Rurin Longbeard

Rurin Longbeard is a secondary melee hero in Kingdom Rush: Frontiers, available in The Dark Descent (level 14).
He has 10% health regeneration, recovering 42 HP per second when idle.
==Skills==
Hammer Smash 
: Rurin hammers the ground with great strength and deals 60-120 area True Damage. Cooldown: 8.5 seconds (once after every 7 normal attacks)
==Tips and Tricks==
Rurin Longbeard is a hero specialized in Tanking. He has a rather modest damage output, but a lot of armor and a good amount of health, able to take on most enemies that come in his way, save for Saurian Brutes and Saurian Blazefangs. While he can survive well on his own, it is wise to back him up with some high-damage towers and Barracks, since Rurin's low base damage won't allow him to kill anything quickly. He should be ordered to retreat if a Saurian Brute, or a group of Saurian Blazefangs are coming at him, since he will most likely die against these enemies and pose a problem with his 35 seconds of respawn time, the longest of all heroes in the whole frachise. Other than those, he can tank fairly well, even versus the powerful Saurian Savants, and weaken multiple enemies with Hammer Smash. Tactical use of him can ease down the pressure on a choke point.
He moves at the same speed of Sha'tra, slightly faster than Alric. So, it is advised not to move him around much (especially not between the two lanes in the Dark Descent) unless his health is extremely low.
Rurin reaches his full potential when paired with heroes like Dante and Sha'tra. He can tank tough enemies while Silver Bullet and Abduction recharge, and he can weaken hordes with his area damage for Akimbo Style and all of Sha'tra's horde-killing abilities to finish them off.
==Quotes==
* "Dungeons deep and caverns old."
* "Longbeards still fight!"
* "Send them to me!"
* (upon death) "Not the beard!"
==Trivia==
* He appears to be the leader of the Mining dwarfs.
* Rurin Longbeard is most likely named after Durin, the name of the founder of the Longbeards dwarven clan in wikipedia:Tolkien's legendarium.
*"Dungeon's deep and cavern's old." 
** A line from the song 'Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold' sung by the party of Dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
*"Send them to me" 
** A line spoken by the dwarf character Gimli in The Two Towers (again written by Tolkien), where he encourages his comrades to send enemies in his direction for a beating.
*"Not the beard!" 
** Another line from Gimli in The Fellowship of the Ring, as he expresses his distress when a character grabs on to his beard to stop him from falling to his death.
==Gallery==
HeroSkill_Rurin_1.PNG|Hammer Smash
Rurin in action.gif|Rurin in action
Category:Kingdom Rush: Frontiers
Category:Heroes
Category:Secondary Heroes
Category:Melee Heroes