Smite Cernunnos Build Guide: Cern Life Steal and Utility (Conquest)

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Smite God: Cernunnos

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Cernunnos Build

Standard Start

Notes Standard Life-steal start. Spiked will eventually turn into Devour's Gauntlet, you can decide if you get boots first or Devour's. The purpose of this build is to maximize the efficiency of your 1 in all of its aspects.

Hunter's Blessing

Spiked Gauntlet

Alternative Start

Notes If you're looking for early Transcendence to give yourself a bit more bite, you can forego the starter life-steal in favor of a Transcendence rush. This will replace a need for Executioner later if the enemy team is low on protections and is relatively squishy overall.

Charged Morningstar

Cernunnos Build

Standard Early

Notes By the end of Early Game going into the Mid Game, you should have your Devourer's and should have some stacks going. By now your basic attacks should be hitting pretty hard and your sustain should keep you in lane farming for much longer.

Hunter's Blessing

Warrior Tabi

Devourer's Gauntlet

Alternative Early

Notes Double stacking items may not usually be the best, but I've had decent luck with them, and Devourer's is essential for the life-steal aspect of this build, which is the most important. I throw on Ninja Tabi when on this build to compensate for the lack of attack speed, but you're free to put on Warrior Tabi instead if you don't mind the slower attack speed.

Transcendence

Ninja Tabi

Devourer's Gauntlet

Cernunnos Build

Standard Mid

Notes By now you should be going into Asi and Executioner. Asi will complete your need for sustain and be a life saver, even when the enemy team has anti-heal (still be cautious of it). Executioner is meant to compliment your Autumn Decay and tear through tanks with it on.

Hunter's Blessing

Warrior Tabi

Devourer's Gauntlet

Asi

The Executioner

Alternative Mid

Notes Same build, but with Jotunn's Wrath. I like the various things it grants you, and the extra mana with Transcendence isn't a bad thing at all. Should pack the necessary punch against squishies.

Transcendence

Ninja Tabi

Devourer's Gauntlet

Asi

Jotunn's Wrath

Cernunnos Build

Standard Late

Notes Frostbound Hammer here is usually a quality of life addition. Not meant to make your ADC potential anymore insane, but rather to come in clutch as utility with your Winter's Cold. As far as I understand, the ability and the Frostbound Hammer both stack, making your basic attacks without Winter's Cold slow people down by 20% and the ability WITH Winter's Cold slowing down by 30%. The attack speed debuff is also a nice addition and good for boxing I find, even if it isn't entirely noticeable, it can come in clutch.

Hunter's Blessing

Warrior Tabi

Devourer's Gauntlet

Asi

The Executioner

Frostbound Hammer

Alternative Late

Notes Same reasoning for the Standard Late build. Frostbound is a good utility item to go along with Cern's 1.

Transcendence

Ninja Tabi

Devourer's Gauntlet

Asi

Jotunn's Wrath

Frostbound Hammer

Cernunnos Build

Standard Final

Notes Fail-Not and Deathbringer combo for the Final Build. This is to help compliment your Ultimate for you and your allies, making you a true monster for enemy teams and in 1v1 situations.

Fail-Not

Deathbringer

Devourer's Gauntlet

Asi

The Executioner

Frostbound Hammer

Alternative Final

Notes Same concept, except the crits are nerfed on this one in favor of some attack speed to compensate the loss of Hunter's Blessing. Otherwise, same concept for the build.

Fail-Not

Ichaival

Transcendence

Devourer's Gauntlet

Asi

Frostbound Hammer

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(46) |

Please take a look at this guide and try out the builds:
https://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/cernunnos-carry-conquest-build-7-4-20085

I recommend example build 2 or 3.

(400) |

I personally feel that rather when people take time to publish a build/guide, they will get better understanding not by looking at other builds that may be "better," but rather explaining the issues with their build so they can learn.

Resolution, I'll first display your full builds for easy reference:

Devo's path: -> -> -> -> -> -> ->

Trans path: (rush) -> -> -> -> -> -> ->

Now, it's not to say these builds cannot give you success, but these are fairly unconventional and there are some reasons why we probably wouldn't suggest building this way.

Devo's path first. Your start is just fine. Blessing to Tabi to Devo's, though I will say that with no attack speed steroid, is sort of the obvious choice to me, especially since the rest of the build doesn't get close to max AS.

But after Devo's, you go immediately into double-lifesteal. While some people do build both Devo's and Asi, it's not really needed that much in the earlier portions of a game. When they do pick up Asi, it's typically late, and it's to box better or to partially counter lots of anti-heal. I wouldn't suggest back-to-back lifesteal.

Exe is a core item and there's no complaints there. But after that, you move into . If you value the slow (MS slow), you can just use your winter stance. If you like using other stances, you can just switch past a certain point...e.g. 3 hits in Autumn, then switch to Winter. If you're also valuing the AS slow for an advantage in boxing, or the health, I don't have anything there for you other than you already obviously know about as it's listed late in your other build. But I typically wouldn't recommend Frost unless you're trolling. If you want a legitimately effective build, skip Frost.

Then you finish up with Fail & DB. I'm guessing you value higher use of skills, but Fail is just not a recommended item, especially for Cern, who is very much focused on basic attacks overall. DB as the 2nd crit item is fine, but you'd be better off going with either Rage or WD first. And honestly, if you're committed to crits, then you should start building them earlier. A typical crit build for Cern might be something like Devo's, Warrior/Ninja, WD, Exe, DB, PS, replace Tabi with whatever. Another would be Devo's, Ninja, Rage, Exe, DB, Ichaival or WD.

The Trans path has bigger issues, at least when considering standard build directions. You're skipping the blessing, which hurts your basic attack damage, to rush Trans. That's technically something you can do, so okay. But after Ninja, you're doing double-stacking, then double-lifesteal, moving into Jotunn's, Frost, Fail, and Ichaival. Double-stacking by getting Devo's after Trans is typically not recommended, though this can work if all you're doing is farming mid-game. But when you opt for Devo's, your AS potential suffers, which is why the normal path is Trans -> Ninja -> Asi. And again with double-stacking lifesteal...sorry, but don't recommend that at that stage of the game.

Jotunn's is for ability-based gods, and again, Cern is basic-attack, not ability. Yes, you can get some good effect from his 2's root and the ult's AOE, but you get 0 function out of his stance switching. This also ties into not suggesting . Again, skip Frost, and as you're also getting , I'll say that building 1 crit item for 20% crit is just not anywhere near optimal for damage potential. When you build crit, you typically want to get at least 50% to make it mathematically more reliable.

And finally, in this build example, you don't have any decent pen. 10 flat pen from Jotunn's, and 15 from Asi, doesn't really cut it for later-game. If you focus on basics, it would be Exe...if you focus on abilities (which you shouldn't) it would be Titan's.

Trans builds typically go Blessing -> Trans -> Ninja -> Asi. From there, you can branch into crits or Qin's...but also of course with in either case. A typical end of build after Asi would be Exe -> Qin's -> Titan's Bane or other item.

In any case, I get the concepts you want, but they're just not that viable at this point. Hope these explanations help.

(46) |

I want the author to see if he notices a significant improvement in his games if he tries the other builds. That was the intention. Not "hey your builds have issues, here are better builds"

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Smite God: Cernunnos