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 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.
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.
Last Updated: 8/29/25 - Small change to optional path build order, and luckyshot/GC build order
LEFT ---> RIGHT (mostly) ! ! READ ANNOTATIONS ! !
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Extended Magazine
Better than monster rounds for trading with damage, and denying and taking out minions
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Sprint Boots
You can buy this earlier for box running. Otherwise, buy later.
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Enduring Speed
Essential for maintaining high m/s values when slowed, and adding a constant amount as well.
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Rapid Rounds
Little bit more firerate for more Tesla DPS
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Titanic Magazine
Insanely useful for the crazy amounts of ammo this gives you
Buy 1-2
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Restorative Shot
Recently Buffed. Amazing first item due to shop investment bonuses, and a flat 50 heal is insane for sustaining in lane.
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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.
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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.
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Hunter's Aura
Insane Shred potential. Allows you to win 1v1's against other gun characters, allows you to face yamato with ult (preferably with Hollow Point too), shreds viscous ball, and helps with camps.
Left -> Right
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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.
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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
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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.
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Lucky Shot
30% More Damage! Mandatory item for both tanky and gun ivy build paths.
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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.
1 MAX
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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.
Avoid if have trance/veil
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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.
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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)
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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.
Read Descriptions
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Unstoppable
Too many stuns? Great if you are being picked off in fights exclusively due to stuns and cc. Buy at 30k+ souls preferably.
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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.
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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.
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Plated Armor
Insanely good against gun heroes, and ones that apply on hits, such as infernus, haze, and mina.
RARELY buy these, 1 MAX
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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.
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Disarming Hex
Amazing if there is a single gun carry running down your team. (Like a vyper or wraith)
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Silence Wave
Amazing against spirit heroes that are decimating your team (Like Geist)
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Curse
Better silence wave/disarming hex for Ultra Late Game.
Left -> Right
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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