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Smite God: Cernunnos

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Cernunnos Build

Starting

Cudgel

Hunter's Blessing

Healing Potion

Multi Potion

Purification Beads

Final

Notes Common Final Build, can build Odyssey bow earlier for better lane clear
once you have enough gold, tradeout boots for Qins ( if you haven't built yet)

Runeforged Hammer

Ninja Tabi

Asi

The Executioner

Titan's Bane

Odysseus' Bow

Qin's Sais

Elixir of Speed

Purification Beads

Aegis Amulet

Cernunnos's Skill Order

Shifter of Seasons

1 X

3 6 7 10 14

Bramble Blast

2 A

1 4 8 11 12

Horn Charge

3 B

2 15 16 18 19

The Wild Hunt

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

3 6 7 10 14

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 8 11 12

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

2 15 16 18 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

Cernunnos Threats

Tap each threat level to view Cernunnos’s threats

Max

Major

Even

Minor

Tiny

Starting Guide to Cernunnos ADC

with support, cernunnos' high lane clear can clear waves quickly at the start to invade the opposing teams void buff, following that, the ideal situation is to base when you have 1650+ gold to purchase runeforged hammer ASAP, once that happens, boots, ASI, executioner, titans bane (or attack speed item like Qin Sais) if the opposing team is lacking physical defense.

Watch for opposing players using their dashes or getaway abilities to then stun them with bramble, followed by the wild hunt (ultimate), this will take the average player down to half health, while hitting them with winter chill for the added effect from runeforged

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(143) |

This build is garbage. You're building executioner and titans bane but you don't have qins. What a genius you are

This was honestly meant to be in conjunction with a mage support, having freya (high lane clear) helps significantly, so to be perfectly clear, yes qins would be an ideal item, I would replace it with O bow, but with this build, you're at 2.43 attack speed.
honestly its my first guide, but I have won 80% of my games with Cernunnos

(143) |

Ah yes the classic Freya Mage Support how could we forget that...

You're not making this better for yourself. Qins shouldn't be necessarily be replaced with O-bow, you can build both (especially if selling boots with speed elixir), but qins is definitely the priority.

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I will try this out, I appreciate the feedback, just wasn't looking to be attacked. I play this for fun

(143) |

Im still stumped what you mean by having Freya as mage support meant

Literally my roommate and I play duo, hes supp freya and Im ADC cern, it works 75% of the games we play, I just meant that, nothing more,

as for specifically a cernunnos build, this has worked for me for any support duo, but yes like i said ill test out qins, all this guide was for was that it has been working for me, and i felt like sharing

(143) |

so basically you troll casuals with supp freya and adc cern, but somehow get away with it because freya is busted and/or your opponents are dumb and cannot punish it.

yeah exactly, I don't know WHY it works, it just DOES. So that's all i shared for

(143) |

I just explained what it works. Try get away with it in high level ranked, assuming Freya isn't banned.

(46) |

What i dont understand is why would you clamp your damage potential by not getting qins sais? Fine i can understand you doing well with your roommate, but dont you think you'd do better with a higher damage potential?

100% correct. like i said im going to try this out

(401) |

We can all agree this base build is bad. Let's back off on sammy, though...he's responding, and he says he's willing to try it out. Give him some breathing room.

(46) |

Freya support is not a thing. When you get to high level competition, you'll get punished for this.

valid. regardless though. Including Qin's and ASIDE from my comment about freya. What is the verdict including RF and the rest

(81) |

If isn't that good on Cern, I don't see being any better.

I'd go: , , potions. Build , finish , then get , , . Sell ich for and devs for if you can afford them. You can sell hunter's for either or if you need protection, or if you need anti-heal. The order isn't set in stone, so grab BBS after Ich if needed.

(46) |

Please excuse kriega. He is just very blunt. But he has a point. You need Qins in there somewhere. Until I see that, I can't recommend your build.

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(143) |

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Please listen to kriega. He speaks the truth.

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(143) |

You keep qins in the build. I literally listed the build in another comment. You can sell boots for O-bow or another item if you get speed elixir if you want, but otherwise don't get o-bow in this runeforged build.

(46) |

Runeforged is a thing huh? This is-like the 4th hunter build I've seen with RF.

(13) |

Tbh, I think is viable on Cern due to his Winter Stance. You’ll lose on lifesteal, though.

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(143) |

No you don't lose on lifesteal. You can build Asi after boots/runeforge, he also has lifesteal in his kit.

(13) |

Yeah, but Devourer’s lifesteal is bigger than Asi/BF. Actually, is Asi a good item? I never ever consider it in any build I think about.

And yeah, he have lifesteal on his kit, but to use Runeforged’s passive you must be on Winter stance.

(143) |

Yes but you can steal lifesteal off minions and camps without needing to use winter stance. I don't see anyone building crit with runeforge so it's not like you need the extra lifesteal to box the enemy adc anyway. Most hunter builds are leaning towards tank shredding ones since tanks (especially warriors) are becoming more tanky.

Asi being a good item depends on the match/rest of build, but yes it's decent.

Maybe watch some high level players or wait till pro league starts if you want to see meta builds.

I personally like ASI, due to the cost, pen and attack speed, the lifesteal is great to have for sustain, and to be honest devourers isnt needed mid-late game when using spring growth

(143) |

boots, runeforged, asi, executioner, qins, titans bane. There, I just told you how to fix the build.

(46) |

What kind of boots? Answer may not be obvious to author.

(143) |

Probably Ninja Tabi.

(401) |

Definitely Ninja late-game would be better, to get the higher base AS for Qin's procs. Can start Warrior if preferred, and it's all a moot point for late-game if you're at the point you can buy to replace boots.

(72) |

Season 6 new meta: Build RF in everything!

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(143) |

Wouldn't necessarily say it's meta yet, we still have the season 5 builds, we have this new runeforge build and we also have the new silverbranch/o-bow build (from dps calcs I saw on smite reddit: devourers, boots, silverbranch, exe, qins, odysseus' bow.)

(13) |

I really don’t know why people fell in love with this item all of a sudden. Blackthorn received a little change and boom, everyone remembered that the hammer tree exists.

(143) |

Runeforge could be built on assassins before but it wasn't a great item, but it received a pretty nice buff. Blackthorn hammer was decent before with a solid amount of health and it's even better now. Also I assume at the start of each season the pro analysts/coaches run the calculations for new builds and such.

(13) |

I forgot Runeforged was also buffed, my mistake.

(143) |

The runeforged thing is kinda like the shifters meta we had for hunters at one point in season 4 I believe it was. Except Runeforged gets best use on specific hunters that can proc runeforged passive.

(13) |

Which hunters do you think will do well with Runeforged? Cern, Neith, Artemis, Apollo?

(143) |

Just linking some threads relating to hunter build calculations:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Smite/comments/avunp1/63_pts_hunter_top_damage_build_spreadsheets/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Smite/comments/asak6h/runeforged_after_boots_on_cernunnos_a_dps_study/

So Cern, AMC, Artemis, Xbal, Cern, Chiron, Cupid, Izanami, Rama, Skadi, Ullr (not sure about this one, might be better to just go trans), Neith (maybe, but again same thing with Ullr about Trans).

(81) |

I'd build on both and .

(46) |

Is it really? What made it so popular all of a sudden?

(143) |

Always good to take a look at season 6 changes again

(13) |

I believe it was the change to Blackthorn that brought the Hammer tree to everyone’s attention.

(72) |

Yeah, BTH became good now and people are remembering that these hammers exists

(143) |

It was the buffs to runeforge and blackthorn. But blackthorn has nothing to do with hunter builds.

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Cernunnos Phys Shredder

Smite God: Cernunnos

Cernunnos Build

Starting

Final

Cernunnos's Skill Order

Shifter of Seasons

Bramble Blast

Horn Charge

The Wild Hunt

Cernunnos Threats

Izanami | Major

Kuzenbo | Major

Starting Guide to Cernunnos ADC

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