I

Extra Charge

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

II

Improved Spirit

Spirit good

III

Rapid Recharge

4.8k spirit spike, should be able to win any lane from here.

II

Enchanter's Emblem

Spirit good

III

Imbue [E]

Surge of Power

Huge bolt dmg increase this early. Can get decay first if against a lot of big chunkers.

I

Imbue [E]

Mystic Expansion

I prefer getting this once I have T3 bolt to be a bit more consistent and faster at killing T2 camps.

III

Veil Walker

Get whatever 3.2k green you think is best at this point. I prefer veil walker the most if I feel like I can get away with it. Play aggressive and look for picks while being the UAV for your team.

III

Active

Decay

Does a ton of damage, scales throughout the game, and gives you an antiheal for the beefy heroes that bolts are worse against. SKIP AGAINST DYNAMO

II

Active

Spirit Sap

Just throw this alongside decay on people and it makes them miserable. Don't upgrade to focus lens that item is junk. SKIP AGAINST DYNAMO

III

Greater Expansion

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

II

Mystic Vulnerability

Good damage boost and the best 1600 for spirit investment. If you got slowing hex you can skip this.

IV

Boundless Spirit

Between the nerfs to spirit investment and boundless itself I dont think its worth it to rush this anymore but at this point it gives us a ton of damage.

III

Superior Cooldown

More of our op buttons

III

Superior Duration

Makes most of our abilities and items better and benefits almost every ult in the game.

III

Active

Dispel Magic

Most often thing im buying from this category. Theres a ton of slowing hexes and silence waves running around right now. Also good for debuff heroes like mirage / drifter / infernus.

III

Counterspell

Really good in specific matchups. I buy this vs Drifter and Lash most often.

III

Active

Warp Stone

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

III

Active

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 they have a paint licker ult haze.

IV

Transcendent Cooldown

I don't usually buy this until I have full actives

IV

Active

Magic Carpet

Still an amazing item but really hard to buy this early unless you are ahead. Turns you into a pseudo pick hero when combined with veil walker and max bunny lategame and enables bebop / lash ults.

IV

Imbue [E]

Active

Echo Shard

Always broken with max rabbit. You can default to this and max rabbit every game and it will always be high impact.

IV

Active

Scourge

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

IV

Active

Divine Barrier

If pocket or drifter ult are owning you or your team.

IV

Spirit Burn

Scales with spirit now and decay usually procs this on its own. Also the best way to stack escalating if you buy that.

IV

Imbue [E]

Mystic Reverb

Stand 3-4 meters behind ur assistant and you will proc this on both bolts.

IV

Escalating Exposure

Not the best item on this hero but stacks off spirit burn / scourge / assistant and can be good if you're stealing seven ult every fight.

IV

Diviner's Kevlar

Really strong item if you're target stealing the big ults that require you to be in the enemies face

IV

Lightning Scroll

I think this item is generally pretty poor but its buyable if you have kevlar already and are stealing seven / warden / mcginnis ult. Specifically very good with Vindicta ult.

I

Monster Rounds

Get this against heavy pressure lanes or if your lane partner is playing super aggro and its your job to kill the troopers.

I

Active

Healing Rite

Get this if you need it to play the lane. Helps you sustain while taking sinners too.

I

Rebuttal

For Viscous and cavemen.

II

Reactive Barrier

Good against heroes that have to proc it to kill you.

II

Enduring Speed

I dont really buy this but it can be very good if they have a bunch of heroes with slows

III

Spirit Resilience

If you're only dying to purple damage

IV

Witchmail

Secret tech vs graves, just run into the zombies and generate infinite tombstones. Also procs on every scarab tick against mirage lategame.

IV

Active

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.

II

Active

Slowing Hex

Good against our hardest matchups (calico, lash, mina, apollo). Strong in tandem with veil walker to setup ganks on the squishy mobile heroes

III

Active

Disarming Hex

This item can be really crazy lategame when you have superior duration and trans cooldown. otherwise I generally prefer metal skin to survive vs gun heroes.

III

Active

Knockdown

if vind / gt or a channeling ult like seven / mcginnis is owning your team.