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Restorative Shot

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

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Extra Charge

More knives.

II

Improved Spirit

Damage component. Can sit on this for a while.

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Active

Cold Front

Wave prio, all in, CC. Upgrade later or sell for slots.

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Mystic Burst

damage component. Gets us 4.8 spirit

II

Healbane

Synergizes very well with shiv's kit.

III

Fortitude

Better against burst, better sustain.

III

Veil Walker

Stealth + better tempo at the cost of sustain/survival.

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Active

Healing Rite

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

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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

+450 damage with T3 knife. Cheap, solid powerspike

III

Active

Warp Stone

Incredible defensive and offensive utility. Lets us be aggressive and teleport back out. Great for getting in range for ult.

IV

Boundless Spirit

Solid damage spike.

IV

Transcendent Cooldown

Higher dps on torment and more skill/item uptime.

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

Counterspell

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

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Reactive Barrier

This shits crazy.

IV

Active

Arctic Blast

CC and burst

III

Active

Decay

Buy into tank/sustain comps

IV

Escalating Exposure

Buy into beefy comps

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Active

Ethereal Shift

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

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.

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Active

Curse

Fuck this guy in particular.

IV

Active

Phantom Strike

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

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Active

Metal Skin

Must have vs haze/wraith, etc.

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Weapon Shielding

Buy shielding if you want to double up on 1 type of resist for 4800.

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Spirit Shielding

Buy shielding if you want to double up on 1 type of resist for 4800.