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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

12/21 update: Minor change to build order and back to T3 bolt rush AP order.

Max whatever you feel is best at 29k all 3 choices are viable.

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

Item Build

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_Lane

4.8 spirit invest is nerfed so I dont think its worth straight rushing anymore. Gun items let us clear the wave faster and makes lane significantly easier. Play greedy and try not to rotate too much until you have 7.7k T3 bolt spike.

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Monster Rounds

Our level 1 gun dps is pathetic so this lets us kill troopers easier and not get constantly pushed into

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Healing Rite

Best lane sustain and builds into nova, buy it when you or your lane partner needs it.

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Extra Charge

Try to save your bolt charges for when you drop assistant until you have T2 bolt.

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Opening Rounds

best 1600 gun imo, gives spirit and lets us kill troopers very fast to keep wave prio

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Extra Spirit

Time to finally build spirit items

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Imbue

Mystic Expansion

Makes bolts easier to hit and enables you to farm multiple creeps in a camp with them.

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Rapid Recharge

We buy this here to time it with T3 bolt. Time to one shot people.

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Cultist Sacrifice

Still a busted item and gives ability range. If you're playing active with your team at this point you can delay this and buy the greens instead.

Core Wizard Tools

Usually this order. Can switch out greens for whatever you like based on preference / enemy heroes. Play behind your team as we are not nearly as mobile as before.

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Guardian Ward

Ability range is the best stat, can upgrade this into DB later if the game calls for it. Can switch this out for Healbane / Reactive if the game calls for it.

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Healing Nova

Can switch this out for warp stone or veil walker based on the game. I like this item a lot for the backliner nuking support playstyle.

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Imbue

Surge of Power

Huge damage spike

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Superior Cooldown

More of our op buttons

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Greater Expansion

With this we are up to 53% ability range when cultist is active. Basically makes any ult you steal insane as well as much easier to land rabbits and bolts.

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Boundless Spirit

Huge damage increase to everything. We don't need more damage after this.

Endgame Choices

Read annotations and buy off vibes

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Superior Duration

Really strong for rabbit, items, and most ults you steal.

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Transcendent Cooldown

Don't like getting this until we have full actives.

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Imbue

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Echo Shard

Always broken with max 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.

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Magic Carpet

Yoshi plz buff this item I beg you. The movespeed stacking nerf basically made it so we can't combine this with any other movespeed items :(

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Divine Barrier

Good if getting owned by pocket / drifter / ivy ult. Also good to counter enemy curses on your teammates.

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Diviner's Kevlar

Just a solid item, I rarely buy this but its never a bad choice

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Alchemical Fire

Really good with how much ability range we have. If you have a ton of gun damage on your team this amplifies it a lot.

These items all suck do not buy them.

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Tankbuster

only affects 1 bolt out of the 50 you throw per fight.

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Imbue

Mystic Reverb

Extremely overpriced for how much damage we get from it. stand 4 meters behind your assistant when throwing bolts and you can get double reverb procs on your bolts.

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Spirit Burn

If you need antiheal buy decay / healbane. This item is terrible ever since they made it go on CD from creeps.

Other situational items that sometimes come up

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Healbane

Buy over enchanters if have a bunch of big chungus

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Reactive Barrier

Even with the CD nerf this is still really good for heroes that scale lots of spirit like Sinclair. Good against abrams / bebop / haze / paradox

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Metal Skin

Best anti gun hero item on this hero and often necessary to use seven and warden ults properly. Now that capacitor is nerfed this item is very good.

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Warp Stone

Good escape / mobility tool, really good to enable ults like dynamo / warden

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Veil Walker

Still really good, if you're playing around ult steals a lot this makes it easier to get whatever you want. Also makes ratting walkers easier

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Slowing Hex

Good against the heroes that are hardest to hit with bolt and our worst matchup (calico)

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Decay

Good against tanky cores like geist and shiv

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Disarming Hex

Absurdly strong vs gun heavy lineups.

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Knockdown

If vindicta / gt is popping off this is good

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Curse

The best answer in the game to wraith and seven. I don't really buy it for anyone else.

Ability Point Order

Vexing Bolt

Spectral Assistant

Rabbit Hex

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