I

Extra Charge

More knives.

II

Improved Spirit

Damage component. Can sit on this for a while.

II

Mystic Shot

Rage, poke, scales well into lategame.

II

Active

Cold Front

Waveclear, burst for trades, decent CC. Can sell later if you need the slot.

I

Mystic Burst

Damage component.

II

Healbane

Synergizes very well with shiv's kit.

II

Spirit Shielding

Can get weapon shielding instead if you need.

II

Reactive Barrier

This shits crazy.

I

Active

Healing Rite

Get this in really heavy poke lanes or to maintain tempo if you're low hp.

I

Monster Rounds

Buy if youre losing lane.

III

Torment Pulse

Core damage item. Rage, damage, farm speed. Overall this is crazy good for Shiv.

III

Tankbuster

Core damage item. Regularly matches Torment damage. Great into just about every comp. Helps farm as it doesnt go on CD on camps.

III

Rapid Recharge

Objective damage, ranged pressure, and helps deal with pesky flyers and longrange degens. T3 knives add +450 damage if you have RR.

III

Active

Warp Stone

Incredible defensive and offensive utility. Lets us be aggressive and teleport back out. Low CD so you can do it multiple times a fight.

III

Superior Cooldown

CD on everything. Upgrade to TCD if youre not struggling to survive.

III

Active

Debuff Remover

Crazy value on the statline and the active is super valuable into 99% of comps. Especially good into heroes that like to apply debuffs like infernus.

III

Active

Metal Skin

Must have vs haze/wraith, etc.

III

Counterspell

Buy into telegraphed heroes like wraith, lash, doorman, etc.

III

Spirit Resilience

Buy if the entire enemy team is spirit

IV

Transcendent Cooldown

Higher dps on torment and more skill uptime

IV

Boundless Spirit

Solid damage item. Buy if slotlocked or you dont need alternatives.

IV

Leech

Buy for sustain if youre skirmishing a lot.

IV

Escalating Exposure

Buy into beefy comps

IV

Active

Arctic Blast

CC and burst

IV

Plated Armor

Great into gun characters who want to proc on hit effects. Buy this shit into infernus ASAP

IV

Juggernaut

Gun characters hate this one simple trick

IV

Active

Ethereal Shift

Incredible survival tool. Heals all of your deferred damage. Synergizes very well with TCD. Anti-hatecrime item.

IV

Witchmail

Good into heavy spirit comps for resetting your cooldowns.

IV

Spellbreaker

Very good for keeping you alive against spirit burst.

II

Active

Return Fire

Decent against heavy gun or haze ults that are problematic. Buy Leech earlier if you buy this.

III

Veil Walker

Buy over warp stone if you like.

III

Bullet Resilience

Buy if the entire enemy team is gun.

IV

Spirit Burn

AOE healcut

IV

Active

Curse

Fuck this guy in particular.