With a powerful weapon (and deadly venom to match), Vyper can slither into the back of teams and assassinate high-priority targets in a storm of bullets.
With a powerful weapon (and deadly venom to match), Vyper can slither into the back of teams and assassinate high-priority targets in a storm of bullets.
Carry Ivy Gun Build. Start by scaling, stealing/invading farm with maxed kudzu, transition into a gun carry, and then
become a teamfight god with debuffing into the late game.
For questions, contact @Highdocker on discord. Valid since the 5/8/25 Shop Rework Update.
Last Updated: 7/4/2025 - Updated for the catastrophe fleetfoot removal from ivy, and massive fortitude nerf.
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Extended Magazine
Very high value first item for ivy, helps with ivy's terrible ammo problem, and gives a little damage. Helps you deny and adds a tiny bit of lane pressure.
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Close Quarters
[!]> IMPORTANT <[!] Buy only if you are going to purchase POINT BLANK instead of HOLLOW POINT WARD mid game.
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Tesla Bullets
Insanely good item. Significantly accelerates your farming speed, adds good hero damage output, and scales well with firerate. Gives you a huge early game powerspike, but it falls off post-30k souls
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Fleetfoot
IVY NO LONGER HAS BUILT IN FLEETFOOT!!! Thus this item is now needed.
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Sprint Boots
Great for box runs, but more importantly getting around the map in general. Pays itself back with roaming.
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Titanic Magazine
With Tesla Bullets, you will be capable of doing great trades with a large magazine, and allow you to farm significantly faster.
Buy up to 2 if needed
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Healing Rite
Best item to buy in a bad lane. Sprint speed that it gives makes it remain useful even after laning phase for roaming. Great for quickly recovering in lane. Do a box run while riting, dont miss wave.
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Heroic Aura
Insanely powerful item right now. Sprint speed and movespeed values are INSANE for roaming and fights. Gives resistances for you and your team, and firerate for more damage.
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Enduring Speed
Insane item on gun ivy, as you want to be sliding constantly to save ammo as you farm/fight, and it also helps you catch up. Movement slow resist is also great in general.
PICK ONLY 1
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Hollow Point
Generally offers more overall dps than point blank does. Great against Ulted Viscous/Yamato, and other high resist characters. The resist shred lasts long (8s), which is good after being low (<65% hp)
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Point Blank
Offers slightly less overall damage and no shred compared to Hollow Point, HOWEVER, it builds from a powerful item (Close Quarters) and offers movement slow, which can let you skip Slowing Bullets
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Burst Fire
Great item for boosting raw damage, giving you well... more "Burst" damage. Has a lot of raw firerate that is amazing for short engagements/fights.
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Glass Cannon
Big powerspike, I almost ALWAYS build this. This item will give you absolutely stupid dps output if you get kills and stacks. If you keep dying and have 0 stacks, this item is still generally ok.
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Lucky Shot
Buffs your gun damage output by ~30%. INSANE DAMAGE powerspike.
Buy AT LEAST 1.
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Debuff Remover
Lots of debuffs on the enemy team? This item is generally great against all characters. Mo ult, Infernus burn, Stuns, literally almost everything. Grab this if you are struggling with debuffs.
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Spirit Resilience
Very good survival item. Lets you live a lot longer after being bursted down by several spirit heroes. Works great if you have lots of sustain items (Like vampiric burst, or siphon bullets)
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Escalating Resilience
Lots of raw gun damage hurting and killing you? this item gives a lot of different good stats, and will let you generally take less damage from gun.
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Inhibitor
Prioritize over silencer always. UNBELIEVABLE damage reduction is what this item gives, amazing for neutering seven ults, gun carry damage, and other carries. Also antiheals.
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Ricochet
This item is the beggining of when your DPS build transitions into a Teamfight debuff build. By itself, adds dps and farming potential. It allows you to proc inhib/silencer/toxic/slow on enemies.
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Silencer
This item will reduce all spirit damage of any enemy, combined with inhib, makes spirit heroes do almost no damage. Also silences, which provides insane utility.
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Disarming Hex
Amazing if there is a single gun carry running down your team. (Like a vyper or wraith)
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Silence Wave
Amazing against spirit heroes that are decimating your team (Like Geist)
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Capacitor
Good if viscous cube is annoying, and you need to slow people down to a halt, or interrupt certain buffs from enemies.
Buy Accordingly.
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Unstoppable
Too many stuns? Great if you are being picked off in fights exclusively due to stuns and cc. Buy at 30k+ souls preferably.
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Spellbreaker
Base stats are useful. Particularily useful against heavy single-burst heroes, like grey talon arrow, lash stomp, yamato slash. Preferably buy this in a case where you could use the debuff resist too.
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Plated Armor
Insanely good against gun heroes, and ones that apply on hits, such as wraith, infernus, vyper.
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Juggernaut
Great stats. Alright against melee heavy comps, and amazing if enemy team has several gun carry heroes like wraith and vyper.
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Colossus
Provides significant survivability. Good if you are being targeted in teamfights, or you are running siphon.
Can be good, read descriptions to see if they are good in your match.
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Active Reload
Can be a good alternative to intensifying magazine. Unlike it, buy this right after tesla, instead of after titanic/fortitude. This is because super early firerate and lifesteal is super useful.
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Crippling Headshot
If your in super late into the game (50-60k+ souls) sell Hollow Point for this item, espescially if low on flex slots.
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Vampiric Burst
This item is good IF there is minimal CC/Stuns on the enemy team, and they have not built spirit burn yet. Unstoppable is a FAR better choice otherwise.
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Fortitude
Look what they did to my boy... (this item got giga nerfed. If you cant handle veil walker, use this instead for health and sustain.)
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