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Cernunnos Arena Build

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Smite God: Cernunnos

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Cernunnos Build

Ninja Tabi

Asi

Transcendence

Odysseus' Bow

Silverbranch Bow

Heartseeker

Cernunnos's Skill Order

Shifter of Seasons

1 X

2 7 11 15 18

Bramble Blast

2 A

1 4 6 10 14

Horn Charge

3 B

3 8 12 16 19

The Wild Hunt

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

2 7 11 15 18

Shifter of Seasons

1 X

Cernunnos imbues his glaive with the power of the 4 seasons. Activating this ability rotates him through 4 different bonuses to his basic attacks.

Spring Growth: Bonus Physical Lifesteal
Summer Heat: Bonus Damage
Autumn Decay: Debuff for 10s
Winter Chill: Slows for 1.4s

Ability Type: Buff
Spring Growth: 6 / 8.25 / 10.5 / 12.75 / 15% Physical Lifesteal
Summer Heat: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 (+8% of your Physical Power)
Autumn Decay: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 Reduced Physical Protections
Winter Chill: 9 / 10.5 / 12 / 13.5 / 15% Slow
Cost: None
Cooldown: 0s

1 4 6 10 14

Bramble Blast

2 A

Cernunnos fires a bramble forward in a line that roots and cripples a single enemy hit. Upon hitting an enemy, wall, or reaching max range it will explode dealing damage and spawning an area of brambles at the location. This area deals damage every .5s and persists for 5s.

Ability Type: Circle, Crowd Control, Damage
Damage: 65 / 100 / 135 / 170 / 205 (+75% of your Physical Power)
Root/Cripple Duration: 1s
Area Damage: 8 / 12 / 16 / 20 / 24 (+5% of your Physical Power)
Radius: 20
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 15s

3 8 12 16 19

Horn Charge

3 B

Cernunnos charges forward, damaging and crashing through all types of enemies.

Ability Type: Dash, Damage
Damage: 70 / 125 / 180 / 235 / 290 (+80% of your Physical Power)
Range: 55
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 15 / 14.5 / 14 / 13.5 / 13s

5 9 13 17 20

The Wild Hunt

4 Y

Cernunnos selects an area where The Wild Hunt will begin. After a 1s delay, enemies in the area will be damaged and Polymorphed into wild boars. Polymorphed targets are silenced, disarmed and slowed. Polymorph is not affected by diminishing returns.

Damage: 200 / 250 / 300 / 350 / 400 (+90% of your Physical Power)
Polymorph Duration: 1.5s
Slow: 20%
Radius: 25
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

Summary

-This build is good for Arena Mode, when enemies usually are close to each other and there are many team fights!

-Two of the itens used in the build (silverbranch and heartseeker) have their passives ignored and are there only for its stats (power and pen).

- Buy the itens in the order showed (attacker's blessing first):
* Ninja Boots provide power and attack speed with relatively low cost;
* Asi is 'trifecta' (power, pen and AS; the life steal at now is not that much);
* Transcendence will bring power (the mana is not important) and, by this moment, the blessing will be evolved;
* Odysseus Bow will bring AS and will help to evolve the Transcendence;
* Silverbranch is also 'trifecta', and bring AS to the limit (don't mind the passive). By now, just worry to hit enemy gods/ minions and make the maximum gold you can, before go to the base for the last purchase;
* Heartseeker will replace the blessing when you have enough gold, putting (more) power and pen to the build.

-Usually, the skills order is balanced, for the stats of the 1 and 2, and to reduce the cooldown of the 3 (to have an scape more often). The ultimate isn't that damaging, but can turn the tide of a team fight (allowing kills or run aways).

-Used this a couple of times, and get between 30k and 40k damage most of the matches.

- Use this build when the enemy team have at minimum 3 squishies, what improves your DPS. Agains 3 tanks, things must be rethinked.

Hope it heps someone. Any comment to improve the build will be appreciated.

OBS.: my native language isn't English (something you all might have already noticed)

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(81) |

In Arena I put a point into , , and at the beginning of the game, then I max both bramble and shifter (in that order) before I touch horn again.

As for your items:

Ninja Tabi is great because of its attack speed and mana.
If you're getting Transcendence, you should really get it after ninja so you can max it as early as possible. I generally don't bother and get The Crusher second for that extra AS, some flat pen, and the passive. Most people won't stand in bramble, so this helps confirm some extra damage from both it and The Wild Hunt.
I don't think Asi is really needed in Arena, but I'd get it after crusher if I felt I needed it.
Regardless of the enemy team's comp, The Executioner as your third or fourth item is always a good pickup for its extra AS and protection reduction.
Ichaival is a good pickup after exe if you're doing a lot of boxing with the enemy (1v1's using basic attacks).
If you're facing one or more enemies building health items, Qin's Sais is a must after exe.
While Odysseus' Bow is a great item, it has no power and benefits from power, so I'd get it late (generally my last item).
Speaking of last items, Bloodforge is a great one if you're ahead and can afford it. It has a ton of power that can help in getting those last few kills you need to close out a match, plus its passive can help keep you alive while doing so.
You don't mention either Brawler's Beat Stick or Toxic Blade as anti-heal items. Sure they're not as effective in Arena as in other modes, but both have flat pen in addition to their anti-heal. I would pick either up if the enemy team has a strong healer like Hel or Aphrodite, or has strong self-healing like Chaac or Hercules (or King Arthur with Gladiator's Shield. Seriously, screw that guy.) Which one I get depends on how much AS I'm building because even though Cernunnos doesn't have an AS steroid, you can still easy blow past the 2.5 AS cap.
Silverbranch Bow is kinda meh, so I'd skip it. That and it encourages bad building by forcing you to over cap AS just to get any use out of its passive.
While Heartseeker isn't a bad item, Cern's more of a basic attack hunter who uses abilities to setup said attacks, so I'd skip it unless I was really close to capping AS. The power is nice though.

I hope the above helps and I'll be happy to discuss any of the items listed if you have any questions or comments about them.

(46) |

Not a good build. Don't cascade your skill order. If you want to discuss more, leave a reply.

Can you explain the problem with the build? I want to improve it.
Thanks for say some comment.

(46) |

Hi Diego. Thanks for your reply. As a hunter, your role is to output high damage with your basic attacks. For this you need:
-Attack speed: Faster basic attacks = faster damage output.
-penetration (): Without penetration, your attacks will do less damage.
-Damage Per Second Item ( Or Critical Strike chance).
If you're going for critical strike chance, I think failnot + + wind demon

Since this is for arena, here are some example builds that include attack speed, penetration, and high damage:

wind demon
Sell for and .

Sell for and .

Let me know if you have more questions.

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thank you, sr! this are great builds, and no doubt they can put an high damage than this OBow i posted. but my intention is to creat a OBow viable (like i told to mr. Bran in a post below).
about the second build you presented, i think the executioner you not help the OBow passive in other targets (as far as i know, the passive for OBow only benefits for flat pen or the titan's bane pen).

(143) |

Executioner CAN benefit O-Bow procs, but it's unlikely you will have the debuff effect on most targets hit by the O-Bow proc.

(46) |

Correct. Flat pen, Titans bane affects the o bow passive. This is why and is in there.

The reason I didn't put was because you mentioned this was for arena: not a lot of people play tanks, and those that do don't build support items like or (this is my personal experience. Your experience could be different).

(105) |

Most commonly from those too you see for the dual protections

(46) |

Titans bane will be even less effective now due to nerfs.

(46) |

Is it better to just replace it with flat pen, or is Titan's+exe combo still going to be meta?

(143) |

Titan's will always be relevant lategame because of the instant pen it provides without needing to be stacked like Exe.

Demonic + Obs Shard combo though will probably we wiped from the face of Smite though due to magical item changes. We will see though, changes may occur during PTS.

(105) |

physical item pen only got nerfed but not that badly that you want to go for flat pen vs tanks. Honestly I expect most builds to stay the same only slightly weaker.

assuming lvl 20 base protections with sov/thebes being around 70+ for squishies. exe will still provide higher pen at full stacks. titan's won't however nowadays it will aslo be below flat pen (unles it's 10 flat pen).

Mage builds gonna be unstable for most of februari

(143) |

Here's an O-Bow build:

/, , , , , /.

(46) |

@diego: give both of our builds a try, see which one you like better. But you need to have and in your build somewhere to maintain dps.

(143) |

Unless you're going a crit build of course, or instead of playing Cernunnons you go a ability based hunter and go a power/pen build.

(46) |

Oh yeah,could you give a build for that?

(143) |

Well what hunter do you have in mind?

(46) |

Neith

(46) |

NVM. I just looked at your neith guide

(401) |

I gave a hybrid/ability type build for him below...

Also Diego, Kriega's O-Bow build above is the exact cookie cutter build for O-Bow that I'd say is most commonly used...and that's the one featured in my Conquest guide for a Devo's build.

(46) |

Wondering if kriega would build it different

(143) |

Would build what different?

(401) |

Probably =P

thanks to all for the suggestions!

(401) |

So your build is currently:

I'll go one by one:

: This item is fine for him, and rushing boots is usually the best thing in Arena.

: While a great item, and a perfect item in combination with , is not a great early item in Arena, IMO. You don't really need lifesteal that early, and while the pen and AS are very helpful, it's something that can probably be delayed so you can work on other, more impactful early items.

: This is an alright item in Arena, purely due to the power. However, you typically rely a lot less on mana in a smaller map since base is close and gold spooling is high (thus going back to buy items very regularly). This means the mana portion of the item is, although helpful, mostly unnecessary. Finally, the CDR is nice for ANY god, but that's not really necessary for him. Given that you split a single wave with 4 teammates, and it's an item that, again while okay, isn't anywhere near core for him.

: This item is great for him in Conquest. Helps his wave clear a lot, and allows him to then save his 2 for god poke/boxing. And while it has teamfight function, it's not really the strongest item in this position, IMO. Keep in mind, its secondary / passive damage relies on power, so in an Arena setting, I might only consider it late-game...but likely wouldn't build it in Arena at all.

: This item has strong base stats, but the passive is basically worthless. The item's design is terrible...basically saying, "hey, if you want to build inefficiently (by overcapping AS), this item will at least make it a bit worthwhile." And while you've built a lot of AS to this point, I'm not sure you're even overcapping, meaning you'd get absolutely nothing out of the passive. Add to that that while you've built some good flat pen, you haven't built any % protection reduction. More on that in a bit.

: This item is for ability-based gods, or at least those that are hybrids. Although you built Trans, the rest of your build is squarely a basic-attacker's build, and this item doesn't really fit. Not that you can't get use out of it, but you're sort of lacking in other, more core items.

What is missing: Core damage. Let's assume you are committed to the basic attack nature of Cern. What you're missing is a combination of core pen () and either or 2 crit items. That's a pretty big oversight with regard to the build. This isn't to say you can't do reasonable damage with what you've built, but if you're looking to optimize, you're missing core items.

The below build directions are perhaps boring, but these would be stock builds I'd consider to be strongest in Arena:

Trans / Qin's build: If you want to commit to Trans for whatever reasons, then you might go like this: Ninja Tabi, Transcendence, The Crusher, The Executioner, Qin's Sais, situational (e.g. Brawler's Beat Stick, Atalanta's Bow, Magi's Cloak, Asi, Bloodforge, Ichaival, Runeforged Hammer...whatever you might need)
Devo's / Crit build: If you want that lifesteal, and are okay dropping Trans, Devo's can be strong, but stacking in Arena is always optional. Ninja Tabi, Devourer's Gauntlet, Wind Demon, The Executioner, Deathbringer, situational.
Non-Stacking build: You can always skip stacking altogether. Ninja Tabi, The Crusher, The Executioner, Qin's Sais, 2x situational.
Hybrid build: If you want to build a bit more reliance on your abilities, that's somewhat okay. Cern can do good damage with his 2, and it's easy to get poke damage on it. In that case, build power, pen, and CDR. It's not the preferred way, but it can work. Ninja Tabi (or Warrior Tabi, but Ninja would be how I'd build due to the mana and synergy w/ Trans, and because most of your build won't have AS), Transcendence, Soul Eater, The Crusher, Titan's Bane, Jotunn's Wrath. You can move Jotunn's to an earlier spot if you need.

Another alt would be: Ninja Tabi, Transcendence, Fail-Not, The Crusher, Deathbringer, Titan's Bane. Yeah, these are a bit funky.

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Hi, Mr Bran! The idea of the build is to make the best build with utilizing the odysseus bow. In arena, is easier to use it's passive against more than one enemy. I have the knowledge that there are builds that cause more DPS to one enemy (and i use the old crit for squishes OR exe/qin for tanks most of times), but i tried something different and come to this one (cause most of the times enemies are clustered, and the OBow passive works very well in that kind of situation).
Silverbranch and Heartseeker are only there for the stats, not the passives (as stated in the build text).
I aways greatful to receive sugestions. If you can think in something to improve this OBow build, few free to reply (i'm not defying you or something like that, it's just a will to learn something different from the old crit / exe+qin builds). :)

(143) |

Im not saying it's terrible, but I dont' see as a hunter item. Only AA-assassins (or warrior jungles I guess like Erlang if he even still gets played there since his nerfs a while back) get good use out of the extra movement speed.

(401) |

I agree in general, but didn't want to eliminate its possible use for the high MS in case the person values that. But yeah, I typically don't build Atalanta's...and it's funny because it's a bow, which = hunter.

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Cernunnos Arena Build

Smite God: Cernunnos

Cernunnos Build

Cernunnos's Skill Order

Shifter of Seasons

Bramble Blast

Horn Charge

The Wild Hunt

Summary

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