Abrams has the bulk and sustain to lead from the front, often running into the middle of his foes and watching them scatter. If his enemies waste their fire on him, his backline teammates can lay out damage with impunity.
Abrams has the bulk and sustain to lead from the front, often running into the middle of his foes and watching them scatter. If his enemies waste their fire on him, his backline teammates can lay out damage with impunity.
Description
My build for being a complete melee bot https://twitch.tv/shelduntv
Item Build
Early Game
Can go L > R then look at melee items
800
Healing to help you in lane, also gives decent melee dmg by reaching 800 threshold + 6% stat
800
You can start engaging on people in lane when you have this as you can heal back the damage you'd be taking a lot better
800
Regen to help you + builds into heal booster later
800
Makes your siphon do more damage
1600
Huge damage incoming with this item + builds into crushing
800
Mostly to negate weighted shots' -10% stamina regen later on but also extra movement
Early/Lane Extras
800
Viscous or melee bots in your lane
800
Trinity of melee items
IMPORTANT
8000
Biggest damage upgrade, you can start stunning people with 3 consecutive heavy melees. Start heavy meleeing around the map too as it's faster than walking.
4000
Beefy healing to help you survive alongside siphon life
4000
Buffs up your melee damage slightly + siphon life to make you heal even more.
Mid Game
Weighted + debuff remover = pretty good debuff resistance
4000
Huge damage + slows
3200
So many stats good stats on this item, the negative ones mean nothing
4800
PEOPLE WILL DEFINITELY BUY ANTIHEAL AGAINST YOU SO THIS IS A MUST HAVE TO CLEANSE IT
3200
bullet res stat + good damage output
2400
Buffs up all healing from siphon + lifestrike
7200
THICCNESS - be a tanky boy, can also use this to bait parries by heavy melee cancelling (see fleetfoot)
Late Game
Take what you need from here, annotations
4000
8800
6400
6400
4000
8800
BUY THIS LAST THIS IS JUST A VERY LUXURY UPGRADE
Situational/Tech items
Explained with annotations as to when/why you'd take this
1600
Stops people with movement abilities from using them to get out of your melee range
1600
Damage + slow, not entirely needed in this build but can take if you want
3200
Heavy bullet damage on enemy team
3200
Heavy spirit damage on enemy team
3200
Parry certain abilties (shiv/geist/lash/yamato)
3200
Huge damage + antiheal
6400
Take against a comp with a lot of fliers if necessary, 10x better than buying knockdown on Abrams
1600
If you are struggling to bait out other people's parries, you can try using this item. While you're moving in heavy melee, press the active and it will cancel the melee.
6400
You are being bursted down relentlessly
3200
Very advanced item. You need to know when to toggle this on/off in fights for best use. Toggle it off when you need to heal up.
1600
Sometimes a good buy, very good healing especially if you have more spirit items to make it scale better
2400
It's an ok burst heal for both you and teammates nearby enough.
Ability Point Order
Siphon Life
Shoulder Charge
Infernal Resilience
Seismic Impact
1
2
1
2
5
5
1
2
5
1
2
5