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Vyper
Slither in and assassinate enemies

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.

Vyper
Slither in and assassinate enemies

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.

Description

an edit of xera's build, heavy on actives

be mindful of how you use blood trib and try to hold onto
your vampiric/split shot cooldowns until it is necessary

updated early game ap, builds a little into spirit damage
early on to give vyper nice burst in lane

Item Build

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_Early

top set preferably in order, bottom set great too but not mandatory

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Imbue

Quicksilver Reload

very strong dagger early on in lane, hard to hit but good poke + good burst damage that could be needed for comps that punish you harder then they do (note dagger falls off hard after like mid game)

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Battle Vest

bullet resist + fire rate + weapon damage + regen wowww look at all those stats

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Close Quarters

more damage up close : )

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Rapid Rounds

fire rate

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Burst Fire

we love sliding, fire rate is very much needed so get as soon as u canb

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Bullet Lifesteal

buy this when you can, save for vampiric

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Monster Rounds

for hard lanes but also saves up for cultist

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Active

Cultist Sacrifice

if you want to farm hard after laning, also fire rate and health! can sell later

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Backstabber

useful, sell later

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Opening Rounds

great for killing and spirit powerrrr, sell later if need slots + want power spike (lucky shot/glass cannon)

Early Situationals

annotations important

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Mystic Burst

extra damage on your dagger, venom, bola... might seem a little excessive but i think its pretty neat for laning (definitely sell this at some point after laning/during mid game)

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Active

Healing Rite

honestly quick healing is really good especially if poke-heavy lane or fighting a lot

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Restorative Shot

preferably sell once you have vampiric burst

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Extra Regen

works really well with battle vest (so much passive healing)

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Spirit Shielding

good vs yamato, talon, burst spirit etc, good to keep for rest of game until spellbreaker/spirit res

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Reactive Barrier

good into lots of stuns, it scales so it's nice

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Extra Health

if you neeeeed it

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Sprint Boots

buy only if you plan to build movespeed/box farm

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Intensifying Magazine

helps with damage early - mid game, helps with objective damage, sell later

Rush these after lane!!

PC Benchmark Vyper Build

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Active

Vampiric Burst

rush this after getting bullet lifesteal, enough bullet lifesteal to mend the healing reduction blood tribute gives, also fire rate

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Active

Split Shot

OPTIONAL!!! PC Benchmark Vyper Build! works well in team fights, lags their game... also works very well with ricochet

damage

more damage good not all needed

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Glass Cannon

more damage option if also positive k/d

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Lucky Shot

more damage option, pick either lucky shot or glass cannon (or both if youre rich lol)

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Point Blank

BIG damage

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Ricochet

split shot gets max stacks easily, more fire rate, venom procs on every1, lifesteal on every1

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Hunter's Aura

if youre taking a lot of 1v1s/looking for quick picks

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Siphon Bullets

if the fights are much longer than they should be get this

movespeed

COULD use

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Active

Blood Tribute

(if you need more active slots dont buy this)fire rate, debuff resist, and move speed are incredibly useful (when you turn this on you can always parry abrams after shoulder charge among other things)

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Enduring Speed

mooove speeeed

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Fleetfoot

makes the build very active heavy (sell split shot if needing slots) but keeps vyper very mobile late game without having to spend too much stamina

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Veil Walker

sustain when nothing is happening on map, movespeed, very useful

Situationals later on

buy depending on game state (i try to have the items youd most likely see yourself needing in the front)bgb

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Counterspell

also VERY useful

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Spellbreaker

late game spirit damage answer, spirit resist AND debuff resist? wow!

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Active

Silence Wave

good item for when youre ahead or need to lockdown characters entirely

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Armor Piercing Rounds

if they have plated armor lol or a lot of bullet resist

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Toxic Bullets

antiheal answer

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Active

Slowing Hex

if you need to lock down movement characters/movement in general answer

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Weighted Shots

debuff resist and some spirit resist

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Plated Armor

if strong gun carry on other team + you have a lot of souls OR against return fire? i think?

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Juggernaut

become more annoying to kill

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Active

Focus Lens

can be useful but expensive, look at the first two first

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Crippling Headshot

bullet shred if needed + for your team too, split shot easily procs it

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Frenzy

spirit heavy comps answer, also useful to become more annoying to kill

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Unstoppable

dynamo, lash, knock-up/stun heavy team and you're getting hit by a lot of those

Ability Point Order

Screwjab Dagger

Lethal Venom

Slither

Petrifying Bola

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