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Imperial Helmet or 
Druid Stone .
Depending on your match up is if you should get Imperial Helmet or Druid Stone .
Warrior's Blessing
Imperial Helmet
Druid Stone
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Shoes of Focus
Stone of Binding
Jade Emperor's Crown
Tyrannical Plate Helm
Genji's Guard
Ethereal Staff
Pridwen
Shogun's Kusari
Spectral Armor
Hide of the Nemean Lion
Genji's Guard
Mantle of Discord
Teleport Fragment
Purification Beads
Aegis Amulet
Your 2 is your main wave clear in solo dealing more damage than your 1 later on.
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Hello and welcome to my first guide. During the launch to Cthulhu, Smite posted on their twitter normal tweets with Zalgo text. At first I didn't think anything about it but then, the cinematic was released and I was excited. This would not be Hi-Rez's first god introduced based on text alone, but is one of my favorites. Nyarlahotep, Yog-Sothoth, or even Azathoth are still potential Lovecraftian horrors to join the Elder Gods pantheon in the future. When I first saw Cthulhu's abilities I knew he was an Insanely strong god, and the PTS nerfs proved that.
Passive - Prey on Fear
Prey On Fear is Cthulhu's passive. With every 3 hit of your auto attack or ability his you drive your foe mad. Every 4th stack causes your foe to go insane and you gain 25 magical power. The main way of applying stacks is 2, 3, 1.
1 - Sanity Break / Sever Sanity Break / Sever's first half of the ability deals damage in a cone in front of Cthulhu and slows attack speed. It applies one stack of Prey On Fear or two if they are facing Cthulhu. Not as strong of a wave clear as The Mire / Devastate. It grants damage mitigation against enemies that are hit by it. If the 4th stack of Prey On Fear is caused by Sanity Break / Sever they are fear for a short duration and you gain a permanent .5% additional mitigations. You would have to land up to 20 fears in order to max the mitigations. Descend Into Madness is active.
2 - The Mire / Devastate The Mire / Devastate is the main source of wave clear. It is a 3 second channel that can be interrupted but also can be channeled while moving. Each hit applies Prey On Fear. The first instance of damage is the second circle in the ground target. The first second is just a slow. Seconds 2 and 3 deal damage and slow even more. The 3rd second is a root. Ideally, you drop The Mire / Devastate for 2 stacks of your passive, followed up by Rushing Terror / Transfuse not to stun but to hit them with the projectile for the 3rd stack of the passive. Finishing up with Sanity Break / Sever to fear and apply that 4th stack of Prey On Fear.
3 - Rushing Terror / Transfuse Rushing Terror / Transfuse is your main escape or catch up. Anyone directly hit by Cthulhu takes damage, is knocked up and stunned for .4 seconds. Two projectiles are launched at a slower pace than Cthulhu and deal a bit less damage but apply a stack of Prey On Fear. Descend Into Madness. At the cost of 6% health, you deal damage all around you, percentage heal your allies, grant them power and movement speed.. This makes Lotus Crown an excellent pick up as a support to grant protection as well. Enemies closer to you take more damage than those on the edge of this ability centered on you.
4 - Descend into Madness Descend Into Madness makes you massive. There is a slight windup but enemies around you take damage as change the game's sky box to reflect Sanity Break / Sever. Your ult is your an insane buff to say the least. You can cancel your ult at any time during the duration. Pridwen will grant you a shield after your ult has finished allowing you to either chase with your Rushing Terror / Transfuse or flee as your allies finish off everyone else.SMITEFire is the place to find the perfect build guide to take your game to the next level. Learn how to play a new god, or fine tune your favorite SMITE gods’s build and strategy.
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About his 2, he has only been playable for 1 day so i feel like even though it is hard to hit with the 2 it is more because players are using it differently than it is intended for. The more and more i play him it seems like really you shouldn't be popping the 2 unless members of each team are right in the middle of a team fight. They are focused on your team and you pop it in the middle of the fight. Don't get me wrong, trying to hit isolated members if you can hit it can be good and it can be a good buffer tactic to create space but i think that the 2 will really shine when players start timing it more as mostly support during team fights.
In terms of Conquest I feel like his 2 would also be his main lane clear on minions. I feel like you would probably want to have your 1 off of cooldown readied for enemy players since the 2 can be difficult to land in 1v1 opportunities looking at it from an early match standpoint. If you are using the 2 for your waveclear(which there are enough minions in arena for me to have gauged how effective it can be vs them) you have your 1 free for players.
Reasons for prioritizing the 1:
If you can somewhat safely initiate with the 3 and immediately apply the 1, then the 1 is the better direction. It also has an increasing AS slow per level.
In ult form, you'll get harder hits on the 1 (basic).
Reasons for prioritizing the 2:
Higher total damage potential. Decreasing CD per level.
In Arena, I'd probably just prioritize the 1. Once maxed, I'd situationally level the 2 or the 3...not sure which one, but probably the 2 due to the decreasing CD, but if I can initiate a lot with the 3, I'd probably prioritize that and just use the 2 for zoning/lockdown.
In Conquest, I would probably go (aggressive) 1-2-3-1-4 or (more passive) 2-3-1-2-4. I wouldn't max the 2 first though...I would get it to level 3 maybe, then finish off the 1.
One thing to keep in mind with the use of the 2, again, it's a good zoning tool based on the size. And when you consider narrower lanes in Conq, you can more easily connect with it. It's even better in the Jungle unless the enemy uses an escape.
Reasons for prioritizing the 1:
If you can somewhat safely initiate with the 3 and immediately apply the 1, then the 1 is the better direction. It also has an increasing AS slow per level.
In ult form, you'll get harder hits on the 1 (basic).
Reasons for prioritizing the 2:
Higher total damage potential. Decreasing CD per level.
In Arena, I'd probably just prioritize the 1. Once maxed, I'd situationally level the 2 or the 3...not sure which one, but probably the 2 due to the decreasing CD, but if I can initiate a lot with the 3, I'd probably prioritize that and just use the 2 for zoning/lockdown.
In Conquest, I would probably go (aggressive) 1-2-3-1-4 or (more passive) 2-3-1-2-4. I wouldn't max the 2 first though...I would get it to level 3 maybe, then finish off the 1.
One thing to keep in mind with the use of the 2, again, it's a good zoning tool based on the size. And when you consider narrower lanes in Conq, you can more easily connect with it. It's even better in the Jungle unless the enemy uses an escape.
All sound like valid points though i still seem to like staggering out all of his abilities as equally as possible because it doesn't really look or seem to me that any one of his abilities scale immensely better than the others, like can be the case with the kits of some of the other gods. I feel like i have a more balanced attack bringing them all along sort of linearly.
Your ult ability lvls aren;t like fafnir dependent on your regular lvls They scale with lvling the ult. So even if you have maxed ability X at lvl 10 when ulting all abilities are ranked to lvl 2 (or 1 if you did not lvl the ult)
2. Cthulhu's 1 should be prioritised 1st since is's easier to hit than the 2, even if it deals less damage
edit: Ok, now I see why there are 2 blessings, but you should separate both these starters for supp and solo
Thebes since it would give the protect/aura and also, in the case of the SoB build give some extra health to make up for the lack of it early right?
Yeah, that too, i just didn't include it since i was just talking about the utility it gives you at that spot before stacking the prots.