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Extra Regen

Regen to help you + builds into heal booster later

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Melee Lifesteal

You can start engaging on people in lane when you have this as you can heal back the damage you'd be taking a lot better

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Melee Charge

Huge damage incoming with this item + builds into crushing fists. Try to time purchasing this with when you get 2 points into charge.

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Backstabber

Started using it because lystic mentioned it, and it's actually pretty good on melee, ambush people a lot easier + bullet res removal + free poke lane. SELL LATE GAME FOR SLOTS

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Close Quarters

Good damage increase for 800 on your melees and builds into PB later

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Extra Stamina

Mostly to negate weighted shots' -10% stamina regen later on but also extra movement

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Spirit Strike

Makes your siphon do more damage. Skippable, only really useful w/ high spirit dmg lane partner

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Active

Healing Rite

1 hp in lane + if you're buying rescue beam

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Active

Restorative Locket

Sometimes a good buy, especially for ability spam in lane, very good healing

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Rebuttal

Viscous or melee bots in your lane

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Monster Rounds

Clearing waves if you're playing a stalling lane.

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Lifestrike

Beefy healing to help you survive alongside siphon life

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Spirit Snatch

Buffs up your melee damage slightly + siphon life to make you heal even more.

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Crushing Fists

Biggest damage upgrade, you can start stunning people with 3 consecutive heavy melees. Start heavy meleeing around the map too as it's faster than walking.

III

Point Blank

Huge damage + slows

III

Weighted Shots

So many stats good stats on this item, the negative ones mean nothing

III

Active

Debuff Remover

PEOPLE WILL DEFINITELY BUY ANTIHEAL AGAINST YOU SO THIS IS A MUST HAVE TO CLEANSE IT

III

Berserker

bullet res stat + good damage output

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Healing Booster

Buffs up all healing from siphon + lifestrike, skippable if you don't want it however

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Active

Colossus

THICCNESS - be a tanky boy, can also use this to bait parries by heavy melee cancelling (see fleetfoot)

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Fortitude

Extra EHP + stay on map. Take this when you're low/looking to be active.

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Stamina Mastery

Extra movement

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Juggernaut

Gun comps w/ fast fire rates

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Spellbreaker

Heavy spirit dmg

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Plated Armor

Bullet procs (infernus/mirage/haze etc) + if people start buying armor piercing rounds

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Superior Cooldown

Faster buttons + faster cooldowns on everything including lifestrike

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Witchmail

Faster buttons on your siphon/charge/ult + spirit res

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Healing Tempo

Luxury upgrade, do not prioritise unless you've bought everything else or you simply have no slots available.

III

Active

Cultist Sacrifice

This isn't terrible if you are able to be greedy with this and farm. Can sell once you've made profit on it.

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Hunter's Aura

If you are taking a lot of isolated 1v1s this is literally free damage and makes you even tougher to take on alone. Aside from that, it's an ok debuff in teamfights.

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Active

Slowing Hex

Stops people with movement abilities from using them to get out of your melee range

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Active

Cold Front

Damage + slow, not entirely needed in this build but can take if you want

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Spirit Resilience

Heavy spirit damage on enemy team

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Active

Rescue Beam

Although rushing this in lane on Abrams may not be worth it anymore, this is still a fantastic item you can occassionally build to save people from being picked + heal yourself

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Kinetic Dash

Some people like this over mastery to lean a bit more into gun which is fair, it's a decent choice

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Active

Phantom Strike

Take against a comp with a lot of fliers if necessary, 10x better than buying knockdown on Abrams

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Active

Fleetfoot

If you are struggling to bait out other people's parries, you can try using this item. While you're moving in heavy melee, press the active and it will cancel the melee.

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Healbane

If you need just some antiheal

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Active

Unstoppable

If the enemy team start buying curses or there's just lots of CC in general preventing you from playing the game, pick this up. IT MEANS YOU DON'T GET STUNNED ON PARRY AND CAN JUST HOLD DOWN MELEE

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Active

Warp Stone

Blink to dodge certain abilties like paradox/bebop

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Imbue

Compress Cooldown

I don't buy this anymore in lane as it's not really worth to do so anymore but if you want to and it's going well sure go ahead