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Warden
Weakens his enemies and chases them down

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
Weakens his enemies and chases them down

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

Versatile, mobile, survivable, and lethal Warden build
that doesn't sacrifice gun-based DPS by virtue of
Mercurial Magnum.
Spam ults and grenades like no other.

Item Build

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_Lane

In order; if you get the chance to rush CultSac, take it.

Immediate Postlane

In order, loosely.

Deadlock Item

III

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.

Deadlock Item

III

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.

Deadlock Item

IV

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.

Deadlock Item

II

Active

Fleetfoot

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

Deadlock Item

II

Healing Booster

Significantly improves the sustain of Radiant Regen and Last Stand.

Midgame

Buy as needed

Deadlock Item

II

Imbue

Compress Cooldown

More frequent ults.

Deadlock Item

III

Superior Cooldown

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

Deadlock Item

III

Toxic Bullets

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

Deadlock Item

II

Mystic Slow

Stronger chases, and builds into Scroll mid-late.

Deadlock Item

III

Greater Expansion

Massive cages, grenades, and ults.

Deadlock Item

IV

Lightning Scroll

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

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_Late

Prio Overflow.

Deadlock Item

IV

Spiritual Overflow

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

Deadlock Item

IV

Healing Tempo

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

Deadlock Item

IV

Boundless Spirit

The most consistent way to increase your general damage. Makes everything better. Buy its components earlier if a slot is avaliable.

Deadlock Item

IV

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.

Counters

Make decisions midgame on what you need to cut.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Knockdown

Extremely strong ability interrupter, flying rat catcher, and cage enabler. Buy this often, over Expansion in games where you need it.

Deadlock Item

II

Reactive Barrier

Strongly spirit scaling tank item into CC.

Deadlock Item

II

Active

Return Fire

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

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Debuff Remover

More resist and a cleanse for debuff heavy teams.

Deadlock Item

III

Counterspell

Effective counter to Ults and other things Remover struggles with.

Deadlock Item

III

Spirit Resilience

Anti-Spirit armor mid-late.

Deadlock Item

III

Bullet Resilience

Anti-Bullet armor mid-late.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Majestic Leap

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

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Unstoppable

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

Deadlock Item

IV

Plated Armor

Infernus can go to hell. Replace Battle Vest late.

Deadlock Item

IV

Witchmail

Nanomachines, son. Endless abilities in fights. Replace Enchanter's late.

Deadlock Item

IV

Spellbreaker

Replace Enchanters with this if facing too many nukes.

Mostly memes below here: Ignore if you like or if you're new

Ultralate Situational

If the game goes on too long just start buying random garbage to pad your stats.

Deadlock Item

IV

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.

Deadlock Item

IV

Spellslinger

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

Deadlock Item

IV

Frenzy

I'M CRAZY I'M UNHINGED

Deadlock Item

IV

Silencer

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

Deadlock Item

IV

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?

Deadlock Item

IV

Diviner's Kevlar

I dunno if they had Kevlar in 1949, honestly.

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Phantom Strike

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

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Colossus

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

Deadlock Item

IV

Inhibitor

Should be good for lategame team sustain.

Deadlock Item

IV

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.

Deadlock Item

IV

Leech

Extreme sustain, with nice hybrid stats.

Deadlock Item

IV

Siphon Bullets

Gigatank gun item.

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Curse

For BIG mistakes.

Deadlock Item

IV

Spirit Burn

The cooler Decay.

Deadlock Item

IV

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.

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Refresher

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

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Focus Lens

Fuck that guy in particular.

Deadlock Item

IV

Glass Cannon

It's like Trophy Collector if it was good.

Deadlock Item

IV

Lucky Shot

GAMBLING

Deadlock Item

IV

Crippling Headshot

BOOOOM! HEADSHOT! The lategame shredder. Selll Cultist lategame for this.

Stuff I like but I dunno where to put that usually doesn't fit into builds

Treat like weird situational counters

Deadlock Item

II

Slowing Bullets

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

Deadlock Item

II

Titanic Magazine

More gun uptime.

Deadlock Item

III

Burst Fire

Fire rate and chase, plus sliding for ammo.

Deadlock Item

III

Headhunter

Early kill tempo item with some neat sustian.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Alchemical Fire

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

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Heroic Aura

Splitpush enabler, and teamfight booster.

Deadlock Item

II

Healbane

When extra antiheal is needed.

Deadlock Item

II

Weapon Shielding

Questionable tank item into gun comps.

Deadlock Item

II

Spirit Shielding

Excellent early tank item into the vast majority of teams.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Healing Nova

For spreading those lovely Tempo buffs.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Rescue Beam

For removing those overambitious teammates from fights.

Deadlock Item

III

Fortitude

Anti-reset device.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Warp Stone

Extra mobility for escaping knockups and chasing.

Deadlock Item

II

Active

Slowing Hex

For catching rats.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Disarming Hex

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

Deadlock Item

III

Superior Duration

Longer ults and stuns.

Deadlock Item

III

Imbue

Surge of Power

Preferred on Flask, but OK on ult too.

Deadlock Item

III

Tankbuster

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

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Silence Wave

For catching particularly annoying rats.

Deadlock Item

III

Escalating Resilience

Alternag mag upgrade for sustain.

VERBOTEN

Only the most unhinged players buy from here.

Deadlock Item

II

Melee Charge

Reasonably good early burst item and distance closer.

Deadlock Item

I

Melee Lifesteal

Neat and situational lane sustain.

Deadlock Item

III

Lifestrike

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

Deadlock Item

I

Spirit Strike

Fun little early spirit burst.

Deadlock Item

III

Spirit Snatch

Your stats? My stats.

Ability Point Order

Alchemical Flask

Willpower

Binding Word

Last Stand

1

2

1

2

5

1

2

1

2

5

5

5