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Stone of Binding for 
Void Stone and shoes late game for 
Ethereal Staff if you want to be offensive or 
Mantle of Discord if you want to be defensive, after you buy 
Elixir of Speed.
Standard build for Conquest, consider replace Stone of Binding for Void Stone and shoes late game for Ethereal Staff if you want to be offensive or Mantle of Discord if you want to be defensive, after you buy Elixir of Speed.
Shoes of the Magi
Stone of Binding
Gauntlet of Thebes
Sovereignty
Relic Dagger
Pridwen
Void Stone
Mana Potions due the 
Guardian's Blessing passive (unless you cast unnecessary skills). Everything you need to stay enough time to get money to finish your shoes.
Iron Mail, 
Druid Stone, 
Talisman (and others) if you want to get defenses as soon as possible instead 
Shoes.
The standard start I use for support role. You don't need Mana Potions due the Guardian's Blessing passive (unless you cast unnecessary skills). Everything you need to stay enough time to get money to finish your shoes.
Consider make less potions and start with a tier 1 defense as Iron Mail, Druid Stone, Talisman (and others) if you want to get defenses as soon as possible instead Shoes.
Guardian's Blessing
Shoes
Healing Potion
Multi Potion
Shoes of Focus - The standard shoes that provides mana and CDR. Usually everything you need for a standard early game. Shoes of the Magi - Higher damage shoes due the high early power and minor lifesteal for sustain. Usually built when you are looking for strong early pressure taking advantage of it to maybe snowball.
Reinforced Shoes - High protections early game. Usually bought when you are behind and need to protect yourself/stacking Gauntlet of Thebes right after the boots. Also the most recommended boots when you get a duo with tick damage, like 
Heimdallr + 
Bacchus
Traveler's Shoes - High movespeed. Usually bought when you need to rotate frequently and get back to your lane asap.You can choose between these shoes:
Shoes of Focus - The standard shoes that provides mana and CDR. Usually everything you need for a standard early game. Shoes of the Magi - Higher damage shoes due the high early power and minor lifesteal for sustain. Usually built when you are looking for strong early pressure taking advantage of it to maybe snowball. Reinforced Shoes - High protections early game. Usually bought when you are behind and need to protect yourself/stacking Gauntlet of Thebes right after the boots. Also the most recommended boots when you get a duo with tick damage, like Heimdallr + Bacchus Traveler's Shoes - High movespeed. Usually bought when you need to rotate frequently and get back to your lane asap.
Reinforced Shoes
Shoes of Focus
Shoes of the Magi
Traveler's Shoes
Standard options for your build. I'll put a section called "itemization" to discuss every single item here.
Breastplate of Valor
Gauntlet of Thebes
Hide of the Nemean Lion
Magi's Cloak
Mantle of Discord
Midgardian Mail
Sovereignty
Spirit Robe
Pestilence
Shogun's Kusari
Relic Dagger
Witchblade
Talisman of Energy
Pridwen
Situational items that provide extra damage to your big guy and still being somehow useful to a support. I'll put a section called "itemization" to discuss every single item here.
Divine Ruin
Ethereal Staff
Celestial Legion Helm
Jade Emperor's Crown
Stone of Binding
Pythagorem's Piece
Staff of Myrddin
Tyrannical Plate Helm
Heartward Amulet with Pestilence if there are healers/heavy lifesteals on the enemy team. Build foucused in provide early aura for your team. Gauntlet of Thebes sooner if you are ahead and you want to. Witchblade or Pythagorem's Piece after you buy Elixir of Speed and sell you shoes.
Replace Heartward Amulet with Pestilence if there are healers/heavy lifesteals on the enemy team. Build foucused in provide early aura for your team.
You can build the Gauntlet of Thebes sooner if you are ahead and you want to.
You can get Witchblade or Pythagorem's Piece after you buy Elixir of Speed and sell you shoes.
Shoes of the Magi
Sovereignty
Heartward Amulet
Gauntlet of Thebes
Midgardian Mail
Pridwen
Witchblade
Stone of Binding late game. This replacement can be a offensive item such as Ethereal Staff.
Gem of Isolation after you buy your Elixir of Speed.
Build made for early aggressive comps to try put your enemy behind while in early game.
Consider replace Stone of Binding late game. This replacement can be a offensive item such as Ethereal Staff.
For last, you can replace your boots with a defensive item such as Gem of Isolation after you buy your Elixir of Speed.
Shoes of Focus
Stone of Binding
Tyrannical Plate Helm
Void Stone
Pridwen
Mantle of Discord
Ethereal Staff
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Cerberus on solo lane and duo as support. My objective here is be as quick as possible, so I don't want make a long guide (such as Love, find your mark!). I want to pass everything you need to know about this big guy to play with him in solo or as support and without wasting time.|
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Spirit Of Death
Cerberus reduces the healing of all enemies nearby and also steal part of the healing to him.details Paralyzing Spit Cerberus fire a projectile from his Snaaaaake. If his heads are on alert, they will also fire and additional projectile. If you hit all 4 projectiles, the enemy will also be stunned.details Ghastly Breath Cerberus launches a noxious breath reducing protections and causing damage 7 times in 2.4 secs. Enemies in the center of this skill are also slowed. This skill puts all three of Cerberus' heads on Alert for Paralyzing Spit.details Soul Expulsion Cerberus leaps a short distance forward, dealing damage on impact and severing the souls of Enemies. These souls will not block Cerberus's attacks, and killing the souls heals Cerberus.details Cerberus throw all enemies around him into the air for a short time and right after this, the bodies are thrown at Cerberus aim. This skill puts all three of Cerberus' heads on Alert for Paralyzing Spit.details
Ghastly Breath and put all heads ready for the next step, then you apply the (true) damage from Paralyzing Spit.
Purification Beads or you die"
Purification Beads or you die" but they will see you coming so I recommend you use this if you somehow get the enemy distracted or if they already used their escape or beads.
Ghastly Breath followed by a certain Paralyzing Spit) so use it at your advantage. You can probably force your enemy go to base and if he is squishy you can even get a kill!!!
Ratatoskr that can get out of any situation just by using 
Through the Cosmos, you can't do it. If the enemy get you inside his tower you are at a serious risk. Just attack the tower if you know that is safe to do so.
Blink Rune + Stygian Torment to land into the battle surprising the enemies.
supportsoloUnderstanding each Shoes
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Warrior's Blessing
Mage's Blessing
Breastplate
Erlang Shen
Kali
Bakasura
Contagion
Power Cleave
Inspire
King Arthur
Take a look at the end builds of the enemy team, find out how much your team has built various types of pen, and what the enemy has built defense-wise. Do the squishies have some of their own protections (e.g.
If any of the above are yes, then
Some mitigation change examples at various protection levels, based on some established values at level 20:
- Squishy, base magical prot (48 base, reduced to 38): 32.44% to 27.53% (~5% damage increase)
- Squishy, base physical prot (assume 65 base, reduced to 55): 39.39% to 35.49 (~4% damage increase)
- Squishy, base magical prot + Mantle (108 base, reduced to 98): 51.92% to 49.5% (~2.5% damage increase)
- Squishy, base magical prot, mage teammate w/
Divine Ruin + 
Spear of the Magus + 
Obsidian Shard (conservative magical pen, typically see at least 30%):
Based on the above, enemy with added protections has a definite effect on the effectiveness of Binding's passive. Question ends up being, is ~5% damage increase for your teammates worth keeping Binding late-game? Because even if an enemy mage adds Mantle to their build, you could probably still expect the enemy to end up in that 4-5% damage increase range after factoring in your teammates' pen in their builds.Base 48 prot * 0.8 (Ob Shard) = 38.4
38.4 - 20 (flat pen from Divine + Magus) = 18.4
18.4 - 10 (Binding passive) = 8.4 magical prot
18.4 = 15.54% mitigated. 8.4 = 7.75% mitigated. ~7.75% damage increase (roughly equivalent to Magus passive)
If most of the enemy team is building full glass cannon, Binding is a fairly strong keeper.
As Mysterionz asked, for me at least it's less about SoB's relevancy late game and that the boots relevancy just isn't as great.
I would personally always replace shoes before Binding.
- Provides increasing protection shred per level
- Provides increasing slow per level
- Easy to hit 1 or more enemies in a generous cone
- Since it is a channeled ability, can be easily interrupted by knockups, silences, stuns, etc.
Overall though, I'd say it absolutely depends if you're playing Conquest, at least the way I see it. In Conq, you typically want to go with the easier to confirm damage, which would be Ghastly. That said, if the enemy can interrupt it, they'll probably hold their ability to do just that, so it would then be better to prioritize Spit first.In teamfight modes, any of your teammates will gain increased damage due to your protection shred. Even if you can be interrupted, you can usually get at least a couple of ticks off before they react. And of course, you'd also want to try to play around that, and use Ghastly when you see those abilities being used so you can get full effect.
Your other option is to prioritize Ghastly early, but stop before max level and switch over to Spit and max that before finishing Ghastly. This might actually be good early, as getting say 3 points into Ghastly and getting all stacks on a squishy god would probably get you (and teammates) close to true damage.
Overall, I'd say it's okay either way.
As a lone percent pen item (or simply just damage), Reaver > Charon's Coin, against both tanks and squishies.
When you're considering building an average power, high-ish percent pen item like Charon's Coin on a tank, you need to seriously re-evaluate how you build.
Not to mention, you don't build full power on Cerberus, which would get more use out of Charon's against tanks. Still, the passive from Reaver + extra power combined will outclass the extra 10% pen from Charon's. Charon's (or Shard) is more of a complement to typically go alongside Reaver (in a Burst Mage build).
No particular reason, I just wanted to say it. ;)
I have mostly been doing pretty well with Cerebus in arena(only place i play) and i can't remember whose it was, but I modified from a conquest guide that had
Edit: stats for smite finally came up for me.
winrate 75% 18/6, kda 3.52, KD 1.64, kills 202, assists 461 deaths 123. just started playing him this season.
How does Shoes of Focus, Stone of Binding, Gem of Iso, Thebes, Void Stone, and Mantle of Discord sound?
You plan on putting this up for the contest?
I'd also put Gem of Iso in the recommended and agressive builds for Solo.
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I know Gem of Iso is listed, but I meant you should put it in the listed builds, not in the alternative items :p
Remember that Cerb tends to fall considerably late game, so getting the cooldown only late game can be a opportunity waste. I would agree that BoV isn't a good option if it is listed as the 2nd item (right after the shoes), however, in this case, where it is and specifically talking about Cerb, it is a good option, trust me ;)
About Gem, it is really hard to find an space for it on the aggressive builds, maybe as the shoes replacement right after you buy