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Dzień dobry, welcome to my guide. Since I've made a guide for every warrior in the game, I felt it was time to branch out and make guides for other gods I haven't touched on yet, so here we are. My first Hunter guide and the one I picked was a god that instantly caught my interest. As I have Slavic roots (Czechoslovak/Polish). Let me introduce the Master of Evil, the Lord of Darkness, the Figure in Black, Chernobog.
Note: you don't have to follow this guide to the smallest detail. These are suggestions on how to play Chernobog. I encourage you to see the comment section below and other tips.
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Heart of Cold | It's a relatively simple passive but essential part of Chernobog's kit. Each basic attack you land on a target gives them a stack. After the third stack is applied, the target is dealt extra damage in a small area around them as the stacks reset. This passive is why landing your basic attacks on Chernobog is essential. Your goal is to apply constant pressure on the enemy, and you can't do that if you can't hit your target. |
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Crystallized Curses | Chernobog throws down a large crystal that deals damage upon landing with a short build-up, but that's not all. Once landed, the crystal starts counting down, exploding, dealing additional damage, and rooting any target caught in the explosion's radius. Alternatively, you can hit the crystal with your second ability for instant detonation. |
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Vicious Barrage | This little ability has a triple role. A line projectile that goes through all targets functions as an auto-attack, so effects like lifesteal and crit chance will apply. There's more; once fired, Chernobog also gains an attack speed steroid for a short duration. As mentioned in Crystallized Curses, you can detonate your crystal early by hitting it with this ability. Depending on the situation, it would be best to let the crystal time out naturally and save it when you need it for boxing. |
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Into Darkness | It's a relatively slow dash, but what it can do makes it different, and it can act as an offensive tool than strictly defensive. If you hit an enemy god with this, it applies a slow. Suppose Chernobog hits a wall with this ability. In that case, he will enter it and becomes immune to all forms of damage, CC, and untargetable while he stays inside the wall. You can fire this ability again to dash out from the wall. A nice trick is to get your opponent between you and a wall, dash through them into the wall, and dash back out for a fair amount of damage. You can also use the slow from this ability to line your lockdown combo better. |
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Living Nightmare |
When many first saw this ability, they were confused as this ultimate would fit a guardian or a warrior more than a hunter. Still, I would argue this fits thematically and gives Chernobog that secondary role as an "Anti-Roamer." Chernobog flies into the air after a brief channeling period and sends out a shadow clone of himself to every enemy god currently on the map. Picking a clone to fly to, he speeds towards the targeted location, giving himself a cooldown reset on all his abilities, minus the ult, temporary damage mitigation, and movement speed. You can use this to track down a fleeing target. Still, this ultimate can also prevent the enemy from pushing the lane or completing an objective. Alternatively, you can use this to get away by picking a target in one of the other lanes and dashing back under a friendly tower or safe spot to recall. The damage mitigation and movement speed complement this alternative usage. |
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Vicious Barrage to detonate the crystal early and root the enemy. Once locked down, utilize the attack speed increase to hit the enemy as often as possible before the root runs out, or they get away. Alternatively, you can use this defensively to run away, but I wouldn't recommend it. This combo is going to be your most used tactic.
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Into Darkness and use Vicious Barrage's initial hit as well as the attack speed stim to keep up the damage when they become too slow to run away. If there is a wall nearby, aim yourself, so you hit the enemy, enter a wall, and then dash out into the target again to get that extra bit of damage.
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Living Nightmare to fly towards a target and get the movement speed and damage mitigation from this. After you land quickly, use Into Darkness to slow the enemy, you land at or get yourself into a safe distance. Once you're at a preferable position, use your fist combo, 
Crystallized Curses followed up with Vicious Barrage, and unleash Hell on your target.
In conclusion, Chernobog is a hunter that can give the enemy team hell for his elusive wall-hiding ability, lock them down, and fast auto-attacks. Taking flight and hunting down the enemy or cutting them off from doing something they shouldn't, Chernobog has a consistent presence. Fighting Chernobog head-on can be life-threatening if he gets the upper hand. Remember always to line up your attacks, use your ult to attack and defend, , and make their game a living nightmare.
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Also for the trans build I would swap
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Last thing, add an extra multi pot to each build's start. There is 50 gold leftover for another pot.
The Wind Demon build could work but you would be better off with Rage instead of WD for the higher crit chance. e.g. Devo's, ninja, rage, exe, deathbringer, titan's/bloodforge. Sell boots for asi or alternative.
If going WD first, then I'd probably get PS 3rd. If I got Rage first, I'd be okay with either PS or WD 3rd. Just my pref.
Just a few things I want to point out :
1. It would be interesting for you to recommend one of your alternative / additional items as a preferred 7th item. Maybe through notes?
2. I do believe this guide would benefit a lot from a bigger combo variance. What combos should I aim to do if I'm retreating? Do I just try to Double Dash or should I use my other abilities to try to poke or maybe zone out the enemy? Things like that.
And I also think you could do a thematically straight-to-the-point matchups. What sort of mentality should a
+1 from me :)