Smite Cu Chulainn Build Guide: Cu Chulainn Solo Build S9

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Smite God: Cu Chulainn

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Build Summary

Start

Notes Play aggressive on the first wave and transform quickly. After you transform back play a bit less aggressive (depends on your matchup) until you run out of potions, then back and get mystical mail. Warrior's axe and potions can give you some ok sustain early but most warriors will have better sustain since Cu Chulainn has no self-heal.

Warrior's Axe

Chalice of Healing

Healing Potion

Main build

Notes This build helps a lot for the current meta of crit and attack speed. It gives you 40% CCR and 30% CDR, which helps you impact team fights a lot, as well as good protections and decent damage with sundering axe and gladiator's shield. If the team has huge magical damage, change spectral armor for some magical protection item. I recommend blink to initiate team fights and beads to escape if you get hard CC'd.

Sundering Axe

Mystical Mail

Gladiator's Shield

Bulwark of Hope

Breastplate of Determination

Spectral Armor

Corrupted Blink Rune

Chaotic Beads

Cu Chulainn's Skill Order

Barbed Spear / Ground Slam

1 X

1 3 6 7 8

Vent Anger

2 A

14 15 16 18 19

Salmon's Leap / Furious Charge

3 B

2 4 10 11 12

Spear of Mortal Pain / War Cry

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

1 3 6 7 8

Barbed Spear / Ground Slam

1 X

Cu Chulainn thrusts his spear forward, damaging all enemies in front of him and stunning less powerful minions. Successfully hitting an enemy minion with this ability restores 5 Rage, 8 for a god (to a max of 18). Barbs from his spear stick in opponents and reduce their healing received for 5s.

In his Berserk Form, Cu Chulainn instead slams his massive arms down, damaging and rooting all Enemies in front of him and this ability costs no Rage.

Ability Type: Line, Debuff, Damage
Damage: 80 / 140 / 200 / 260 / 320 (+55% of your Physical Power)
Healing Reduction: 40%
Stun Duration: 2s
Root Duration: 1 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4s
Range: 45
Cost: 9 Rage
Cooldown: 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12s

14 15 16 18 19

Vent Anger

2 A

Cu Chulainn vents his anger as superheated steam, increasing his Movement Speed and draining his Rage. Every .5s while in this state, all enemies within range are damaged by the heat. Vent Anger does not return Rage.

In his Berserk form, Cu Chulainn Vents Anger automatically and does not drain Rage.

Ability Type: Circle, Buff, Damage
Damage Per Second: 10 / 17 / 24 / 31 / 38 (+5% of your Physical Power)
Movement Speed: 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9%
Radius: 22.5
Cost: 16 Rage
Cooldown: 6s

2 4 10 11 12

Salmon's Leap / Furious Charge

3 B

Cu Chulainn vaults over his spear, leaping to a target location and slamming it down to damage enemies around and in front of him. Successfully hitting an enemy minion with this ability restores 5 Rage, 8 for a god (to a max of 18).

In his Berserk Form, Cu Chulainn instead charges forward damaging, stunning and driving all enemies back with him and this ability costs no Rage.

Ability Type: Area, Leap, Damage
Damage: 70 / 125 / 180 / 235 / 290 (+60% of your Physical Power)
Range: 35
Radius: 15
Cost: 9 Rage
Cooldown: 15s

5 9 13 17 20

Spear of Mortal Pain / War Cry

4 Y

Cu Chulainn swings his spear Gae Bulg in a circle around him, Damaging and Knocking Up all Enemies. Successfully hitting an enemy minion with this ability restores 10 Rage, 26 for a god (to a max of 36).

In his Berserk Form, Cu Chulainn instead gives a terrifying yell, Damaging all Enemies and causing them to Tremble. This yell costs no Rage and has a 35s cooldown.

Ability Type: Circle, Knockup, Damage
Damage: 175 / 245 / 315 / 385 / 455 (+65% of your Physical Power)
Tremble Duration: 1s
Radius: 30
Cost: 14 Rage
Cooldown (Spear of Mortal Pain): 105 / 100 / 95 / 90 / 85s
Cooldown (War Cry): 35s

Cu Chulainn Threats

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Max

Major

Even

Minor

Tiny

Extended Build

Build against team with no crits

Notes In the rare occasion in which no one on the enemy team has critical strikes, this build should protect you from adcs better.

Sundering Axe

Mystical Mail

Gladiator's Shield

Bulwark of Hope

Breastplate of Determination

Hide of the Nemean Lion

Build against magical solo

Notes Magical solos are not very common lately, but getting some magical prots + extra CDR should help you against them. Make sure to hit them with your 1 to give them some anti-heal

Sundering Axe

Bulwark of Hope

Mystical Mail

Genji's Guard

Breastplate of Determination

Gladiator's Shield

More offensive build

Notes This build could be used if they have a team with a lot of tanks, but that's not very usual.

Sundering Axe

Mystical Mail

Runic Shield

Runeforged Hammer

Void Shield

Brawler's Beat Stick

Relic options

Corrupted Blink Rune

Chaotic Beads

Persistent Teleport

Fortifying Shell

Cloak of Ascetic

Other starter options

Infused Sigil

Tainted Breastplate

Bluestone Brooch

Axe of Animosity

Corrupted Bluestone

Some tips

Introduction

This is a simple guide for a build I've been using with Cu Chulainn for season 9. Cu Chulainn can push better than most other solos, but will suffer after a few minutes if you don't buy enough potions, since most solos have better sustain. Ignore upgrading your 2, since you will activate it for free once you transform. Upgrading your 1 first will give you good damage and wave clearing, as well as cooldown to reduce the enemy's healing. Since you have no mana, try to secure totems, which will give you HP5 and help your sustain.

Beginning the game

On the first minute, hit the blue main monster with auto-attacks, and once all 4 minions appear use your 1 to hit all 5, finish with auto-attacks. Then go to lane and use your 1 on the whole wave, which should give you enough rage to transform and have some good early pressure.

Team fights

On team fights be careful if you are on your normal form. Wait to tranform into berserk form and then go all in. Remember that your cooldowns reset once you transform, so use all your abilities when you're about to transform (hit some minions or enemy gods so you won't lose rage).

Main build

The main build helps a lot for the current meta of crit and attack speed. It gives you 40% CCR and 30% CDR, which helps you impact team fights a lot, as well as good protections and decent damage with sundering axe and gladiator's shield. If the team has huge magical damage, change spectral armor for some magical protection item. I recommend blink to initiate team fights and beads to escape if you get hard CC'd.

Conclusion

Overall this is a fun build with which you can stay on team fights for a long time and do huge damage against squishies. It is very important to avoid dying in the early game, even if you don't get kills either. Once you start rotating mids and adcs will want to cry.

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I think it's useful to put a point in (2)Vent Anger, at level 3 or 4, to better control your rage during games, so that it doesn't rise too quickly in the event of a team fight in the next few minutes.

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You're not having a teamfight that early on.

This was just an example, but it's always better to have a point in the (2) even in early, to be able to control your rage.

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You don't need to control your rage early, you want to transform in lane as much as possible.

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Sundering Axe is currently the worst Solo starter/upgrade since its nerf on Tuesday. Also even if you were to start Warrior's Axe, you would need a T1 power item such as Cudgel to go with it to match pressure on the enemies wave clear.
The main build has way too much physical protections and way too little magical.
Hide of the Nemean Lion should be your main defence option over Spectral Armor unless there are multiple crit enemies. If it's just the one hunter then definitely always Nemean.
Rushing Mystical Mail in Solo since its nerf is really rough. Consider getting a different first defence item such as Breastplate of Valor or Berserker's Shield. Most of the other ones feel really meh right now.
Speaking of Breastplate of Valor you pick it up way too late in your builds. It's an early power spike solo item, the glyphs keep it relevant late game.

That's some interesting feedback, thanks. I'll try to explain some of my choices:
I hadn't realized the Sundering Axe nerf made it that bad since I haven't played much this last week, but I used it a few times since they nerfed it and it still worked ok for me. Since I play kind of passively at the beginning of games I find that I don't need anything else other than the starter and potions, but some other people who like a strong early game might.
The experience I've had since the season started was adcs doing so much damage that I try to just counter it with a more physical prots build and anti-crit. I don't build Spectral Armor if there is only one god on the enemy team with crits, unless they are dominating the game, but in many games there's more than one enemy god with crits (also, in many games I don't even get to buying it since the game ends before that). Also, I find that the amount of magical protections I get with Bulwark and the Breastplate glyph are usually enough with all the cooldown reduction I get, plus a lot of supports now get magical protection auras.
You might be right about rushing Breastplate of Valor before Mystical Mail, I just like rushing CCR before CDR (just a personal preference), but the order of the build could be changed and the late game results should be the same (I'm more of a farm slowly at start, go all in late type player). I don't really like berserker's shield for the way I play Cu Chulainn since I focus on abilities so I wouldn't make good use of the attack speed boost.

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Yeah you might not have noticed the Axe nerfs as they did apply but silly Hi Rez they forgot to update all of the in game text to show it.

Also I've never been a fan of Berserker's on Cu Chulainn before however since its last buff and the nerfs to all the other items, you could experiment with a build like

> > > > >

Redstone passive will make up for the slight lack in magical prots and you'll still be the same oppressive Cu Chulainn, the 10% pen (especially while enraged) will help you out trade the rest of the solo's all going Breastplate first item. That is just a theoretical build though.

For future reference when you're making a build, a decent baseline for a solo's base stats is around 3000HP, 250 Physical prot, 180 Magical prot.

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I'll take a look at that, thanks

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Smite God: Cu Chulainn