Anub'arak Build Guide “Time is fleeting.”

1. Anub'arak's Overview

Anub'arak is an aggressive anti-caster Warrior. His strongest points are his long-range disruption and high resistance to Ability-based damage. Although considered an archetypal tank, his Health pool is significantly lower than that of other tanks; Anub'arak must therefore rely on his summons and Abilities to survive in battle.

2. Anub'arak's Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

• Excellent initiator
• Flexible Talent choices to adapt to opponents' strategy
• Several long-range crowd control and interruption Abilities

Weaknesses

• Relatively fragile
• Limited damage dealing potential
• Main Abilities are skillshots that can be avoided

3. Anub'arak's Talent Build Cheatsheet

Balanced Build

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This Balanced Build seeks to provide Anub'arak with a healthy mix of offense, defense, and crowd control. Key defensive aspects of the build lie in the synergistic interaction between Subterranean Shield and Epicenter to readily generate powerful Shields. Offensively, the build exploits the movement speed reduction and stunning effects provided by Impale, Bed of Barbs or Underking, and Burrow Charge to reliably trigger Acid Drenched Mandibles. For crowd control purposes, most of the aforementioned Talents come into play, with Epicenter making team-wide hits with Burrow Charge particularly debilitating. At Hero Level 20, Rewind more or less allows you to double any of the above tricks for one of the game's most powerful power spikes.

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4. Anub'arak's Synergies and Counters

Anub'arak synergizes with

Anub'arak's aggressive crowd control-oriented Ability set makes him particularly useful to any Hero who is able to follow up on said crowd control with their own Ability combo.

Anub'arak is countered by

Although very well rounded, Anub'arak may struggle against Heroes that have ways of avoiding his skillshot based Abilities or otherwise kiting him.

5. Anub'arak's Maps

Anub'arak's stronger maps

Anub'arak's average maps

Anub'arak's weaker maps

Having a well-rounded Ability set, Anub'arak works well on most Maps. His sub-par PvE damage dealing capacity, however, makes him a poor choice on any Map featuring Objectives that need to be taken out quickly.

6. Anub'arak's Tips and Tricks

• Exploit Scarab Host Beetles to soak damage from Structures and Mercenaries, and to intercept skillshots.
• Use Burrow Charge to close up on a target, then follow up with Impale for much crowd control.
• Harden Carapace should be used on-Cooldown during fights due to its low Mana cost, and ability to summon Beetles.
• Use Locust Swarm with caution; it heals for a large amount, but does not make you invincible, especially versus burst damage.
• Hold onto your Cocoon's Cooldown to interrupt and deny strong enemy Heroic Abilities.

7. Role in the Current Meta

Anub'arak is a unique tank that sacrifices raw durability for Spell Armor and more long-range crowd-control-based utility than other tanks. As such, Anub'arak players are expected to aggressively provide crowd-control (through Impale and Burrow Charge) for their teammates to follow up on with their own Abilities, and then pressure fragile backline Heroes. Finding the right time to initiate, peel, and pressure isolated Heroes while avoiding dangerous situations are the skills that one should develop in order to become a strong Anub'arak player.

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