Anub'arak

Anub'arak
"For the Frozen Throne!"
Basic Info
Title	Traitor King
Role	Tank
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	500 / 4,000
Release Date	October 7, 2014
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	2150
Health Regen	4.4804
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	1.0625
Attack Speed	1
Attack Range	1.5
Attack Damage	81
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Anub'arak, the Traitor King, is a melee Tank hero from the Warcraft universe. The proud nerubian king dared to stand against the Lich King's invasion, but despite his bravery, he fell to the unrelenting Scourge. Resurrected into undeath, Anub'arak now serves as a towering weapon of destruction.

Anub'arak is a Tank who specializes against Mages.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

The former king of Azjol-Nerub, Anub'arak was among the nerubians slaughtered in the War of the Spider. One of his most loyal commanders was Anub'Rekhan. Ner'zhul the Lich King raised the high lords of the Spider Kingdom, Anub'arak among them, as undead to do his bidding. As a malicious crypt lord, he was forced to use his powers to purge the snow-swept landscape of any remaining resistance to the reign of the Lich King.

Anub'arak was sent south to meet Arthas Menethil when he arrived in Northrend. Anub'arak saved the death knight from an attack by blood elves before he introduced himself and told Arthas of Ner'zhul's plans. Anub'arak helped Arthas establish a base, then masterminded the attack on the blue dragon Sapphiron. Anub'arak told Arthas that it would take too long to fight their way through the forces led by Kael'thas and Vashj. He formulated a plan to go through the underground ruins of Azjol-Nerub to reach Icecrown, but warned that it would be a perilous journey.

Anub'arak led Arthas into the ruined kingdom, negating many perilous traps along the way. All the while he fought against his former subjects, the living nerubians, who called him the "traitor king". They encountered survivors of Muradin's expedition, led by Baelgun, who reported that an ancient evil had been released beneath the kingdom. Anub'arak and Arthas defeated the dwarves and broke into the Inner Kingdom. Soon, they came upon the evil the dwarves had spoken of - the Faceless Ones, strange creatures who had been imprisoned beneath the earth long ago. They even fought against a mighty Forgotten One. Upon entering the Upper Kingdom, an earthquake separated Anub'arak from Arthas. After digging through the rubble and finding the death knight unharmed, Anub'arak realized why Ner'zhul had chosen Arthas as his champion.

Anub'arak ushered Arthas out of Azjol-Nerub and to the surface, where they engaged with Illidan Stormrage and his servants in a battle for the Frozen Throne. Anub'arak defended Arthas as he magically activated the four obelisks surrounding Icecrown's pinnacle, then stood by as Arthas climbed the stairs to his destiny.

Gameplay

Anub'arak is an aggressive Tank who specializes against Mages. His strongest points are his long-range Crowd controls 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. 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.

Strengths

• Excellent initiator and diver
• High mitigation against ability based heroes
• Beetles can block skillshots and structure damage
• Several long-range crowd control and interruption Abilities

Weaknesses

• Relatively fragile to Physical Damage Dealer
• Main Abilities are skillshots that can be avoided
• Limited damage dealing potential

Abilities

Scarab Host

Using an Ability spawns a Beetle which lasts for 8 seconds, attacking nearby enemies for 20 damage.

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Type: Summon

Targeting: No target

Beetle

Type: Active

Scaling: 4.00% (damage & Health)

Targeting: Automatic

Health: 285

Basic Attack damage: 20

Attack speed: 1.00

Attack range: 0.75

Movement Speed: 4.0

Sight radius: 7.0

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• Beetles spawn randomly in one of eight possible locations around Anub'arak.
• If Anub'arak is attacking an enemy when a Beetle is spawned, the Beetle will also attempt to attack that target.
• If Anub'arak is not attacking anything when a Beetle is spawned, the Beetle will attempt to find a nearby target to attack. If an enemy Hero is close enough it will be prioritized.
• Beetles will then attack and pursue a target found this way until that enemy dies, or the Beetles lose track of the target (through teleporting away, for example). Only then will the Beetles return to a lane.

Q

Impale

65 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds

Deals 90 damage. Stuns for 1 second.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping, Piercing Skillshot, Stun

Cast time: 0 + 0.25 seconds

Range: 12.5

Hitbox: 1.5 x 2.0

Missile speed: 10

Initial delay: 0.25 seconds

Search delay: 0.125 seconds

W

Harden Carapace

25 Mana Cooldown: 7 seconds

Gain a Shield that grants 40 Spell Armor and absorbs 340 damage over 3 seconds.

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Type: Shield, Defensive damage modifier

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Spell Armor

Cast time: Instant

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• Damage is dealt to shield after modifications.
• Spell Armor ends immediately if the shield breaks.
• Does not stack with other positive Spell Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

E

Burrow Charge

65 Mana Cooldown: 14 / 0.5 seconds

Burrow to the target location, dealing 91 damage and briefly Stunning enemies in a small area upon surfacing, Slowing them by 25% for 2.5 seconds.

Burrow Charge can be reactivated to surface early.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control / Movement: Launch, Status effect

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping, Slow, Stun, Unstoppable

Cast time: 0.0625 + 0.15 seconds

Range: 12.5

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 1.75

Missile speed: 12

Stun duration: 0.5 seconds

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• Burrow Charge grants Anub'arak Unstoppable for its duration. However, like other Movement Abilities Burrow Charge cannot be cast while Rooted.
• Scarab Host spawns the Beetle after Anub'arak resurfaces.

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Locust Swarm

75 Mana Cooldown: 100 seconds

Deal 68 damage per second to nearby enemies. Each enemy damaged restores 24 Health. Lasts 6 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage / Healing

Scaling: 4.00% (both)

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.125

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x6)

R

Cocoon

70 Mana Cooldown: 70 seconds

Wraps target enemy Hero in a cocoon, rendering them unable to act or be targeted for 7 seconds. Allies of the Hero can attack the cocoon to break it and free them early.

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Type: Summon, Status effect

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Stasis

Cast time: 0.2 + 0 seconds

Range: 6.0

Missile speed: 20

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• The cast is interrupted if the target moves farther than 4.5 units beyond the Ability's cast range during the windup.
• Cocoon missile can only be disjointed if the target dies, is removed from the plane (certain Stasis effects) or instantly teleports farther than 30 units from its previous location. When disjointed, the missile expires upon reaching the target's location before the event. Otherwise, the missile will keep redirecting to the target unit.
• Enemies inside the Cocoon are put in debuff Stasis, preventing interaction with them until they are freed.

Cocoon

Type: Passive

Scaling: - (health)

Health: 28 ⁽¹

Health regeneration: -4 per second ⁽¹

Basic Attack damage: -

Movement Speed: -

Sight radius: 8.0

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• ¹⁾ Coccoon degenerates its Health over time, effectively giving it a 7 second duration.
• Cocoon only takes 2 damage for every instance of damage dealt, effectively reducing its remaining duration by 0.5 seconds.
• Minions, Structures and friendly Mercenaries do not attack the cocoon.

Talents

1

Nerubian Armor

Increase Hardened Carapace's Spell Armor by 25.

Legion of Beetles

Beetles have 30 Spell Armor. Automatically spawn a Beetle every 12 seconds. Can be toggled on and off.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Beetles

Properties: Spell Armor

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Beetles do not spawn when Anub'arak is Mounted.

Regeneration Master

❢ Quest: Gathering a Regeneration Globe increases your Health Regeneration by 1 per second, up to 30.

❢ Reward: After gathering 30 Regeneration Globes, you also gain 500 Health.

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Type: Bonus regeneration / Bonus Health

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Regeneration Master

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• Bonus Health gained from completing Regeneration Master does not benefit effects granting Health based on percentage of maximum Health.

4

Bed of Barbs

Create a bed of spikes along Impale's path that Slows enemies by 25% and deals 21 damage per second. Spikes persist for 3.5 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect, Slow

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x4)

Shed Exoskeleton

Hardened Carapace grants 30% increased Movement Speed for 3 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Movement speed

Underking

Increases Burrow Charge range by 20% and damage by 100%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

Bonus range: 2.0

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• Range increase is actually 16%, not 20%.
• Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Burrow Charge's damage.

7

Chitinous Plating

While Harden Carapace is active, taking damage from enemy Abilities reduces its cooldown by 1 seconds, up to 3 seconds.

Subterranean Shield

Burrow Charge also grants a 400 point Shield for 5 seconds.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Leeching Scarabs

Beetles gain 30% bonus attack damage and they heal Anub'arak for 50% of their damage with each attack if he is nearby.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier / Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self (Beetles) / Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Lifesteal

Radius: 12

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• Actually heals for a fixed amount, 50% of the Beetles' Basic Attack damage, regardless of how much damage is actually done.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Beetles' attack damage.

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Locust Swarm

Cooldown: 100 seconds
Deal 68 damage per second to nearby enemies. Each enemy damaged restores 24 Health. Lasts 6 seconds.

Cocoon

Cooldown: 70 seconds
Wraps target enemy Hero in a cocoon, rendering them unable to act or be targeted for 7 seconds. Allies of the Hero can attack the cocoon to break it and free them early.

13

Urticating Spines

Casting Harden Carapace will also deal 90 damage to nearby enemies. Deals double damage against Heroes.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

Radius: 3.5

Burning Beetles

Deal 21 damage per second to nearby enemies. Beetles deal 6 damage per second to nearby enemies.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect, Burning Rage

Radius: 2.5

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

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• Burning Beetles is inactive while Mounted.
• Burning Beetles does not affect unaggroed neutral Mercenaries.
• Damaging enemy Heroes with Burning Beetles does not trigger tower aggro.
• Damage from Burning Beetles is affected by offensive damage modifiers, unlike other Heroes' Burning Rage effects.
• Damage from multiple auras stacks.

Acid Drenched Mandibles

Attacking a Hero who is Slowed, Rooted, or Stunned increases Anub'arak's Basic Attack damage by 80% for 4 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Anub'arak's Basic Attack damage.

16

Epicenter

Increases Burrow Charge impact area by 60% and lowers the cooldown by 1 second for each Hero hit.

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Bonus radius: 1.05

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• 60% increase in radius, so actually a 156% increase in impact area.

Debilitation

Enemy Heroes hit by Burrow Charge or Impale have their Spell Power reduced by 50% for 4 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Spell Power

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• Debilitation does not stack with itself. Subsequent applications refresh the duration.
• Spell Power debuff from Debilitation stacks additively with other sources of Spell Power and other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting target Heroes' Spell Damage or healing output.

Beetle, Juiced

Passive: Beetles gain 30% increased Health.

Every 4th Basic Attack spawns a Beetle.

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Type: Bonus Health

Scaling: -

Affects: Self (Beetles)

Properties: Attack Modifier

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• The counter is reset 3 seconds after the last successful Basic Attack.

20

Hive Master

Gain a permanent Vampire Locust that attacks a nearby enemy every 3 seconds. The Vampire Locust deals 165 damage and returns to heal you for 80 health.

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Type: Spell Damage / Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: Automatic

Properties: Invulnerable summon

Target search radius: 7.0

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• Vampire Locust may aggro neutral Mercenaries while Anub'arak is not Mounted.
• Does not attack when Anub'arak is Mounted.

Cryptweave

Staying near the Cocoon allows Anub'arak to extend the duration by up to 6 seconds per Cocoon. Upon exiting the Cocoon enemies take 60 damage over 4 seconds. This damage is increased by 100% for each second that they were inside.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Properties: Damage over Time

Radius: 4.5

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x4)

Damage per tick: 15

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• While below 30 Health and within 4.0 range of Anub'arak, the Cocoon is healed at a rate of 2 Health every 0.5 seconds, for up to 24 Health.
• Damage bonus stacks up to 13 times to a maximum of 1300% bonus.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and offensive damage modifiers that can affect Cryptweave's damage.

The Traitor King

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Gain 10% bonus maximum Health and 20 Spell Armor.

Activate to gain 75 Armor for 4 seconds.

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Type: Bonus Health, Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Armor

Cast time: Instant

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• Does not benefit from the flat Health bonus from completed Regeneration Master quest.
• Does not stack with itself or other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Rewind

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Active: Activate to reset the cooldowns of your Basic Abilities.

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Affects: Basic Abilities

Targeting: No target

Properties: Rewind

Cast time: Instant

Skins

Anub'arak Skins
Traitor King
Backstory: Once a proud nerubian king, Anub'arak dared to stand against the Lich King's invasion, but despite his bravery, he too fell to the unrelenting Scourge. Resurrected into undeath, the Traitor King now serves as a towering weapon of destruction.
500 / 4,000 Traitor King	Free Desert	Free Frozen
Anub'alisk
Backstory: Anub'alisk was evolved to safeguard the birthing colony of Cavir from any threats. After the second Overmind's death, the Lurker Lord remained feral until he was recovered by Abathur and Mukav's rogue brood.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other universes merging into StarCraft skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Kaldir	350 / 400 Omega	350 / 400 Venomous	350 / 400 Enraged
Cyb'arak
Backstory: The Defense mecha Cyb'arak designed by Frozen Throne technologies has proven instrumental in the defense of the African continent against the Kaijo monsters.
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Kaijo world skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Colbat	600 / 1,200 Crimson	600 / 1,200 Neon
Cyber Oni
Backstory: The Defense mecha Cyb'arak designed by Frozen Throne technologies was acquired as parte of a merger with Jigoku Cybernetics and now patrols the streets, searching for enemies of the corporation.
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Caldeum Complex skins.
600 / 1,200
Love Bug
Backstory: Once you're bitten, you're smitten.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Hearty	350 / 400 Iridescent
Underking
Backstory: A Spider Lord's carapace has been known to deflect blades, arrows, and even siege weaponry all on its own. When fitted with armor, it is all but unstoppable.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Silithus	120 / 75 Northrend	120 / 75 Deatholme

Mounts

Anub'arak Mounts
Crypt Lord Wings
Backstory: n the years following the Third War, Azerothian scholars hypothesized that the wings of spiderlords were vestigal, incapable of flight. They were very wrong.
Free

Portraits

Anub'arak Portraits
Anub'alisk75 / 40	Anub'arak Hero	Anub'arak Mastery	Carbot Anub'arak120 / 75	Cyb'arak75 / 40	Cyb'arak Insignia75 / 40	WoW Anub'arak75 / 40

Sprays

Anub'arak Sprays
Carbot Anub'arak120 / 75	Cute Anub'arak75 / 40	Cyb'arak Insignia75 / 40	The Lurker King75 / 40

Emojis

Anub'arak Pack 1			Anub'arak Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Anub'arak Happy	:anubarakhappy: :anubhappy:		Anub'arak Angry	:anubarakangry: :anubangry:
	Anub'arak ROFL	:anubaraklol: :anubarakrofl: :anublol: :anubrofl:		Anub'arak Cool	:anubarakcool: :anubcool:
	Anub'arak Sad	:anubaraksad: :anubsad:		Anub'arak Embarrassed	:anubarakoops: :anubarakembarrassed: :anuboops: :anubembarrassed:
	Anub'arak Silly	:anubaraksilly: :anubsilly:		Anub'arak in Love	:anubaraklove: :anubarakinlove: :anublove: :anubinlove:
	Anub'arak Speechless	:anubarakmeh: :anubarakspeechless: :anubmeh: :anubspeechless:		Anub'arak Surprised	:anubarakwow: :anubaraksurprised: :anubwow: :anubsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Anub'arak/Quotes

Trivia

• Anub'arak first appeared in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (July 2003).
  • His book debut was almost six years later, in Arthas: Rise of the Lich King (May 2009).
• In Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Anub'arak was voiced by Steve Blum. In World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (November 2008), he was voiced by Frank Welker. In Heroes of the Storm, he is voiced by Darin De Paul.
• Anub'arak was one of the three heroes revealed at Gamescom 2014.
• Anub'arak's default skin reflects his appearance in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
  • Desert Anub'arak reflects his appearance in the the Azjol-Nerub dungeon from World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.
  • Frozen Anub'arak reflects his appearance in the Trial of the Crusader raid from World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.
• Anub'arak's large bulk limits him to mounts he can stand on (such as Blackheart's Doubloon, Champion's Nexagon, Championship Banner, Hearthstone Card, Magic Carpet, Star Chariot, and Void Speeder).

Gallery

Artwork

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  Anub'arak's artwork

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  Anub'arak, waiting in the Icy Depths

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  Anub'arak, covered in ice and webbing

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  A close-up of Anub'arak

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  Anub'arak fighting minions in the Nexus

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  Anub'arak stands triumphant

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  Love is in the Air: Anub'arak and Zagara

Abilities

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  Q: Impale

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  W: Harden Carapace

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  E: Burrow Charge

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  R1: Locust Swarm

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  R2: Cocoon

Gameplay

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  Anub'arak using Impale against Azmodan

Prerelease

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  Anubalisk Concept

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  Anubalisk Concept

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  Anub'arak, shown at BlizzCon 2013

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  Love Bug Anub'arak (old model)

External links

• Developer Insights: Burrowing Deep with Anub'arak
• Anub'arak Hero Week
• Anub'arak - Heroes of the Storm
• Anub'arak - Wowpedia
• Anub'arak Build Guide on Icy Veins
• Anub'arak Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Anub'arak Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm