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Smite God: Chernobog

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Chernobog Build

When going against a "Squishy" enemy team

Notes This build is recommended if the tanky enemies are below 200 physical protection (per each god)

The "Ninja Tabi" helps a lot the early game especially if the enemy Duo lane starts putting too much pressure on the lane, the early clean is pretty good and it helps a lot pushing enemies away, especially when "Rage" is online and the crit start coming up and pair it with the Deathbringer.

Hunter's Blessing

Spiked Gauntlet

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Devourer's Gauntlet

Ninja Tabi

Rage

Asi

The Executioner

Deathbringer

Elixir of Speed

Qin's Sais

When going against a "tanky" enemy team

Notes This build is recommended if the tanky enemies are above 200 physical protection (per each god)

The "Titan's Bane" as 7th item when sold the "Hunter's Blessing" helps a lot to take down tanks with auras

Hunter's Blessing

Spiked Gauntlet

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Devourer's Gauntlet

Ninja Tabi

Rage

Asi

The Executioner

Titan's Bane

Elixir of Speed

Qin's Sais

When going against a "very healty" enemy team

Notes This build is recommended if the tanky enemies are above 200 physical protection and at the same time have a good HP amount around Mid-game to Late-game (per each god)

Switching order betwen "Titan's Bane" and "Qin's Sais" your pressure against gods with a good amount of HP that don't have the right amount of Protection to prioritize "Titan's Bane".

This order helps a lot to go through Mid-game and reach easier Late-game

Hunter's Blessing

Spiked Gauntlet

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Devourer's Gauntlet

Ninja Tabi

Rage

Asi

The Executioner

Qin's Sais

Elixir of Speed

Titan's Bane

Always in your pocket

Mana Potion

Ward

Chernobog's Skill Order

Crystallized Curses

1 X

1 4 6 7 10

Vicious Barrage

2 A

2 8 11 12 14

Into Darkness

3 B

3 15 16 18 19

Living Nightmare

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

1 4 6 7 10

Crystallized Curses

1 X

Chernobog conjures a large crystal of curses and hurls it at the target location dealing damage on landing. After several seconds the crystalline curses explode dealing damage again and Rooting any enemy in the area. The crystal can be detonated early by firing at it with Vicious Barrage.

Ability Type: Circle, Root, Damage
Damage: 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 (+80% of your Physical Power)
Detonation Damage: 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 (+70% of your Physical Power)
Slow: 20% for 2s
Root: 1s
Detonation Duration: 3s
Radius: 20
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 15 / 14.5 / 14 / 13.5 / 13s

2 8 11 12 14

Vicious Barrage

2 A

Chernobog fires an enlarged crystal shard that can pierce enemies and deals damage like a Basic Attack. This applies a single stack of Heart of Cold to all enemies it passes through and instantly detonates Crystallized Curses. After firing, Chernobog gains increased Attack Speed for several seconds.

Ability Type: Line, Buff, Damage
Attack Speed: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50%
Duration: 4s
Range: 65
Cost: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50
Cooldown: 8s

3 15 16 18 19

Into Darkness

3 B

Chernobog dashes forward, dealing damage to any enemy he collides with. If Chernobog comes in contact with a wall, he briefly enters it as a shadow, becoming untargetable and immune to damage for up to 3s. Chernobog can leave the wall early by dashing or just stepping out of the wall. If he remains for the full duration, Chernobog will automatically dash out as his time expires.

Ability Type: Dash, Damage
Damage: 75 / 90 / 105 / 120 / 135 (+45% of your Physical Power)
Cost: 50
Cooldown: 16 / 15.5 / 15 / 14.5 / 14s

5 9 13 17 20

Living Nightmare

4 Y

During a brief channeling period, Chernobog summons shadows at the location of all enemies that last for 8s and apply a short stacking Slow. Chernobog can select any of his shadow clones to fly towards. Once he reaches the location he takes the place of his shadow, refreshing his cooldowns, as well as temporarily obtaining damage mitigations and extra movement speed.

Ability Type: Teleport, Debuff
Buff Duration: 6s
Damage Mitigation: 5 / 7.5 / 10 / 12.5 / 15%
Movement Speed: 15%
Shadow Slow: 3% Stacking 3 times
Shadow Clone Speed: 365 / 380 / 395 / 410 / 425
Cost: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Cooldown: 120s

Brief Introduction

Hi everyone, It's InformerHyena. I'm Glad you are reading this, it means a lot for me. I'm sorry if this post may feel "empy of information" but it's my first post here, even though i am following the community of SMITEFire for at least 5 years and today i decided to finally show up and say what i think about builds.

I play SMITE for over 6 years and from the first day i always played Hunters, ADCs to be more precise and i always studied for hours: Builds, Orders, what's best choice in those particular situation, what is bad in others, and so on. It always attracted me, even helping my team mates out with other build for different Gods and different roles.

Before we start i'd like to let you know which style of gameplay i do like to have, how i behave and the other stuff: i do prefer Basic Attack Hunters over Ability Based Hunters, for the only reason that i feel more "reliable" in many situations having my Basic Attack hit hard, compared to other hunters that only hit hard with abilities but their Basic Attack is pretty weak, but that's only depending upon my style and my preferences, feel free to pick whoever you like and don't take my words as a judgement.

At the moment i feel like Chernobog is my best ADC and my favorite pick since he is a very good combination of "Hitting hard with abilities" and "Hitting hard with Basic Attacks"

Build explaination

Let's explain why i made this build and let's go throughout the secrets of it.

First of all, in my opinion crit builds are always super good, so i wanted to take the current SPL build and modify it in order to have consistant crit, or at least enough (more about this later).

I'm honestly not a huge fan of Odysseus' bow, i like the attack speed percentage that it provides but i don't like the output damage it does every 4 basic attacks, it's a good amount of damage but, it only procks every 4 basic attacks and if you can crit, you have the chance of critting more than once every 4 basic attacks, so the output damage is a lot more stronger, i know why SPL players buy this item, i'm just saying that i'm not a fan of it, with that said i made myself this tiny little change:

starting with Hunter's Blessing and immediately securing the spot for our Devourer's Gauntlet will give us a very good (if not the best for that cost) initial damage, we'll then follow up with Ninja Taby, to get inside the early game with a decent amount of attack speed. We'll build then our Rage in order to start "countering" our enemy ADC that has Odysseus' Bow (most of the time) in order to put some pressure and to stack it up every time the opportunity comes. With this Core we are ready to go, building Asi will allow us to be a little bit more safe, having two lifesteal items and at the same time a good amount of Flat Penetration, than we follow with The Executioner in order to get into the Mid-game a bit more prepaired to shred the Squishes. Now, things get interesting, we will have to sell our Hunter's blessing for three different items:

1- Deathbriger
2- Qin's Sais
3- Titan's Bane

In order to chose which one to go, we have to controll the enemy team's progression. Do they have too much Physical protection? Titan's Bane! do they have too many HPs? Qin's Sais! Are they totally squishy? Deathbringer!

Scenario 1: So we went Deathbringer since the enemy team is super squishy, our next step is buying the Elixir of Speed and get ready to sell boots for Qin's Sais and our build is over, we are about to dominate.

Scenario 2: if we took Qin's Sais first, then our next item will be Titan's Bane, as always, buy the Elixir of Speed and sell boots to make space for Titan's Bane, do not worry about your crit percentage, if we have Rage fully stacked, it is a fairly enough amount of crit.

Scenario 3: if we took Titan's Bane first, it's the exact same process as "Scenario 2", only swapping the order with Qin's Sais, again, do not worry about crit, Rage is enough already.

Final Greeting

Chernobog is a pretty strong Late-game God,one of the best indeed in my opinion, his Early-game is not the best and you don't have much kill potentials until you have Ninja Tabi but if played properly and corrected, he is a very strong pick and its worth to go through his "ok" Early-game.

I really hope this guide help you out with this build, hopefully you all can see Chernobog with different eyes, because sometimes i really feel like SPL players and other are sleeping on him.

This build is actually a very good choice for other different Basic Attack Hunter, feel free to try it and give it a shot.

The Hunters that best uses this build are:
Anhur - Apollo - Cernunnos - Chernobog - Chiron -Hacchiman - Hou yi - Jing Wei - Rama - Ullr - Xbalanque

Hopefully you all enjoyed it and will surely see you, in the BattleGrounds of the God.

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After all your suggestions, i kept testing the build and Deathbringer seems to work better, and it gives a huge advantage when your support (or the solo laner) has Shogun's Kusari since it boosts up your attack speed around 1.93, and when your N°2 is used, goes up to 2.5, i would recommend Wind Demon if the support goes selfish, in order to have that extra attack speed. Otherwise Deathbringer is the best choice.

(143) |

These builds need work. Crit build but no Deathbringer? Getting your percentage pen item 5th? Crit with Qins on a hunter that isn’t Jing Wei? Also when you recall to base you really, don’t need to constantly get mana pots.

Sorry if i made it not accurate but it wasn't what i wanted to mean about pots, i meant that is way better to always leave the base having two pots always in your pocket, it helps too much especially in Early and Mid game

(1) |

Trans helps a lot. I usually rush it on him.

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(143) |

Warrior, trans, asi, exe, Rage, Deathbringer is probably my favourite Chern Build right now.

(143) |

It’s better to get boots before trans, especially since Trans is a bit more expensive than devo’s. Makes you safer in lane too to ganks.

(1) |

So then forgo the starter item?

(143) |

No. You always get a starter item, in this case hunter’s blessing (and tier 1 trans), you just get boots first.

Transcendence works too, i only prefer the fouble lifesteal items and the cheacky crits out of it, since as i said, i prefer basic attacks instead of abilities ;)

But yes, it works

(143) |

Sounds more like a massive waste of gold constantly buying mana pots.

(81) |

While does have a good crit chance when fully stacked, it's usually paired with so you'll get more function out of those crits. I would swap with DB; either go with qin's or crit, don't build both.

I totally agree with you, the only reason why i use a lot Qin's is because lately too many gods use to buy too many items that provide a good amount of extra HP, and to deal that extra damage is actually great. Instead, when i don't buy Titan's bane and i use to buy Wind Demond, i do prefer Wind instead of Deathbringer sometimes because of the extra attack speed that really fits my style, otherwise i totally agree with you, even though i like to use a lot Qin's even if i crit, it fits too much with asi and executioner. Plus i feel that Rage alone is already a great choice, when stacked, like i don't feel i need Deathbringer with this build

(1) |

Deathbringer is essential on crit builds for +30% more damage whenever you crit. If you are critting 400 dmg w/out it just imagine the DB passive will make it 520. Aside from move speed, I don't think he needs more speed

If you really want WD then drop rage for DB but that'd put your crit chance really low. Chernobog late game w/ DB can burst squishy Gods in 3hits w/ his root + AS combo.

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Of what i did testing, i felt like i don't need to have deathbringer since having Qin's meeans having constaly a "secure" damage without hoping the crit comes, i honestly prefer this way especially against tanky gods, rage feels amazing having it by itself and Qin's is too good not to have it pairing it with executioner and asi, i mean this is my choice and my play style that i wanted to share, but feel free not to agree with it, i like to have discussions about this topic :)

(143) |

Qins really isn’t that great with low Attack speed.

This build does not have "low Attack speed", especially when you pop up your N°2 ;)

(143) |

Always pair Rage with Deathbringer unless you’re Jing Wei who can get away with Rage by itself due to her 2.

(1) |

Oh? Interesting. Didn't notice. Has that been since ever?

(143) |

I think I misread your comment.

(1) |

It's OK, but what's this about Jing not needing DB?

(143) |

Jing has crit Chance on her 2, so you can go like: devo’s, Ninja, Rage, exe, Qins, Titans and sell your boots lategame for O-bow or Asi (or maybe DB, but you typically want O-bow for your Qins). She’s the only hunter I would use this build for though.

(81) |

He meant Jing only needs one crit item because of her . It's not that DB isn't recommended, it's that it can be skipped if you need something else instead.

(143) |

No. Her 2 doesen’t mean she only needs 1 crit item, it means you can get away with Rage as the lone crit item.

(81) |

That's what I meant, Kriega. You want to go with the rage + db combo on other hunters, but Jing can get away with just building rage.

(1) |

Ah, guess your point is if you run a Quins build on her and build Rage you get high enough crit chance (60%).

I kinda like it. I am going to try it, haha :D
Trans + Asi + Rage + Exec + Quins + OBow?

(143) |

No no no don’t build trans. Build devo’s. Even Artemis does better with trans than jing wei. Besides with Jing you just play safe in lane and farm till the lategame. I gave an example build in my other comment.

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Table of Contents

Brief Introduction

Build explaination

Final Greeting

"You might even be as good as me... Might" - Counquest - ADC - S6

Smite God: Chernobog

Chernobog Build

When going against a "Squishy" enemy team

When going against a "tanky" enemy team

When going against a "very healty" enemy team

Always in your pocket

Chernobog's Skill Order

Crystallized Curses

Vicious Barrage

Into Darkness

Living Nightmare

Brief Introduction

Build explaination

Final Greeting

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