Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28140663-20160430180604/@comment-98.169.177.45-20160501103015

Gephiltacool wrote: I've mained Anubis, its not really vulturing, more like gambling who will win. Besides, if the person you bet on to die wins, they can thank you for giving them a .1 attack buff. (reading your comment again, you don't seem to know cursed enemies will give Anubis stats if they die)

As for the 'fine line' yes, Anubis probably wouldn't win if you fought him 5 seconds into the game starting. I totally agree with that, but Anubis is the only class in the game that can steal health.

As long as Anubis can keep spamming Absorbing Strikes and catches you in a Cursed Field, it doesn't matter how many stacks Anubis has because you are dead. No other class can be losing a fight, then suddenly have more health than the enemy, except rarely maybe Tundrus, by like 9 health at most.

Another reason why Anubis is 1st place in my opinion is because of his crowd control, which covers more situations. For example, Nether won't be wiping out an army of skilled people who know what they're doing, but an Anubis who throws out a Cursed Field and catches all of those skilled people will most definitely win that fight. Yes, Anubis can be overall skilled at gaining stacks...

but what if a player just suddenly attacks you early game? (if you're bringing up how Cryo can die early at the start of the game, I can too with Anubis)

First of all, you would most likely go for an Absorbing Strike to absorb your enemy's damage and walkspeed...

But a skilled player would most likely bait the Absorbing Strike and use a shield to stagger the enemy, or an ability like Swipe to knock the enemy down and use their ultimate to get the blow.

And what if you use Cursed Field? It would be pretty easy to escape, because of almost all the classes have a lunge. Or you can just use your shield to escape the Cursed Field.

OR what if they don't have a lunge? i.e Mechanic, Spectre, Obsidian, Renegade, Tempus, Tundrus, and Anubis. Well, Mechanic would just use his ultimate,

Spectre would just use his ultimate as well to teleport to you (if you hit them with Phantom Mode or fourth standard attack), otherwise Spectre would just wing it and use Phantom Mode to quickly attack you, despite of the 0.5 defense.

Obsidian can just use E + V out of the field.

Renegade would just use Trauma to make your body near him, and then attack furiously as possible.

Tempus can just use Temporal Stun for no damage and just wait, or just teleport out of here if Tempus placed a Temporal Image.

Tundrus can just propell out of here with Tundra's propulsion. If that doesn't work, just spam Snowball and use Warmth for health.

Anubis can just use Absorbing Strike if he's near you, or just use Cursed Field to cancel the damage out.

In addition, two (three if you count [E]) of his abilities deal no damage, which is Z and C.