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The Horned Hellraiser

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by DownToEarth updated April 10, 2019

Smite God: Cernunnos

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Cernunnos Build

Attack Speed & Pen

Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item The Crusher The Crusher
Build Item Soul Eater Soul Eater
Build Item The Executioner The Executioner
Build Item Qin's Sais Qin's Sais
Build Item Brawler's Beat Stick Brawler's Beat Stick
Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads
Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet

Team Dynamic

When I play Cernunnos, I'll use his Winter Aspect to support my team (Slowing low health enemies, slowing a pursuer), and I'll use Brambles and Ult the same way. This build gives you the crit ability to snag kills, as well as the lifesteal to sustain-especially combo'd with a slowing ability like Brambles.

Keep in mind, this is a support build, so hang back a bit. It's great to push and you will definitely have to in order to maximize potential, but there is something to be said for hiding behind a Guardian and tossing out Winter Glaives and Brambles whenever they are ready.

Abilites

Spring and Winter Aspects are self explanatory. Spring should be used when below half health to help expedite Lifesteal. Winter Aspect is used for fleeing enemies for when you're being pushed. Summer Aspect was not covered, but can be used to melt Minions, Siege Minions, and Large Jungle Beasts.

Brambles are good for slows and AOE, use as needed. Once you build Malice and are criting often and reducing your cooldowns, you can use it more expendably.

Horn Rush is a great escape, and that's how I use it. It can also be used to ram Gods (As it says in the ability description), and chase low health enemies.

Lord of the Hunt is a great combo setter for your team, allowing them to fight unimpeded for 2 seconds. It's also great for disrupting a team fight.

Pros / Cons

Pros:
You get to be a good teammate
You can get a good amount of assists or kills (Depending)
Good Sustain
Escape Options

Cons:
Very low solo potential
This build ignores Autumn Aspect

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Buckeyes614 | March 16, 2019 10:44pm
Looks like you listened to feedback and have a good selection of builds. +1
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DownToEarth (7) | March 18, 2019 10:06pm
First of all, thank you. Second, I don't know if you saw but I tagged you on my second Runeforged build. I think either Gulf or Bran mentioned Runeforge Meta , and I looked at other Cernunnos builds and got an understanding of it from your page.
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boogiebass (46) | March 12, 2019 10:07pm
Your arena build is a bit unique. But if it works for you, then it works for you. The crit build looks good. The for fun build is exactly what I use! Have you tried it out? Do you like it?

Anyway, thanks for listening to feedback. Have a +1.
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DownToEarth (7) | March 15, 2019 1:47am
Quick update, I played my first ranked game ever as Cernunnos tonight and build the For Fun Build, and it actually worked out pretty well. I went 14-3-10, factoring out a few killsteals probably put me at 10-3-10
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Gulfwulf (81) | March 15, 2019 2:54am
Congrats!
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DownToEarth (7) | March 12, 2019 11:33pm
I made an old arena build a while ago for my friend to grind to diamond, and I just used winter and spring aspects, so that's where part of that comes from, the rest of it was Gulf. And I'd seen your post suggestion and Gulfwulf's suggestion for O Bow and when I tried it it worked really well so I put it on here to share because I thought it was fun, thanks for showing it to me!
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Kriega1 (143) | March 15, 2019 1:50am
Diamond what? Cernunnos?
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boogiebass (46) | March 12, 2019 11:41pm
Of course! Thanks for responding to feedback. We need more people like you on the site. Have a +rep and a +1 to your guide.
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Gulfwulf (81) | March 12, 2019 5:08pm
I know your "for fun" build is just that, but I'd swap Gladiator's Shield with Odysseus' Bow for the extra attack speed and poke.
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Kriega1 (143) | March 15, 2019 1:49am
Build qins before bloodforge.
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Gulfwulf (81) | March 9, 2019 12:12pm
Dear sir or madam,

I implore you to please archive this. SmiteFire is a site where we want to educate and discuss theory crafting to help players optimize their builds/gameplay in various situations against good competition.

Your build, which I am sure can be very fun, is NOT helping Smitefire's cause. This is especially true for newer players who may not know better.

So again, I ask that you please consider the archival of this. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

A concerned SF user.
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DownToEarth (7) | March 12, 2019 12:49am
It's a sir, and I took your advice on archiving. I honestly am still relatively new to SMITE, after taking a 2 year break. I only posted because I had found SMITEFire and found a lot of good and useful stuff here, and when me and friends were winning games and I was playing this build I thought I would try and share it. Thank you for your insight
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Gulfwulf (81) | March 12, 2019 12:58am
I don't like to assume, plus the jackass below has enough "content" for his videos without anybody adding more.

I'm more than happy to discuss your build if you like. Off-hand I'd say that Bloodforge is a bit early and you don't need two life-steal items; also, Malice is pretty terrible in its current state and Cernunnos is more of an ability/hybrid hunter, not a crit one, so you're looking at items like The Executioner, Qin's Sais, The Crusher, etc.

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Kriega1 (143) | March 9, 2019 9:21am
Oh no
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boogiebass (46) | March 9, 2019 1:23pm
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