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You wouldn't like me when I'm angry: Cu Chulainn Solo (S9.2)

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Smite God: Cu Chulainn

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Cu Chulainn Build

Main Build

Notes This is your standard Cu Chulainn Solo build. Upgrade at level 20 from .

Upgrade to once you have built the rest of your items.

An alternative to could be .

An alternative to could be .

Bluestone Brooch

Breastplate of Determination

Mystical Mail

Bulwark of Hope

Hide of the Nemean Lion

Amulet of the Stronghold

Persistent Teleport

Corrupted Blink Rune

Starter Options

Notes These are your 3 starter options.

Purchase one of these along with the T1 of your first item and s

Bluestone Pendant

Warding Sigil

Tainted Steel

Runeforged Example Build

Notes Upgrade at level 20 from .

Upgrade to once you have built the rest of your items.

An alternative to could be .

An alternative to could be .

Bluestone Brooch

Breastplate of Determination

Runeforged Hammer

Bulwark of Hope

Hide of the Nemean Lion

Mantle of Discord

Persistent Teleport

Corrupted Blink Rune

Magical Opponent Example Build

Notes Upgrade at level 20 from .

Upgrade to once you have built the rest of your items.

An alternative to could be .

Bluestone Brooch

Genji's Guard

Runeforged Hammer

Breastplate of Determination

Hide of the Nemean Lion

Mantle of Discord

Cloak of the Avatar

Corrupted Blink Rune

Sigil Example Build

Notes Upgrade at level 20 from .

Upgrade to once you have built the rest of your items.

An alternative to could be .

An alternative to could be .

Infused Sigil

Runeforged Hammer

Breastplate of Determination

Runic Shield

Hide of the Nemean Lion

Bulwark of Hope

Persistent Teleport

Corrupted Blink Rune

Tainted Example Build

Notes Upgrade at level 20 from .

Upgrade to once you have built the rest of your items.

An alternative to could be .

An alternative to could be .

Tainted Breastplate

Runeforged Hammer

Breastplate of Determination

Runic Shield

Hide of the Nemean Lion

Bulwark of Hope

Persistent Teleport

Corrupted Blink Rune

Defence Options

Notes These are all alternative or situational defence items that can work on Cu Chulainn to counter the enemy team or not feel as weak into certain comps/items.

They do NOT need to be built every single game.

Ancile

Breastplate of Vigilance

Magi's Cloak

Midgardian Mail

Mystical Mail

Pestilence

Runic Shield

Spectral Armor

Spirit Robe

Void Shield

Winged Blade

Witchblade

Offence Options

Notes These are all alternative or situational damage items that can work on Cu Chulainn to counter the enemy team or not feel as weak into certain comps/items.

They do NOT need to be built every single game.

Arondight

Brawler's Beat Stick

Corrupted Bluestone

Serrated Edge

Relic Options

Notes These are all of the relics that can work on Cu Chulainn to counter the enemy team or not feel as weak into certain comps/items.

and are the main two that you will be picking up, the others do NOT need to be built every single game.

Persistent Teleport

Corrupted Blink Rune

Cloak of Ascetic

Temporal Beads

Cu Chulainn's Skill Order Notes Skip a point at level 8 to put a point into your 1 and ult at level 9.

Put a point into your 2 earlier if you feel you need to control your passive more.

Notes

Skip a point at level 8 to put a point into your 1 and ult at level 9.

Put a point into your 2 earlier if you feel you need to control your passive more.

Barbed Spear / Ground Slam

1 X

1 3 6 7 8

Vent Anger

2 A

14 15 16 18 19

Salmon's Leap / Furious Charge

3 B

2 4 10 11 12

Spear of Mortal Pain / War Cry

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

1 3 6 7 8

Barbed Spear / Ground Slam

1 X

Cu Chulainn thrusts his spear forward, damaging all enemies in front of him and stunning less powerful minions. Successfully hitting an enemy minion with this ability restores 5 Rage, 8 for a god (to a max of 18). Barbs from his spear stick in opponents and reduce their healing received for 5s.

In his Berserk Form, Cu Chulainn instead slams his massive arms down, damaging and rooting all Enemies in front of him and this ability costs no Rage.

Ability Type: Line, Debuff, Damage
Damage: 80 / 140 / 200 / 260 / 320 (+55% of your Physical Power)
Healing Reduction: 40%
Stun Duration: 2s
Root Duration: 1 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4s
Range: 45
Cost: 9 Rage
Cooldown: 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12s

14 15 16 18 19

Vent Anger

2 A

Cu Chulainn vents his anger as superheated steam, increasing his Movement Speed and draining his Rage. Every .5s while in this state, all enemies within range are damaged by the heat. Vent Anger does not return Rage.

In his Berserk form, Cu Chulainn Vents Anger automatically and does not drain Rage.

Ability Type: Circle, Buff, Damage
Damage Per Second: 10 / 17 / 24 / 31 / 38 (+5% of your Physical Power)
Movement Speed: 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9%
Radius: 22.5
Cost: 16 Rage
Cooldown: 6s

2 4 10 11 12

Salmon's Leap / Furious Charge

3 B

Cu Chulainn vaults over his spear, leaping to a target location and slamming it down to damage enemies around and in front of him. Successfully hitting an enemy minion with this ability restores 5 Rage, 8 for a god (to a max of 18).

In his Berserk Form, Cu Chulainn instead charges forward damaging, stunning and driving all enemies back with him and this ability costs no Rage.

Ability Type: Area, Leap, Damage
Damage: 70 / 125 / 180 / 235 / 290 (+60% of your Physical Power)
Range: 35
Radius: 15
Cost: 9 Rage
Cooldown: 15s

5 9 13 17 20

Spear of Mortal Pain / War Cry

4 Y

Cu Chulainn swings his spear Gae Bulg in a circle around him, Damaging and Knocking Up all Enemies. Successfully hitting an enemy minion with this ability restores 10 Rage, 26 for a god (to a max of 36).

In his Berserk Form, Cu Chulainn instead gives a terrifying yell, Damaging all Enemies and causing them to Tremble. This yell costs no Rage and has a 35s cooldown.

Ability Type: Circle, Knockup, Damage
Damage: 175 / 245 / 315 / 385 / 455 (+65% of your Physical Power)
Tremble Duration: 1s
Radius: 30
Cost: 14 Rage
Cooldown (Spear of Mortal Pain): 105 / 100 / 95 / 90 / 85s
Cooldown (War Cry): 35s

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Is hide really that good on him? Ik it has good protections but I feel the conversion of mana to health it too low to matter and the passive just isn't strong enough to warrant building it over just another item like say shifters, am I missing something?

Is this still viable for joust?

(37) |

Just updated it now :)

Thanks man, love your other guides as well

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(37) |

Thank you! I appreciate the feedback (:

thx

Hello to all I just want to say guys like kriega1, stuke99, gulfwulf and others on this forum know what their talking about, I've been testing their builds and the corrections they recommend to other people posting builds.
I use their builds in Arena which may sound crazy but I use their logic on the builds while playing and I must say I'm very successful with with their builds and corrections, the only problem I have is the amount of SCRUBS on random Queues their terrible also I turned off Crossplay because I find without the Nintendo Switch players I get more cohesive play.

I used Gladiator's Shield as they recommend and the sustain got me the final kill on Ares while being jump by Hera, Kukulkan and Chang'e.

(37) |

Okay well Stuke99 has a Cu Chulainn build of his own if you want to check that out, also yes of course any item with healing procs is going to get you through situations like that but the cost effectiveness, especially in arena where you can just back and heal all the time it is not worth the gold. You could make an argument that it can be useful in Joust which I would partially agree with, but Arena aside from those slim situations of needing a small heal to win a fight it is meh at best.

(105) |

it totally depends on the tank, while the shields are indeed better in conquest and are picked up with a clear (early game) goal in mind in other modes the extra sustain they provide for certain characters is too beneficial ( or are great users in any mode because of their spam abilities capability).

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I'm a bit late to this but you are totally right. My comment was generally leaned more towards due to this being the comments of a Cu Chu build.

(1) |

is it worth forgoing glad shield to buy runic?

(143) |

You should rush Runic then get boots, after that you can choose to get Glad Shield third.

Or, you can rush Runic then go into Glad Shield.

I guess it would depend on the matchup though, maybe some matchups you can get Glad first, then go into runic/boots.

(1) |

I feel as though skipping boots through two whole item slots, not even including your starter, is basically signing a death wish. Your movement will be lacking immensely causing you to be highly susceptible to ganks. And skipping out on a power spike that the power boots give you means you’ll be getting outtraded by the enemy solo.

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You have to realise this is very outdated (look at original date of comment) and was when glad Shield was a (cheaper) bridge item that healed and back when teleport was more common. Also you wouldn’t have skipped starter / warriors blessing which is kinda obvious.

(1) |

I knew the time frame I was more baffled that you would sacrifice so much movement and power for so long in the early game. One thing that makes warriors so powerful in lane is their first power spike(being their boots).

(143) |

You clearly knew nothing about the meta pre mid season 7 when old glad shield was around and rushing glad shield was popular in Solo in high level play and competitive. Glad Shield rush in laning phase was a bigger power spike early than rushing boots typically.

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Yes, you could rush glad for it’s inexpensive easy but you shouldn’t rush runic straight after. That’s just madness. Buy your boots then get your runic. I don’t think you’d be very impactful in rotations if you rushed glad then runic skipping boots till third item. The enemy solo laner would proxy and invade on cooldown because of your inability to keep up. If you wanted sustain for glad shield that’s fine, but don’t skip your boots for three item slots. It’s a new meta anywhere and rushing boots is common and one of the best starts in solo(because of the power and movement)I don’t suggest skipping them going into this next season at all. Buy your starter and rush your boots, it’s just the best way to go about your landing phase. There’s no items cheap enough that’ll be worth skipping boots for anymore. But still, glad shield was great to rush and I’ll admit that. Get boots after your starter though.

(143) |

I never suggested skipping boots in solo next season...

Also the scenario with delaying boots to 3rd item after Glad and Runic wasn't common, but it was a thing that has happened in comp and i've heard it called "lane building" (?), I asked Deathwalker or Fineokay (it was one of the 2) on their stream a while ago about it back when Glad rush was still a thing.

(1) |

I only said that as a general rule of thumb. And yeah, I agreed that rushing glad was fine but go boots after that.

(37) |

A bigger powerspike when you aren't leaving your lane is reducing an enemies magical power by 50, mitigating their damage with HP and prots, dealing more damage to them with the power on both Runic and Glad, with 20% CDR and sustain from glad.

(1) |

You would be right, if you were surviving enough to ensure you got the gold for both of those items. While you’re saving up for two shields, though one not highly expensive and the other being over 2100 you’ll be better off buying boots then glad then saving for your tunic or swapping the shields even. Boots is a must have on just about every solo laner(aside from Rat).

(37) |

Why are we debating a meta from over a year ago?

(37) |

Yeah and were cheap and effective plus teleport wasn't as obsolete as it is now. You could get those 2 items to counter a magical and have a lot of power, sustain and 20% CDR including blue buff.

You wouldn't get away with that now, it's boots first 95% of the time.

(1) |

Ok cool, Id think glad is great solo but not really necessary in joust right? Like if they had 2 physical I could rush mystic and if 2 magic I could rush runic?

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is not as good in Joust due to the healing being less beneficial if it is hitting multiple targets i.e. teamfights, but it can be a decent cheap item to segway into a main build to take out later, similar to building early on Guardians to sell later.

(143) |

Im not sure about Joust sorry, though I can't imagine it would be bad there.

(81) |

I'd still get glad for the sustain, then buy runic afterwards if necessary.

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You wouldn't like me when I'm angry: Cu Chulainn Solo (S9.2)

Smite God: Cu Chulainn

Cu Chulainn Build

Main Build

Starter Options

Runeforged Example Build

Magical Opponent Example Build

Sigil Example Build

Tainted Example Build

Defence Options

Offence Options

Relic Options

Barbed Spear / Ground Slam

Vent Anger

Salmon's Leap / Furious Charge

Spear of Mortal Pain / War Cry

Chapter Title

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You wouldn't like me when I'm angry: Cu Chulainn Solo (S9.2)

Smite God: Cu Chulainn

Cu Chulainn Build

Main Build

Notes

Starter Options

Notes

Runeforged Example Build

Notes

Magical Opponent Example Build

Notes

Sigil Example Build

Notes

Tainted Example Build

Notes

Defence Options

Notes

Offence Options

Notes

Relic Options

Notes

Notes

Barbed Spear / Ground Slam

Vent Anger

Salmon's Leap / Furious Charge

Spear of Mortal Pain / War Cry

Barbed Spear / Ground Slam

Vent Anger

Salmon's Leap / Furious Charge

Spear of Mortal Pain / War Cry

Chapter Title

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