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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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Attiva

Gallina dalle uova d'oro

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

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Spirito extra

Improved specter regen and ult damage

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Rallentamento mistico

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

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Imbue [E]

Espansione mistica

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

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Spirito migliorato

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

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Carica extra

Moar turret.

1) Light Armor

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Giubbotto da battaglia

Good with Monster Rounds for farming

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Emblema dell'incantatore

High priority vs Apollo, Shiv, etc.

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Barriera reattiva

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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Pallottole trita-spirito

Turrets need shred now they don't have raw dps

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Attiva

Aura eroica

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

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Imbue [E]

Tempo di ricarica compresso

Get after Echo Shard

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Ricarica breve

Get if you're ulting a lot

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Vulnerabilità mistica

for when they buy spirit resist, otherwise delay

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Imbue [E]

Attiva

Frammento di eco

Less needed in the Age of Spam, but still nice

2) Turret Core

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Ricarica rapida

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

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Spirito sconfinato

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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Attiva

Maledizione disarmante

"awooo" no. bad doggy

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Armatura corazzata

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

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Juggernaut

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

3) Anti-Spirit

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Resilienza spirituale

Get early if they're running heavy spirit damage

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Catena delle streghe

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

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Rompi-incantesimo

Anti-burst with a touch of cc resist

3) Utility

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Attiva

K.O.

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

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Controllo della stamina

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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Espansione maggiore

Big ult. Sniper turret. Beeg.

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Tempo di ricarica trascendentale

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

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Pergamena fulminante

Natural mystic slow upgrade

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Esposizione crescente

More consistent turrets means easier stack application

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Lacera-spirito

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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Rigenerazione splendente

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

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Imbue [E]

Incantesimo balistico

Maybe could fix weaker gun?

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Pallottole Tesla

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

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Attiva

Condensatore

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Prosciug. salute spirituale

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

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Cartucce anti-mostro

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.