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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

2/6 update: Early build changes to drop surge of power and pick up arcane surge instead. Sinclair very op right now steal tombstones win games.

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. 7.7k spike with T3 bolt lets you one shot most heroes on the map or take any of the tightly packed T3 camps on the map.

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.

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

III

Rapid Recharge

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

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

II

Arcane Surge

Quite a good item now especially with some of the new ults.

Deadlock Item

I

Sprint Boots

You want to be moving around the map and either joining fights or killing T3s at this time.

Greens

These are good every game, buy additional greens like warp stone or metal skin if you need more survivability

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

Buy 1

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Warp Stone

All around best survivability item and enables a lot of ults

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

Purps

Get all 4 of these every game

Deadlock Item

IV

Boundless Spirit

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

Deadlock Item

III

Greater Expansion

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

Deadlock Item

III

Superior Cooldown

More of our op buttons

Deadlock Item

III

Superior Duration

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

Utility Endgame

Read annotations and buy off vibes. Max rabbit or ult at 30k based on the enemy lineup.

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. You can default to this and max rabbit every game and it will always be high impact.

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

Magic Carpet

Still mostly for fun but I like it when im against graves so I can steal tombstone off cooldown easier.

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Cursed Relic

I never buy this because it says reduced damage and im not about that life. but it is a good item if you absolutely need to lock down one guy.

Hard Carry

Team is noob and you have to kill everyone

Deadlock Item

IV

Imbue [E]

Mystic Reverb

Better with the lifesteal changes! stand 3-4 meters behind ur assistant and you will 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 atleast the damage on this scales now.

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. Also works with vindicta ult now!

Situationals that sometimes come up.

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

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

Divine Barrier

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

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

if vind or gt is owning ur team

Deadlock Item

II

Opening Rounds

Can buy this + sharpshooter if you want to target steal venator ult (not recommended but funny)

Deadlock Item

III

Sharpshooter

See opening rounds

Ability Point Order

Vexing Bolt

Spectral Assistant

Rabbit Hex

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