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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.

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

The Official hesy sinclair build, 500 games top 5 NA; @hesy. in the sinclair channel
12/2: Update to which items you force for investments and general order of items, dropped surge for investment spikes and added more annotations

Item Build

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_Early

READ ANNOTATIONS, LEFT TO RIGHT!! can get greens when u need them

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Long Range

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Cultist Sacrifice

lots of damage + gun investment + range + soul generation + extra health

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Rapid Recharge

the strongest item possible in this build, single handely sinclairs powerspike NOTHING ELSE MATTERS

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Imbue

Mystic Expansion

can literally aoe every single camp in the game 1 shotting them all, makes bolt virtually impossible to dodge when it actually goes to them, and spirit investment

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Enduring Speed

can replace with guardian ward (or just buy guardian ward later), this item is like lowk mandatory now after slow nerfs

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Majestic Leap

just very strong for fast rotates, a free barrier, positioning, ults, basically anything

Lane Sustain

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Guardian Ward

keep ur laner alive more, ur buying db anyway

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High-Velocity Rounds

just good extra damage

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_Late

read annotations pls

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Imbue

Compress Cooldown

best for bolt now since the 2 TP change, previously assistant so you had more escapability but now you just have ti default

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Boundless Spirit

the final damage item... makes ur damage just so high, scales ur everything, just too good to pass up

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Echo Shard

Max bunny is just so op especially since the range update on this item, and DB being op with curse

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Divine Barrier

keeps you and teammates perma alive, the range is also super nice, just overall strong for the shred meta + keeping ur tank alive

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Curse

hatecrime

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Superior Duration

primarily for items, buy it whenever you want

no slots or if u want

LOOK HERE!!!

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Superior Cooldown

primarily for ult and bunny, assistant is just a plus, having ult on a lower CD now since its patch makes this item much stronger

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Greater Expansion

item is op with ults, i typically will it buy it after maj leap (or sup cd) for things like pocket ult, and especially bunny

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Tankbuster

just good extra damage, max damage is around 150-200, youll never go higher than that with the max health damage, so just buy it if u need the damage

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Imbue

Duration Extender

Primarily for bunny uptime, can put on ult if u have good ults like pocket

End Game

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Warp Stone

best item for dynamo ult, doorman ult, and escapability

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Transcendent Cooldown

since we max actives, this item is crazy strong, typically buy it whenever u want

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Unstoppable

ults are pretty op rn so unstoppable mkaes everything easier

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Imbue

Mystic Reverb

the damage is like good? but its literally never more worth than utility lol if u buy this get tankbuster first

Other 6k Extras

(left to right based on consistency in E6)

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Vortex Web

this item is just unbalanced and has gone completely unnerfed, my go to 6k with max bunny

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Lightning Scroll

for AOE ults like ivy, seven, warden etc

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Diviner's Kevlar

1000 health on ult TAKE not USE (u can literally take haze ult, use it, instacancel it, itll give u ur ult back but proc this)

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Infuser

really only bought for its healing, probably best in seven, warden, and bebop ults but not a priority

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Ethereal Shift

just op asf for the CC meta, typically buy over db in a carry playstyle

Survivability

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Counterspell

Maybe the strongest item in the entire game, just typically quite situational. A dodge for literally any thing in the entire game, I love it for shiv, wraith, lash, etc

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Rescue Beam

insane utility and healing, i almost always buy bc ranked teammates are animals and just a good heal for my carry victor

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Healbane

purely if u need antiheal NOW and cant save for spirit burn, great in heavy healing lanes like abrams, kelvin, geist, victor, etc

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Fleetfoot

since we're buying maj leap not needed, but if u decide to skip maj leap id go this personally

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Slowing Hex

movement lock, ill buy it against mina as early as possible, and pocket, sometimes lash + holliday

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Decay

again buffed, probably fine but just a stat padded item

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Hollow Point

overall again just good damage + supportive

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Spirit Shielding

this item is quite strong for survivability purposes, replace enchanters in that case and can buy it earlier

Ability Point Order

Vexing Bolt

Spectral Assistant

Rabbit Hex

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