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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
become a teamfight god with debuffing into the late game.
For questions, contact @Highdocker on discord. Valid since the 5/8/25 Shop Rework Update.
Last Updated: 8/8/25 - Added hunters aura as an option (Much better now) for specific cases, redid and added more tooltips,
and placed more emphasis on gun path (it is a gunivy build after all) despite the big nerfs.

Item Build

Early Game

LEFT ---> RIGHT (mostly) ! ! READ ANNOTATIONS ! !

Deadlock Item

I

Sprint Boots

For box running early (Can buy later if it is difficult to push your lane)

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, but it falls off post-30k souls

Deadlock Item

I

Extended Magazine

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

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. Works well w ult!

Deadlock Item

II

Active Reload

Can be a good alternative to intensifying magazine. Unlike it, buy this right after tesla, instead of after titanic/fortitude. This is because super early firerate and lifesteal is super useful.

Deadlock Item

II

Titanic Magazine

Insanely useful for the crazy amounts of ammo this gives you

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, The speed works well with ult too!

Tough Lane?

Buy 2 Max

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.

Deadlock Item

II

Spirit Shielding

For lanes where you can get dived easily, this item singlehandedly can prevent you from dying to a double ult under guardian. Loses value over the course of the game however.

Mid Game

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.

Gun Path (Choose 1 Path)

Left -> Right

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

Burst Fire

Lots of raw firerate to boost up your dps numbers in bursts and quick engagements.

Deadlock Item

IV

Glass Cannon

BUY NOW IF AHEAD, otherwise buy luckyshot/vamp burst. This item gives insane amounts of raw damage, and lets you get insane amounts of unconditional firerate by getting kills.

1.30x DMG

Deadlock Item

IV

Lucky Shot

30% More Damage! Mandatory item for both tanky and gun ivy build paths.

Sustain+DMG

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 combined with titanic magazine is HUGE.

Tank Path (Choose 1 Path)

L>R

Deadlock Item

IV

Siphon Bullets

Siphon is back! Because ivy dps got cut significantly. Insane value when doing long fights. Procs healing tempo, which gives you 100% uptime during fights, and allows other synergies.

Deadlock Item

III

Berserker

At this point of the build you are super tanky, but have no damage. This item solves that issue, without sacraficing all your built up health with glass cannon.

Deadlock Item

IV

Healing Tempo

Can be procced by siphon bullets. Give you lots of useful firerate, and movespeed that Ivy LOVES! Works with veilwalker pretty well too for when you are out of combat and want the tempo movespeed.

Defensive Items

Buy 1

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.

Defensive LATE GAME Items

Buy 1 (Late)

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

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

Plated Armor

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

Late Shred/AP

Deadlock Item

IV

Crippling Headshot

Sell Hollow Point for this item. Only buy in super late game when characters have far too many resists, or you somehow aren't doing enough damage with GC + Luckyshot.

Deadlock Item

III

Hunter's Aura

the ANTI-YAMATO-INATOR 2000 (Gives ludicrous shred, should buy once you already have some firerate and damage ~18k+ souls)

Hate Veil W?

Deadlock Item

III

Fortitude

Look what they did to my boy... (this item got giga nerfed. If you cant handle veil walker, use this instead for health and sustain.)

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.

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Capacitor

Good if viscous cube is annoying, and you need to slow people down to a halt, or interrupt certain buffs from enemies.

EXPERIMENTAL

@Highdocker on discord for questions

Ability Point Order

Kudzu Bomb

Watcher's Covenant

Stone Form

Air Drop

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1

2

5

1

2

1

2

5

2

5

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