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Melee Lifesteal

Great healing in lane from punching minions. And we upgrade this into Lifestrike. Procs on your 2 as well!

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Lifestrike

So much fun. Use off CD with heavy melee in lane for a 100 health heal on a 4 sec CD. So good for sustain, which lets you permafight/push in lane. Also slows for both ult damage ticks.

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Backstabber

Really good early. Great for the poke damage and the move speed to help chase people down.

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Active

Cold Front

Adds to your burst damage, and the slow is great. We also can upgrade this into Arctic Blast.

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Extra Health

Extra health is great in lane and we can upgrade this to Fortitude or Colossus later. If you need slots you can sell it though.

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Spirit Strike

A bunch of extra damage on our 2 and punches. We upgrade this to Spirit Snatch.

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Melee Charge

Melee damage is really fun. We upgrade this into Crushing Fists.

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Sprint Boots

Speeds up your rotations significantly and upgrades into Juggernaut.

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Monster Rounds

Great if enemies are pushing to your tower.

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Restorative Shot

Great healing.

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Extra Regen

Great if you need constant healing. You can upgrade this into Healing Booster and then Healing Tempo.

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Active

Healing Rite

Great for healing if you get really low in lane. Sprint speed is also nice for rotating.

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Extra Stamina

Personal preference alternative to Sprint Boots. We upgrade this into Kinetic Dash.

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Rebuttal

Incredible against Viscous in lane since it works against Viscous Puddle Punches. Also a very good item against people building melee (usually Abrams).

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Spirit Snatch

Spirit resist and power steal is amazing. Plus even more melee damage and it procs on your 2. Great damage over the course of a game.

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Torment Pulse

Great damage over the course of a game/fight. And makes you a little tankier. Great for farming as well. Just super good core item.

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Enduring Speed

Great for rotations, the move slow resist and move speed in fights is really nice. If you went Extra Stamina go Kinetic Dash here instead.

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Fortitude

The health is great for survivability, the move speed is great for rotating, and the heal lets you stay on the map more. However, you can go Veil Walker here instead or both, since its really OP atm.

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Berserker

Great for damage and bullet resist.

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Crushing Fists

Big powerspike. You can rush earlier if you are doing well. If you aren't having success with melee you could skip this and go into more of a spirit build.

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Hunter's Aura

Resist shred is always great. Makes you very strong in 1v1s. You could just skip for AB/Scourge here instead if they have no gun carries that are an issue.

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Superior Cooldown

Really great for increasing your uptime with your ult and for letting you do more slashes in fights.

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Weakening Headshot

Easy to proc. Increases yours and your teams damage. Upgrades to Crippling Headshot which is great in the late game.

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Kinetic Dash

Amazing for ammo since it gives a flat amount rather than a percentage. Helps for pushing objectives.

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Counterspell

Great against almost everything in the game. Especially Lash.

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Active

Debuff Remover

Must buy against a ton of characters, Vindicta and Infernus in particular.

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Debuff Reducer

You can build this into Debuff Remover vs certain characters. No longer helps with parry stun though.

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Veil Walker

If you get this, get it early. Really nice for rotating around the map, ganking, escaping/survivability, and the heal is great in the mid game for staying on the map (like Fortitude).

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Bullet Resilience

If you need anti-bullet.

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Spirit Resilience

If you need anti-spirit.

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Active

Return Fire

Got nerfed but is still good against gun carries. Gives you lots of survivability. Often build in lane.

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Spirit Shielding

Can build in lane. Got nerfed but I think it is still quite strong at the moment early on.

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Reactive Barrier

Nice in some lanes such as against Bebop.

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Healbane

Easy to proc anti-heal. The heal on kill is also really great during midgame fights.

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Suppressor

Great at stopping gun carries. Easy to proc and can go on many people.

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Slowing Hex

Good against Lash, Mina, Pocket, and movement focused people.

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Active

Knockdown

Good against flying characters like Vindicta and Grey Talon. Also used for knocking Seven out of his ultimate.

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Active

Silence Wave

Very strong at the moment, silence is very good against many characters and it reduces their resist. I recommend against characters like Yamato and Pocket.

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Active

Phantom Strike

Amazing for shutting down fliers and gun carries. And for getting on top of the people you need to target in team fights.

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Active

Arctic Blast

Really great item, practically a guarenteed kill in the late game if your team is with you. The combo with it is 2, Arctic Blast, light punch, 1, 4. Also great for clearing waves quickly in cat form.

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Active

Scourge

Really good. Makes you really tanky and can do a lot of damage if you get into the middle of their team. You can rush earlier if you feel it would be good or have the money.

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Crippling Headshot

One of the best damage items in the game because of the shred. The anti-heal is also amazing.

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Juggernaut

Amazing against gun carries.

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Active

Colossus

Extra resists and health is great. If you haven't sold Extra Health this is a good upgrade.

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Spellbreaker

Incredible against Lash, Grey Talon, and any other spirit burst characters.

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Transcendent Cooldown

Gives you way more uptime on your ult and items. Also works on Torment Pulse.

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Boundless Spirit

Gives you some much needed damage in the late game with your ult and gloom bombs. Great if you are trying to oneshot their carries.

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Leech

Stay alive more, nice for hybrid builds.

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Silencer

Can be good for shutting down ability reliant characters.

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Frenzy

Good survivability against spirit.

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Active

Unstoppable

If you're getting CCed or parried constantly. Also for midboss.

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Witchmail

Very situational. Only get against lots of incremental spirit damage (McGinnis turrets, Infernus, Warden Ult). Still testing this.

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Plated Armor

Really good against characters like Haze and Infernus, get after you already have bullet resist of some kind though.

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Active

Divine Barrier

Can remove ult debuffs such as Pocket ult. Prioritise casting it on other people though since half the CD gets refunded.

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Healing Tempo

Good healing + movement.

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Radiant Regeneration

Quite good healing and move speed. Adds up to a lot in longer fights since Torment Pulse and Scourge easily procs it. Still testing.

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Active

Curse

If you need to screw over one enemy in particular.

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Active

Ethereal Shift

Great on Calico, helps you live much longer. They nerfed the cooldown though, so not as good as it used to be.

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Weighted Shots

Has good stats.

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Point Blank

The weapon damage and slow is nice but the extra weapon damage does not work with your 2 I think.

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Active

Fleetfoot

Alternative to Backstabber, you'd buy this after lane though.

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Trophy Collector

Only buy if you are 100% sure you will get many stacks.

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Metal Skin

This since it got buffed is actually kinda really good against some characters, especially Haze. I'd get this if just buying Bullet Resilience or Juggernaut isn't enough maybe.

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Enchanter's Emblem

Great for spirit resist and Cooldown reduction is really rare so this is a great item since it gives you some.

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Battle Vest

Great item in lane for the regen, the resist is really good as well. Later though you should just get Bullet Resilience instead. Also great for farming denizens.

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Weapon Shielding

It's nice, but I just prefer to go Return Fire or Suppressor or rush Bullet Resilience early.

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Imbue

Compress Cooldown

Imbue on 4. Builds into Superior CD.