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Sup peeps!
I'm Azure Blaze, a Masters-level player, and I'm here to help you rock the King of Cats. Einstein and I share the same philosophy:
Enfeeble Anhur's physical protection debuff. It increases damage vs. targets by approximately 7%. Shifting Sands Great in team fights, it provides both a slow and a small obelisk wall. Disperse This ability can be used to engage or disengage. It provides a knock-up and helps to set up stuns. Great as a countermeasure for dodging ultimates. Impale to clear lane and you'll need to use your other abilities sparingly when you set up kills. When you have time, rebuild your mana pool on enemy waves when you don't need to instantly clear. Desert Fury isn't as strong as his auto-attacks late game. Once you reach that point, it should only be used as a source of damage that can pass through walls and enemies to hit desired targets, or as crowd-control protection during its animation. Impale in order to pin an enemy to a wall or his obelisk. Disperse can also be countered by cripple effects such as 
Shackles,
Stinger, or 
Whirlpool. It can also be countered by 
Gravity Surge, and there's also a slight animation delay that can allow a quick opponent to interrupt Anhur's jump. In addition, an opponent with 
Purification Beads can become immune to cripple and crowd-control effects, effectively countering Disperse. Enfeeble Shifting Sands Impale Disperse Desert Fury
Level and max his Impale first. This is Anhur's wave-clear ability and vital to winning your lane in the early game.
Next you should level Desert Fury as this is your kill-secure ability, providing your main source of damage against enemy gods. This can also be used as a defensive maneuver to make yourself CC immune for its duration -- however, I do NOT recommend doing this if you can avoid it, since it has far more value in securing kills.
Shifting Sands and Disperse are for utility and can be leveled to your playstyle.
You should be buying at least one ward when backing and a 
Healing Potion or Mana Potion, depending on how good at dodging you are.
Use a 
Ward to help your support if they fail to place a ward in a key location (see map below). These areas get the most traffic, and having vision here is crucial for your team. Wards help keep duo lane safe for you and your support.
Keep a sharp eye on the enemy jungler and middle laner. Try to check on their locations every couple of seconds. Not knowing where they are can leave you vulnerable to a surprise gank!
If you start on the other side of the map then do the same thing, warding in the same general areas above Gold Fury at the intersections near the enemy base. I recommend only buying 
Sentry Ward when you are ahead or can guarantee a kill. I don't endorse putting a sentry at Gold Fury unless your team plans to attack it immediately, otherwise it will likely get countered by the enemy team's own sentry.
In my opinion, the best strategy is to buy regular wards and place them above and around an enemy sentry, providing basically the same vision for less gold. Keep in mind a sentry costs 135 gold, which is basically half a Gold Fury in late game. Early on, a sentry ward costs more then it gives you. While arguably it's a good thing to help your team by putting a sentry at Gold Fury, realistically you can obtain the same results more safely and cheaply with regular wards.
Bear in mind that if your team isn't ahead, the enemy team will be able to counter-ward better than your team since they have more gold. In addition, your team will likely be too weak to fight them effectively, thus you will have wasted a substantial amount of gold on a sentry ward, if not multiple sentries.
Shifting Sands Use this in team fights. Drop it underneath multiple enemies or use it to block escape routes.
Disperse Very useful in late game, when the enemy team is trying to burst down squishy targets. It provides an excellent emergency escape route, allowing you to pull off stunts like leaping over a jungle camp wall, healing up to full, and getting back in the fight. It also helps you do your job as an ADC in late game, which is to survive and take down enemy targets with sustained damage. Ideally, you can bait the enemy team to burn all their cooldowns on you while you still have the ability to leap away, heal, and finish them off. (Bonus points if an enemy burns their ultimate.)
The strategy in ranked is roughly the same as in casuals. The only big difference is you rely more heavily on your support to perform well. If your support under-performs at lane clear then it can put you far behind even if you are a pro ADC. Should this happen, you will need to rotate to middle lane and attempt to get kills with teammates that are performing better.
Look for weak links on the enemy team. For instance, if an opponent is less skilled, farm kills off him repeatedly with your teammates. This will feed your team and lower the enemy team's morale. Fortunately Anhur has one of the highest damage ultimates that is also easy to land, so you can secure multiple kills with little effort.
As you ward, you should mention to your support where you'd like their wards to be placed -- and make sure they pay attention. This goes for the rest of your team as well. If they aren't warding, try to help them understand that wards provide needed vision which helps win games. So make sure you speak up, since you'll be carrying them later on. It's in your favor if you guide them in performing well early, since that means there'll be less problems to clean up later.
Below are some general tips and common mistakes that I see all the time in League. (They aren't specific to playing Anhur, so you can skip this part if you prefer.)
Don't pick Chaac. His win ratio on smite.guru and SmiteStats prove that he is much more unlikely to dominate in the current meta.
Don't pick Hercules for the solo lane. His win ratio is also poor.
If you have a strong early-game god on your team that's good at invading, always invade! Mathematically there is no reason not to when your team produces twice the DPS output and can make enemies panic and/or burn health pots early.
If you have a Tyr on your team, make sure he levels his 
Power Cleave ability first. He should not level his 
Fearless in the beginning. Although he can push jungle camps around with this ability, it leaves him vulnerable in the early laning phase.
Make sure that the jungle paths near middle lane are warded, specifically the top gaps near mid camps. These are the most important areas to be warded! They protect objectives like Gold Fury and Fire Giant, and help prevent half your enemy team's gank potential. No matter what role I play, I always check to make sure these areas are warded. Carry a ward or two on you at all times to make sure these areas are covered. It could mean life or death for you and your team.
Anhur is a very safe god this meta (as of 7/25/2015). There are a lot of gods now with crowd control, and Anhur is a powerful and safe choice for ADC with his cc-immune ultimate and high damage potential. So with a little practice, you too can rule the game with the King of Cats!
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