more tankier gods early game.

Frostbound Hammer
This item is great for any physical god because the passive reduces the targets movement speed by 25%. This can really help you get more basic attacks of to benefit from the passive of The Executioner. This item also adds nice physical power and health, which is really useful for Fenrir because he is fairly squishy.

Focused voidblade
This is nice item for Fenrir because he is squishy and those assassins like Loki or those ADC's like Apollo can really hurt. Focused voidblade adds a good amount of physical protection as well as some physical power. The reason why I choose this over Voidblade is because the penetration it offers is better that the aura on Voidblade which reduces the targets physical protection. I like the penetration better because you are an assassin and you would like to break though the targets armor, and The Executioner can do the armor reducing for you.

Deathbringer
This item is pretty self explanatory. It offers physical power and critical strike chance, but the main reason nearly all of the physical gods get this is because of the passive. The passive is amazing because it adds 50% damage to the critical strike damage which can really be a game changer.

6th items

Qin's Blades

Rage

Rage

Deathbringer

Titan's Bane

Brutalize

Consumables

Mana Potion

Elixir of Power

Elixir of Power

Ward

Actives

Aegis Amulet

Combat Blink

Creeping Curse

Purification Beads

Fenrir

Ares

This is going to be a quite guide on how i like to play Fenrir.
Now, the art of playing Fenrir is to hang around at the back or near the jungle and only engage when a target is low. Although Fenrir can dish out enough damage early game to take down a full health enemy, you don't have a lot of health so you will die easily if you try to attack. This is why its a good idea to just sit back a little at let your partner do some damage before you jump in and grab a kill. Brutalize is really good for doing this. Try get a lane partner who can dish out a lot of damage, but not fast enough so they kill the enemy. Someone who worked really well for this was Ao Kuang. Be sure to just hang around behind your partner, and let them do the wave clearing because Fenrir can't wave clear effectively early game. To engage, use your Unchained to get closer to the enemy and so that your Brutalize is in range. Pop Brutalize and if the enemy was low enough you should have the kill secured. Now, retreat into the jungle, head back into lane. Rinse and repeat this process.

When ganking a lane, make sure you have your ult Ragnarok ready. Tell the lane you are going to gank that you are ganking and also tell them to retreat a little. Doing this should allow the enemies to push forward a little out of their tower and closer to yours. Now, run in, pop Ragnorok, grab the tankiest god and run into the tower. This way the tower can damage the god while your team pounces on him like ants on a dead worm :\. While your teammates are hacking away at the tank, turn and rush to the squishy god. Now you should be able to win the battle as long as you are careful. If you have full runes, (which you probably wont because Ragnarok uses them up) then jump on the enemy with Unchained to stun him, next basic attack him a few times until he is low, the Brutalize to finish him off. If you don't have full runes then do the same but it wont be as effective.

I hope you have enjoyed reading my guide on Fenrir the Unbound. I am still working on this build and I will make sure to update it regularly. Just remember that this is a guide and only a guide, so feel free to make some changes to the build. Please make sure to leave some feedback down in the comments section. If you think this was a good build then please up-vote the guide so that others can see it and hopefully it will help them too. If you don't like it or if I am doing something wrong, please don't down-vote, it gets me know where. Instead, leave a comment telling me what I did wrong and how i can fix it. If you do this it will be greatly appreciated. Please remember that I take all comments into consideration, even if I don't reply to them. Okay I'm going to leave it at that. I hope this guide helped you play Fenrir and I hope all goes well for your future games with this bad ***.
I am Onag3ZaBoss and until next time, bye.

10/10/2013

-Re-did the build and re-wrote the item explanatory.
- added the update log
- edited Fenrir's play style chapter.

10/11/2013