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"I will make you a master of the sword. No one is stronger than you...use me and kill!" - Anubis (Anubisu-shin, アヌビス神)
Summary
Anubis is a minor antagonist featured in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. Despite being a character, however, Anubis takes the form of a spirit that possessed a sword, making the sword the Stand.
It is most effective in close-range combat, as it has a variety of moves that can deal good damage to any opponent when used correctly.
This Stand is a part of the Arrow Stand Pool, in which it has a 16.5% chance (C-Tier percentage) of obtaining it from a Stand Arrow.
Appearance
Anubis appears as an approximate version of the mythological Anubis it's named after Egyptian mythology, with a human body and a jackal head.
It's bound to a thin scimitar with an elaborate, jeweled-encrusted cross-guard complete with a scabbard. However, rather than Anubis itself, only the sword appears in-game, rather than the Anubis God.
For the sword itself, The sword has an angelic look, it has a long grip, following with a long curved blade. Befitting its namesake, Anubis possesses a black lead in both the colored manga and anime. Its headdress is also yellow in both media.
Movesets/Abilities
| Type of Ability | Name | Description |
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| The player cannot attack unless they unsheathe their sword. |
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The user draws back Anubis, then performs a lunge attack. Anyone hit will be knocked back dealing a moderate amount of damage. | |||
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The user draws back Anubis, then performs a lunge attack. Anyone hit will be knocked back dealing a moderate amount of damage. | |||
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The user will stand still for 2 seconds and activate this form giving a purple aura to signify the user being possessed. Activating this will change the user's moveset, gain the ability to bypass any counter, and give Anubis a different model. This can be toggled back at any time. |
| Key | Name | Description | Damage | Cooldown |
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The user swings their sword 2 times with 2 variants, light and heavy. The light attack combo deals a great amount of damage, while the heavy attack combo deals superior amount of damage. |
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The user lunges the sword forward dealing moderate damage to the target. The target is then lifted using the sword for some time. The player will lunge their sword forward again dealing great damage. |
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The player tilts their head for 1 second, then begins to swing Anubis in front of themselves with high speed for 5 seconds, dealing godly damage over time. The user's walk speed is reduced in this mode, but your block is active. | |||
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The user quickly lunges their sword twice, dealing a good amount of damage each hit followed up with a final strike dealing a great amount of damage. |
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Rather than rolling, the user will move forward very fast for a split second. The distance you can dash is randomized and can be short or far. This can go further than the regular dash of Vampire, Santana, or Kars. | |||
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While blocking, the user is able to quickly slash an attacking enemy to deal moderate damage and knock them back a fair distance. |
Battle Strategies
Anubis, despite seeming simple and not that strong, can actually hold its own against even the toughest stands, including Over Heavens. Despite appearing simple, Anubis is actually quite complex, comparable to that of Shadow The World. Anubis can use its RNG based damage range to its advantage, granting varying damage on combos which can grant you higher damage then normal. Anubis can also ignore counters because its slashing moves are actually considered projectiles, so they will go through counters that are vulnerable to projectiles. Anubis is a fast stand with great pokes such as possessed E and F, and unpossessed m1 and E. A large part of the gameplay will involve something known as a 'Parry dash'. What this means is while using parry, you are able to roll or cancel into another move, this is your main combo starter and should be used often, it is important to get this down (Note that it is recommend you are to the left of your opponent when using this move, as it will otherwise miss due to the hitbox registration). During combat, you don't want to stay in neutral (both players playing defensively waiting for something to happen), a big part of the game plan is to bait your opponent into making a mistake, and swiftly punishing. You are able to do this until you basically win. Anubis, while not the best combo stand, has some good combo potential and damage, especially with using a parry dash as a starter. Make sure you understand your options and you can win against most stands.
Combos
In Possessed Mode:
- LMB + E + R + F Medium
- R + E + T Medium
- LMB + C (If needed) + R + F Hard
- H + E + R + X+ LMB
- X + LMB + C + R + E + C + F Medium/Hard (It is better to keep distance so that you won't get hit)
- R + F + E Easy/Medium
- X+ RMB + C + F + LMB + LMB + R Medium
- X + RMB + C + F + R + C + E + X + RMB + LMB +LMB + E + F + X + RMB + C + LMB + LMB + R + C + E + X + RMB + C + F + LMB + R + C + X + RMB + E + LMB Hard
- X + RMB + C + E + F
In Normal Mode
- LMB + LMB + E + LMB Easy
- E + H Easy (used to get into Possessed mode when not in it.)
Pros:
- Dashing distance is further than most abilities in-game.
- Bypasses counters in Possessed Mode due to the game considering some attacks projectiles.
- Low cooldowns.
- Low damage stand but makes up for it with lots of combos and fast moves and great mobility.
- Varied damage can make combos and attacks do more damage then normal.
- Great defensive options with the parry move.
- Roll has more iframes then a standard roll, allowing you to dodge attacks easier
Cons:
- T-Move can be dodged easily and is extremely punishable; not worth using at all.
- No ranged attacks.
- It is possible for people to hit you while you are holding them on your sword (R move).
- Does not have a stand jump to avoid time stop, which forces you to tank up with the block.
- Confusing hitboxes
- When switching, you can't move for a short time and can give your enemy a free move.
- Parry has a bad hitbox and you need to be on the left of the opponent to hit consistently (applies to parry dash as well)
Trivia
- Anubis received a rework that was shortly reverted. It's moves consisted of a tripping move, a throw move where the victim is thrown upwards, spammable slashing and a short leap.
- Anubis's LMB attack is slightly faster in Unpossessed mode.
- When in normal mode, the hilt of Anubis is wrapped in cloth since when a person directly touches the hilt, they get possessed by Anubis.
- With the removed Anubis Rework, Anubis gained 1 voiceline which is: "I will take your life."
- It used to have a quote but this got removed, it was: "Anubis is the strongest stand. Die!", this quote is from JJBA: Heritage for The Future, quoted from Khan's battle intro. The quote played during the R move in Possessed Mode, hence the delay before the strike.
- It is one of the few stands that can suddenly change their move set, the others being Crazy Diamond, Shadow The World, Gold Experience, Tusk and King Crimson (Two Arm Doppio).
- This stand is needed for the Samurai quest, the requirement being to deal 2000 damage with the normal mode.
- In possessed mode, Anubis bypasses counters like the Over Heaven Stands.
- The E move in Normal Mode does not hit Dummies.
- The blade has a purple trail following it, similar to The Emperor's bullets.
- This is one of five stands in the game to not be humanoid, others being DKC, TADKC, The Emperor, and Mr. President.
- Anubis is currently is the only Stand to have a right click ability.
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