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Melee Lifesteal

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

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Monster Rounds

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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Close Quarters

Melee resist and bonus damage against close range targets. Upgrades into Point Blank which is a very strong item for Billy.

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Extra Health

Good for surviving big bursts more. Kind of emulates the health difference we had with early Lifestrike. Upgrades into Colossus in late game.

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Melee Charge

Makes heavy melees good. When active this doubles your Blasted HP gain, so ALWAYS pop Blasted first now.

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Battle Vest

Nice bullet resist and damage output increase.

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Point Blank

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.

II

Enduring Speed

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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Active

Healing Rite

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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Extra Regen

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

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Rebuttal

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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Reactive Barrier

Super clutch against cc from Haze, Paige, Mo & Krill, etc. Activates when hyperlined or parried as well.

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Spirit Shielding

Nerfed, but still good. Now not the answer to everything but still worth considering.

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Bullet Resist Shredder

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

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Superior Duration

This character NEEDS Blasted active to be OP right now. Superior makes our duration longer and scales the amount of time melees extend it. OP on upgraded Rising Ram too.v

III

Spirit Resilience

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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Extended Magazine

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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Active

Heroic 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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Escalating Resilience

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.

III

Berserker

If you already have stacked bullet resist this can help you stack more and helps you build more weapon damage fast. Worth considering selling Cultist Sacrifice for this.

III

Active

Warp Stone

Mobility to get in and/or out paired with a huge resist buff.

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Bullet Resilience

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

IV

Plated Armor

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

III

Active

Blood Tribute

Gives spirit resist, fire rate, and FAT debuff resist. Definitely pick into hard CC.

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Frenzy

Very good item to resist incoming spirit damage and retaliate with bonus stats. In primarily spirit comps, pair with Spirit Resilience for 75% resist.

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Active

Cold Front

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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Greater Expansion

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

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Spirit Snatch

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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Enchanter's Emblem

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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Active

Dispel Magic

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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Spellbreaker

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

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Debuff Reducer

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

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Counterspell

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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Active

Divine Barrier

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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Active

Slowing Hex

Better item now. 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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Suppressor

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

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Active

Knockdown

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

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Active

Silence Wave

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

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Active

Cursed Relic

Another item to shutdown carries with, boasting even more debuffs and clearing all buffs.

III

Lifestrike

Definitely way weaker, especially early on. Works well with Colossus. Much later provides nice relevant bursts.

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Active

Colossus

Fat HP increase + insane resists and more weapon damage. Very good tank item. Now gives bonus melee damage when active, which is nice.

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Crushing Fists

Only makes sense to invest in more utility since we have Melee Charge. The stun can be really useful for interrupting channels.

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Healbane

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

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Inhibitor

Like Silencer, this item works with Bashdown, so you can affect multiple people at once. Gives a HUGE damage bonus and really good bonus health too. Destroy Abrams.

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Toxic Bullets

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

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Active

Decay

50% heal reduction is pretty large and also bleeds 30% of someone's health for its duration. Gives bonus spirit power and health which are very nice.

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Torment Pulse

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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Active

Vortex Web

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

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Boundless Spirit

If you're really agead or don't have any particular item you need to buy scaling your Blasted even further is pretty big.

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Imbue [E]

Active

Echo Shard

Mostly testing right now but being Blasted is more important than ever, so never not having Blasted is kind of big.

IV

Juggernaut

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

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Active

Vampiric Burst

Less healing than Leech passively but when active component is used it heals you by over 1000. With Frenzy pop Vampiric Burst below 50% HP to maximize fire rate and healing.

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Crippling Headshot

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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Silencer

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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Titanic Magazine

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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Weighted Shots

Builds from Slowing Bullets and gives a large weapon damage increase. Makes it extremely hard to get away from you. Best into characters dashing a lot.

III

Imbue [E]

Ballistic Enchantment

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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Active

Capacitor

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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Stalker

Not terrible but the bleed doesn't seem to have much of a purpose in mid-game still after its rework.

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Weakening Headshot

Cheap and easy bullet resist shred.

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Active

Alchemical Fire

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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Hunter's Aura

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