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Melee Lifesteal

If you are not taking much damage in lane, skip this. Great healing in lane from punching minions. And we can optionally upgrade this into Lifestrike for more sustain.

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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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Spirit Strike

We upgrade this to Spirit Snatch. Kind of meh damage early, so you can skip until after Torment Pulse.

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Spirit Snatch

Gets you to your 4.8k spirit investment. Spirit resist and power steal is amazing. Plus even more melee damage and it procs on your 2.

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Extra Spirit

Upgrades into Improved Spirit.

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Improved Spirit

Great for damage in lane on your bombs. If you're going more into slash then you could skip this.

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Sprint Boots

Must buy for rotating around the map and ganking other lanes.

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Veil Walker

Hits your 4.8k vitality investment. You can skip for other 3.2k vitality items. Really nice for rotating around the map, ganking, escaping/survivability, and the heal is great.

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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

Great healing if you hit it off cooldown, the weapon damage is also nice early. If you can't save for Lifestrike this is a good pickup.

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Backstabber

Great damage and stats in lane and gives you move speed for chasing. The foostep sound reduction is also nice. And this gives you wallhacks from the DoT. This is also for the weapon investment bonus.

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Healing Rite

Great for healing if you get really low in lane. Sprint speed is also nice for rotating. If you're going to buy one of these situational healing items, get this one since it stays useful after lane.

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Rebuttal

Great against Viscous in lane since it works against Viscous Puddle Punches. Also a very good item against people building melee (Abrams and Billy). Only buy if you can actually parry consistently.

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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. Lets you permafight/push in lane. Also slows for both ult damage ticks. Can skip though, and instead go VW or Fort

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Torment Pulse

Great damage over the course of a game/fight. And makes you a little tankier. Also helps with farming. Just super good core item for us.

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Enduring Speed

Great for move speed in fights and the slow resist.

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Enchanter's Emblem

Cooldown reduction is really rare so this is a great item since it gives you some. With Lifestrike or Veilwalker this gets you to your 4.8k vitality investment.

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Fleetfoot

Great for your ult and catform, means you can be everywhere on the map. Speed meta makes it a little mandatory, Veil Walker is also good here.

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Imbue

Compress Cooldown

More uptime on your ult means more fights you can take.

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Active

Arctic Blast

Really great item, great for catching people and for clearing waves in cat form. The combo with it is Arctic Blast, 2 immediately so the AB travels with you, light punch, 1, 4.

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Scourge

Usually after Arctic Blast. 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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Superior Cooldown

Cooldown reduction is really useful. Gives you way more uptime.

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Counterspell

Great against certain characters and abilities. Especially Lash.

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Debuff Reducer

No longer works on parry stun. But still a great pick up most games.

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Debuff Remover

Must buy against Slowing Hex. Really great against a ton of characters, especially Vindicta, Infernus, and others who debuff you.

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Spirit Resilience

If you need anti-spirit. Very common buy although not absolutely necessary since we build many items that have spirit resist already.

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Bullet Resilience

For bullet resist. If it's really early (>10 mins), probably just go Battle Vest instead though.

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Fortitude

Common buy, although Veil Walker is usually better atm imo. The health is great for survivability, the move speed is great for rotating, and the heal lets you stay on the map longer.

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Spirit Shielding

Great against spirit damage. You can get in some lanes.

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Reactive Barrier

Great item and good in many lanes. And late game has good spirit scaling, and ends up being like 500+ barrier.

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Battle Vest

Good item at the moment, the bullet resist and regen is great in lane. Later though you should just get Bullet Resilience. Also good for farming denizens.

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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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Mystic Burst

Decent for poke in lane after your bombs do 80+ damage. IMO Tankbuster isn't a great upgrade though and you'd have to sell this for slots usually.

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Suppressor

Great at stopping gun carries. Super good in lane against gun characters. Easy to proc and can go on many people.

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Slowing Hex

Good against Lash, Pocket, Mina, and other movement focused people. Often a must buy against a good Mina.

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Active

Spirit Sap

Builds into Focus Lens, easy to use and great for 1v1s. Makes your burst way stronger.

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Silence Wave

Good item. Silence is very good against many characters and it reduces their resist (tankiness) and spirit power (damage).

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Cultist Sacrifice

For 4.8k Weapon Investment, but imo it's not that necessary on Calico. Point Blank might work better for it.

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Transcendent Cooldown

Great item once you have 2 actives. It also makes Torment Pulse tick faster! Very good with Ethereal Shift.

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Mystic Vulnerability

Upgrades into Escalating Exposure.

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Escalating Exposure

This with Scourge is insane. You run into the middle of the enemy team with Scourge and they take like 2-4k damage. Also has shred and gives you even more spirit resist so you're even tankier.

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Active

Ethereal Shift

They doubled the CD on it so it's way worse, still might be good though on Calico. Helps you live much longer. Great with Transcendent CD. You can skip for more damage if you're not dying.

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Active

Focus Lens

Quite strong at the moment, shred is good.

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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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Active

Curse

Strong item at the moment. Just really good for shutting one person down in a fight.

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Juggernaut

Great against gun carries and is good to pick up if you have no free slots.

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Spirit Burn

Anti-heal + more burst damage. If you need to burst carries this is really useful.

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Active

Unstoppable

Really great in late teamfights. Especially good if you are really struggling against CC. Or for midboss.

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Spellbreaker

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

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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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Plated Armor

Great but usually only buy once you already have bullet resist. Great against Haze.

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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.

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Colossus

Extra resists and health is great. Also works as an alternative upgrade for Extra Health.

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Stamina Mastery

fun item, good value, mmm mmmmovement. You could buy this in the mid game some time rather than getting resists perhaps.

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Radiant Regeneration

Kind of fun, but not very good. Adds up to a decent amount of heal in longer fights since Torment Pulse and Scourge easily procs it.

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Knockdown

If no one else on your team is going to buy this and you really need to stop a Vindicta/GT or Seven ult.

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Magic Carpet

Fun and silly! Also good escape tool. Just worse to get than other 6ks though.

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Imbue

Surge of Power

It's nice on your bombs. You like all the things it gives you. But before you get Arctic Blast, the bombs are inconsistent to hit, and your bombs don't have that good spirit scaling.

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Decay

I don't think this is really all that worth it compared to just getting Healbane. Since any person incredibly reliant on healing will just get Debuff Remover. But maybe get against Mo or Abrams.

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Tankbuster

You can only proc this on bombs if you can time them with the Arctic Blast bonus damage. But I don't like it since it's just awkward and there's better items to get imo by that point in the game.

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Mystic Slow

Just feels really nice, makes it super easy to hit your ults second/end damage burst. Probably also nice against like Vyper.

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Cheat Death

If you are actually like the only player on your team doing anything and you have like 65k souls you could get this.

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Trophy Collector

DO NOT EVER BUILD THIS UNLESS YOU ARE 100% SURE YOU WILL GET LOTS OF STACKS. This is often a trap item, which puts you -3k souls down, without giving you anything much in return until later.

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Metal Skin

This since it got buffed is actually kinda really good against some characters, especially Haze and Drifter. I'd get this as an alternative to Bullet Resilience or Plated Armor.

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Active

Restorative Locket

Really nice for the stamina. Healing got a big nerf so is meh now. Decent to pick up for general survivability.

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Active

Return Fire

Decent item against certain gun carries.

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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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Extra Regen

Worse than the other healing items imo. Plus if you're getting Lifestrike it's useless.

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Point Blank

Possible option for hitting 4.8k weapon investment.