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Silver

Silver

Description

Build designed to dominate the mid game, as silver you job is to get wave > fight > repeat since your tower damage isnt good enough to justify constantly split pushing and your kit isnt suited to clearing the jungle. Keep in mind that you need to keep up with the damage to proc lycan and you are a bruiser when you enter lycan so you also need to be tanky so you dont want to be building that many counter/support items. Major spikes: ult unlock, T3 1 and 4, T2 2, Inhibitor, Most T4s

Item Build

Laning

WE GO LEFT TO RIGHT WE DONT THINK

If youre in hell

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Active

Healing Rite

EMERGENCY ITEM

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Slowing Bullets

Gives everything silver wants, this is better against opening rounds against mobile targets

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Battle Vest

Optional, should be the first to go for slot, if you really need to win lane

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Rebuttal

Really good when its good, useless when its bad, buy against viscous or melee characters

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Spirit Shielding

If youre getting nuked repeatedly or youre against vyper

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Monster Rounds

If waves are constantly at your tower, if youre really behind by the time laning ends upgrade this into cultists

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Enchanter's Emblem

If you really need spirit res that bad

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Restorative Shot

Sustain if you can hit it, I dont think its that good though

If gun carries are a problem or theres a haze on the enemy team [This category is here purely for symmetry and I wanted to put something in it]

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_MidGame

Vaguely left to right, you should be willing to fuck around with your build more atp though

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III

Stamina Mastery

Massive buff to your chase and rotation speed, you NEED this item to keep up. Also keep in mind people will try to run from you the moment you proc your ult because they are terrified of the wolp

Deadlock Item

III

Hollow Point

Massive damage and a bit of shred, you should be able to proc your ult 100% of the time with this and express shot until way later

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Express Shot

Still testing but I think its compy

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III

Active

Warp Stone

The last item Id consider really "Core" to the build, after this youre alot freer to build whatever you want

Deadlock Item

III

Hunter's Aura

Makes you take less bullet damage and isnt resists, also shreds bullet resists

Deadlock Item

IV

Lucky Shot

So much fucking damage do not discount this item, However this item is basically placeholder for any T4 item, Lucky Shot is just the most generically good and worth rushing imo

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Berserker

Its free damage

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Debuff Reducer

Builds into unstoppable or spellbreaker

Situational

Note that situational DOESNT mean ignore, generally youre gonna want at least like 2 situational items every game

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Counterspell

Against telegraphed CC and executes (ie: shiv, holliday, geist if youre goated) (DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST VENATOR ULT GUN DAMAGE, IT ONLY COUNTERS THE TRUE DAMAGE KEEP THIS IN MIND)

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III

Active

Dispel Magic

Debuffs that are annoying you (haze fixation, infernus in general, disarms, silences)

Deadlock Item

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Toxic Bullets

Silvers bullets have really fucked build up percentages for some reasons, read how much this item builds up per shot

Deadlock Item

II

Active

Slowing Hex

Mina, Pocket, Lash, Shiv, Calico, etc. Dashes are bad for you, stop them

Deadlock Item

IV

Glass Cannon

If youre annihilating the enemy team and not dying, want to build this as early as possible if you're getting it, Im thinking about moving this to core but I need to try it more

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Active

Return Fire

High fire rate characters will give you free ult and when you get resists they are punished for shooting you which is good since youre a big target in ult

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Active

Knockdown

Against fliers or movement demons like celeste

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Trophy Collector

If youre annihilating the enemy team

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Enduring Speed

Against slows and or for rotations

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Spirit Resilience

Resist items arent as good on you because of how it stacks with your ult, youre better off getting things that reduce characters outgoing spirit damage but this works if you REALLY need it

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III

Bullet Resilience

Bad item, if their entire team is gun though its still good

Choose One

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IV

Active

Unstoppable

When you get lycan you will become public enemy number 1 and CC really hurts you

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IV

Spellbreaker

If youre getting oneshot by spirit

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_LateGame

Left is more generally useful but you should aim to be more versatile late

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Inhibitor

Get earlier when losing, generally damage reduction > resistances since stacking resists is bad

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Silencer

If youre getting shredded by spirit damage or problematic abilities are locking you down get this

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IV

Active

Scourge

The spirit res is too much to ignore and %health damage is never bad, if they arent buying bullet resists you can get this later or if theyre maxing bullet res get it early

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Active

Vampiric Burst

Pop this when you enter wolf or when youre just about to hit it and heal to full

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Active

Colossus

Resists good, slows good

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Active

Phantom Strike

Dive anyone at the press of a button

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Frenzy

The only T4 worth rushing on this character, if youre losing get inhibitor instead

Notably Situational Late Game

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Juggernaut

Annihilate their fire rate

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IV

Witchmail

Good spirit res and makes your 1 a 1 second cooldown

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IV

Active

Arctic Blast

If you need the CC or theres like a mina or theyre building alot of bullet res etc, theres alot of reasons to want this item but not enough for it to be core. Use your judgement

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IV

Armor Piercing Rounds

If they have metal skin or alot of resistences this breaks through

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Plated Armor

Buy after alot of resists, counters gun carries

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Spellslinger

Really good in base form, in lycan its kind of mediocre I think

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IV

Active

Ethereal Shift

If youre getting hate crimed, this plus unstoppable makes it so you dont get one shot

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Spiritual Overflow

This effectively reads (+ fire rate, + fire rate, + cooldown reduction) its not bad if you can proc wolf easily and consistently, spirit lifesteal is irrelevant though

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Active

Cursed Relic

For if youre literally useless and like 0/20/5, curse turns you into a goated support its that good

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Crippling Headshot

If you need shred that badly, this isnt the best since you cant proc it in ult but its 12 seconds

Test

Ordered from most potential to least potential, if you use any of these dm me on twitter @DeadlockSilver so I can gather data

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Extra Spirit

Might be compy as fuck

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Imbue

Quicksilver Reload

Might even be lane core now

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Imbue

Surge of Power

New scalings on 2 might make this compy

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Imbue

Mercurial Magnum

Might actually be really good now

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Transcendent Cooldown

Less cooldown is nice and we build some actives, unsure how good it actually is though

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Diviner's Kevlar

1000 barrier isnt anything to scoff at but spirit power doesnt do that much for us

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III

Active

Cultist Sacrifice

Havent tested yet, the stats are really nice except for ability range and more money helps us keep up with wolf damage percentage

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Active

Focus Lens

Could end up being a good spirit damage reduction item

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Spirit Snatch

Could be useful to reduce spirit damage idk

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Kinetic Dash

Used to be core in an earlier version of the build but it doesnt do enough in wolf form takes our extra stam making it harder to build stam mastery, still has potential though

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Siphon Bullets

Maybe against mo or something

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Headhunter

NO WOLF SILVER

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Veil Walker

Could be good you like most of what it gives you

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Healing Tempo

Builds out of healing booster and gives stats you want, I dont know if its worth 6.4k though

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Crushing Fists

Bait item, might have some use though

Ability Point Order

Slam Fire

Boot Kick

Entangling Bola

Lycan Curse

1

2

1

1

2

5

2

5

1

2

5

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