SMITE Tutorial - Guan Yu, The Saint of War

Get started on the battleground of the gods with the SMITE god tutorial for Guan Yu, The Saint of War.

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[urbanpie]

Guan Yu - The god that has his title wrong (He's the god of war, not the saint), had an ability removed and placed on another god and never had a God Reveal.

[Kojain]

I remember playing Dynasty Warriors and Guan Yu was my favorite character to play as.

[Foxnos]

Also press backwards key to slow down the horse.

Because that's not apparent for everyone.

[Droshock]

Now I remember who he sounds like, Uchiha from Fairy Tail, "mannnn." "Your sweet parfuuum".

[AnonymityIx]

I don't like this format. they left out the fact that he gets a cool down reduction if his dash hits a god and he's immune to certain ccs while dashing

[asanjawa]

You forgot the fact that guan's 2 also slows

[everfatjoe]

Doesn't dash deal damage and slows?

[zenoftw]

this isn't a tutorial this is something i could have gotten from reading the descriptions

[shadowsedge]

I think this is the same voice actor who voiced cooler in tfs dbz abridged.

[Prberts]

Oh god when he said Calvary charge I just thought of drunken irish priests surging forward.

[runesword]

these are nice. It would be cool if you guys were able to do this for every god, but why stop there? You could incorporate these videos into the game and new players can watch them under the god info tab. It'd take a lot of work but it'd be good on you.

[ultimatum]

They forgot to mention Warrior's Will has a slow

[cookiedough]

I have this feeling that they are only gonna do this for the same gods they always use lol, Thor, ymir, guan yu, ra, neith, fenrir

[jlove-s]

Normally they have what to do and what to do in tight positions

[Commentar]

Don't they already do this in the god reveals

[RubeniAlimasi]

they didn't mention that his 2 reduces cooldown or something..

[Jyrskis]

Guan needs a buff/small rework, he is otherwise kinda fun to play but other warriors (not Ravana, ugh) like Osiris or Herc are so much more viable, I'd really like if hirez would do something with Guan's heal or just change it.

[xSHxbigmike]

How to use Guan Yu, don't use him because he's bad.

[Burningphynix]

Since they did a video about Guan yu can they finally change his passive to something more useful and make his heal go off idk his protections maybe or power. I mean something for crying out loud.

[Jasonrak]

I'm only watching these because of his voice.