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Lane - Mystic Slow should be purchased just before you unlock Heavy Barrage and its AP1 upgrade. That gives you a $1600 budget for items beforehand. Consider a Light Armor after Mystic Slow.

1) Lane

Survive until ult, combine with mystic slow and wall for ez kills

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Œuf doré

egg :3 (sell when out of space or around 1500-2000 value)

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Esprit bonus

Improved specter regen and ult damage

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Ralentissement mystique

Pair with AP1 upgrade on Heavy Barrage. Good wall-off plus this = easy/free kill in lane

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Imbue [E]

Expansion mystique

Only strictly necessary if the enemy has a lot of long range / flying types

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Esprit amélioré

Boundless Spirit is an important purchase later on, and this is a good stepping stone to it.

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Charge bonus

Moar turret.

1) Light Armor

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Veste de combat

Good with Monster Rounds for farming

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Emblème enchanteur

High priority vs Apollo, Shiv, etc.

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Protection d'urgence

Remains relevant throughout most of the game, especially once you get Boundless Spirit

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Mid Game - Farm and maintain lanes while ult is on cooldown, look for kills with ult. Place turrets outside of Walker range and use them to support anyone attacking Walker.

2) Turret Wants

Delay for (3) when necessary

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Balles anti-esprit

Turrets need shred now they don't have raw dps

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Aura héroïque

4800 orange boost, + much better turrets and stronger lane pushing w/ troopers

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Imbue [E]

Récupération comprimée

Get after Echo Shard

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Récupération supérieure

Get if you're ulting a lot

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Vulnérabilité mystique

for when they buy spirit resist, otherwise delay

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Imbue [E]

Active

Éclat d'écho

Less needed in the Age of Spam, but still nice

2) Turret Core

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Recharge rapide

It's all about the turret spam, baby, go turrets, love the turrets, go Knicks

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Profusion spirituelle

Aim to get this around when you're about to max ult

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Situational Counters: After Heroic Aura, look to which enemy is doing the most damage, grab one item to counter, then use your judgement to complete 2 & 4 or shop more from here.

3) Anti-Bullet

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Malédiction désarmante

"awooo" no. bad doggy

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Armure de plates

The omega Anti-Haze item. And Infernus. And Mirage. and Mina.

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Implacable

Upgrade from Suppressor if you have it, also good vs Kelvin and good for ulting

3) Anti-Spirit

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Résilience spirituelle

Get early if they're running heavy spirit damage

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Cuirasse ensorcelée

This is your cooldown item if you're building Tanky instead of damage

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Brise-magie

Anti-burst with a touch of cc resist

3) Utility

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Coup d'enclume

If you were hanging your hat on wall stun, get this

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Maitrise d'endurance

BUCKET BUFF IT'S TIME TO GO FLYING AGAIN

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Late Game - Grab these when not shopping from 3.

4) Finishers

Sell lower tier items if you're out of space

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Expansion supérieure

Big ult. Sniper turret. Beeg.

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Récupération transcendante

Once you have at least two items with cooldown, this is great.

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Parchemin de foudre

Natural mystic slow upgrade

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Exposition spirituelle

More consistent turrets means easier stack application

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Entaille spirituelle

Can you aim? Are they CC'ing you out of ult and you don't want to buy Unstop? This.

EGO

For questions or feedback, find me on the Deadlock discord or twitch.tv/zippydasquirrel

Current Experiments

Items I'm playing with this current patch to see how viable they are

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Régénération radieuse

Got buffed, turrets more spammable, maybe?? Needs space

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Imbue [E]

Enchantement balistique

Maybe could fix weaker gun?

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Balles teslas

gun weak, go to On Hit build. Look up lileigh or duke fishlord

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Condensateur

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Vol de vie spirituel

I WANT THIS TO FIT SO BAD BUT IT NEVER DOES AAAA

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Balles antimonstres

Get vs Rem, Graves

Final Thoughts / Update Notes

11 March: Adjustments based on games I've played. Ult nerfed, oh well, still strong. Hate Viscous, should probably re-add Anti-Melee cat. Will think on it. ok bai \\\\\ 6 March: WHOA MCGINNIS REWORK FOR MORE TURRET SPAM YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS -- I gots TESTING to do! Here's the initial thought changes: Gun hella weak, considering readding imag or titanic mag. Wall turrets funny as hell, mystic slow that much more useful now. No more stuns or stamina drain means CC much more important, so replaced Anti-Melee cat with Utility cat. BUCKET 3->2 MEANS STAMINA MASTERY BACK ON THE TABLE!!! More changes to occur over the weekend as I adapt to all patch changes. Stay tuned. \\\\\ 4 March: I hit Eternus 1 :3 Replaced Escalating Resilience with Disarming Hex. Felt more in line with the whole spirit build vibe. Removed all wall upgrades but ap1, maxxing specter faster.