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Tsukuyomi doesn't require blink to be able to effectively contribute. I much prefer the safety of beads and Aegis and find them more valuable.
Assassin's Blessing
Mace
Hand of the Gods
Healing Potion
Purification Beads
Against teams with any healing you want brawlers. Most teams will have some form of healing in the current meta, however if you get blessed with a game without one, crusher is a slight improvement to your damage.
Warrior Tabi
Brawler's Beat Stick
Hydra's Lament
Soul Eater
Arondight
Heartseeker
Titan's Bane
Elixir of Speed
The Crusher
Shifter's Shield
Bloodforge
Transcendence
Serrated Edge
Mantle of Discord
The Crusher
Y
B
A
X
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.
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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 Shuriken 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 - Kusarigama 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. 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 Moonlight
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).
Release The Kraken!, 
I'm a Monster, or 
Fire Shards that otherwise would have killed you. Tsukuyomi both of his ranged attacks which synergizes very well with Arondight and Hydra's Lament for an excellent kill option.
Brawler's Beat Stick will provide more effective damage. Due to the prevalence of healing in Smite brawlers will be picked up very often. Teams with a designated healer (
Ra, 
Aphrodite, 
Hel etc) or heal based gods (
Thanatos, 
Hercules, etc) make this item mandatory although crusher is still a wonderful seventh item option.
Hydra's Lament or Soul Eater. Both are great options although they do slightly different things. Hydra's Lament gives more burst on your auto attacks and if you are maximizing the value of your ranged auto attacks I believe Hydra's Lament is the superior item.
Soul Eater is the superior selection. The lifesteal and stacking passive lend themselves to a slower more drawn out game style and the 10% pen gives you the freedom to do large amounts of damage to anyone on the map. If you are farming more than ganking or if you are finding you are unable to get the true value of your ranged auto attacks, this is the item for you. Regardless of your choice for what to build first these items are built back to back.
Warrior Tabi for a Elixir of Speed and a 7th item. This isn't a one size fits all build so I will discuss some personal favorites as well as some alternatives to both the core build and the late game replacements.
Tsukuyomi players this will be the logical 7th item choice, although I personally go a different route.
Soul Eater. It provides a huge amount of power, which I love, but requires stacking and it overcaps your cooldown meaning it is never to be built as a seventh item. You could build it in place of Soul Eater but that would result in a lack of life steal and 10 % penetration and is probably a direct downgrade. It functions very similarly to Arondight, but is a worse version of that item. All and all I think this item isn't worth building, however if either of those items see nerfs, this might be the replacement.
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. 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. 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.
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. 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!
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