Calico uses the shadows to her advantage, weaving in and out of combat to hunt down her enemies one by one.
Calico uses the shadows to her advantage, weaving in and out of combat to hunt down her enemies one by one.
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This is a spirit build! We focus on slash and ult early!
Check out my melee bruiser Calico build: 209974
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Melee Lifesteal
Great healing in lane from punching minions. And we upgrade this into Lifestrike for more sustain. Procs on your 2 as well!
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Lifestrike
Use off CD with heavy melee in lane. It's 200+ health heal on a 4 sec CD. Just so good for sustain, means you never have to leave lane. Tons of healing from your 2 and melees and so keeps you alive in
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Backstabber
Great poke in lane.
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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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Cold Front
Adds to your burst damage, and the slow is great. We also can upgrade this into Arctic Blast.
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Sprint Boots
Must buy if you are boxmaxxing with your cat form or rotating in cat form a lot.
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Enchanter's Emblem
Cooldown reduction is really rare so this is a great item since it gives you some.
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Monster Rounds
Great if enemies are pushing to your tower or you need to push and take objectives.
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Restorative Shot
Very easy to proc and good healing. If you can't save for Lifestrike this is a good pickup.
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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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Healing Rite
Great for healing if you get really low in lane. Sprint speed is also nice for rotating.
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Extra Health
Extra health is great in lane and we can upgrade this to Fortitude later. Only buy if you need the survivability in lane.
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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).
If you lack slots, upgrade items.
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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.
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Debuff Reducer
You could replace this with Resto Locket potentially, or buy both. Just a great item, reduces the stun from being parried. You can build this into Debuff Remover vs certain characters.
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Enduring Speed
If you are boxmaxxing with cat form then buy this. The slow resist is also good if that is being an issue.
Get as needed.
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Superior Cooldown
Cooldown reduction is really useful. Gives you way more uptime.
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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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Improved Spirit
Upgrades into Boundless, helps with damage.
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Bullet Resilience
For bullet resist since you have none built into the core. Can skip if you aren't taking any gun damage.
Pick and choose depending on what you need.
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Counterspell
Great against almost everything in the game. Especially Lash.
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Debuff Remover
Must buy against Seven, Warden, Infernus, Mirage, Vindicta, and a couple others.
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Spirit Resilience
If you need anti-spirit.
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Fortitude
Purchase if you want to stay on the map. The move speed is great for rotating, the heal lets you stay on the map longer, and the weapon damage is really nice.
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Restorative Locket
Really good at the moment. Scales super well. And gives stamina.
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Return Fire
Great against gun carries. Gives you tons of survivability.
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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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Disarming Hex
Amazing if you are getting destroyed by a gun carry.
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Slowing Hex
Good against Lash, Pocket, and movement focused people.
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Decay
Incredible item for damage and healing reduction. Great item for anti-heal and stopping tanks like Abrams.
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Knockdown
Often a must buy against flying characters like Vindicta and Grey Talon. Also used for knocking Seven and Bebop out of their ultimates.
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Spirit Sap
Builds into Silence Wave, easy to use and great for 1v1s.
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Silence Wave
Very strong at the moment, silence is very good against many characters and it reduces their resist.
Get depending on game state. If you don't know what to get, go AB or Scourge first.
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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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Juggernaut
Amazing against gun carries.
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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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Escalating Exposure
Only get after Scourge.
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Ethereal Shift
Great on Calico, helps you live much longer. The cooldown for it is super short. Great with Transcendent CD.
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Unstoppable
Really great in late teamfights. Especially good if you are really struggling against CC. Or for midboss.
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Spirit Burn
Anti-heal + more burst damage.
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Diviner's Kevlar
Just more survivability and the spirit power is nice.
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Transcendent Cooldown
Not worth unless you have 3 Active Items in my opinion. But once you do its a very good upgrade and good for slots.
You can get some of these earlier as counter buys.
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Active
Colossus
Extra resists and health is great. Also works as an alternative upgrade for Extra Health.
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Witchmail
Very situational. Only get against lots of incremental spirit damage (McGinnis turrets, Infernus, Warden Ult) and have Spirit Resilience already. Still testing this.
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Plated Armor
Still testing and I'm not sure if it's better than Juggernaut, but it seems good.
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Spellbreaker
Incredible against Lash, Grey Talon, and any other spirit burst characters.
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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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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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Radiant Regeneration
Quite good healing and move speed. Adds up to a lot in longer fights since Torment Pulse and Scourge easily procs it.
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Curse
If you need to screw over one enemy in particular.
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Lightning Scroll
Stun on ult is nice.
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Magic Carpet
Fun! Also good escape tool.
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Focus Lens
Silence is useful + more damage. DO NOT BUY INTO DEBUFF REMOVER. Is usually worse than Curse.
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