I

Restorative Shot

Sustain and wave prio. Can skip this if you want.

I

Extra Charge

More knives.

II

Improved Spirit

Damage component. Can sit on this for a while.

II

Active

Cold Front

Wave prio, all in, CC. Sell this later when you need the slot.

I

Mystic Burst

Damage component. Gets you spirit 4800.

II

Healbane

Synergizes very well with shiv's kit.

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

Fortitude

EHP and tempo. Can skip for situational defensives if you need.

III

Active

Warp Stone

Incredible defensive and offensive utility. Lets us be aggressive and teleport back out.

IV

Transcendent Cooldown

Higher dps on torment and more skill uptime

IV

Boundless Spirit

Solid damage item. Upgrade lategame.

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

II

Reactive Barrier

This shits crazy.

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.

IV

Active

Infuser

Sustain

IV

Active

Arctic Blast

CC and burst

IV

Escalating Exposure

Buy into beefy comps

IV

Active

Phantom Strike

Good into flyers and comps you cant get in on easily.

IV

Juggernaut

Gun characters hate this one simple trick

IV

Plated Armor

Great into gun characters who want to proc on hit effects.

IV

Spellbreaker

Very good for keeping you alive against spirit burst.

IV

Witchmail

Good into heavy spirit comps for resetting your cooldowns.

IV

Active

Ethereal Shift

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

III

Bullet Resilience

Buy if the entire enemy team is gun.

II

Enduring Speed

Can buy this instead of spirit/weapon shielding

IV

Active

Curse

Fuck this guy in particular.