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Billy tanking is pain. Kill them all instead.
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As Billy you're pretty OP in lane. Your wave clear is stronger than most characters as you can spam light melees on troopers while you are reloading, so you can always have pressure. [ - ] Enemies are forced to respect you as walking up to the bridge and beyond gives you enough space to punish them hard. With Blasted you win every melee trade, and with Rising Ram and Bashdown you keep them out of position. [ - ] Look for opportunities to punish overextension whenever possible. Ideally wave prio is more important but if the enemy is disrespecting your space or hard pressuring your lane partner on your side you need to be there immediately. [ - ] Smart enemies will not give you space to kill them with, so in this scenario, shove wave hard and leave to go box and get even stronger. The enemy will either make an aggressive play for you to punish or you will get strong enough from wave shoving and box farming to dive them under their tower. [ - ] When your ultimate comes up, try to force value on it as soon as possible. The moment they give you space instantly dive with ult. [ - ] Golden rule: communicate with your lane partner when you're diving !!!
9.6k Souls


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Vampirické rukavice
Activates on Bashdown. Heavy melee minion waves to keep the cooldown short. Feel free to sell this first.


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Bajonet
Melee resist to help you make all melee damage trades positive. Extra gun damage in Billy's effective range.


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Lovecké náboje
Helps you kill all NPCs faster to gain wave prio and take jungle faster. Take less chip damage from all NPCs. Super good item.


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Krvesajné rukavice
Big sustain spike for the build. Next sustain spikes are Colossus and Vampiric Burst.


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Nabroušený bajonet
Huge damage increase up close, which is where all your fights will be. Gives a slow effect as well to help you stay on top of your target.


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Větší zásobník
More ammo to keep pressure with m1. Blasted ammo refill is scaled by max ammo, so this makes our light melee reload more effective.


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Maratonské boty
Must have item to stay in your enemies' face, better than Sprint Boots as it improves your move speed instead of sprint speed.


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Aktivní schopnost
Ozdravný obřad
Actually OP item. Use this inbetween waves and hit boxes, take sinners, or take camps. Can be bought later if you're omega pooping on the enemy lane (would still buy anyway though).


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Dodatečná regenerace
Very solid green item, always worth taking if you're taking more damage than you'd like.


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Dodatečné zdraví
Good for surviving big bursts more.


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Protiútok
For the naughty laners who like to melee you a lot. Don't just spam it like a bot, that will get you killed.


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Reaktivní bariéra
Super clutch against cc from Haze, Paige, Mo & Krill, etc.


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Spirituální štít
Nerfed, but still good. Now not the answer to everything but still worth considering.
After lane I would generally recommend trying to play around your ult's cooldown. Farm by catching trooper waves and stealing enemy jungling. Using Blasted in jungle will allow you to leave camps with more HP than you entered with. [ - ] Make sure to pause jungling to prioritize catching the nearest wave EVERY time, the jungle will still be there and is worth less than troopers. [ - ] When ult is off cooldown, keep farming but look at your map and try to scope out where a fight is going to happen and start rotating. If one is already happening and you can make it, start rotating. Billy is an insane teamfighter when his ult is ready. You can also rotate for fights when you have no ult if you can gank quickly, or if you catch someone seriously out of position.
20k Souls


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Drtič balistické zbroje
Resist, shred, and gets you 4.8k spirit. Synergizes well with Torment Pulse.


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Přivlastňující rukavice
Still an insane item, arguably even better on Billy now once Bashdown reaches Lv3. Helps you reach bigger burst with Bashdown.


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Spirituální zbroj
Spirit damage feels pretty prevalent as a frontliner right now, so I personally take Spirit Resilience at some point in the game. Very strong effect that pairs well with more spirit resist or Frenzy.


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Eskalující odolnost
Great stat increases + bullet resist that scales pretty high and lasts a long time. Has no fall-off range so you can shoot targets from afar to get your resist stacks early.


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Aktivní schopnost
Hrdinská aura
Bullet resist for everyone around you, move speed, fire rate, and winions all in one. Even better if you have a teammate with summons (Graves or McGinnis).


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Bojová vesta
Nice bullet resist and damage output increase.


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Aktivní schopnost
Teleportační kámen
Mobility to get in and/or out paired with a huge resist buff.


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Balistická zbroj
More useful now than pre-November patch. Fat resist bonus when low.


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Aktivní schopnost
Ocelová kůže
No more bullets for you, evil gun carry. Be aware you can still be punched and have spells cast on you.


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Plátová zbroj
Very good item against really strong gun characters when you already have some bullet resist.


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Aktivní schopnost
Krvavá daň
Spirit resist and strong debuff resist. Super useful into Abrams Shoulder Charge and Venator Gutshot.


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Posílené střely
Gives additional weapon damage + debuff and spirit resist.


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Kouzelnická vesta
Very good spirit power (+ resist) increase item. Spirit power not only increases your damage but also your Blasted bonus HP scaling.


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Aktivní schopnost
Odstraňovač magie
Can be used to clear debuffs and curses like Warden's Binding Word or Vindicta's Stake. New spirit resist makes it even better into characters like Infernus.


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Rušič kouzel
Not only helps you eat large spirit damage chunks but gives base spirit and debuff resist too.


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Aktivní schopnost
Severní vítr
Gives spirit resist and is lowkey a little OP. Strong early damage that scales and slows for a long duration. Effectively a 5th ability. Do not sleep on this item.


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Expanze vlivu
Synergizes with all your Bashdown and Chain Gang very well and also gives you spirit resist on top.


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Aktivní schopnost
Morová runa
Fat spirit resist and max health percentage damage.


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Zeslabovač debuffů
Big into cc heavy teams, works well with Reactive Barrier and upgrades into Spellbreaker or Unstoppable.


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Protikouzlo
Super good item, highly recommend against characters who rely on their abilities. Can also parry walker stomp to proc a free heal and stat bonus.


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Aktivní schopnost
Božská bariéra
If you're too grandpa to Counterspell Affliction in time (me) this item will be a very expensive band-aid to your poor reaction time.


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Aktivní schopnost
Zpomalující znamení
Unironically OP item. Silences movement abilities, so it's very good for shutting down characters who rely on them like Lash, Mina, or Infernus.


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Potlačující zaklínadlo
Very helpful when played into characters that rely on their m1.


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Aktivní schopnost
Kovadlina
Like Slowing Hex, kind of OP, lets you get picks easier and shuts down people in the sky.


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Aktivní schopnost
Umlčující vlna
Fallen from grace since last patch but still a silence which proves useful when ambushing enemies.


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Aktivní schopnost
Prokletá relikvie
Another item to shutdown carries with, boasting even more debuffs and clearing all buffs.
As the game progresses past the 20 minute mark, respawn timers will get much longer and deaths will result in opportunities for teams to make plays for objectives like walkers or mid-boss. [ - ] In the late game communicate with your team to keep waves shoved safely and avoid anyone being caught alone. [ - ] Prioritize safely collecting more souls while also looking for opportunities to get picks on the enemy team. Depending on the target, you may be able to mid-boss off one pick (high value pit fighters such as Dynamo or Abrams), but in most cases two picks is the safest mid-boss scenario. [ - ] Adjust your build to what is most necessary, sometimes it's worth grabbing Heroic for bullet resist and NPC buffs if you need it more than Weighted Shots. [ - ] Ultimately, winning the game requires you to turn on your mic and work together.
39.2k Souls


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Pud sebezáchovy
Very good item to resist incoming spirit damage and retaliate with bonus stats. If necessary grab before Heroic Aura. In primarily spirit comps, pair with Spirit Resilience for 75% resist.


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Pijavice
Good lifesteal sustain for longer fights. Has no burst healing but the constant uptime is valuable. If you need super fast bursts of healing instead of constant sustain go Vampiric Burst.


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Aktivní schopnost
Kondenzátor
Higher DPS and hard movement lock on whoever you hit. Very easy to hit targets with the active component after Rising Ram or Bashdown. Useful for slippery targets.


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Pulzující prokletí
A lot of DPS by being near people, usually bought in mid-game but I personally don't prioritize spirit damage as much on this character.


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Aktivní schopnost
Zpomalující pavučina
Insane CC item. Pairs really well with Bashdown and Chain Gang. With Vortex Web you dictate the teamfight.


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Tlumič
Lowers enemy spirit damage output, and silences them. It builds up stacks on your Bashdown so you can hit multiple people with it at once. Very good.


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Kráčející skála
Great tank item to compliment bullet resists when going against multiple gun builds.


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Aktivní schopnost
Esence nezastavitelnosti
Use this to face tank cc ults during sensitive moments such as midboss. Enemy team comp dependant item.


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Aktivní schopnost
Kolosální duše
Fat HP increase + insane resists and more weapon damage. Very good tank item.


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Obří zásobník
Even more ammo and gun damage. Extra ammo is important because it scales our melee ammo replenish and lets us mix up our melee mindgames.


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Magnetické rukavice
Helps you secure a heavy melee after the enemy whiffs a parry, and increases the damage you get from heavy melees. Without this item heavy melees are pretty garbage and unreliable.


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Recept na zuřivost
If you can sustain yourself enough to take the high damage this will turn you into a dps monster.


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Balistické očarování
This item is INSANE damage. Cultist Sacrifice is less necessary with how squishy jungle is now, and this grants you the range and damage aspect but better early on.


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Smrťákův dar
Cheap antiheal and heals on kill. Great for ganking playstyle.


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Omezující náboje
Like Silencer, this item works with Bashdown, so you can affect multiple people at once. Destroy Abrams.


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Toxické náboje
Strong antiheal and percent health bleed. Gives no stat bonuses which kind of sucks but this item is very good.


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Ostrostřelecké oslabující náboje
Super easy to activate shred for both damage types + antiheal. Super necessary into high resistance frontliners like Yamato, Abrams, Victor, etc.


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Oslabující náboje
Cheap and easy bullet resist shred.


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Aktivní schopnost
Ohnivá voda
Strong for ult usage and mid-boss fights. Bashdown and Rising Ram soft cc can be used to force people to stay in the fire.


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Lovecká aura
Big bullet resist shred on alone targets, and bullet resist shred around people in general.


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Drtivé rukavice
Stacking even more bullet resist shred. Against some characters with channeled ults, the stun affect can be huge (Bebop, Mo, Dynamo if you have max ult Unstoppable).
DEFEAT THE ENEMY AND DEFEND THE GATES TO AGARTHA!!! YOUR BAT IS BEING INFUSED WITH WHITE MONSTER ENERGY FOR THIS MISSION! BRAVE THE FLAMES AND FACE TANK INFERNUS ULT!!!! AGARTHA IS COUNTING ON YOU, BILLY!!!!
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