
With the help of their unwilling assistant, <i>The Magnificent Sinclair</i> can confuse enemies with curving hexes and rapid bolts.
With the help of their unwilling assistant, <i>The Magnificent Sinclair</i> can confuse enemies with curving hexes and rapid bolts.
11/3 update: Change item build order and moved veil walker from core build to optionals.
Feel free to ask me any questions on the Sinclair discord @RAIGEKI
Lots of spirit power and items we need to empower bolt early. Play lane conservatively until you hit 2.6k and get T2 bolt then you should be able to kill or push anyone out. Remember that when you hit 7.5k souls you can one shot anyone.


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Extra Charge
Try to sync dropping assistant with 2 bolt charges until you have t2 bolt. I often solo kill someone on wave 3 with assistant + 2 bolts.


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Monster Rounds
Sit on bridge and instakill their minions right when they drop, our lane is demonic if we have wave prio


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Extra Spirit
Early spirit good


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Improved Spirit
early spirit good


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Enchanter's Emblem
early spirit good


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Rapid Recharge
God tier power spike with t3 bolt


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Sprint Boots
helps rotate around the map / sustain


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Imbue [E]
Mystic Expansion
needed to kill neutral camps with bolt. Learn the T3 lineups in explore map mode.


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Reactive Barrier
If the game enables this you should always buy it. Bebop / Haze / Abrams / Paradox are the main heroes you want this against.
Usually in this order if ahead / even. If you are behind skip carpet and get something cheap like warp stone instead.


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Imbue [E]
Compress Cooldown
more bolts and spirit investment breakpoint. If I need to buy slowing hex I'll buy it in place of this.


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Enduring Speed
Helps you run around and be uncatchable


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Active
Magic Carpet
I know this looks like a troll item but trust me. No item in the game will enable you to land more bolts in fights or use some ultimates better than this item. Also enables split pushing like crazy.


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Greater Expansion
Amazing for bolt / rabbit / actives and almost every ult you steal.


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Superior Cooldown
Get this at this point for optimal spirit investment.


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Boundless Spirit
Giga damage increase to everything. Once you have this you don't really need more damage.
Approaching lategame your item choices can vary a lot. based on enemy lineup either max rabbit or ult next and itemize around that.
This is primarily a PUSHING build. Sinclair is the best walker killer in the game and stacking mobility like we do lets you put crazy map pressure out the entire game while being very hard to catch.
Read annotations and buy off vibes


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Transcendent Cooldown
I don't usually buy this unless I have full actives or am slotlocked.


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Superior Duration
Always a good item at this point in the game. If against some ults like warden or dynamo you can buy this earlier.


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Imbue [E]
Active
Echo Shard
Always broken with max rabbit. If I'm maxing ult before rabbit I usually won't buy this unless it goes extremely late.


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Imbue [E]
Mystic Reverb
If you just want pure damage this is the best item after boundless. Generally overkill though


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Active
Scourge
Can throw on your beefiest gorilla against spirit heavy lineups. With greater expansion and sup duration this item is crazy. Can also pop this on yourself while channeling carpet.


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Active
Curse
Rare buy but against extremely farmed pockets / minas / yamatos its the best item to kill them.


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Active
Alchemical Fire
Scales extremely high with the spirit and aoe we buy


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Active
Divine Barrier
Good if getting owned by pocket / drifter / ivy ult


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Diviner's Kevlar
Just a solid item that will give you more spirit and keep you alive better when stealing ults. Rare buy outside of ultra lategame.
Stuff that sometimes comes up, read annotations


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Active
Healing Rite
best lane sustain option. I buy this most games but if you dominate you can skip it


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Rebuttal
For the cavemen


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Healbane
Good against heal heavy lineups.


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Counterspell
Amazing defensive item against specific spells and gives good stats


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Veil Walker
Still an amazing item and you can buy this in place of carpet or enduring speed if you like. Don't think its as op now to justify every single game like it was before.


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Active
Warp Stone
cheap alternative to carpet and also amazing to enable certain ultimates (dynamo, lash, infernus)


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Active
Metal Skin
Best anti gun hero item on this hero and often necessary to use seven and warden ults properly, we get a good amount of duration from our items so this pulls extra weight.


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Active
Slowing Hex
Needed to kill some elusive heroes. Never upgrade to Vortex.


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Active
Knockdown
Good against Vindicta, Lash, GT, and channeling ultimates like seven / dynamo.


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Active
Disarming Hex
Insane against gun heavy lineups


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Active
Decay
Good vs tanky lineups
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