Timely heals and splitting a teamfight properly is the difference between an easy victory or a ruinous defeat. Gliding around slowing enemies gives Kelvin's team the maneuvering advantage to make this happen.
Timely heals and splitting a teamfight properly is the difference between an easy victory or a ruinous defeat. Gliding around slowing enemies gives Kelvin's team the maneuvering advantage to make this happen.
Description
Kelvin, in my opinion, is up there with Seven as one of the characters best equipped to win economically.
This build, in my experience, can very succesfully keep a wide economic lead over your opponents and enable you to buy a swathe of high tier items to keep you alive and make them dead - so long as you make the effort to online Trophy Collector early.
Item Build
Lane
Left to right for categories marked non-optional. Lets get this bread.
Great sustain in lane.
$$$
If they are low in lane, or you are winning lane hard, buy this now. Otherwise, grab before Enduring Speed.
If you play your cards right, it'll pay for itself twice over. Range, speed, and money - what more could you want for a beam Kelvin?
Armors
Buy if their team is skewed.
Midgame
Pick a side of the map and push its lanes constantly. Help teamates that are winning fights to farm assists.
Beam to start.
Choose 1
Can get more later if needed. Or rich.
Helps sustain, especially once it becomes leech. If your team has damage mostly covered, go here.
Free extra 8% damage. Escalating is a waste until you have literally nothing else to buy, so don't rush upgrading.
If their team is very gun focused, a very good pickup.
Optional Counters 1
An actually hilarious item. Atomizes melee builds for like, 3$. Buy if they've got a melee guy giving you trouble.
Useful on its own sometimes but you'll just upgrade most of the time.
Bomb bebop? Infernus setting you on fire? Just say no!
BURN
Once you have spirit burn, you are really online. Control the teamfights, avoid 1v1s.
Extremely important item. Your gun damage is terrible so you rely heavily on spamming abilities.
Stacks like crazy in a teamfight. You won't go down easy while your beam is up.
Optional Counters 2
30m you-no-longer-get-to-play. Extremely versatile. And tilting.
Go down please, only *I* am allowed to be up super high (Vin, Talon mostly).
For when Warden/Yamato/Geist is getting a little too uppity.
High End Tanking
As beam falls off you transition to a tank. Which you buy first depends on enemy but I always buy both before moving on to luxruy T4s.
High End Spirit Tanking
Nobody's allowed to be fat except me. Punish their big health bars (Shiv, Abrams, Yamato).
Sticking this on yourself and icepathing into the enemy team always scatters them. Not a lot of damage but the crowd control is impressive. Price is a bit high so don't feel obligated.
TOO MUCH MONEY
If you've run out of T4s above, I'm sorry for how long your match is going. Heres some extras.
Extremely good item but I always forget to hit the button : (
Not particularly useful but really, really funny. 4.5 seconds is a pretty damn long time in a teamfight.
Really just in here for the hell of it. Sucks pretty badly on Kelvin IMO but if you have *nothing* else to buy...
Category 14
Ability Point Order
Frost Grenade
Ice Path
Arctic Beam
Frozen Shelter
1
2
1
2
5
1
2
1
2
5
5
5