I've played this god for about 650 hours now, so I think it's about time I made a guide for this often times misunderstood god.

He doesn't play like the typical "supporty" gods like Khepri or Geb, Fafnir's main focus is objective pressure thanks to his 2, Coerce. Obviously peel and setup are goals of his too, but in dwarf form this is limited so you have to use your abilities sparingly. You rarely use your 1 on waves for example if you're support.

Abilities:

1: A line damage ability that passes through minions and stops on gods, stunning them. The hammer is quite fast to fire and relatively easy to hit, but missing a hammer can be extremely dangerous at times. Getting good with this ability is the most important, try to hit this ability consistently. I like to set this ability to instant casting to allow me to combo my abilities more quickly. In dragon form, this ability instead does 3 ticks of damage over 3 seconds and reduces enemy magical protections.

2: Gives whoever you cast this ability on a temporary buff and heals Fafnir for a little bit. This buff gives whoever you cast it on some attack speed, up to 30% at rank 5, as well as a damage buff. This damage buff deals damage for Fafnir scaling on how much damage your ally is doing. If your ally dealt 500 damage in a single hit, coerce would deal +100 damage (which is 20% at rank 5). However, because this damage is dealt by Fafnir it would be affected by stats like flat/% pen. So if you're playing a support build and don't have a lot/any pen, expect to deal about half or even 2/3rds less damage to (tanky)gods. In dragon form, the area of this ability increases immensely and allows you to buff several allies at once. This is where his insane objective burn comes from.

3: A relatively long, quick leap that deals damage in a small cone in front of you. The longer you leap away from you, the longer it takes to land. If you use this ability right in front of you it basically deals immediate damage. This leap also applies a 2 second disarm, so it can be a pretty decent form of peel if your ally is getting jumped by like a Kali or Bakasura. You can also use it to deny the enemy adc from clearing wave, which is pretty useful sometimes especially against gods like Rama or Izanami. Keep in mind you don't put yourself in a dangerous spot though. In dragon form this ability also instead does 3 ticks of damage over 3 seconds, and applies a 2 second stun on top of the 2 second disarm.

Ult: You transform into dragon form after 3 seconds of charge-up, and any gods caught in a pretty large radius take 3 ticks of damage over 3 seconds. This ability does quite a bit of damage and provides good zoning utility since enemies typically really want to avoid your ult. If you do happen to catch some people in your ult they take a lot of damage in return. In my experience though, stunning someone right before ulting them often times isn't enough to catch them with the damage. You should position yourself to where they want to go before ulting, so they're either forced to avoid your ult by moving into an undesirable location or take the longer route through your ult making them more likely to get hit. You can also potentially use a Horrific Emblem to slow them enough to where they can't avoid your ult.

Your auto attacks are replaced by a dragon breath which does rapid ticks of damage in a cone in front of you. This cone is about half the range of typical ranged auto attacks and hard to dodge to anyone within the range. This cone does about 3 ticks/second at 1 attack speed and goes up to 6 hits/second at 2,5 attack speed.

Strengths:

- Quite good against hunters and other auto-attack based gods thanks to his 3 which has a 2 second disarm.

- Very strong against gods with limited mobility and CC immunity.

- High single target damage and CC.

- Very strong objective pressure.

- Strong potential to 180 a fight

- High mobility/relatively safe for a guardian.

- Enemies tend to underestimate your capabilities

Weaknesses:

- Very vulnerable when de-transforming from your ult.

- Easy target once you've used your 3 in dragon form/have used your 3 while not having an ult.

- Weak early game/clear.

- Limited CC in dwarf form.

- Abilities may be hard to hit.

- If you get caught using your dragon form leap on a CC immune hunter you're quite likely to die if you don't have allies around you to get you out of there.

- Allies tend to overestimate your capabilities to peel for/protect them

Notes:

- Attack Speed is Fafnir's most effective stat for damage in dragon form, but with some limitations. Attack speed scales up linearly from 1 to about 1.9/2, nearly doubling your hits/second from 3 to around 5.6. After 2.0, attack speed becomes significantly less effective only going up from 5.6 hits/second to 6 hits/second from 2.0 to 2.5 attack speed. This means to make the most out of Fafnir's attack speed mechanics, you only have to build around 55/60% attack speed(because you get 30% more from a rank 5 Coerce)

- Fafnir has quite high scalings/base damage in dwarf form for a gaurdian, but in dragon form his abilities essentially get the scalings of a typical mage. This allows him to quite easily kill a squishy that underestimates or doesn't expect you, which tends to happen quite often. This also makes a power build surprisingly effective.

- Fafnir coerce can trigger any item ability passives for you if given to an ally god damaging someone else. This makes items like Soul Gem or Archmage's gem apply any extra damage onto your ally's damage, and it's what makes a lot of BrutalMaglliniTime's oneshots possible. This also makes items like Ethereal Staff or Gem of Isolation extra effective as you can give yourself the extra health buff without ever touching the enemy as long as your ally with your buff can hit someone. Gem of isolation also applies the slow on damage your allies are dealing, which might be an effective pickup if your allies have a lot of tick/dot damage.

Some build warnings:

- Death's Temper does not work on Fafnir's dragon auto attacks. Your damage remains the same with or without stacks.

- Items like Eye of the Jungle, Seer of the Jungle, and Bumba's Spear which provide extra ability damage on abilities do not apply this extra ability damage if this coerce is applied on your dragon basic attacks. Specifically your own dragon basic attacks. It works for everyone else you apply the buff on.

- No item auto attack passives work on Fafnir's dragon basics. This includes Ring of Hecate, Toxic Blade, Hastened Ring, etc.