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.
10/9 update: Few tiny changes to build order and lategame items.
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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High-Velocity Rounds
Crazy item for 800 with the recent buffs. Sell later
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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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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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Imbue [E]
Mystic Expansion
needed to kill neutral camps with bolt
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Imbue [E]
Compress Cooldown
more bolts
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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 everything else then go back for carpet afterwards.
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Veil Walker
Still too good to ignore even with the recent nerfs. Sustain / Map mobility / crazy stat stick all in one.
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Magic Carpet
I'll never forsake you again. be unkillable and everywhere on the map in tandem with veil walker and take the best high ground position in every fight for bolts or stolen ultimates.
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Greater Expansion
Amazing for bolt / rabbit / actives and almost every ult you steal.
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Decay
lots of free dmg and good stats
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Spirit Sap
tons of damage at this point in the game for 1600 and pairs well with decay to make people sad.
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Superior Cooldown
Get this at this point for optimal spirit investment.
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 this patch 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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Boundless Spirit
Giga damage increase to everything. 90% of the time this is the first item I buy from this category
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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]
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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.
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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. Can also pop this on yourself while channeling carpet.
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Transcendent Cooldown
I don't usually buy this unless I have full actives or am slotlocked.
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Diviner's Kevlar
Really strong after the recent buff. just press ult on anyone and get huge spirit / shield
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Spiritual Overflow
Also very strong since the recent buff. I would never buy this before kevlar but if you are in an extremely long game and just want to do crazy damage this item is fine.
Stuff that sometimes comes up, read annotations
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Healing Rite
best lane sustain option. I buy this most games but if you dominate you can skip it
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Counterspell
Amazing defensive item against specific spells and gives good stats
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Rescue Beam
Rare buy but sometimes ultra lategame if you're against heavy pick it can be good.
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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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Warp Stone
Always a decent item, if you are playing around stealing warden / seven / dynamo ults this is good
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Suppressor
broken vs m1 heavy lineups
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Slowing Hex
necessary against some hyper mobile heroes if they are owning your team (lash, mina, dash infernus)
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Knockdown
Good against Vindicta, Lash, GT, and channeling ultimates like seven / dynamo.
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Silence Wave
Can be a good upgrade from sap in some games if they have heroes you need silence to kill.
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Ethereal Shift
broken item that will keep you alive from anything
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Divine Barrier
Good if getting owned by pocket / drifter / ivy ult
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