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Smite God: Kukulkan

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Kukulkan Build

Starting Items

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Book of Souls

Aegis Amulet

Purification Beads

Bracer of Radiance

Main Build

Book of Thoth

Shoes of Focus

Warlock's Staff

Spear of the Magus

Book of the Dead

Polynomicon

Sub for Poly/Dead Book

Gem of Isolation

Hide of the Urchin

Bancroft's Talon

Kukulkan's Skill Order

Zephyr

1 X

2 8 11 12 14

Slipstream

2 A

3 15 16 18 19

Whirlwind

3 B

1 4 6 7 10

Spirit of the Nine Winds

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

Kukulkan Threats

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Max

Major

Even

Minor

Tiny

Introduction

For many months, I was sticking only to Mage and Hunter, and finally branched out other classes. Then I stayed too long in those classes. Once I tried Kukulkan a few times, I returned to form. Kukulkan is no solidly placed as my second mage pick. And now, with this build, I think I’ve finally found the exact way I should be playing him.

If you would like to see evidence of my performance with him, keep an eye on the video feed on this site. I try to post once a week, at a minimum. As always, great deals of feedback are much appreciated, so fire away, so long as you read the pros/cons sections beforehand. Thank you for viewing.

-Ownerbynight

Pros / Cons

Pros

Cons

Summary

I love Smite because I can comfortably mess around with all sorts of Character builds. In League of Legends, and for a time, Paragon, it was hard to break off from the existing meta. I’m looking at you Critical Strikes! This build may not be as far-afield as other builds that I run (little surprise coming soon), but it was still fun to finalize through 4 iterations. I’m really happy with where it’s at, and rarely feel a time in-game where I’m struggling because of it. Once again, let me know what all of you think. Thanks.

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(143) |

Don’t double stack Thoth and warlocks. Swap warlocks for Book Of the Dead. Also don’t get Bancrofts or urchin on Kuku. Add obsidian as an alternative item and also add soul reaver to the build once you remove warlocks.

Any particular reason for why I can't build the way I build? You're being an arbiter without giving any reasoning or empirical evidence for why your item opinions are superior to mine in this case. On that note, I found that soul reaver is good on Kukulkan, but better on many other mages, like Poseidon, who can land their aoe far more easily.

(143) |

Because you don’t have an optimal build for Kukulkan and some of your item choices are very questionable.

(394) |

You can absolutely build the way you want to. Explanations definitely would help, but they take time, and depending on your level of experience, you might or might not reason out his suggestions.

Typically (at this stage of Season 5) you don't build 2 stacking items. With the relative nerf to and the buff to , The 2 Book build gives you a measure of survivability so as to be okay in not building Warlock's.

In addition, Warlock's takes a long time to stack, and in this situation, you can see in your build that you're greatly delaying greater offensive pressure, as you're getting your first pen item 4th (and Warlock's is pretty weak as an offensive item compared to some others). This is the biggest reason not to stack...because you want to be applying that offensive threat as soon as possible. This absolutely delays it.

But the survivability of your build is definitely enhanced by Warlock's + BotD. At the point you're greatly increasing your health, though, arguably you'd get better function out of protections, of which you have none.

Most Kuku players these days are going to rely more on their burst damage through and their ult, which makes less appealing, at least to some. We absolutely get the use of Magus with regard to ticking damage from , but that's something to consider.

Don't get as an option for BotD/Poly. Consider instead, would be my suggestion, if you do sub. Again, with the health boost from Warlock's, protections are probably going to do more for your survival at that point.

Ob Shard should be an alternative to Magus...you can keep Magus as your preferred pen, but Shard should not be ignored as a consideration.

And you have a point with , though I still think Reaver is a good option overall. A lot of times, you won't land WW on an enemy, since it has a delay. This leaves you with only 2 other abilities, 1 of which is an ult that's not going to be up that often, to get the passive proc. I do prefer Reaver when you can easily hit 3 of 4 damaging abilities...but it's not a bad item, and again, should probably be listed as an option.

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This is the kind of reply I was looking for, thank you. I tested a build today where I dropped warlocks for Hide of the Urchin, and moved Spear of the Magus up to item #3. It worked fine, and I even replaced Polynomicon with Obsidian Shard in this game because they had way too much tankiness on all their characters. I didn't feel as survivable, I didn't feel that I dealt nearly as much damage, and I didn't feel as significant on the field. Now, that was only one game, so I'll keep trying your suggestions. Thanks for them, I appreciate it.

(394) |

That's the thing with Kuku. In most situations, you're not SUPPOSED to feel survivable...either with or . But between the two, you'd probably be better off with the Staff. Urchin just isn't an optimal item for him, because he really wants as much damage potential as possible, and it doesn't have any power contribution. At least Warlock's has power. But if you're building for his strengths (and not to cover his weaknesses), you really should be going the direction of high power with . It also helps the scaling on the bonus hit after landing . And then 's health shield is your emergency survival tool.

This is also what makes him a challenge to play. In order to get the most out of him, you need that high damage, but without a true escape, it makes him a big target. So it's mostly poking/harassing from afar with , committing more strongly to a kill with + , and timing your ult to either teammates' controlling CC abilities, or on an enemy that's diving you up close. You're not looking to box.

This also means you need to be more aware of your surroundings, be good with warding to cover your butt, and hiding behind tanks/locating yourself well in a teamfight.

In teamfight modes, you're okay building some protections..., as I mentioned earlier, can work well. Yes, it has less direct survival than Urchin, but comes with CDR (which is great for teamfight modes) and has a passive stun that can give you an extra second to relocate/escape/get a last hit. But for Conquest, don't get Urchin.

Good advice yet again, thanks. I think I'll tinker with what I have a bit more, but you make some good points yet again, and back them up.

I just want to say, Hide of the Urchin does benefit this build. I'm getting 10% magic increase from it, so that's 25 magic damage, which is not useless. I get 20 more from warlocks, 20 from book of the dead. I build lots of mana items in this build because all they do is increase my overall damage. Of course, what is that damage without pen, but I aim to rectify that by potentially building obsidian shard.

(394) |

If you're being specific, then yes, the mana from Urchin does give you a bit of power. But again, it's one of those things...the protections are nice, but when you're not getting HIGH power or pen or BOTH, you're stunting your offensive potential. The balance is finding out how to build aggressively, while not dying too much from being squishy.

Urchin definitely has survivability in it with dual protections and a chunk of health and mana. but saying you get 25 from Urchin and 20 from Warlock's is not accurate...you get a total of 12.5 from Urchin and 125 from Warlock's. (FYI 5% mana is converted to power...the 250 mana from Urchin is 12.5, not 20).

This is not significant enough to even say that Urchin provides offense.

You can build Urchin, Warlock's, or both on basically ANY mage...but I'm just letting you know that that is absolutely stunting your offensive potential. You will never see good Kuku players build Urchin unless they absolutely have to because they're being focused like crazy...and at that point, you're conceding that you're not going to be the offensive juggernaut you could be otherwise.

So, it's one of those items you can build if you really need to, but it shouldn't be emphasized in a build.

Then again, in a teamfight mode like Arena, I might get it if I was focused a lot, just to stay alive.

I think I'll keep Urchin as a backup then. I just want to say, you're forgetting Kukulkan's passive, which doubles the 5% mana/damage boost from Thoth Book to 10% total --> 10% of 250 is 25, which is why I said I get 25 from Urchin, essentially. That's really the only reason I would potentially build it on Kukulkan - it's extremely unlikely I would build it on a different mage.

Once again, I'll mix up my Kukulkan build more and find what's best. Thanks again.

(394) |

Oops yeah forgot about thoth.

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Introduction

Pros / Cons

Summary

Jack-of-all-but-two-trades Kukulkan

Smite God: Kukulkan

Kukulkan Build

Starting Items

Main Build

Sub for Poly/Dead Book

Kukulkan's Skill Order

Zephyr

Slipstream

Whirlwind

Spirit of the Nine Winds

Kukulkan Threats

Ares | Major

Loki | Major

Neith | Major

Poseidon | Major

Susano | Major

Rama | Tiny

Agni | Even

Pele | Even

Introduction

Pros / Cons

Summary

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