Mithilfe seiner unwilligen Assistentin, Verhexungen und flink fliegenden Blitzen kann <i>Der Großartige Sinclair</i> seine Gegner verwirren.
Mithilfe seiner unwilligen Assistentin, Verhexungen und flink fliegenden Blitzen kann <i>Der Großartige Sinclair</i> seine Gegner verwirren.
9/18 update: small optimizations to early item order and some other situationals I've been playing around with lately.
Feel free to ask me any questions on the Sinclair discord @RAIGEKI
Lots of spirit power and items we need to empower bolt early
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Zusätzliche Aufladung
Try to sync dropping assistant with 2 bolt charges until you have t2 bolt. I often solo kill someone on wave 3 with assistant + 2 bolts.
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Monster-Kugeln
very important item. our lane is 100x stronger when we have wave prio and its really easy with this since we have sharpshooter built into our gun. Builds into cultist if you win lane hard too.
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Zusätzliche Magiekraft
Early spirit good
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Wappen des Zauberers
Early spirit good
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Mystische Erweiterung
Need this to efficiently kill neutral camps with bolt
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Schnelle Aufladung
God tier power spike with t3 bolt
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Mystischer Schleier
Best item in the game and just got buffed again for some reason. Stay on map forever and rotate quickly / safely.
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Imbue [E]
Ansteigende Magiekraft
Another god tier power spike, you will be one shotting people at this point in the game or killing buildings solo. Also a source of burst movement speed which we abuse a lot.
GOD BARRIER
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Reaktiver Schild
By far the most value defensive you can get if the game enables it. heroes that can't kill you without proccing it (abrams, haze, bebop) are what you want to buy this against.
Usually in this order
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Schnelle Stiefel
Move fast boi
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Stiefel des Dauerläufers
that boi just can't be slowed down. can skip if you bought reactive.
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Größere Erweiterung
Amazing for bolt / rabbit / actives and almost every ult you steal. I buy it at this point to time with t2 rabbit.
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Überlegene Abklingzeit
All our power is in our abilities so we want more of them.
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Grenzenlose Magiekraft
Massive raw damage increase to everything and makes us even faster.
Approaching lategame your item choices can vary a lot. based on enemy lineup either max rabbit or ult next and itemize around that.
This is primarily a PUSHING build. Sinclair is the best walker killer in the game this patch and stacking movespeed / sustain like we do lets you put crazy map pressure out the entire game while being very hard to catch.
First 4 items are my preferred order if maxing rabbit first. if you max ult first go off vibes.
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Imbue [E]
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Echosplitter
Always broken with max rabbit. If I'm maxing ult before rabbit I usually won't buy this unless it goes extremely late.
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Alchemie-Feuer
Ton of damage and shred with how much spirit power we have. Just layer this on top of T3 rabbit and watch the free damage roll in.
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Überlegene Dauer
Usually buy after echo or scourge. Some ultimates like warden / drifter can warrant buying this earlier.
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Transzendente Abklingzeit
Better to fill open slots but if you're slotlocked or have a ton of actives you can upgrade to this.
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Wirbelnetz
Strong option post echo shard if you bought slowing hex
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Magiebrand
Really easy to proc and benefits a lot from all the aoe we buy. really good against ult seven / warden or anything else that calls for big antiheal. If antiheal isn't needed I never go this item.
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Geißel
Can throw on your beefiest gorilla against spirit heavy lineups. With greater expansion and sup duration this item is crazy.
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Fliegender Teppich
I don't buy this every game like I used to because veil walker and all the movespeed is enough but this is still the best positioning item in the game to land good bolts in teamfights
Stuff that sometimes comes up, read annotations
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Heilungsritus
best lane sustain option. I buy this most games but if you dominate you can skip it
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Gegenzauber
Amazing item now after the buffs. If they have telegraphed spells you NEED to dodge (wraith ult, lash ult, seven stun) this is always a strong buy.
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Metallhaut
Best anti gun hero item on this hero and often necessary to use seven and warden ults properly, we get a good amount of duration from our items so this pulls extra weight.
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Teleport-Stein
Always a decent item, if you are playing around stealing warden / seven / dynamo ults this is good
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Göttlicher Schild
solid active with ability range on it. Good if you are getting owned by pocket or drifter ult.
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Unterdrückung
Always busted vs m1 heavy lineups
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Fluch der Langsamkeit
Really strong item to enable kills on elusive heroes. heroes like lash / dash infernus are really hard to hit with bolts if we don't have this.
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Welle der Verstummung
Really powerful item, if ult doesn't have value in a match sometimes ill max assistant after bolt and buy this.
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Niederschlag
Good against Vindicta, Lash, and channeling ultimates like seven / dynamo.
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Impuls-Regeneration
Not an every game item but is very good if you are ahead and snowballing. Also good if you're 1v6 and have to do literally everything since it keeps you on map forever.
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Kultopfer
If you're ahead coming out of lane I usually like picking this up after rapid recharge but before veil walker. Also good if you go the max assistant after bolt route.
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