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How to Cernunnos (S4)

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by JTPR updated May 11, 2017

Smite God: Cernunnos

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Cernunnos Build

Starter

Build Item Bluestone Pendant Bluestone Pendant
Build Item Boots Boots
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
4
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion
4
Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads

Full Build

Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item Ichaival Ichaival
Build Item Qin's Sais Qin's Sais
Build Item Asi Asi
Build Item Hastened Fatalis Hastened Fatalis
Build Item The Crusher The Crusher

If Fighting Magical

Build Item Silverbranch Bow Silverbranch Bow

Relics

Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet
Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads

Cernunnos's Skill Order

Shifter of Seasons

1 X Y
Shifter of Seasons
4 8 10 12 13

Bramble Blast

2 A B
Bramble Blast
1 3 6 7 9

Horn Charge

3 B A
Horn Charge
2 11 14 15 16

The Wild Hunt

4 Y X
The Wild Hunt
5 17 18 19 20
Shifter of Seasons
4 8 10 12 13

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
Bramble Blast
1 3 6 7 9

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: 55 / 90 / 125 / 160 / 195 (+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
Horn Charge
2 11 14 15 16

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: 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 / 13s
The Wild Hunt
5 17 18 19 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

Introduction

Welcome To "How To Cernunnos"
This is where you can learn how to play Cernunnos
trust me, this will help you

Pros / Cons

Pros
High single target damage
Good/Safe farm and poke
Good teamfight
Good CC
Very high power scaling on abilities

Cons
Shifter of Seasons is hard to use early (late game is summer only)
The Wild Hunt is not very good outside of teamfights
Passive only useful when doing jungle camps

Abilities

Level Up Order
Bramble Blast
Shifter of Seasons
Horn Charge
The Wild Hunt

Why This Way

Bramble Blast is your clear/poke ability (this is one of the reasons bluestone is really good)

Shifter of Seasons is your heal/boxing tool (reason two for bluestone; free lifesteal)
Use spring to heal off the wave and camps (15% lifesteal)
Use summer to box/kill people (25 bonus damage)
Use autumn to do more damage early (25 flat pen, almost useless late-game)
Use winter to chase kills when you dont have Hastened Fatalis (15% slow on basics)

Horn Charge
Its used to chase/run away or as a burst tool in the early game

The Wild Hunt
Drop this in a teamfight to burn beads and to cause a panic
Also good for self peel (sometimes)

Items

Why To Buy These Items
Bluestone Pendant
The free lifesteal on Shifter of Seasons means Daeths Toll is a lot less useful

Warrior Tabi
The damage of Warrior Tabi is better then the attack speed of Ninja Tabi because of all the attack speed later in the build

Ichaival/Sliverbranch Bow
These two items are the best in the game for early boxing because of the pen and power steal

Qin's Sais
This items allows you to do much more damage to solos and supports, also the extra power is nice

Asi
More pen, attack speed and lifesteal

Hastened Fatalis
The passive is OP and the stats of the the item are perfect for Cernunnos

The Crusher
The stats are good and the passive reduces the cooldown of abilities for more burst

Items Pt.2

What Not To Buy And Why

Bloodforge
Bloodforge has no attack speed or pen to help Qin's do more damage

The Executioner
Percent pen is not useful Vs other hunters and Executioner's passive does not work on towers

Titans Bane
Just like Executioner but works on towers

Odysseus' Bow
All attack speed and no pen = bad

Transcendence
The extra power is good for the scaling on the abilities but the basic attack build does more damage

Devourer's Gauntlet
Same as Transcendence

All Crit
Crit over all is bad because the pen + Qin's build is better

Team Work

Gods Cernunnos Works Well With

Sobek
When Sobek dashes at an enemy and throws them behind himself, get ready to Bramble Blast them when they land

Sylvanus
When Sylvanus pulls an enemy in, get ready to Bramble Blast

Odin
Drop The Wild Hunt inside the Odin cage for a bunch of pigs

Terra
Chaining stuns and roots is very good

Khepri
Khepri is over all the best support in the game because of the rez

Counters

Gods That Counters Cernunnos

Odin
His cage has a attack speed debuff and Cernunnos has no way get out

Kumbhakarna
His yawn slows attack speed

More Help

There is a steamer named dmbrandon who has helped me become a better player with his guides

This is a link to his Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/dmbrandon

This is a link to his Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/dmbrandon...

Check him out

Summary

Just build a lot of attack speed, pen and Qin's to mow people down
Also be careful of his counters, they really shut him down

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1
Mew2Chainz | June 24, 2017 4:22am
What build would you recommend for Arena since there are no towers to worry about?
1
Tlaloc1050 (17) | May 14, 2017 8:52pm
FYI it's reduced protections, not pen
1
JTPR | May 16, 2017 4:17am
thanks for letting me know :)
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