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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

This build focuses damage on the Vexing Bolt.
Use rabbit when you can, and always use the assistant
before shooting the bolts.

Pick whatever abilities to max after the bolt is maxed and the other 3 have 2 points each.

Item Build

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_Early

Deadlock Item

I

Monster Rounds

This just makes killing minions so much easier.

Deadlock Item

I

Active

Healing Rite

Pick up if you need lane sustain, buy later for farming if you dont need immediately.

Deadlock Item

I

Extra Spirit

Spirit = love

Deadlock Item

I

Imbue

Mystic Expansion

Once you buy this you can clear most neutral camps early game.

Deadlock Item

III

Rapid Recharge

Key item, nothing better on this character.

Deadlock Item

II

Arcane Surge

Stamina is nice and we get good stats for our abilities, dont use for bolt, it doesnt work on it because of redirect.

Deadlock Item

III

Trophy Collector

ITS BACK BABY, I love this item. Straight dopamine anytime we get a stack. Good stacks and range bonus. Make sure to rotate to fights for stacks.

Core

Pivot after cooldown for support if needed

Deadlock Item

III

Veil Walker

Good speed, heals, and spirit power. Enables us faster and safer rotations.

Deadlock Item

II

Enchanter's Emblem

Good cheap spirit resist and buffs. Buy Healbane instead against multiple healing enemies.

Deadlock Item

III

Greater Expansion

This boosts all of our abilities use cases, goated item.

Deadlock Item

IV

Boundless Spirit

Big damage bonus, spirit is just good on this character.

Deadlock Item

III

Superior Cooldown

Cooldowns are great :)

Deadlock Item

IV

Imbue

Mystic Reverb

This is a great item for damage and lifesteal. Pairs well with tankbuster but tankbuster can be skipped for more util.

Deadlock Item

III

Superior Duration

Good for rabbit builds and longer assistants, skippable if rolling and dealing enough damage.

Deadlock Item

III

Tankbuster

Only grab if you get Reverb.

Utility / Support

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Alchemical Fire

Great buy with our spirit invest and ability range.

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Vortex Web

Throw this, then proc rabbit at its epicenter. Have assistant throw an orb during this for a massive damage burst.

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Divine Barrier

Great against Pocket / Drifter / Bebop. Remember cooldown is half when used on a teamate.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Disarming Hex

If the team is getting rolled by a Haze/Vyper/Wraith/etc pick this up.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Knockdown

Great buy against Vindicta / Talon / Lash. Combo with rabbit.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Rescue Beam

Great passives, good against assassin/pick enemy comps.

Deadlock Item

IV

Imbue

Active

Echo Shard

If we need to pivit to support, get this 6.4k item first for rabbit.

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Scourge

Throw on your tank against spirit comps.

Deadlock Item

IV

Transcendent Cooldown

Pick this up if we have a lot of actives.

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Magic Carpet

Movement + Spirit Power + Duration = Win. Use it to find and steal a good ult.

Ult Focused

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Unstoppable

If you focus on Dynamo or Lash ults and the enemy team has counters to you.

Deadlock Item

IV

Diviner's Kevlar

Item procs when you copy, not when you use a copy so use it for spirit power before engaging.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Majestic Leap

Use to get in for ults, place assistant beforehand for escape.

Deadlock Item

II

Mystic Slow

Use to keep enemies inside of ults like Warden / Bebop / McGinnis / etc.

Worried About Gun?

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Metal Skin

Best bullet res item. Works well with duration extend.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Warp Stone

Useful for some bullet res and the warp is a nice bonus.

Deadlock Item

II

Suppressor

Good against high gunfire enemies.

Deadlock Item

I

Active

Rusted Barrel

Consider buying in firerate heavy lane phases.

Worried About Spirit?

Deadlock Item

IV

Witchmail

Witchmail is goated for getting abilities back for sinclair.

Deadlock Item

IV

Spellbreaker

Take this if the enemy team has high burst spirit or a lot of debuff.

Deadlock Item

II

Mystic Vulnerability

Cheap spirit resist and shred so why not?

Deadlock Item

IV

Escalating Exposure

OP item, use the assistant to stack up on enemies then send in vexing orb for a massive burst. Buy against high resistance teams.

Counter Items

Deadlock Item

II

Healbane

Don't let them heal.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Decay

Very good against tanks

Deadlock Item

IV

Spirit Burn

Take this if the enemy team has a lot of healing. If you take this go for escalating or alchemical as well.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Dispel Magic

Needed against Bombop or Curse.

Deadlock Item

III

Counterspell

I suck at using this item so I rarely get it, but its useful.

Timeout Corner

Im testing not having these but still great buys

Deadlock Item

III

Imbue

Surge of Power

Testing getting Arcane Surge over this as its cheaper and gives us stamina plus more stats for the other abilities.

Deadlock Item

II

Enduring Speed

Pick this up over trophy of the lane/game is rough.

Ability Point Order

Vexing Bolt

Spectral Assistant

Rabbit Hex

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