Tsukuyomi Jungle & Arena[7.9] : Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru

Tsukuyomi is the god of the moon and the newest god terrorizing the jungle on the battlefield of the gods. Armed with his trusty blades and insane ability scaling he is easily the strongest god in the current meta. Tsukuyomi has insane damage potential and a unique mix of range and melee damage as well as interesting mobility on his ultimate. The trade off for this, however, is a lack of any traditional movement ability so you must carefully calculate your choices or you could end up in a bad position.

• Currently completely overpowered
• Ultimate can win a team-fight singlehandedly
• Able to fight from range or all in
• Great for memes "*Teleports Behind You* "Nothing Personal, Kid" or "Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru" are both viable things to shout as you ult

• Lacks direct movement abilities so if you position poorly you may die
• His play style is unique among assassins and so there may be a learning curve
• When you do well nobody is going to be impressed because he is overpowered
• When you do poorly you are going to get flamed because he is overpowered
  

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Passive - Shingetsu & Mangetsu Shingetsu & Mangetsu is a simple stim passive and while it is certainly helpful, it doesn't require much thought and isn't something you're going to play around. The cleave certainly comes in handy when clearing camps and fighting in waves but for the most part this is just free stats.

1 - Dark Moon ShurikenThis is going to be your main ability to clear and will be what you level up first. It has the shortest cooldown of all your abilities and can reduce the cooldown if he retrieves it from a hit god. This shortened cooldown (6 seconds potentially), high damage, and movement speed stealing on the follow up basic makes this a perfect ability for ganks and using it multiple times in fights will be the key to early success with Tsukuyomi. The range on this ability and on the follow up auto is also great when looking to poke or when dancing around objectives to keep your opponents honest. The auto after this ability provides a powerful movement speed slow and is a wonderful tool for gap closing.

2 - KusarigamaThis is your main crowd control ability and has both offensive and defensive upside. It is a three stage ability and does require some thought on your part to get the most value out of. It first swings to the left, then the right, then down the centre. The first and second swing deal damage and disarm enemies hit, while the third strike stuns. This gives Tsukuyomi excellent boxing potential against hunters and assassins and provides him with lockdown on ganks. Being able to hit all three swings is fundamental to getting the full value out of this ability. For the intermediate and advanced players it is important to note that this ability grants movement speed and knockback immunity. Holding this ability until the right movement can be the difference between getting kills and getting killed.

For advanced Tsukuyomi players this ability can often be leveled first. If you are to hit all three parts it does deal more damage and the crowd control length is increased. The trade off however is that you have to be all in to get value out of this ability, where as Dark Moon Shuriken is going to be used much more often and from range. A professional or high level player will often make this trade off, but I prefer the safer and rangier option and if you're unfamiliar with the character you should as well.

3 -Silver Moon Caltrops Silver Moon Caltrops is an ability that can have a large impact or be almost completely useless depending on how you place it. This ability provides a good area slow, making it extremely valuable as an area denial ability (similar to Shifting Sands) and also can be useful in ganks to slow the target and allow time to close the gap. In jungle based fights, this ability can often cut off an entrance or escape. A single tick slows for 1.5 seconds and this is more than enough time to chase someone down.

4 -Piercing MoonlightHere you go! The moment you've all been waiting for. This ability is arguably the best ultimate in the game right now. By the time you're reading this Hi Rez will hopefully have nerfed it. An ability that can potentially deal 3600 base damage in a fight on top of 780% scaling. Not to sound too simplistic or flippant but the only advice I can offer is "Don't miss". If you hit your ultimate beams in the late game, everyone dies. It is important to note that each beam can only hit 3 targets although an individual can be marked by all 4 beams.

If I do try to provide you with some advice, your last person hit is where you will end up so make sure you are thinking ahead or you can end up in the middle of the enemy team and end up being the one who is dead. Any beam that is immuned ( Aegis Amulet, Undying Love, Crushing Wave, etc) will not get a dash. The dash will hit people who were once marked regardless of if they fly ( Anvil of Dawn, Hovering Death, etc) or float ( Astral Barrage, Somersault Cloud). However, the dash will not affect gods who have been marked but have since become immune ( Into Darkness, Feather Step).

As if there wasn't enough to this ability, it also has a 30% damage reduction while firing the beams. If you are about to take a large amount of damage it might be worth using your ultimate and intentionally missing your shots in order to attempt to survive. While this situation would be rare it might help you survive a predictable high damage ultimate such as Release The Kraken!, I'm a Monster, or Fire Shards that otherwise would have killed you.

Finally killing an enemy with ultimate grants Tsukuyomi both of his ranged attacks which synergizes very well with Arondight and Hydra's Lament for an excellent kill option.

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Early game you are going to want to look to farm and get yourself to level 5. Piercing Moonlight is a game changer for him and the sooner you can get it the better. Once you have ultimate you can look for easy to gank sidelanes. Tsukuyomi has a powerful duo lane gank because of his ability to hit both members with his ultimate but you don't need to force anything. You scale quite well so a quiet game is certainly not bad although you do have the ability to force a gank by walking into the lane and using your ultimate.

In the mid game he is no different from any other jungler, take your camps, gank when an opportunity presents itself, rotate to where your team needs you. Tsukuyomi does nothing different from any other jungler at this stage in the game so look for general jungle guides if you need more advice.

In the late game you will play slightly differently from other junglers. Instead of flanking around and looking for opportunities to dive in on the enemy, you usually want to stand near your midlaner and ADC and throw long range poke onto the enemy. Using your Dark Moon Shuriken and Silver Moon Caltrops for poke as well as the follow up autos. Don't worry if all you can hit is the enemy front line, your caltrops auto does true damage and can be a surprising punch in the mouth for the usually tanky frontline. Placing your caltrop in jungle paths can often create a dangerous escape for the enemy team and this might often be the catalyst for your support or solo laner to engage so be ready. When the engage happens you often want to use your ultimate onto the enemy ADC and middle laner and look to eliminate them from the fight. If you've been doing a good job of poking away at the enemy team you should start the fight with a significant health advantage and the fight will hopefully go favorably.

An important tip is to practice patience. You don't need to all in to be effective, and frankly if you're dancing around and poking away you are much happier than engaged in a race to kill the backlines with the enemy jungler.

An unconventional suggestion, I like to start with a Guardian's Blessing. Unless I am a mage with clear, I start Guardian's Blessing and let my mages clear the wave and fight over stacks. You are going to watch easily 300 minions die in any given arena game giving you a free 900 gold. The health and protections are a nice early game help and the gold per 5 is a small but nice boost. Aside from that your build won't change at all, although I would even more heavily prioritize Soul Eater over Hydra's Lament.

Start slow and look to get some items online if you go with this Guardian's Blessing start. It is slower at the start but the gold adds up. Basically you want to play the entire game the way you would play the conquest late game. Look to poke the enemy team, and follow up when a fight breaks out. Don't look to force, just play slowly and clean up fights once they start.

If you've gotten to this point in the guide, thanks a lot for reading. Feel free to leave any critiques or questions and I will happily respond. Try to use this new found power for good instead of evil and have fun!