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Lane - Mystic Slow should be purchased just before you unlock Heavy Barrage and its AP1 upgrade. That gives you a $1600 budget for items beforehand. Consider a Light Armor after Mystic Slow.

1) Lane

Survive until ult, combine with mystic slow and wall for ez kills

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Golden Goose Egg

egg :3 (sell when out of space or around 1500-2000 value)

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Extra Spirit

Improved specter regen and ult damage

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Mystic Slow

Pair with AP1 upgrade on Heavy Barrage. Good wall-off plus this = easy/free kill in lane

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Imbue [E]

Mystic Expansion

Only strictly necessary if the enemy has a lot of long range / flying types

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Improved Spirit

Boundless Spirit is an important purchase later on, and this is a good stepping stone to it.

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Extra Charge

Moar turret.

1) Light Armor

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Battle Vest

Good with Monster Rounds for farming

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Enchanter's Emblem

High priority vs Apollo, Shiv, etc.

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Reactive Barrier

Remains relevant throughout most of the game, especially once you get Boundless Spirit

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Mid Game - Farm and maintain lanes while ult is on cooldown, look for kills with ult. Place turrets outside of Walker range and use them to support anyone attacking Walker.

2) Turret Wants

Delay for (3) when necessary

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Spirit Shredder Bullets

Turrets need shred now they don't have raw dps

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Heroic Aura

4800 orange boost, + much better turrets and stronger lane pushing w/ troopers

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Imbue [E]

Compress Cooldown

Get after Echo Shard

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Superior Cooldown

Get if you're ulting a lot

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Mystic Vulnerability

for when they buy spirit resist, otherwise delay

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Imbue [E]

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Echo Shard

Less needed in the Age of Spam, but still nice

2) Turret Core

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Rapid Recharge

It's all about the turret spam, baby, go turrets, love the turrets, go Knicks

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Boundless Spirit

Aim to get this around when you're about to max ult

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Situational Counters: After Heroic Aura, look to which enemy is doing the most damage, grab one item to counter, then use your judgement to complete 2 & 4 or shop more from here.

3) Anti-Bullet

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Disarming Hex

"awooo" no. bad doggy

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Plated Armor

The omega Anti-Haze item. And Infernus. And Mirage. and Mina.

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Juggernaut

Upgrade from Suppressor if you have it, also good vs Kelvin and good for ulting

3) Anti-Spirit

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Spirit Resilience

Get early if they're running heavy spirit damage

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Witchmail

This is your cooldown item if you're building Tanky instead of damage

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Spellbreaker

Anti-burst with a touch of cc resist

3) Utility

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Knockdown

If you were hanging your hat on wall stun, get this

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Stamina Mastery

BUCKET BUFF IT'S TIME TO GO FLYING AGAIN

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Late Game - Grab these when not shopping from 3.

4) Finishers

Sell lower tier items if you're out of space

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Greater Expansion

Big ult. Sniper turret. Beeg.

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Transcendent Cooldown

Once you have at least two items with cooldown, this is great.

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Lightning Scroll

Natural mystic slow upgrade

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Escalating Exposure

More consistent turrets means easier stack application

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Spirit Rend

Can you aim? Are they CC'ing you out of ult and you don't want to buy Unstop? This.

EGO

For questions or feedback, find me on the Deadlock discord or twitch.tv/zippydasquirrel

Current Experiments

Items I'm playing with this current patch to see how viable they are

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Radiant Regeneration

Got buffed, turrets more spammable, maybe?? Needs space

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Imbue [E]

Ballistic Enchantment

Maybe could fix weaker gun?

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Tesla Bullets

gun weak, go to On Hit build. Look up lileigh or duke fishlord

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Capacitor

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Spirit Lifesteal

I WANT THIS TO FIT SO BAD BUT IT NEVER DOES AAAA

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Monster Rounds

Get vs Rem, Graves

Final Thoughts / Update Notes

11 March: Adjustments based on games I've played. Ult nerfed, oh well, still strong. Hate Viscous, should probably re-add Anti-Melee cat. Will think on it. ok bai \\\\\ 6 March: WHOA MCGINNIS REWORK FOR MORE TURRET SPAM YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS -- I gots TESTING to do! Here's the initial thought changes: Gun hella weak, considering readding imag or titanic mag. Wall turrets funny as hell, mystic slow that much more useful now. No more stuns or stamina drain means CC much more important, so replaced Anti-Melee cat with Utility cat. BUCKET 3->2 MEANS STAMINA MASTERY BACK ON THE TABLE!!! More changes to occur over the weekend as I adapt to all patch changes. Stay tuned. \\\\\ 4 March: I hit Eternus 1 :3 Replaced Escalating Resilience with Disarming Hex. Felt more in line with the whole spirit build vibe. Removed all wall upgrades but ap1, maxxing specter faster.