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Bluestone Pendant
Chalice of Healing
Healing Potion
Bluestone Pendant for 
Void Shield when you get to your last slot.
Arondight.
Sell Bluestone Pendant for Void Shield when you get to your last slot.
Sell your boots for Arondight.
Bluestone Pendant
Reinforced Greaves
Shifter's Shield
Gladiator's Shield
Talisman of Energy
Pridwen
Void Shield
Bluestone Pendant for Void Shield when you get to your last slot. Arondight.
Sell Bluestone Pendant for Void Shield when you get to your last slot.
Sell your boots for Arondight.
Bluestone Pendant
Warrior Tabi
Mystical Mail
Gladiator's Shield
Talisman of Energy
Shifter's Shield
Void Shield
See the "Relics" chapter for situational pick-ups.
Blink Rune
Sundering Spear
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Cu Chulainn is a high damage lane bully in the solo lane. He excels in the early game and dominates in mid-game team fights. With a leap to effectively immune damaging abilities and his ultimate to immune crowd control, the Hound of Ulster has an easy time getting a lead and is very hard to shut down. Cu Chulainn is strong at all stages of the game. He can easily 100-0 carries if he catches them out and remains a huge threat in team fights late-game while most warriors fall off.
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Strengths → Very good clear and poke → Good buff secure → Can easily bully lower pressure solo lane picks and snowball → He's extremely hard to lock down. |
Weaknesses→ No built-in sustain |
Pridwen variation has a slower yet safer early game. Reinforced Greaves make up for having no protections from our starter item ( Bluestone Pendant) and Shifter's Shield gives a lot of power so clearing will never be an issue. Pridwen is a very strong item on Cu Chulainn and the boost in cooldown reduction makes him much easier to play. I recommend this build to anyone who wants to focus on rotating and team fighting or anyone who doesn't want to play hyper-aggressive and wants a safer, yet still dominant, laning phase.
Mystical Mail variation has a far more aggressive laning phase. Warrior Tabi is the boots option because it boosts Cu Chulainn's kill potential early game and the power helps him clear so he can invade more easily. Mystical Mail is an item that keeps up the aggression because it gives solid defensive stats to keep you safe from the jungler and the passive discourages anyone from fighting you. No one can stand near you for long so invading is much easier. I recommend this build to anyone who wants to steamroll the laning phase and snowball their lead.
Tainted Steel is a starter that doesn't feel as good as Bluestone Pendant because it lacks sustain but the power and protections make it a very strong starter item in lane for both clearing and trading with the enemy. It has very strong stats and the 50% anti-heal makes it the best anti-heal item in the game. This build is the same as the Mystical Mail variation, it just has 
Tainted Breastplate instead of Shifter's Shield. This path is for when you want to have anti-heal in your build.
Cu Chulainn build if you're looking for a safer laning phase or if don't think you can abuse the pressure you would have with power boots.
Berserk before people start getting defense online. If you can get a lead and want to snowball, these are the boots for you.
Cu Chulainn you always want to go Blink Rune. You're going to start most fights by using Blink then 
Spear of Mortal Pain right after to CC multiple people and transform with your passive Berserk. You'll get it first most games, second if you go 
Purification Beads first. Your second relic will usually be Sundering Spear. 
Cursed Ankh is good into teams with a lot of healing though. Ankh is worth it when facing gods like 
Aphrodite and 
Hel. Upgrade Sundering Spear and Cursed Ankh when you get them. Purification Beads are good into gods like 
Hun Batz, 
Ares, and 
Ao Kuang. Get Beads first or second depending on if you need them for the laning phase or not.
Start off by buying Bluestone Pendant and Chalice of Healing. Get two Healing Potions and Blink Rune.
Go to speed buff at the start of the game. Clear it as fast as possible and then head to mini harpy camp. Your jungler will be on the bigger harpy camp and will pull them towards you. You will use 
Barbed Spear on the minis so you don't gain much rage. After both camps are down, head to blue. Clear blue then go to lane.
In lane just focus on clearing but use Barbed Spear and 
Salmon's Leap on your lane opponent as well as the wave if possible. If the enemy lane opponent goes anything but Bluestone Pendant, you will either match their clear or outclear them. The goal is to get full boots on your first back but look for kills if you can while you're Berserk, you'll out-trade anyone while you're transformed. You want to back once you clear the wave that comes as the second blue spawns.
Once you get boots ( Warrior Tabi or Reinforced Greaves) and level 5, look to use Spear of Mortal Pain on the wave and your lane opponent. You will kill them from full health if you use your two abilities, your ult, and do the same while Berserk. After you get your boots you're looking to bully your lane opponent. Poke them out, out clear them, fight them on totem, try to invade their blue or proxy. Do whatever you can do to get pressure then make a lead off of that pressure by invading and denying farm. If you proxy the wave, you can do the enemy minis and back camps or gank the middle lane. Make sure to place deep wards before you proxy. You'll lose your lead if you get caught out.
As the solo laner and frontline during team fights you want to be initiating for your jungler and pressuring their backline so they're not free casting onto your team. Usually how this works is you Blink Rune in, use Spear of Mortal Pain right after on as many people as you can so you start transforming, get Barbed Spear and Salmon's Leap off on a squishy as you transform, and then use 
Ground Slam, 
Furious Charge, and 
War Cry on whoever you go on. You'll be killing whoever you focus unless they use 
Aegis Amulet and have an immediate escape afterwards. Cu Chulainn is very disruptive in fights with his AoE knockup and tremble. The disruption helps your jungler go in so they can help you kill the backline. He can also push people away from their team, stopping supports peel for their carries or pushing an enemy into even more danger. Pushing people to your team with Furious Charge is great if you can't kill them alone. Be careful diving their backline alone late game, you do a lot of damage but you can't kill carries who have peel from their supports and their relics (often Purification Beads and either 
Magic Shell or Aegis Amulet) off cooldown.
Salmon's Leap is a great ability for dodging damage as it has almost no start up. You can jump over almost every ability on reaction. Make sure you land on the god who's trying to hit you unless you're trying to run from them.
When people run from you, auto-attack them until they get out of range and then use your abilities, you do a lot more damage this way. Only immediately use your abilities when you want some quick poke or when securing a kill. Your autos have extra range, use it.
Holding your ultimate so you can immune CC is very important. It helps keep you alive in fights and is one of the things that allows Cu Chulainn to take fights that other warriors can't.
Fight the enemy solo laner in the wave if they're not really tanky. Barbed Spear stuns minions so you'll take less damage from them than your lane opponent will.
When you take 1v2s or 1v3s, try to line up your abilities on both or all of the enemy gods. It doesn't feel too important, but you end up racking a lot of damage and can get double or even triple kills instead of just killing one god and then getting out. It also helps stack rage faster.
All in all, Cu Chulainn is a strong pick in the solo lane. He can easily punish weaker gods and get a sizeable lead which lets him be a menace to the enemy backline in team fights. You can't go wrong by picking him but your enemies will wish you hadn't.
"Control your rage for the right moment and thEN SMASH EVERYTHING."
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