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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

1/7 update: separated some lategame item choices based on different lategame situations.

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

Item Build

Early Game L-R

Play lane safe and box until 2.8k T2 bolt. 8.8k spike with surge and t3 bolt lets you one shot anyone on the map so try to play greedy until then.

Deadlock Item

I

Monster Rounds

Our level 1 gun dps is pathetic so this lets us kill troopers easier and not get constantly pushed into. Sell if you need a slot later.

Deadlock Item

I

Active

Healing Rite

Best lane sustain by far and makes taking sinners less painful. Sell if you need the slot later.

Deadlock Item

I

Extra Charge

Time to finally do damage. Try to save all your bolt charges for when you drop assistant.

Deadlock Item

I

Extra Spirit

spirit good

Deadlock Item

I

Imbue [E]

Mystic Expansion

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

Deadlock Item

III

Rapid Recharge

4.8k spirit spike, should be able to win any lane from here.

Deadlock Item

III

Imbue [E]

Surge of Power

Crazy damage spike with t3 bolt. You will be one shotting people at this point in the game with this much damage.

Deadlock Item

I

Sprint Boots

You want to be rotating and joining as many fights as possible at this point

Greens

Top 3 every game, bottom 3 are situational but I usually buy atleast 1

Deadlock Item

III

Veil Walker

Really good for rotating, sustaining, and getting whatever ult you want in fights. Good stat stick too

Deadlock Item

II

Enchanter's Emblem

spirit good, swap for healbane if against heavy heal lineups

Deadlock Item

II

Enduring Speed

Works well with how fast we naturally are. puts us at 7.2k green investment

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Warp Stone

By far my most commonly bought out of the next 3 items. Good for positioning and escaping and enabling a bunch of different ultimates.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Metal Skin

Best anti gun item in the game. I really only buy this over warp if they have assassin gun heroes with slowing hex or if I need it to survive while warden / seven / dynamo ulting

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Divine Barrier

necessary buy vs drifter to play your hero. Good against pocket and curses too.

Purps

Get all 4 of these every game, usually in this order

Deadlock Item

III

Greater Expansion

Makes everything easier to hit and makes almost every ult better.

Deadlock Item

IV

Boundless Spirit

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

Deadlock Item

III

Superior Cooldown

More of our op buttons

Utility Endgame

Read annotations and buy off vibes. Max rabbit or ult at 29k based on the enemy lineup.

Deadlock Item

III

Superior Duration

Affects rabbit, actives, and almost every ult you steal. Prioritize this against ults like drifter / warden / dynamo

Deadlock Item

IV

Transcendent Cooldown

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

Deadlock Item

IV

Imbue [E]

Active

Echo Shard

Always broken with max rabbit.

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Scourge

Can throw on your beefiest gorilla against spirit heavy lineups. With greater expansion and sup duration this item is crazy.

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Curse

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

Hard Carry

Team is noob and you have to kill everyone

Deadlock Item

IV

Imbue [E]

Mystic Reverb

Stand 3-4 meters behind your assistant and you can proc this on both bolts.

Deadlock Item

III

Tankbuster

This item is generally terrible but works well with reverb

Deadlock Item

IV

Spirit Burn

If you want antiheal healbane and decay are better. but this is more damage and good against heavy teamwide healers like mcginnis.

Ult mode

Seven / Warden items

Deadlock Item

IV

Diviner's Kevlar

Really strong item if you're target stealing the big ults that require you to be in the enemies face

Deadlock Item

IV

Lightning Scroll

If you can proc this on every person on their team through the big ults its pretty strong and sets up your rabbit too.

Other situational items that can come up

Deadlock Item

II

Active

Guardian Ward

Buy if you plan on building into Divine Barrier.

Deadlock Item

II

Healbane

Buy in place of enchanters if against big healers like mcginnis / kelvin / ivy

Deadlock Item

II

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

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Debuff Remover

Deadlocks BKB. Go to defensive item for basically everyone. I don't buy it because im not weak but if you're getting hatecrimed by silences / slowing hexes its very good.

Deadlock Item

III

Counterspell

I never buy this because im bad with it, but the item is undoubtedly strong against heroes with telegraphed spells you have to avoid like wraith

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Unstoppable

Only consider this item if you're stealing dynamo / seven ult every fight and are against a lot of interupts.

Deadlock Item

II

Active

Slowing Hex

Good against our hardest matchups (calico, lash, mina). Strong in tandem with veil walker to setup ganks on the squishy mobile heroes

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Decay

Good against beef heroes and farms free damage

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Disarming Hex

Very strong vs gun heavy lineups. Good players buy debuff remover though so I usually prefer metal skin but you can protect your teammates with this.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Knockdown

Break glass in case of vindicta / grey talon / lash

PLEASE BUFF :(

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Magic Carpet

The movespeed stacking nerf made this item so much worse when combining with other movespeed items. Buy strictly for fun. Yoshi plz help.

Ability Point Order

Vexing Bolt

Spectral Assistant

Rabbit Hex

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