Warden leads from the front, jumping into the fray and hindering his opponents' ability to fight effectively. But what Warden considers brave, others consider reckless, and if he's not careful he can easily find himself in over his head.
Warden leads from the front, jumping into the fray and hindering his opponents' ability to fight effectively. But what Warden considers brave, others consider reckless, and if he's not careful he can easily find himself in over his head.
Description
My own flavour of Ronald's build, with my own insights.
With the way the game works now, your best interest is
to have many spirit items but also spend some
money on vitality items to get a big HP pool,
which this build aims to focus on.
I'm on the official Discord, if you have any questions
Item Build
Laning MUSTS
Sometimes I buy sprint boots instead for boxes
Structures take less spirit damage, so you need your gun to do damage to them. Sold later when in need of slots.
Good early burst, builds into tankbuster. Sell if short on slots
Pick even earlier if you are playing against Warden
Great for damage and the slow is good. Also gives 10% resist. You can sell this for late game options
Laning Heals
Don't get more than 1
Trustworthy and consistent healing
Good for running moving around the map and gets good healing.
Early survivability and good healing if you can fit in punches
Laning Others
For specific situations
Good for adding pressure in lane if you can fit in some punches. Buy somewhat early
If you're good at parries pick it on punchy lanes
Good for moving quicker, doing boxes and healing while doing so
Essentials
2 flex
Good for pushing objectives and taking camps. You can sell this for late game options
Prevalent gun teams mean you will likely need this
Small ticks of damage that keep adding up
Imbue 3 for more healing, imbue 4 if a fight is close and your ult is on CD
Reduces cooldowns significantly, both of skills and items like TP.
Keeps you tanky and gives you good map presence.
Imbue on 1. Gives liefsteal as well as giving damage and slow in a radius, that's pretty good
Good if you can get in punches consistantly, otherwise pick Silence Wave
Longer ult presence, good for big carry gameplay. The combo is Slash, Ult, Slash, Refresh, Slash, Ult, Slash!
You get this when enemies start to have 2.5~3k HP
Mid Others
If you think you need more healing
Great buy against Shiv and heroes with lots of healing
Parry fucking EVERYTHING. OP AS HELL. Get good with this because you will get a lot of use. If you feel you're not good enough for it, buy one of the T3 alternatives
When you're getting tons of debuffs from the enemy team
Compulsory late game for cleansing statuses out of ult, also gives you flat HP
cheap spirit burn for one person + flat HP
Good for your spirit. If you get lots of debuffs and enemy isnt too spirit resist heavy, consider debuff remover instead
Silencing and reducing spirit resist and power, very strong
Late Game Options
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Remove their healing and do more damage. Get it first if the enemy team has a lot of healing.
Against gun heavy enemies. This basically reduces their DPS by 40%.
Pick against enemies with insane ammounts of resists
For extra ult survivability
Pick against teams with lots of quick spirit damage so your cooldowns just are always up.
If the enemy has a big spirit burst hero, you should prio this before other T4s or as your 3rd T4.
Testing
Spirit scaling and the +2 stamina on cast are great for popping after ult, but its range is lacking nowadays.
One of the few items giving move speed, may be better than stamina atp.
15/06/25
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Ability Point Order
Power Slash
Flying Strike
Crimson Slash
Shadow Transformation
1
2
5
1
2
1
2
5
5
1
2
5