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Monster Rounds

Warden thrives in lane by shoving waves fast and pressuring tower while poking with flask. This is instrumental in killing waves quickly.

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Extra Regen

Sustain, no strings attached.

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Imbue

Quicksilver Reload

The first step to gun-flask synergy; greatly increased poke damage in lane, and a free reload.

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Extra Stamina

Additional mobility.

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Arcane Surge

A vital core item for warden that buffs all of his abilities greatly at all stages of the game, especially his ultiamte. Sellable late, if push comes to shove.

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Active

Cultist Sacrifice

Roaming farm enabler. Use this to sneak enemy camps and then take fights with Last Stand utilizing the buffs it provides. Sellable into lategame.

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Active

Fleetfoot

Core mobility item. Use for rotations, chases, and escapes.

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Imbue

Mercurial Magnum

Extremely powerful gun steroid which scales well with spirit and fire rate; the fulcrum of this build. Try not to delay, rush if possible.

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Radiant Regeneration

Vital spirit scaling sustain item that does not rely on damage dealt like lifesteal to be valuable. Spam flasks when rotating to recover health.

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Healing Booster

Significantly improves the sustain of Radiant Regen and Last Stand.

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Toxic Bullets

Now scales with spirit! Huge boost to DPS against tanky targets, as well as inhibiting healing.

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Spirit Shredder Bullets

Slight shred and lifesteal for slightly more one-sided fights. Decent damage boost post MercMag and Toxic.

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Imbue

Compress Cooldown

More frequent ults.

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Healing Tempo

Significant boost to Magnum DPS and movespeed, for stronger ults and more dominant positioning.

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Spirit Rend

Extremely strong shred item. Up to -36% Spirit Resistance with consistent headshots!

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Superior Cooldown

More frequent everything. Non-trivial boost to Flask DPS.

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Mystic Slow

Stronger chases, and builds into Scroll mid-late.

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Lightning Scroll

Become your team's battering ram. This is good for interrupting a lot of crap accidentaly while you push with ult.

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Spiritual Overflow

Sip from the chalice of Lean. Absurd gun and flask DPS boost, with extra sustain built in.

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Boundless Spirit

The most consistent way to increase your general damage. Makes everything better. Buy its components earlier if a slot is avaliable. If you need another situational T4, don't buy this.

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Transcendent Cooldown

More frequent everything, including items. Very strong for Radiant Regen and Fleetfoot; Even better if you built some actives. Lower priority that other T4s.

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Active

Knockdown

Extremely strong ability interrupter, flying rat catcher, and cage enabler. Buy this often.

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Enchanter's Emblem

Early and effective spirit resist with some good stats. Buy this often.

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Battle Vest

Strong early gun resist with good stats.

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Reactive Barrier

Strongly spirit scaling tank item into CC.

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Active

Return Fire

Deceptively strong damage item paired with Last Stand and Willpower; punishes agression.

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Counterspell

Effective counter to Ults and other things Remover struggles with.

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Active

Debuff Remover

More resist and a cleanse for debuff heavy teams.

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Spirit Resilience

Anti-Spirit armor mid-late.

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Bullet Resilience

Anti-Bullet armor mid-late.

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Active

Majestic Leap

Use if strugging to position ults and rotate properly with movespeed.

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Active

Colossus

Become big. If you have a lot of money and you don't feel like choosing between one of the Resilience items.

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Active

Unstoppable

Can't have my hypercarry dying to CC chains now can I?

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Titanic Magazine

More gun uptime.

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Ricochet

MercMag does 100% of its damage through Ricochet, which does further work spreading shred and slow debuffs. Neat, huh? Combined with spreading Toxic Bullets, very strong.

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Spellslinger

Hyperlate luxury item you will almost never buy, but makes your gun + Flask combo uncontestably strong.

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Frenzy

I'M CRAZY I'M UNHINGED

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Silencer

Anti-spirit disabler for your gun. Hugely disruptive against certain spammy enemies.

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Active

Shadow Weave

I am ze Spy.

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Crippling Headshot

BOOOOM! HEADSHOT!

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Witchmail

Nanomachines, son. Endless abilities in fights.

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Juggernaut

This item really ought to let you blow through walls on cooldown. Isn't that what it looks like it does from the picture?

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Diviner's Kevlar

I dunno if they had Kevlar in 1949, honestly.

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Active

Phantom Strike

S. A. W. - Surface to Air Warden. Good anti-gun carry item.

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Inhibitor

Should be good for lategame team sustain.

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Active

Divine Barrier

Can be used selflessly to bail out teammates, or selfishly to cleanse ult debuffs. I have a feeling I know which one you'll be doing.

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Leech

Extreme sustain, with nice hybrid stats.

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Plated Armor

Infernus can go to hell.

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Siphon Bullets

Gigatank gun item.

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Active

Curse

For BIG mistakes.

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Spirit Burn

The cooler Decay.

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Active

Ethereal Shift

You can pop this during ult and still deal damage. Also, if you have Transcendent CD, this is probably just better than Unstop because of the uptime.

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Active

Refresher

Wanna see me dive the enemy team? Wanna see me do it again?

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Active

Focus Lens

Fuck that guy in particular.

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Active

Magic Carpet

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Slowing Bullets

Helps with keeping a bead on opponents you're beaming.

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Burst Fire

Fire rate and chase, plus sliding for ammo.

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Headhunter

Early kill tempo item with some neat sustian.

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Active

Alchemical Fire

Good spirit scaling shred item for yourself and your team. Pairs well with cages and mystic slow.

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Active

Heroic Aura

Splitpush enabler, and teamfight booster.

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Healbane

When extra antiheal is needed.

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Weapon Shielding

Questionable tank item into gun comps.

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Spirit Shielding

Excellent early tank item into the vast majority of teams.

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Active

Healing Nova

For spreading those lovely Tempo buffs.

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Active

Rescue Beam

For removing those overambitious teammates from fights.

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Veil Walker

It's like Shadow Weave, but different.

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Fortitude

Anti-reset device.

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Active

Warp Stone

Extra mobility for escaping knockups and chasing.

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Active

Slowing Hex

For catching rats.

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Active

Disarming Hex

Alright anti-gun carry item, but not great. Low cooldown makes it spammable, however.

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Greater Expansion

Helps with catching people in cage, makes flasks unmissable, and makes ult extremely hard to kite.

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Superior Duration

Longer ults and stuns.

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Imbue

Surge of Power

Preferred on Flask, but OK on ult too.

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Tankbuster

If tanky enemies are becoming a problem; you need at least 91 spirit power for Flask to do enough damage for this.

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Active

Silence Wave

For catching particularly annoying rats.

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Melee Charge

Reasonably good early burst item and distance closer.

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Crushing Fists

PILEBUNKER

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Melee Lifesteal

Neat and situational lane sustain.

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Lifestrike

Punch the blood right out of em. Then, drink it.

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Spirit Strike

Fun little early spirit burst.

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Spirit Snatch

Your stats? My stats.