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Misdirect and hex enemies

With the help of their unwilling assistant, <i>The Magnificent Sinclair</i> can confuse enemies with curving hexes and rapid bolts.

Sinclair
Misdirect and hex enemies

With the help of their unwilling assistant, <i>The Magnificent Sinclair</i> can confuse enemies with curving hexes and rapid bolts.

Description

5/1 update: Huge change to build now that HP pools are nerfed and trophy collector is the best item in the game. will most likely be updating again soon but I've had a lot of success early in the patch with this.

TWITCH.TV/RAIGEKl (streaming more soon I promise)

Feel free to ask me any questions on the Sinclair discord @RAIGEKI

Item Build

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_EarlyGame

Play the first few waves conservatively and once you get T2 assistant you are strong and want to play for wave priority and bridge control. Get trophy before improved spirit if you think you can get a kill with ult timing. 11k souls is our biggest powerspike and once you have that you should be perma active.

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High-Velocity Rounds

Makes our gun a lot easier and finally builds into a good item

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Extra Charge

Try to save both bolt charges in lane for when assistant is up.

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Opening Rounds

So good now that it has velocity on it. TY yoshi

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Trophy Collector

Most broken item in the game. Get this before improved spirit if you think you can get a kill with your ult right away. play the game super active because this item will carry you.

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Extra Health

Health pools went down but this item didn't. Lets you hit the next investment tier of vitality now that we're also buying trophy collector.

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Rapid Recharge

4.8k spirit spike, should be running around permanently from here.

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Veil Walker

Best item to enable you running around and now it has free sprint on it! Be the UAV for your team you are untouchably fast.

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Enchanter's Emblem

spirit good, 7.2k green spike here makes us very survivable.

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Imbue [E]

Mystic Expansion

Can skip but I like getting this on bolt at this point just for consistency.

Core Items

Skip Carpet if you're behind and skip Trans cd if you skip carpet.

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Magic Carpet

Lets you be literally anywhere on the map at any time and enables so many ults / best bolt positioning possible. Suits the trophy collector playstyle perfectly alongside veil walker. SKIP IF BEHIND!!!

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Imbue [E]

Surge of Power

Big bolt damage increase

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Greater Expansion

Makes everything easier to hit and makes almost every ult better.

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Boundless Spirit

Giga damage and movespeed increase

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Superior Cooldown

More of our op buttons

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Transcendent Cooldown

More abilities, more carpets, max spirit investment.

If dying too much consider one of these.

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Dispel Magic

Buy if they have lots of silences / slowing hexes

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Warp Stone

All around good survivability item and enables a lot of stolen ults

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Counterspell

Really good in specific matchups. I buy this vs Drifter most often so his ult doesn't cc me for 12 seconds.

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Metal Skin

Best anti gun item in the game. Only really buy this if I need it to survive while warden / seven / dynamo ulting or if I'm just getting ran down by gun heroes.

Utility Endgame

Max ult / rabbit / assistant in whatever order you want, with the new ap we will get all of them.

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Alchemical Fire

Gives us 4.8k gun invest right when we get T3 assistant and shreds an insane amount of bullet resist at this point.

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Superior Duration

Good with everything but with the duration on carpet we can delay this till later.

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Imbue [E]

Active

Echo Shard

Always broken with max rabbit. If they have way too much spirit resist or bolts are too hard to hit on their heroes just get this with max bunny and you'll be very high impact.

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Vortex Web

Good in combo with echo and rabbit.

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Scourge

Can throw on your beefiest gorilla against spirit heavy lineups. With greater expansion and sup duration this item is crazy.

Destruction Magic

If you just want damage

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Tankbuster

Not needed early anymore since health pools are so much lower. But you can still get this later with reverb for more damage.

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Imbue [E]

Mystic Reverb

Don't need as much damage this patch as before but this is still the best damage item after all the raw spirit. Stand 3-4 meters behind assistant when throwing bolts to proc this on both.

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Spirit Burn

Only really buy this if you need the antiheal. The damage on this did just get buffed though so it might be better than I usually think.

Ult stuff

Kevlar is op don't ignore it.

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Diviner's Kevlar

My most often bought item after max spirit invest. Just always a solid buy if you don't know what to get.

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Lightning Scroll

I only really buy this vs vindicta to guaranteed rip her out of the sky. You can buy it for seven / warden ults though.

Situationals

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Healing Rite

Buy if you need to survive lane

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Reactive Barrier

Super nerfed and only really buy if you plan on buying indomitable.

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Witchmail

Secret tech vs graves, just run into the zombies and generate infinite tombstones.

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Divine Barrier

If pocket ult is owning one of your carries

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Unstoppable

Only consider this item if you're stealing dynamo / seven ult every fight and are against a lot of interupts. Also buyable if you want to abuse the secret urn teleport technique.

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Indomitable

I think this item is very overrated but I really like it if im stealing bebop ult every fight because it stops him from hooking you out of the sky while hyper beaming.

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Mystic Vulnerability

Good slot filler

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Slowing Hex

Good against stamina fairys

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Disarming Hex

Disgustingly good if teammates are getting fried by their gun heroes. If you're buying for yourself just get metal skin.

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Knockdown

Can buy if getting owned by flyers or channeling ults

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Decay

Can get if against a lot of tanky idiots.

Ability Point Order

Vexing Bolt

Spectral Assistant

Rabbit Hex

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