Avec l'aide de son assistante réticente, <i>Sinclair, le Magnifique</i> déroute ses adversaires à coups de métamorphoses et de tours de passepasse.
Avec l'aide de son assistante réticente, <i>Sinclair, le Magnifique</i> déroute ses adversaires à coups de métamorphoses et de tours de passepasse.
9/9 update: Big overall build change to suit how I've been playing and winning a lot since the patch. Abuse this heroes objective damage while you can :)
Feel free to ask me any questions on the Sinclair discord @RAIGEKI
Lots of spirit power and items we need to empower bolt early
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Charge bonus
Try to sync dropping assistant with 2 bolt charges until you have t2 bolt. I often solo kill someone on wave 3 with assistant + 2 bolts.
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Esprit bonus
Early spirit good
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Emblème enchanteur
Early spirit good
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Imbue [E]
Expansion mystique
needed to farm most neutral camps with bolt. the positioning is tighter since the recent base aoe nerf but it still works on 90% of camps.
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Recharge rapide
God tier power spike with t3 bolt
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Imbue [E]
Regain de puissance
Another god tier power spike, you will be one shotting people at this point in the game or killing buildings solo. Also a source of burst movement speed which we abuse a lot.
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Sentinelle du voile
Best item in the game and just got buffed again for some reason. Stay on map forever and rotate quickly / safely.
GOD BARRIER
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Protection d'urgence
By far the most value defensive you can get if the game enables it. heroes that can't kill you without proccing it (abrams, haze, bebop) are what you want to buy this against.
Usually in this order
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Récupération supérieure
All our power is in our abilities so we want more of them. If you get rabbit t2 before ult t2 you can get greater expansion here instead.
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Active
Pied plume
Move fast boi
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Vitesse persistante
I can't slow that boi down
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Expansion supérieure
Amazing for bolt / rabbit / actives and almost every ult you steal. I buy it at this point to time with t2 rabbit.
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Profusion spirituelle
Massive raw damage increase to everything and makes us even faster.
Approaching lategame your item choices can vary a lot. based on enemy lineup either max rabbit or ult next and itemize around that.
This is primarily a PUSHING build. Sinclair is the best walker killer in the game this patch and stacking movespeed / sustain like we do lets you put crazy map pressure out the entire game while being very hard to catch.
First 4 items are my preferred order if maxing rabbit first. if you max ult first go off vibes.
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Imbue [E]
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Éclat d'écho
Always broken with max rabbit. If I'm maxing ult before rabbit I usually won't buy this unless it goes extremely late.
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Pyroalchimie
Ton of damage and shred with how much spirit power we have. Just layer this on top of T3 rabbit and watch the free damage roll in.
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Prolongation supérieure
Usually buy after echo or scourge. Some ultimates like warden / drifter can warrant buying this earlier.
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Récupération transcendante
Better to fill open slots but if you're slotlocked or have a ton of actives you can upgrade to this.
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Brulure spirituelle
Really easy to proc and benefits a lot from all the aoe we buy. really good against ult seven / warden or anything else that calls for big antiheal. If antiheal isn't needed I never go this item.
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Active
Toile tourbillonnante
Strong option post echo shard if you bought slowing hex
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Fléau
Can throw on your beefiest gorilla against spirit heavy lineups. With greater expansion and sup duration this item is crazy.
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Tapis volant
I don't buy this every game like I used to because veil walker and all the movespeed is enough but this is still the best positioning item in the game to land good bolts in teamfights
Stuff that sometimes comes up, read annotations
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Rite de guérison
best lane sustain option. I buy this most games but if you dominate you can skip it
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Châtiment curatif
Not my job but sometimes good vs heal heavy lineups
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Contresort
Amazing item now after the buffs. If they have telegraphed spells you NEED to dodge (wraith ult, lash ult, seven stun) this is always a strong buy.
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Cuir blindé
Best anti gun hero item on this hero and often necessary to use seven and warden ults properly, we get a good amount of duration from our items so this pulls extra weight.
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Pierre de distorsion
Always a decent item, if you are playing around stealing warden / seven / dynamo ults this is good
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Protection divine
solid active with ability range on it. Good if you are getting owned by pocket or drifter ult.
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Sabotage
Broken vs m1 heavy lineups
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Malédiction de ralentissement
Really strong item to enable kills on elusive heroes. heroes like lash / dash infernus are really hard to hit with bolts if we don't have this.
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Active
Coup d'enclume
Good against Vindicta, Lash, and channeling ultimates like seven / dynamo.
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Régénération radieuse
Not an every game item but is very good if you are ahead and snowballing. Also good if you're 1v6 and have to do literally everything since it keeps you on map forever.
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Balles toxiques
Some games you will be against a bunch of big chunguses with stacked spirit resist (bebop, mo, shiv). This item puts in crazy work vs those heroes and procs in only 2 shots on this hero.
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