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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

For questions, contact @Highdocker on discord.
10/5/2025 - Added more annotations, more item testing, and added spellbreaker (as its great late game in certain matchups). Reformatted build order to be more clear whether or not you should go Glass Cannon.

Item Build

Optional Lane Starters

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_EarlyGame

Left -> Right [Can aim for a 6:00 Tesla Buy] [Can buy Extra Health early]

Deadlock Item

I

Extended Magazine

Synergizes with monster rounds to utterly destroy early lane troopers, and lets you poke enemy a bit more.

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. Long lasting fights with this and Tesla are great!

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.

Deadlock Item

I

Extra Health

Feel free to sell this item later if short on slots and need damage items.

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

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.

Lane & Sustain

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.

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_MidGame

Can skip BRS if behind on flex slots

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. Spam this item.

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Capacitor

Small DPS increase compared to all other 3200 items, but provides great counterplay against VERY specific characters. Cancelling Viscous cube, flights, steroids [Wraith Full Auto, Seven Surge, etc.]

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Heroic Aura

Insanely powerful. Sprint speed and movespeed values are INSANE for roaming and fights. Gives resistances for you and your team, and firerate for more damage. ALWAYS HAVE THIS READY BEFORE FIGHTING!!!

Deadlock Item

II

Bullet Resist Shredder

Gives +11 Spirit, on tether: [+3% Fire rate, +2% Bullet Lifesteal], small amounts of bullet resist, and good amounts of flat HP. Gives early shred for camps, and enemies. Very high value item!

GC Rush

Deadlock Item

IV

Glass Cannon

If you HAVE to play to carry as an M1, this item is amazing. Flex effecient, but postpones your tempo as you have to save up 6400 souls in the midgame. Highly reccomend BRS if getting this.

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_LateGame

If GC Rush, Hollow Point LAST

Deadlock Item

III

Hollow Point

[ !! ONLY BUY THIS if skipping GLASS CANNON !! ] Replace glass cannon with this item if so.

Deadlock Item

III

Burst Fire

Insanely good raw fire rate stats for a 3.2k item, gives you movespeed too for zooming!

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!

FINAL - ONLY BUY ONE

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Blood Tribute

Helps fill in your missing firerate late game to saturate your high damage output. Movespeed, spirit resist, regen, and health are all useful here, especially Debuff resist! INSANE with siphon bullets

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Vampiric Burst

Helps fill in missing firerate lategame, and allows you to comfortably have sold active reload for another item as this item gives you a entire new magazine. Very high lifesteal for burst fights.

Defensive

Left side items are generally used more commonly

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

Fortitude

No-Brain buy if you need some sort of Sustain + Survivability + Speed into the Late Game.b

Deadlock Item

IV

Spellbreaker

Good so you dont get obliterated and insta-bursted late game. Debuff resistance is great too.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Warp Stone

Good for instantly avoiding hate crimes that may lead into cc chains and then lead you to get instakilled.

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

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.

Replacements

READ THE ITEMS ANNOTATIONS !!!

Deadlock Item

III

Escalating Resilience

This item can be bought and can replace TITANIC MAGAZINE!!! Great resistance against gun characters whilst keeping ammo and damage as a bonus.

Deadlock Item

III

Hunter's Aura

This item can be bought and can replace BULLET RESIST SHREDDER!!! [This item provides better 1v1s, mainly vs m1/gun characters who rely on fire rate. Also helps shred VS. Yamato, Seven, Viscous ULTS]

Deadlock Item

IV

Spellslinger

This item can be bought and should ONLY be bought after you have 45,000+ § SOULS - Replaces ACTIVE RELOAD!!! [Gives far more firerate, uptime, and can proc 5/6 stacks instantly late game with actives]

Deadlock Item

IV

Crippling Headshot

This can be bought and can replace BULLET RESIST SHREDDER! Provides INSANELY long lasting shred debuff that your entire team can benefit from too

Good @ §30k+ Souls

Deadlock Item

IV

Siphon Bullets

Good for late game sustained fights and survivability. Great against tankier people who are counter building you with Plated Armor and Bullet Resilience. Synergizes w/ Spirit Resil & Blood Tribute

TESTING THESE ITEMS - MIGHT BE GOOD

message @Highdocker on discord for any questions

Deadlock Item

II

Kinetic Dash

Good for super greed in dps output on flex locked games where you are losing and need as much damage as possible assuming your team is lacking it

Deadlock Item

III

Point Blank

Potentially good damage replacement with tempo if you avoid building glass cannon ALTOGETHER.

Deadlock Item

IV

Juggernaut

One of the worst value items in the game, but enduring speed itself has so much value, so this is a potentially good buy in last resort Ultra Late Games.

INFO

Gunivy is still good, they just nerfed everything except the reason gun ivy was too strong (she is still the best farmer in the game, she still has insane roam, she can still abuse the op gun items) - Planning on adding general build info in the coming week - Cultist nerf, despite giving lots of money for boons, is even worse now because ivy's gun boons are significantly less valuable now. Item prioritization and saving active slots for other items (like blood tribute) is expected to have more value than wasting a slot for a partial uptime of an item like cultist sacrifice.

Ability Point Order

Kudzu Bomb

Watcher's Covenant

Stone Form

Air Drop

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