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Ivy
Sets up a power duo with a lucky ally

Ivy has disruptive combat tricks that slow and stun enemies. She's most effective when linking up with an ally, empowering her and her ally's guns as well as sharing heals.

Ivy
Sets up a power duo with a lucky ally

Ivy has disruptive combat tricks that slow and stun enemies. She's most effective when linking up with an ally, empowering her and her ally's guns as well as sharing heals.

Description

Carry Ivy Gun Build. Start by scaling, stealing/invading farm with maxed kudzu, transition into a gun carry, and then
roam for fights, then become a insane dps gun carry.
For questions, contact @Highdocker on discord. Valid since the 8/18/2025 Hero Update.
9/4/2025 - GUN IS BACK!!! SIPHON IS DEAD!!! Massive annotation overhaul, plan to add more guides at the bottom soon.

Item Build

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Deadlock Item

I

Extended Magazine

Better than monster rounds for trading with damage, and denying and taking out minions

Deadlock Item

III

Tesla Bullets

Insanely good item. Significantly accelerates your farming speed, adds good hero damage output, and scales well with firerate. Gives you a huge early game powerspike. SELL at 35k+ Souls.

Deadlock Item

II

Active Reload

Gives many useful stats. High firerate for faster Tesla proccing, dps, bullet lifesteal (Ivy starts with small lifesteal values) and movespeed. Alleviates ammo problem.

Deadlock Item

II

Active

Fleetfoot

IVY NO LONGER HAS BUILT IN FLEETFOOT!!! Thus this item is now needed. Fleetfoot is overpowered anyway, as you gain survivability, and conditional movespeed thats amazing for chasing.

Deadlock Item

I

Sprint Boots

You can buy this earlier for box running and sustain while ignoring extra regen. Otherwise, buy later.

Deadlock Item

II

Enduring Speed

Essential for maintaining high m/s values when slowed, and adding a constant amount as well.

Deadlock Item

II

Titanic Magazine

Now that you are using more ammo with your higher firerate, you will need more ammo to compensate. Plus you will get a super small damage bonus.

Tough Lane?

Deadlock Item

I

Restorative Shot

Recently Buffed. Amazing first item due to shop investment bonuses, and a flat 50 heal is insane for sustaining in lane.

Deadlock Item

I

Active

Healing Rite

Best item to buy in a bad lane. Sprint speed that it gives makes it remain useful even after laning phase for roaming. Great for quickly recovering in lane. Do a box run while riting, dont miss wave.

HP/dmg Early

Deadlock Item

II

Battle Vest

[IF YOU BUY THIS, replace this item later into the game with Veil Walker/Fury Trance/Vamp Burst] Gives slight defensive, sustain, and damage stats. Good value, and gives health investment bonus.

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Deadlock Item

III

Active

Heroic Aura

Insanely powerful item right now. Sprint speed and movespeed values are INSANE for roaming and fights. Gives resistances for you and your team, and firerate for more damage.

Deadlock Item

I

Rapid Rounds

Little bit more firerate for more Tesla DPS and raw dps.

Deadlock Item

III

Hollow Point

Provides a good amount of damage, and great bullet resist shred, that lasts a long time after application, even when you go below the health threshold to proc it. Out of combat regen is nice too.

Deadlock Item

III

Hunter's Aura

Gives INSANE bullet resist shred. Buy this before Hollow Point if you are struggling with 1v1s against gun characters. Otherwise, the shred is amazing against yamato/viscous ball/tanks, etc.

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Deadlock Item

IV

Glass Cannon

Massive DPS spike when purchasing this, and allows you to stack firerate (up to 64% at 8 stacks). You will primarily be doing insane gun dps now, and tesla will begin to fall off.

Deadlock Item

III

Burst Fire

Lots of raw firerate to boost up your dps numbers in bursts and quick engagements. Additional slide distance helps with farming bigger camps, and the movespeed helps for chasing people, or to run away

Deadlock Item

IV

Lucky Shot

30% More Damage! This is a late game buy because it multiplies ALL OF YOUR EXISTING damage/firerate. Gives ammo too!

DPS/Sustain

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Vampiric Burst

Great for winning gun fights, additional firerate for shredding people even faster, provides out of combat sustain, and the instant ammo gained. Can sell titanic if you have this into SUPER late game.

HP / Sustain

ONLY 1

Deadlock Item

III

Veil Walker

Ivy still needs some more survivability. This item is amazing for healing while roaming the map, and is INSANE for jukes and getting away from the enemy. Great for HP Investment bonus too.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Fury Trance

Gives INSANE firerate, INSANE spirit resistance, And good bullet lifesteal. Super high value item, preferably only use when ALL your movement speed abilities are up, otherwise you WILL likely die.

DEFENSIVE

Avoid if have trance/veil

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Debuff Remover

Lots of debuffs on the enemy team? This item is generally great against all characters. Mo ult, Infernus burn, Stuns, literally almost everything. Grab this if you are struggling with debuffs.

Deadlock Item

III

Spirit Resilience

Very good survival item. Lets you live a lot longer after being bursted down by several spirit heroes. Works great if you have lots of sustain items (Like vampiric burst, or siphon bullets)

Deadlock Item

III

Escalating Resilience

Lots of raw gun damage hurting and killing you? this item gives a lot of different good stats, and will let you generally take less damage from gun. Good if Hunters Aura isnt countering gun enough.

ultra late DEFENSIVE

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Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Unstoppable

Too many stuns? Great if you are being picked off in fights exclusively due to stuns and cc. Buy at 30k+ souls preferably.

Deadlock Item

IV

Spellbreaker

Base stats are useful. Particularily useful against heavy single-burst heroes, like grey talon arrow, lash stomp, yamato slash. Preferably buy this in a case where you could use the debuff resist too.

Deadlock Item

IV

Juggernaut

Great stats. Alright against melee heavy comps, and amazing if enemy team has several gun carry heroes like wraith and vyper. No need for suppressor if you have this.

Deadlock Item

IV

Plated Armor

Insanely good against gun heroes, and ones that apply on hits, such as infernus, haze, and mina.

Counters [Early - Late]

RARELY buy these, 1 MAX

Deadlock Item

II

Suppressor

BUY ONLY IF YOU HAVE TESLA - This item has INSANE value to counter gun characters. Amazing against Infernus/Mirage/Haze/Vindicta/Wraith, etc. The earlier you buy, the more impactful it is.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Disarming Hex

Amazing if there is a single gun carry running down your team. (Like a vyper or wraith)

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Silence Wave

Amazing against spirit heroes that are decimating your team (Like Geist)

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Curse

Better silence wave/disarming hex for Ultra Late Game.

EXPERIMENTAL - Testing

message @Highdocker discord for questions regarding ANYTHING about Gun Ivy or this build

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Focus Lens

lucky shot damage amplification not enough? DEBUFF REMOVER NO LONGER COUNTER THIS!!! (that much at least)

What if im out of slots?

In the event that you are low on slots, sell your lane sustain items FIRST [Healing Rite, Restorative shot]. If you notice your team is struggling to take objectives, avoid building items like veilwalker or fury trance as they will prevent you from buying core items. Otherwise, you can purchase those health items. Typically in the 25-35k soul count, rough games may leave you with very little slots still. At this point, sell tesla bullets, as your raw gun damage will far surpass what tesla can output. If you are going to buy defensive items, or counters, you have to aknowledge that you wont be able to buy certain core items.

Ability Point Order

Kudzu Bomb

Watcher's Covenant

Stone Form

Air Drop

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2

5

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5

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