
Calico usa le ombre a suo vantaggio, entrando e uscendo dal combattimento per dare la caccia ai suoi nemici uno per uno.
Calico usa le ombre a suo vantaggio, entrando e uscendo dal combattimento per dare la caccia ai suoi nemici uno per uno.
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This is a spirit build! Focused on bombs and ult early. You can put points into slash earlier if you prefer.
Check out my melee bruiser Calico build: 209974
Typically get items from left to right.


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Prosciug. salute corpo a corpo
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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Attiva
Fronte glaciale
Adds to your burst damage, and the slow is great. We also can upgrade this into Arctic Blast.


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


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Furto spirituale
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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Spirito extra
Upgrades into Improved Spirit.


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


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


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Mech del velo
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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Cartucce anti-mostro
Great if enemies are pushing to your tower or you need to push and take objectives.


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Colpo curativo
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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Traditore
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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Attiva
Rito curativo
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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Obiezione
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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Colpo fortificante
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
Roughly left to right.


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Impulso di tormento
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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Velocità persistente
Great for move speed in fights and the slow resist.


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Emblema dell'incantatore
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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Attiva
Piè veloce
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.


II
Infondere
Tempo di ricarica compresso
More uptime on your ult means more fights you can take.
Get as you want.


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Attiva
Esplosione polare
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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Attiva
Flagello
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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Ricarica breve
Cooldown reduction is really useful. Gives you way more uptime.
Pick and choose depending on what you need. Some can be built in lane/early.


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Controincantesimo
Great against certain characters and abilities. Especially Lash.


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


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


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


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Forza d'animo
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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Protezione spirituale
Great against spirit damage. You can get in some lanes.


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Barriera reattiva
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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Giubbotto da battaglia
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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Maledizione curativa
Easy to proc anti-heal. The heal on kill is also really great during midgame fights.


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


II
Attiva
Maledizione di rallentamento
Good against Lash, Pocket, Mina, and other movement focused people. Often a must buy against a good Mina.


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


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


III
Attiva
Sacrificio cultista
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.
Get depending on game state. If you don't know what to get, get upgrades then EE.


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


II
Vulnerabilità mistica
Upgrades into Escalating Exposure.


IV
Esposizione crescente
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.


IV
Attiva
Trasformazione eterea
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.


IV
Attiva
Obiettivo
Quite strong at the moment, shred is good.


IV
Spirito sconfinato
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.


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


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


IV
Attiva
Maledizione
Strong item at the moment. Just really good for shutting one person down in a fight.
You can get some of these earlier as counter buys.


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


IV
Rompi-incantesimo
Incredible against Lash, Grey Talon, and any other spirit burst characters.


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


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


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


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


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


III
Rigenerazione splendente
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.


III
Attiva
K.O.
If no one else on your team is going to buy this and you really need to stop a Vindicta/GT or Seven ult.
Most of these suck!


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


III
Infondere
Aumento di potenza
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.


III
Attiva
Decadimento
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.


III
Anticarro
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.


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


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


III
Collezionista di trofei
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.


III
Attiva
Pelle metallica
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.


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


II
Attiva
Fuoco di risposta
Decent item against certain gun carries.


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


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


III
A bruciapelo
Possible option for hitting 4.8k weapon investment.
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