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Drain de mêlée

If you are not taking much damage in lane, skip this. Great healing in lane from punching minions. And we can optionally upgrade this into Lifestrike for more sustain.

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Souffle glacial

Adds to your burst damage, and the slow is great. We also can upgrade this into Arctic Blast.

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Frappe spirituelle

We upgrade this to Spirit Snatch. Kind of meh damage early, so you can skip until after Torment Pulse.

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Razzia spirituelle

Gets you to your 4.8k spirit investment. Spirit resist and power steal is amazing. Plus even more melee damage and it procs on your 2.

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Esprit bonus

Upgrades into Improved Spirit.

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Esprit amélioré

Great for damage in lane on your bombs. If you're going more into slash then you could skip this.

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Bottes de course

Must buy for rotating around the map and ganking other lanes.

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Sentinelle du voile

Hits your 4.8k vitality investment. You can skip for other 3.2k vitality items. Really nice for rotating around the map, ganking, escaping/survivability, and the heal is great.

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Balles antimonstres

Great if enemies are pushing to your tower or you need to push and take objectives.

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Tir curatif

Great healing if you hit it off cooldown, the weapon damage is also nice early. If you can't save for Lifestrike this is a good pickup.

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Traitre

Great damage and stats in lane and gives you move speed for chasing. The foostep sound reduction is also nice. And this gives you wallhacks from the DoT. This is also for the weapon investment bonus.

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Rite de guérison

Great for healing if you get really low in lane. Sprint speed is also nice for rotating. If you're going to buy one of these situational healing items, get this one since it stays useful after lane.

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Réfutation

Great against Viscous in lane since it works against Viscous Puddle Punches. Also a very good item against people building melee (Abrams and Billy). Only buy if you can actually parry consistently.

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Frappe fortifiante

So much fun. Use off CD with heavy melee in lane for a 100 health heal on a 4 sec CD. Lets you permafight/push in lane. Also slows for both ult damage ticks. Can skip though, and instead go VW or Fort

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Onde de tourment

Great damage over the course of a game/fight. And makes you a little tankier. Also helps with farming. Just super good core item for us.

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Vitesse persistante

Great for move speed in fights and the slow resist.

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Emblème enchanteur

Cooldown reduction is really rare so this is a great item since it gives you some. With Lifestrike or Veilwalker this gets you to your 4.8k vitality investment.

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Pied plume

Great for your ult and catform, means you can be everywhere on the map. Speed meta makes it a little mandatory, Veil Walker is also good here.

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Imprégner

Récupération comprimée

More uptime on your ult means more fights you can take.

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Active

Explosion arctique

Really great item, great for catching people and for clearing waves in cat form. The combo with it is Arctic Blast, 2 immediately so the AB travels with you, light punch, 1, 4.

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Fléau

Usually after Arctic Blast. Makes you really tanky and can do a lot of damage if you get into the middle of their team. You can rush earlier if you feel it would be good or have the money.

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Récupération supérieure

Cooldown reduction is really useful. Gives you way more uptime.

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Contresort

Great against certain characters and abilities. Especially Lash.

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Atténuateur d'effets négatifs

No longer works on parry stun. But still a great pick up most games.

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Dissipateur d'effets négatifs

Must buy against Slowing Hex. Really great against a ton of characters, especially Vindicta, Infernus, and others who debuff you.

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Résilience spirituelle

If you need anti-spirit. Very common buy although not absolutely necessary since we build many items that have spirit resist already.

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Résilience balistique

For bullet resist. If it's really early (>10 mins), probably just go Battle Vest instead though.

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Fortitude

Common buy, although Veil Walker is usually better atm imo. The health is great for survivability, the move speed is great for rotating, and the heal lets you stay on the map longer.

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Bouclier spirituel

Great against spirit damage. You can get in some lanes.

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Protection d'urgence

Great item and good in many lanes. And late game has good spirit scaling, and ends up being like 500+ barrier.

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Veste de combat

Good item at the moment, the bullet resist and regen is great in lane. Later though you should just get Bullet Resilience. Also good for farming denizens.

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Châtiment curatif

Easy to proc anti-heal. The heal on kill is also really great during midgame fights.

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Choc mystique

Decent for poke in lane after your bombs do 80+ damage. IMO Tankbuster isn't a great upgrade though and you'd have to sell this for slots usually.

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Sabotage

Great at stopping gun carries. Super good in lane against gun characters. Easy to proc and can go on many people.

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Malédiction de ralentissement

Good against Lash, Pocket, Mina, and other movement focused people. Often a must buy against a good Mina.

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Sape spirituelle

Builds into Focus Lens, easy to use and great for 1v1s. Makes your burst way stronger.

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Onde de silence

Good item. Silence is very good against many characters and it reduces their resist (tankiness) and spirit power (damage).

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Sacrifice rituel

Good item for your 4.8k Weapon Investment, but imo it's not that necessary on Calico. I think some people prefer Point Blank as a 4.8k weapon investment item for Calico as well.

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Récupération transcendante

Great item once you have 2 actives. It also makes Torment Pulse tick faster! Very good with Ethereal Shift.

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Vulnérabilité mystique

Upgrades into Escalating Exposure.

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Exposition spirituelle

This with Scourge is insane. You run into the middle of the enemy team with Scourge and they take like 2-4k damage. Also has shred and gives you even more spirit resist so you're even tankier.

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Refuge céleste

They doubled the CD on it so it's way worse, still might be good though on Calico. Helps you live much longer. Great with Transcendent CD. You can skip for more damage if you're not dying.

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Lentille focale

Quite strong at the moment, shred is good.

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Profusion spirituelle

Gives you some much needed damage in the late game with your ult and gloom bombs. Great if you are trying to oneshot their carries.

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Implacable

Great against gun carries and is good to pick up if you have no free slots.

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Brulure spirituelle

Anti-heal + more burst damage. If you need to burst carries this is really useful.

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Malédiction

Strong item at the moment. Just really good for shutting one person down in a fight.

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Intouchable

Really great in late teamfights. Especially good if you are really struggling against CC. Or for midboss.

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Brise-magie

Incredible against Lash, Grey Talon, and any other spirit burst characters.

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Frappe spectrale

Amazing for shutting down fliers and gun carries. And for getting on top of the people you need to target in team fights.

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Armure de plates

Great but usually only buy once you already have bullet resist. Great against Haze.

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Cuirasse ensorcelée

Very situational. Only get against lots of incremental spirit damage (McGinnis turrets, Infernus, Warden Ult) and have Spirit Resilience already.

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Colosse

Extra resists and health is great. Also works as an alternative upgrade for Extra Health.

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Maitrise d'endurance

fun item, good value, mmm mmmmovement. You could buy this in the mid game some time rather than getting resists perhaps.

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Régénération radieuse

Kind of fun, but not very good. Adds up to a decent amount of heal in longer fights since Torment Pulse and Scourge easily procs it.

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Coup d'enclume

If no one else on your team is going to buy this and you really need to stop a Vindicta/GT or Seven ult.

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Tapis volant

Fun and silly! Also good escape tool. Just worse to get than other 6ks though.

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Imprégner

Regain de puissance

It's nice on your bombs. You like all the things it gives you. But before you get Arctic Blast, the bombs are inconsistent to hit, and your bombs don't have that good spirit scaling.

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Décomposition

I don't think this is really all that worth it compared to just getting Healbane. Since any person incredibly reliant on healing will just get Debuff Remover. But maybe get against Mo or Abrams.

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Antichar

You can only proc this on bombs if you can time them with the Arctic Blast bonus damage. But I don't like it since it's just awkward and there's better items to get imo by that point in the game.

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Ralentissement mystique

Just feels really nice, makes it super easy to hit your ults second/end damage burst. Probably also nice against like Vyper.

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Trompe-la-mort

If you are actually like the only player on your team doing anything and you have like 65k souls you could get this.

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Trophée de chasse

DO NOT EVER BUILD THIS UNLESS YOU ARE 100% SURE YOU WILL GET LOTS OF STACKS. This is often a trap item, which puts you -3k souls down, without giving you anything much in return until later.

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Cuir blindé

This since it got buffed is actually kinda really good against some characters, especially Haze and Drifter. I'd get this as an alternative to Bullet Resilience or Plated Armor.

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Médaillon de soin

Really nice for the stamina. Healing got a big nerf so is meh now. Decent to pick up for general survivability.

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Retour de balle

Decent item against certain gun carries.

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Bouclier balistique

It's nice, but I just prefer to go Return Fire or Suppressor or rush Bullet Resilience early.

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Bonus de régénération

Worse than the other healing items imo. Plus if you're getting Lifestrike it's useless.

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À bout portant

Possible option for hitting 4.8k weapon investment.