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Ninja Tabi
Hastened Fatalis
Odysseus' Bow
Titan's Bane
Qin's Sais
Asi
Ancient Blade
Short Bow
Boots
Qin's Sais
Hastened Fatalis
Odysseus' Bow
Titan's Bane
Devourer's Gauntlet
Hydra's Lament
Bloodforge
Asi
Ninja Tabi
The Executioner
Transcendence
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Bacchus until one game my screen darkened and I thought that ult was so cool I had to try playing the god who had that skill.
Xbalanque build that catered to my poor aiming skills while also being very viable late game.
Charged Bow and the awesome Branching Bola buff to your basic attacks will make you be able to kill any god by just aiming at any red bracket and firing at it.
This build for Xbalanque is very easy to handle. It serves as a "training wheels" build until you could land basic attacks on enemies with your Branching Bola buff.
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Passive - Dead of Night
Dead of Night is a very simple passive - for each kill up to 6, Xbal's physical power increases. This is a good reason for you to secure kills early on in the game, but it's okay if you don't - mid to late-game, you'll be ranking up those kills anyway.
1 - Branching Bola Branching Bola is a toggle-able buff - when active, your basic attacks deal extra damage and when it hits, it branches off into two bolas at roughly 45 degrees from each other. My build doesn't have this ability until level 12, where you should have enough mana to support the insane cost it requires. Branching Bola eats mana for each basic attack while the buff is active, so you need to either get Transcendence to take care of the consumption or replace it with something else and make frequent recall trips.
2 - Poison Darts Poison Darts will be your bread-and-butter skill. This will be your poke, and your initiator for a combo. It also slows enemies, so this is great as a CC as well. When you see an ally running away, pop this on enemies and it will give your ally a chance to escape.
3 - Rising Jaguar Rising Jaguar is your all-purpose mobility ability - when you have poisoned your enemy with Poison Darts, this skill will do additional damage to them, making it extremely potent when used in a combo. Don't forget that you can maneuver Xbal while in the air, so use it to your advantage and steer where you need to be. When you're in a tight spot, this skill could also act as an escape.
4 - Darkest of Nights Darkest of Nights is the most awesome-looking ult among all the gods I've played with and against. It is a global ult - every enemy god gets to see your awesome power and get limited vision while the Mayan symbol ominously counts down until they get stunned. Note however that this is easily counteracted - when the countdown ends, if the god is not moving, they won't be stunned. Rising Jaguar for chasing down enemies. It's a pretty significant attack range buff, and it's fun seeing enemies panic while they're blind and something they can't see is hitting them. For the ultimate chasing combo, pop Darkest of Nights, poke them a bit with basic attacks, and if they're almost dead, do your Poison Darts and Rising Jaguar combo for an awesome kill.
Ymir's ult 
Shards of Ice), you could also pop Darkest of Nights to give enemies a choice between two evils - stop moving and escape the stun, or sprint to avoid the impending damage AOE. Poison Darts and Rising Jaguar maxed out as quickly as possible, picking up Darkest of Nights at level 5. With this, you will have maxed out your one-two death combo as early as level 10 for Rising Jaguar and level 11 for Poison Darts. Branching Bola at level 12 and start spamming your lightning-fast basic attacks to get mad stacks for Transcendence and Devourer's Gauntlet. Win.
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Ancient Blade which will lead to Hastened Fatalis and Short Bow which will be Odysseus' Bow later on in the game. You'll have something extra, so get started on Ninja Tabi by buying some Boots.
Hastened Fatalis Hastened Fatalis will make it easier for you to just hold down your Fire button. The passive on this removes the movement speed debuff when attacking - which is very useful especially when you're always auto-attacking. Maxing this out early in the game will provide a significant advantage especially when your enemies haven't finished their build yet.
Ninja Tabi Ninja Tabi will also provide you with an increase in attack speed. Because we want to be lightning-fast with our auto atacks, we always take an opportunity for attack speed whenever possible.
Odysseus' Bow Charged Bow first before you max out your Ninja Tabi. The passive from Charged Bow means that you'll be more likely to poke a god hiding behind minions every four basic attacks.
Qin's Sais Qin's Sais will add an additional 4% of their max health as damage - for basic attacks. Given that you're already spamming your auto attack at this point, that 4% stacks up and will really hurt your enemy.
Titan's Bane Titan's Bane allows you to cut through gods who know what they're doing - if they have items that give protections, this will make your physical attacks penetrate more. Unlocking this will allow you to bruise or even kill initiators and guardians who are pretty tanky. However, if your team is losing a bit or you need more survivability, unlock Asi first before Titan's Bane so you get some lifesteal.
ALTERNATIVE: The Executioner The Executioner will ramp up your attack speed to the maximum number possible - 2.5. With this, you'll also get a nice medal for maxing attack speed. Compared to Titan's Bane, The Executioner strips your enemies' protections instead of buffing your attacks with penetration, so it's actually dependent on the situation.
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Hastened Fatalis to get rid of the movement speed debuff when auto-attacking, then max out Ninja Tabi or unlock Charged Bow if gods tend to stay behind minions, so you have an additional poke. Odysseus' Bow, and you just cackle in delight when you get Qin's Sais. Add some trouble to your kit by unlocking Titan's Bane and Asi, but these are just cherry on your cake - at this point, feel free to explore the other options available to you.
Xbalanque is an awesome ADC - being able to turn the tide of the game from losing to winning with your incredible mobility, a nice one-two damage combo, and an ult that sends your enemies in a panic while you throw bolas at them.
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@aicxe: The biggest thing I'd suggest is to take out
Thing is, even with all 4 stacks, it looks like
Now, this is a possible error in explanation, but you should confirm...with
In the build list, you have
Finally, if possible, you need to find a way to get rid of Meditation in Arena. The reason you provide is for health...and it only restores 15% of that. At level 3, he's only got 680 health, so that's only 102 health...at level 5, it's 830 health/124.5 health restored. Horribly inefficient, and you'd be better off, again, playing it a bit safe until you have both
All in all, though, this is an interesting and pretty newbie friendly take on Xbal...high attack speed to compensate for any misses to help keep
However, since it's for Arena, you don't really need Lifesteal, especially if you pick it up only at the end of the game.
You could change
I also would get this item before in the build, since they are cheap and provide you with a good attack speed bonus early in the game.