Smitefire logo

Join the leading SMITE community.
Create and share God Guides and Builds.

Create an MFN Account






Or

Not Updated For Current Season

This guide has not yet been updated for the current season. Please keep this in mind while reading. You can see the most recently updated guides on the browse guides page

x

Vote received! Would you like to let the author know their guide helped you and leave them a message?

Banner for Kukulkan guides

Spirit of the Nine Winds

16 1 167,145
9.6
by ClemFandango updated July 15, 2018

Smite God: Kukulkan

Build Guide Discussion 8 More Guides
Tap Mouse over an item or ability icon for detailed info

Kukulkan Build

Starter

Build Item Mage's Blessing Mage's Blessing
Build Item Spellbook Spellbook
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion

Standard

Build Item Book of Thoth Book of Thoth
Build Item Shoes of the Magi Shoes of the Magi
Build Item Spear of Desolation Spear of Desolation
Build Item Polynomicon Polynomicon
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant

Damage + Control

Build Item Book of Thoth Book of Thoth
Build Item Shaman's Ring Shaman's Ring
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Gem of Isolation Gem of Isolation
Build Item Obsidian Shard Obsidian Shard
Build Item Polynomicon Polynomicon

Survivability + Control

Build Item Warlock's Staff Warlock's Staff
Build Item Shoes of the Magi Shoes of the Magi
Build Item Breastplate of Valor Breastplate of Valor
Build Item Gem of Isolation Gem of Isolation
Build Item Spear of Desolation Spear of Desolation
Build Item Book of the Dead Book of the Dead

Anti-Heal

Build Item Divine Ruin Divine Ruin
Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Spear of Desolation Spear of Desolation
Build Item Book of Thoth Book of Thoth
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Soul Reaver Soul Reaver

Relics

Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads
Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet
Build Item Blink Rune Blink Rune
Build Item Heavenly Wings Heavenly Wings

Summary

Let's talk Kukulkan.

Kukulkan boasts high area damage and devastating burst. At max rank, Spirit of the Nine Winds deals a massive 900 +120% of your magical power in magical damage. That's the kind of ult that makes squishy targets disappear.

The tight spaces of Season 5's jungle let's Whirlwind shine as a zoning ability. With great wave clear to rival Poseidon's and the potential to turn entire corridors into death zones Kukulkan makes for a decent mid laner.

Kukulkan can get an enormous amount of power with his passive Power of the Wind Jewel in combination with the passive of Book of Thoth adding 8% of your total mana pool to your magical power. He gets on very well with the Spellbook library tree of magical power and mana.

The main downside is that without a dash or leap and little self peel he can be very vulnerable to gank attempts. That said, Slipstream does allow him to juke well and get around the map quickly.

Playstyle

Leveling


Early Game


Mid Game


Late Game


Be sure to Ward!

Main Build

8% Mana conversion into Power can make quite a bit of difference to your item choices compared to other mages. I've included the bonus when talking about the power that items provide.

Early Game
Starting with Book of Thoth is highly recommended for the large amount of power and excellent synergy with your passive. At full stacks, it gives you an enormous +170 Power on its own, without considering the rest of your mana pool.

Shoes of Focus offers a fantastic 60 Power, 250 Mana and 10% Cooldown Reduction. Even so, the more expensive and lower power Shoes of the Magi is my personal preference because the Penetration gives you slightly more damage against enemy gods which is nice to get early.

Mid Game
Cooldown Reduction is important for Kukulkan, which makes Chronos' Pendant an excellent 3rd item pick up, especially if it's your only cooldown item. If you got Shoes of Focus I'd recommend Spear of Desolation instead. That is a higher damaging option, but don't forget that Chronos' Pendant provides very useful mana sustain.

Gem of Isolation is an excellent pick up that adds a great deal of control to the kit. Whirlwind becomes a long lasting mass slow and Zephyr all but stops people from moving, which is great for setting up Spirit of the Nine Winds. The control combined with the additional health offers a decent improvement to survivability.

Simply put, Spear of the Magus works brilliantly with Whirlwind and otherwise greatly increases combo damage vs. squishy targets.

Late Game
Polynomicon and Kukulkan is a match made in heaven. It offers +99 Magical Power and the Lifesteal improves your quality of life with health recovery. The passive is the star of the show, adding massive burst to your basic attacks after using any ability. This is especially nice for resolving the awkward downtime that Kukulkan can have after using his Whirlwind.

Finally, Soul Reaver grants +154 Power and great bonus burst damage, particular against high health targets.

Other Item Choices

Warlock's Staff is undeniably a great item that starts off with decent stats and grows to be a bit bloated when fully evolved. Choosing this first greatly improves your ability to survive, but can significantly delay your power coming online compared to Book of Thoth. Double stacking is an option; Book of Thoth is not terrible to get later on in your build because even without stacks you'll get a good power boost from your existing mana pool.

Obsidian Shard vs Spear of the Magus is an interesting choice that depends on the situation and your priorities.

Obsidian Shard offers less against targets with low protections, but its effectiveness against tanks may increase your impact against the whole enemy team. Although Obsidian Shard doesn't have the same synergy with Whirlwind, it is good for one-off shots of your 1, 4 and poly procs. Note that Spear of the Magus's protection reduction helps allies' magical damage too. Especially later in the game Obsidian Shard can be the better choice.

Late game Slipstream has you speedily slithering all over the place. It's such a good movement ability that you can trade out your boots altogether, but I do like to hang on to movement speed for slippery juking. Shaman's Ring makes for a strong replacement that adds lots of damage (you'll stack the passive no time in the late game).

Other potentially good (situational) options:


Despite it's power, I'd recommend avoiding Rod of Tahuti as it's somewhat outclassed by Soul Reaver. You'll be easily bursting targets under half health anyway.

Leave a Comment

You need to log in before commenting.

Collapse All Comments

1
Gary169 (7) | November 17, 2018 3:41am
Meant to tag branmuffin also.
1
Gary169 (7) | November 17, 2018 3:40am
@kriega, can you help me with feedback on this?

At a glance: full damage build does not have boots.
Another build has book of the dead but no book of thoth.
I am sure you can find more issues though.
1
Kriega1 (143) | November 17, 2018 4:39am
No boots on a god with no escape is definitely a bad idea, especially if your teammates don't peel for you.

Book of the Dead is not worth it without Book of Thoth.

Build 3 just isn't great. Getting warlocks over thoth is a bad idea.

The first build isn't awful except for the fact it's too squishy, and also because you generally want Obsidian if you're getting Polynomicon.

Build 4 caps CDR which is generally bad for magical (if you cap it late in the build). And Book of Thoth is delayed for too long. Build is also too squishy.

But if I had to recommend some builds: Book of Thoth, Shoes of Focus, Polynomicon, Obsidian Shard, Book of the Dead, Soul Reaver

Or based around the 3: Book of Thoth, Shoes of Focus/ Shoes of the Magi, Spear of the Magus, Gem of Isolation, Soul Reaver, Chronos' Pendant. (Can swap Pendant or Reaver for divine ruin and get it before magus)

I wouldn't really list sprint as a viable relic. Blink im not really sure about but would assume no.
1
Gary169 (7) | November 17, 2018 5:08am
Yea, those 2 relics are not good. What is KKK gonna do with blink? Blink in, use his 1, and follow up with an AA?

Most jglers that gank him are going to be able to lock him down in some way. That sprint would save him.
Load more comments (2 more replies) →
1
boogiebass (46) | March 31, 2018 10:38am
Hi. You may consider more pen for your control build. However, you do talk about item choices in your guide and these just seem like example builds.

For the survival build, you aren't offering your team enough. Since You aren't nuking the enemy hard enough, i would suggest get gem of iso somewhere in there.
1
ClemFandango | April 3, 2018 2:20pm
Good suggestions, made some changes.

These are for sure intended to be more of examples to give ideas to build around than strict instructions. I do think your points make general improvements though.
Loading Comments...
Load More Comments
League of Legends Build Guide Author ClemFandango
Spirit of the Nine Winds
Table of Contents

SMITEFire is the place to find the perfect build guide to take your game to the next level. Learn how to play a new god, or fine tune your favorite SMITE gods’s build and strategy.

Copyright © 2019 SMITEFire | All Rights Reserved