
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.
Most well-balanced classic Calico build for comfort play
Updated to the Bomb meta being developed
Build reccomended for expirienced players but has annotations
Try to deliver Urns as much as possible for AP
Calico nerfs last patch: Bombs are MUCH weaker in damage if not hit all, AVA IS DEAD AND DOESN'T GIVE STAMINA ON USE
Bombs are meta, get better at them. Calico is a Glass Canon, less brawl, more "burst and run" Take situationals after first 2-3 items if NEED them.


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Melee Lifesteal
Main lane healing, try not using on creeps but use only on enemies with your 2, Sell for slots later


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Extra Spirit
Gives more heal to Slash than T1 AND boosts dmg for all abilities and items


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Mystic Burst
Lane Poke. You buy it on 2400, on 2600 you get +spirit boon so you can trigger it by 1 bomb


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Improved Spirit
Just damage buff similar to Spirit Strike but for all ranges and doesn't need melee activation


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Spirit Strike
All spirit attacks do 6% more damage after Slash, weak item on itself, needed to build Snatch


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Spirit Snatch
Power Spike. 15% spirit resist&power steal which adds up with other items for big damage, buffs cold front


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Cold Front
Burst-combo after Slash, movement slow for easier bomb placement, fast wave clear & clear wave in cat


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Enchanter's Emblem
AbilityCD & Spirit power BUT on full hp, Spirit resist always. You take it after all necessary items


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Healing Rite
heal + move speed, prio heal for hard lane just to survive. Sell only for slots


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Rebuttal
Melee city, nowadays buffs ALL DAMAGE by 30%, if enemy have melee characters - never sell


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Extra Stamina
Warden/Yamato/Paige/Hard movement slows on lane. Sell for slots later
Reactive & Spirit Shielding best items, others read annotations. Ava transformation reloads your gun instantly


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Reactive Barrier
The best barrier item, if have 3+ enemies (or 2 on lane) who proc it with abilities - 100% buy


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Spirit Shielding
Weaker overall than Reactive but easier to trigger, can take both if NEED survive


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Backstabber
Can take if dominate lane with gun carry, gives movespeed + wallhack + small dmg, weak otherwise


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Healbane
Antiheal and self heal on kill, if possible - ask your often spirit dmg characters to get it (Mina/Yamato/Shiv)


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Fortitude
More health, move speed, and heal while getting boxes after fight. All stats good for Calico


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Veil Walker
Alternative to Fortitude, enemies see you through wall if use veil in cat form.


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Lifestrike
Either 3-4 item on EASY game where you dominate or NEVER TAKE for normal/hard game


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Slowing Hex
It's just like silence wave but against 1 specific ability, good against Shiv/Wraith/Mina/Holiday/Sinclair/etc


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Spirit Sap
Road to Silence Wave, -12% spirit resist&-24 spirit for 1 target, not so great on itself


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Silence Wave
Silence for 3s + reduced spirit res&power for 12s. Great against Pocket/Mina/Geist/Victor etc
Fortitude is situational now, go to base for heal // Arctic Blast travels with you


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Sprint Boots
Step for Enduring Speed


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Enduring Speed
In-battle speed and slow resists, recently buffed. Really good item overalll, especially for Calico


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Torment Pulse
Power Spike. Consistent and good scalable close range spirit damage


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Imbue [E]
Compress Cooldown
50 seconds ULT cd! Amazing, allows you to help team in fights much more


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Arctic Blast
Calico core item. Damage amp + easy way to put all bombs. Best uses: Clear waves in cat while ult CD// Use after slash to freeze enemy and bomb//Cancel enemy movement abilities


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Superior Cooldown
Faster CD for everything, after Arctic Blast to make bombs max more effective earlier


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Transcendent Cooldown
CD reduction for ALL items (Torment/Snatch/Arctic/Barriers/Silence/Remover/Counterspell and so on)
one or both


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Debuff Remover
Better than Couterspell because can remove Silence/Slowing Hex and other things + has debuff resist


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Counterspell
Block big strong ults with some bonuses, recently nerfed again. Take against Lash/Wraith/Talon etc.
First 2 better than the others. After Mid Game there is no universal order for items, think what to buy yourself


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Scourge
AOE spirit dmg + resists, teamfight damage boost. BAD if enemy has Capacitors, good otherwise


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Juggernaut
Great item overall as an late update to Enduring Speed, makes enemy gunners life harder


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Spellbreaker
Spirit Nukers + Debuffs, the best T4 green item


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Spirit Burn
Best antiheal and little AOE dmg, easier push, not prio if have 1 or 2 in team


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Boundless Spirit
Pure damage buff, better than Surge of Power by pure damage but no movespeed


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Ethereal Shift
Nerfed last patch: X2.2 cooldown. Nerf is REALLY big so item is not prio BUT still good vs silences


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Curse
Ability cancel + silence for items, good for teamfights/ duo kills, CD recently lowered so can take


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Divine Barrier
If your teammates are crazy strong but you weak, support-y item, Great against Pocket/Wraith


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Focus Lens
Assasinate people with bomb burst, bad if enemy have debuff remover/ethereal shift, Low CD
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