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Extra Regen

Regen to help you + builds into heal booster later

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Melee Lifesteal

You can start engaging on people in lane when you have this as you can heal back more of the damage you'd take from charging someone

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Melee Charge

Huge damage incoming with this item + builds into crushing fists. Try to time purchasing this with when you get 2 points into charge.

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Backstabber

Started using it because lystic mentioned it, and it's actually pretty good on melee, ambush people a lot easier + bullet res removal + free poke lane. SELL LATE GAME FOR SLOTS

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Close Quarters

Good damage increase for 800 on your melees and builds into PB later. Can buy earlier if melee enemies in lane

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Extra Stamina

Mostly to negate weighted shots' -10% stamina regen later on but also extra movement, can go KDash or mastery later on

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Spirit Strike

Makes your siphon do more damage. Skippable, only really useful w/ high spirit dmg lane partner

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Active

Healing Rite

1 hp in lane, rescue beam rush nowhere near as good as it was before

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Opening Rounds

If you don't like backstabber being here this is a solid item to replace it with, does good damage. I use the two interchangably.

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Active

Restorative Locket

Sometimes a good buy, especially for ability spam in lane, very good healing

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Rebuttal

Viscous or melee bots in your lane

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Monster Rounds

Clearing waves if you need to clear them fast and go do boxes bc there is no hope of winning ur lane

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Kinetic Dash

Decent choice if you don't want mastery later on, upgrades and helps out gun damage between melees + free reload

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Active

Cold Front

Damage + slow, not entirely needed in this build but another alternative to backstabber

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Active

Slowing Hex

Stops people with movement abilities from using them to get out of your melee range/shuts down certain characters e.g calico, shiv, sinclair etc

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Lifestrike

Beefy healing to help you survive alongside siphon life

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Spirit Snatch

Buffs up your melee damage slightly + siphon life to make you heal even more. You can buy mid game items before this if you want

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Crushing Fists

Biggest damage upgrade, you can start stunning people with 3 consecutive heavy melees. Start heavy meleeing around the map too as it's faster than walking. Can buy mid game items before this too

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Point Blank

Huge damage + upgrade, you can buy early if your team is struggling to get slots for you to buy other items, otherwise you could get later.

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Weighted Shots

Debuff resist, stamina recovery is offset by extra stamina from earlier + good damage/spirit resist

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Active

Debuff Remover

Core active for you to have, cleanses a lot of antiheal getting applied to you or quite a number of negative effects while giving a free heal. DOES NOT CLEANSE ULTIMATE DEBUFFS

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Berserker

bullet res stat + good damage output

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Healing Booster

Buffs up all healing from siphon + lifestrike, skippable if you don't want it however

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Active

Colossus

THICCNESS - be a tanky boy, can also use this to bait parries by heavy melee cancelling (see fleetfoot)

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Stamina Mastery

Extra movement

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Witchmail

Faster buttons on your siphon/charge/ult + spirit res

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Juggernaut

Gun comps w/ fast fire rates

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Spellbreaker

Heavy spirit dmg

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Plated Armor

Bullet procs (infernus/mirage/haze etc) + if people start buying armor piercing rounds

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Superior Cooldown

Faster buttons on all of your abilities, makes charge 11 seconds per one

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Active

Phantom Strike

Take against a comp with a lot of fliers if necessary, 10x better than buying knockdown on Abrams

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Hunter's Aura

If you are taking a lot of isolated 1v1s this is literally free damage and makes you even tougher to take on alone. Aside from that, it's an ok debuff in teamfights, wouldn't prioritise it though.

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Active

Fleetfoot

If you are struggling to bait out other people's parries, you can try using this item. While you're moving in heavy melee, press the active and it will cancel the melee.

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Spirit Resilience

Heavy spirit damage on enemy team

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Active

Rescue Beam

Although rushing this in lane on Abrams may not be worth it anymore, this is still a fantastic item you can occassionally build to save people from being picked + heal yourself

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Healbane

If you need just some antiheal

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Active

Unstoppable

If the enemy team start buying curses or there's just lots of CC in general preventing you from playing the game, pick this up. IT MEANS YOU DON'T GET STUNNED ON PARRY AND CAN JUST HOLD DOWN MELEE

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Active

Warp Stone

Blink to dodge certain abilties like paradox/bebop

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Active

Cultist Sacrifice

This isn't terrible if you are able to be greedy with this and farm. Can sell once you've made profit on it. Purchase at the 8 minute mark if you want the best value from this and eat tier 3 camps

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Counterspell

I don't like this item personally and never buy it but I know some people do so I left it here

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Fortitude

Due to the weapon damage removal I don't think it's worth taking this, but if you find yourself low and needing to re engage a lot you could pick it up I guess?

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Transcendent Cooldown

Luxury purchase if you have nothing else to buy, includes item cooldowns now

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Healing Tempo

Luxury upgrade, do not prioritise unless you've bought everything else or you simply have no slots available.