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Eye Of The Jungle
Boots
Chalice of Healing
Multi Potion
Purification Beads
Protector Of The Jungle
Ninja Tabi
Jotunn's Wrath
Hide of the Urchin
Soul Eater
Protector Of The Jungle
Ninja Tabi
Jotunn's Wrath
Hide of the Urchin
Soul Eater
Heartseeker
Elixir of Speed
The Crusher
Protector Of The Jungle
Ninja Tabi
Jotunn's Wrath
Hide of the Urchin
Soul Eater
Brawler's Beat Stick
Elixir of Speed
Heartseeker
Protector Of The Jungle
Warrior Tabi
Jotunn's Wrath
Hide of the Urchin
Soul Eater
Heartseeker
Elixir of Speed
Titan's Bane
Protector Of The Jungle
Ninja Tabi
Jotunn's Wrath
Hide of the Urchin
Soul Eater
The Crusher
Elixir of Speed
Brawler's Beat Stick
Protector Of The Jungle
Ninja Tabi
Jotunn's Wrath
Hide of the Urchin
Soul Eater
Caduceus Club
Elixir of Speed
Gladiator's Shield
Brawler's Beat Stick
Heartseeker
The Crusher
Bloodforge
The Executioner
Gladiator's Shield
Berserker's Shield
Caduceus Club
Titan's Bane
Purification Beads
Bracer of Radiance
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Passive - Unbound Runes
Unbound Runes: At full runes (5 total), Unchained applies a 1 second stun to those hit, Brutalize's damage scales up by 15%, and Ragnarok doubles your protections. At full Unbound Runes, once you use an ability other than Seething Howl, your Unbound Runes reset to 0. To get runes, landing autos against anything gives you one per auto landed. Additionally, assists grant you 3 runes, activating Seething Howl gives you 2, and getting a kill gives you 5 (fills all Unbound Runes). The timing of Seething Howl is useful in ensuring all Unbound Runes are up prior to initiating. Feel free to auto some camps prior to ganking a lane as well, saving you mana and the full duration of Seething Howl for the engagement. Your 1.94 attack speed at full build is super useful in ensuring your ruins keep filling while in the middle of a fight as well.
1 - Unchained Unchained: This ability has been buffed through the roof as of late, now scaling with 95% of your physical ability power. When Unbound Runes are full, this ability stuns for one second in hit. The stun and the damage of the ability are not single target, but consists of a small AOE effect. Following the landing of this stun, you immediately get an auto in as well. With your attack speed increased via both Ninja Tabi and Protector Of The Jungle, before using Brutalize on the target, you can get 2-3 autos in as well, to further increase the damage dealt. This ability works over walls, including ability walls, of the likes of 
Ymir, 
Cabrakan, and 
Odin. This ability has a wide variety of uses, including using it as an escape, an initiator, a way to peel, multiple times in skirmishes and as a gap closer. It's a pretty long leap as well, with practice the wide variety of utility of this ability becomes more clear. Purification Beads or Brutalize are safe options as well. Jotunn's Wrath and Soul Eater). This totals you out at 60%, leaving Unchained on a 6 second cooldown, which makes your stun, DPS, and healing far more potent.
2 - Seething Howl Seething Howl: You'll start almost all your initiations/combos with this, however, there is variability in its use as well. While the stun is nice, perhaps lighting up that last Unbound Runes or two after you land Unchained to get the bonus 15% damage output with Brutalize is more optimal in the scenario. Generally, however, you'll be popping this ability right before you initiate (especially if you are one or two runes off having your stun), as the added 80 physical power is applied to both the autos you hit and to your ability scalings. The 35% lifesteal is extremely beneficial when dueling and sustaining through the jungle as well, and ties in well with Soul Eater and Bloodforge, if you so choose to build it.
3 - Brutalize Brutalize: This ability is nuts, and is the cornerstone to your damage output. Also given a buff recently as well, it's AOE damage now does 60% of the damage done to the single target. The immunity to knockups is huge, and you continue to follow gods that attempt to dash away in the duration of this ability, making you a pain in the *** to deal with. The raw damage output of this ability and the healing you'd receive from Soul Eater's passive on it as well really puts this over the edge. Like Unchained, this ability goes through map-based walls and ability walls, like Ymir's and Cabrakan's. Feel free to use this as an escape or to disengage as well.
Cerberus of ulting soon, use Brutalize on him, and you won't be picked up in the ult, avoiding having to use your Purification Beads or Ragnarok to escape. Using Unchained or Brutalize to just get out of his way works as well. If you use Brutalize with less than two seconds left on your active Seething Howl, the scaled damage will still apply to all four hits. This ability semi-counters 
Aegis Amulet, as the duration of Brutalize will allow you to get one of those procs in, usually killing the target, as Aegis Amulet is typically utilized when they have a sliver of health left (Same applies to 
Chang'e's 
Moonlit Waltz ability, where you can usually get one proc off as well.) Hard to time, but you can intercept 
Mercury while dashing in his ult, and Brutalize will continue to hit all four procs, as Mercury's 
Sonic Boom is a dash.
4 - Ragnarok Ragnarok: A solid ultimate, giving you the ability to pick up an opponent and peel them off for the team to take care of. At full Unbound Runes, your current protections will double when this is casted, surpassing protections caps if applicable. Upon casting this ability, you have 5 seconds to either runaway with it or to pursue and grab an enemy. After picking up an enemy, you have 2 seconds to carry them where you wish. Your teammates are able to damage the enemy while they are in your jaws as well. Ideally you would bring them under tower, or towards your support or solo laner, where they can further CC the opponent so you can finish them off. Be careful when doing this however, as if you have low health teammates hiding under tower or in the backline, you run the chance of getting them killed. On the topic of saving teammates, feel free to use this to peel off opponents who are chasing a kill on a low health teammate. Also, do not be afraid to utilize this as an escape. If you get hard CC'd and your Purification Beads aren't available, use it to escape. The additionally 75% movement speed makes this an even greater escape than it already was. Feel free to use this to secure a kill and execute your prey. Ragnarok, they'll immediately pop their Purification Beads prior to you actually grabbing them. Fortunately for you, Ragnorak lasts 5 seconds prior to picking someone up, so feel free to wait out their cockiness to teach them a bit of a lesson. When gods like 
Da Ji or 
Ares uses their ultimates, consider using Ragnorak as a counter attack. It will make your opponents hesitant to go towards your teammates who were pulled in. Additionally, this will give you immunity from being pulled in yourself.
Unbound Runes. In that case, below are the three combos that you will likely see much use out of, especially when initialing jumping in fights and ganking lanes:
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🠞Auto Seething Howl near enemies you intend to engage on, to those who are aware of both the audio and visual signals this ability gives off, can make the them aware of both your prescence and your intention to engage (In a similar vein to 
Thoth's 
Final Judgement). While this can't be helped in some cases, and especially if you already have all of your Unbound Runes up, sometimes it is better to engage with just Unchained first, to catch them off guard.
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Fenrir has seen a wide variety of play styles, and along with that, a wide range of itemization pathways. I'm going to present an argument for what may at first come off as a very unorthodox build for a Fenrir, but one that has proven both last season and in this current season to be lethal, sufficient, and effective.|
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Bumba's Hammer is largely the go to item for Fenrir as of now, and on paper, it's easy to see why. When the season first started, like most other players, Bumba's Hammer passive was the reason I went with the item, as the true damage output, cooldown reduction, and healing you receive with Fenrir is impressive. Additionally, the early game sustain with this item is really beneficial as well, as you are much more easily able to keep your mana bar up. While Bumba's Hammer on it's own is amazing on Fenrir, it does not synergize well with how one should build Fenrir, having numerous flaws of its own, which will be discussed below:
For the reasons discussed above, and in account of the discussion had later in the guide, concerning building Hide of the Urchin and the flaws I see in building Fenrir to bruiser like, Protector of the Jungle is a much stronger item on Fenrir. Boots: Ninja Tabi
I prefer these boots over Warrior's Boots for four reasons: DPS, camp clearing, Unbound Runes upkeep and sustain. While your abilities are on cooldown, the additional attack speed allows you to keep hitting hard, especially with your Seething Howl steroid active, increasing your DPS. Combined with Soul Eater and Seething Howl's lifesteal buff, you heal for 50% of the damage dealt via autos ( Soul Eater fully evolved, 45% while stack building). Your Unbound Runes will restore faster, allowing you to stun more, increase the damage output of Brutalize, and double the protections of your Ragnarok if you need to escape or engage. Finally, the attack speed helps your camp clear speed, especially as you lack mana sustain early.Second Full Item Built: Jotunn's Wrath
A classic, cream of the crop, keystone item on any Fenrir build. The definition of a core item. You build this second largely for the cooldown, mana, and penetration. On almost any damage character, especially mages and assassins, building flat pen early on is a must. Gives you such a power spike, and is stilll handy annihilating squishy prey in the late game. The 20% cooldown is amazing on Fenrir, further allowing you to more constantly keep your steroid up, stun, get that damage in via your brutalize, make you more mobile, and clear camps faster. Mana helps you sustain for longer, allowing you to fire off the abilities more often. Recently buffed to provide 50 power as well, no reason you don't build this second. None.Third Full Item Built: Hide of the Urchin
An unconventional item on Fenrir, and especially unconventional on assassins as a whole. However, in a similar vein to Jotunn's Wrath, this item is a keystone build on Fenrir. Fenrir has a reputation for being compatible with bruiser based builds, and this is definitely true, but only to an extent. Especially in the current meta, with a focus on damage and penetration, building at least some beefiness is almost mandatory. Fenrir's Seething Howl steroid and damage output via his autos, Brutalize, Unchained, and Ragnarok enable these build paths to be viable, but as mentioned before, only to an extent. Hide of the Urchin is the singular item needed to invest in Fenrir's beefiness. Hide of the Urchin in general is an amazing defensive item that is criminally underbuilt for how much stats are packed into an item that costs 2450 gold. Upon first purchasing, Hide of the Urchin provides 30 of both physical and magical protections, 250 health and 250 mana. Fully evolved, it then provides a total of both 51 physical and magical protections. Additionally, you generate a shield every 2 seconds when you haven't been in combat in the last 5 seconds. Every 2 seconds, you gain 10% of 100 health + 5 per level. At level 20, this equates to a 200 point shield at full stacks, again adding to your ability to last longer in fights. While this item provides no offensive component, the fact that it covers health and both types of protections, to a meaningful degree, allow the rest of the build to focus entirely on your offensive components (Side note: as for why you wouldn't opt for traditionally bruiser items, such as  Ancile and  Void Shield, see the discussion above concerning Protector of the Jungle and the discussion below concerning traditional bruiser builds on Fenrir). The physical protections provided by Protector Of The Jungle are just another cherry on top all of the stats mentioned prior. When paired with Fenrir's base stats and the Protector Of The Jungle's passive, your protections total at 179 physical armor and 111 magical armor. Being a melee assassin with no ranged abilities or poke, you're going to need the beefiness to get in and out of skirmishes, as your going to be right in the mix of things. Additionally, the extra sustain allows you to benefit more from Seething Howl's lifesteal, Soul Eater's auto-based lifesteal, and Soul Eater's ability based lifesteal, as you'll be alive longer to steal more health back to yourself. When it comes to obtaining these stacks, this is where the argument as for why you wouldn't want to build this item comes into play. This item requires 7 kills and/or assists to evolve, which can take time and potentially be difficult, especially if behind. However, as a jungler, you have access to ganking all three lanes, which in turn makes this process easier, as you aren’t confined to the one or two opponents in your lane. As for build order, you build this third, as the mana will help you sustain longer in the jungle and in combat, and most importantly, gives you more time to build the stacks for it. With Hide of the Urchin being a scaling item, it helps you scale into the late game, thus helping make up for Fenrir's potentially shaky late game presence. Before moving on to the next item, I'll discuss as to why protections are so beneficial, a solid investment, and how just one protections-based item can't vastly change the amount of damage you take:
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This section will discuss the recent trend with building Fenrir like a solo laner, prioritzing bruiser items over pure damage, the issues I have with this, and the reasons why I beleive it to be an unsuccessful pathway to build Fenrir, especially within the Jungler role.
Physical Bruiser Items
Fenrir now, especially after it was buffed. Now providing more protections and at a lower cost, it is understandable as to why this is so commonly picked up on him. I use to love this item on Fenrir as well (as a sitiuational pick up last season), but what hurts it on Fenrir is two-fold: Lack of ever present magical protections and no penetration. As mentioned several times before, we are in a damge-focused, penetration-focused meta. While 
Shifter's Shield provides 65 physical power when above 75% max health, physical power is not wholey effective unless paired with forms of penetration. Obvioulsy these two stats don't have to be on the same item, but that'll be touched on later on. Shifter's Shield's lack of health also lends you to being in scenarios where you don't have the bonus damage, as you don't have the health present to remain above 75% max health for a sustained amunt of time. This further lessens your damge output. Of course, when built in conjunction with other bruiser items, this isn't an issue, but if you were to go a full damge route with Shifter's Shield thrown in, and you opt for Bumba's Hammer (for example), you reach level 20 too late for this to be effective, and that's if you make it to the late game. Additionally, Shifter's Shield's lack of sustained magical protections leads you to ptentially getting nuked, as you're magical protections won't be online if you are hit by a high damage magical ability prior to being below 75% max health, which is extrmeely likely to happen. Shifter's Shield is most effective when paired with other bruiser items, however, bruiser is not the route you want to go with Fenrir, in the jungle especially. as mentioned prior, on its own, Shifter's Shield's lack of penetration and sustained magical protection make it an incompltete item that must be propped up by other items
Fenrir and for good reason. However, in the jungle, while I see this item as an improvement upon Shifter's Shield, it itself also has two flaws: Low physical power and lack of magical protection. What makes a lack of magical protection on these items such an issue, in which I'll touch on briefly here, but delve into further when discussing the magical bruiser items, is that the available magical bruiser items don't synergize well with Fenrir. Building Void Shield, just like Shifter's Shield, will force your hand into buying pure magical defense items, which completely lack direct damage output. Void Shield has a great base amount of physical protections, and some health as a plus. Additionally, it has a 15% physical protection reduction aura providing penetration to not just you but your teammates as well. However, Void Shield's lack of physical power forces your hand into having to support with stronger damage items, which is difficult in a bruiser build.
Fenrir build this guide discusses. These items are typically considered bruiser items, which is why I briefly mention them here. It's almost impossible to consider this Berserker's Shield a brusier item anymore. It has catered way towards the offensive end of the spectrum now, and in that case loses it's place in a Fenrir bruiser build, especially considering how lifesteal sustain isn't a primary focus of a brusier build, which this item strongly boosts. As for Gladiato's Shield, it is one of the few bruiser items with potential on Fenrir, and so is discussed above.
Fenrir bruiser and assassin builds, Sledge is a solid item when playing support Fenrir, as it performs well when paired with other tank/bruiser items. However, it is a weak option on jungle Fenrir, especially when it is solely the only defensive item typically built (outside of a late game Bumba's Hammer, which doesn't provide any protections). 
The Sledge is a weak, singular defensive option on Fenrir as it lacks sustained protections and it's passive isn't as effective on Fenrir as it is on other gods. Hide of the Urchin is a superior defensive option for you, due to what was layed out in the discussion earlier, about how effective a Hide of the Urchin pickup can be on Fenrir over The Sledge, largely due to how strong a singular, all encompassing defensive item can be one him, and perhaps other assassins as well.
The Sledge, where just building health as a protective measure isn't sufficient enough. The damage, cooldown, and mana are beneficial on Fenrir, but like The Sledge, this item it strnger when supported by other tank items.
Berserker's Shield, it's hard to consider this item a bruiser item anymore, as it has also catered to the damage-focused end of the spectrum. The physical damage and cooldown on this item are really good stats, but it's largely the passive and protection stats that make this item ineffective on Fenrir. 30 magical protections is fairly low, especially when taken on its own, without the support from health and more protections on other items in a potential build. The passive is situationally effective, as it is beneficial when you dive a magical opponent and are on top of them, but the passive is easily poked out of you as well, as the ranged attacks of mages and some guardians can hit you from a distance. A lack of penetration makes this item overshadowed by other offensive items as well. Overall, this item does come close to being a solid opton in this build, but just comes short of carrying enough weight on its own. If it had 10 flat penetration added to it, then I would consider this a offensive option for the build presented in this guide.
Ancile, if this item had a form of penetration attached to it, preferably flat penetration, this item would synergize really well with Fenrir. However, this item does unfortuately fall short in the damage department, making it a weak addition to a Fenrir build, even though the defensive stats are good, and the passive is beneficial to you and your teammates. On a support Fenrir build, I would definitely recommend this item.
Horus, 
Guan Yu, 
Camazotz, etc.). In a similar vein to Hide of the Urchin, this item covers both protections and health, which within itself makes it strong. 30 physical power is a great plus as well. The passive is interesting, and does synergize with your Bracer of Undoing, Soul Eater, and Seething Howl. However, it is largely better to focus on stronger damage items with penetration in this case, despite the item being a surprisingly odd suit on Fenrir. I haven't tried it myself, but in a similar vein to both Gladiator's Shield and Berserker's Shield, this has the potential to be an intersting substitution to your boots. Fenrir, while providing him with sustain and beeffiness, take away from his damage potential and exposure/utility to both better item passives and CDR. Some bruiser items have niche placements in the Fenrir build discussed in this guide, but largely should be avoided in the majority of circumstances.
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Easy Prey
Fenrir's Brutalize hard counters. Any god with a dash (
Cernunnos, Thoth, 
Vulcan, 
Agni, etc.) virtually have no escape as long as you land Brutalize. Additionally, gods that resort to knockups to get you off of them (
Pele, 
He Bo, 
Jing Wei, etc.) are, ironically, brutalized by Brutalize as well, as it is immune to knockups. Look to harass and target these gods.
Brutalize is hard countered by this mobility ( Fenrir, 
Bastet, etc.) Cripples and silences are the bane of your existence. Ares, 
Artio, 
Nox, etc., will put you down like a dog. Spacing, rotating, keeping CC immunities up, solid escape utility and situational awareness are how you avoid being silenced to the grave.
Fenrir is a strong jungle pick this season, especially in light of his recent buffs. His high mobility and high damage output allow for backline diving and elimination, and the sustain and beefiness you can build on him further increase his survivalbility and potentcy. Looking to update this in the future as updates come through, and to add sections discussing gameplay in casual modes like Arena and the new Clash/Siege mode planned for later this year. I appreciate you taking the time to look through the equivalent of the Bible when it comes to Fenrir guides, and hopefully you've learned some new insights in the process.
Take care,
-CertifiedLuvrBoy
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I have doubts about some of the items. For example:
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2) Why is
3) You mention
I also want to point out a few things regarding your threats. You mention
You definitely have more experience than I do, so let me know what you think.
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2) You're definitely right about
3) I do have
4) When it comes to the gods listed under "Easy Pickings", as you mentioned, there are gods listed there have have capabilities to interuppt your engage. What I was taking into account with that section too, however, is that you can either wait for those abilites to be used, then engage, thus giving them no counter otpions, or, if your damage output is high enough, you can quickly engage and take them out before they fully have the oppurtunity to utilize these abilites to fend you off (
Again, appreciate the input and recommendations.
Also a really nice in-depth guide for Fen. It's obvious you know him very well.
So the biggest issues here are
With this in mind I would suggest building him like this:
Try this or other builds, keep the itemisation in mind and see if you find an improvement.
If you need any help feel free to ask!
1) I honestly rarely ever build
2) I'd argue
3) The point of this guide is, from my experience with
Why void shield?
Why heart seeker?