Con un'arma potente (accompagnata da un veleno letale), Aspis può infilarsi nelle retrovie delle squadre e assassinare bersagli ad alta priorità in una tempesta di pallottole.
Con un'arma potente (accompagnata da un veleno letale), Aspis può infilarsi nelle retrovie delle squadre e assassinare bersagli ad alta priorità in una tempesta di pallottole.
Description
Fully annotated. Some of the annotations might even be useful!
My personal build that tries to power spike both early (with Spirit-based Dagger + Venom + Bola combos) and late game (with gun-based Weapon and Spirit Damage), with a fast-farming midgame to bridge the transition.
Item Build
Lane / Early Game
In lane, your damage comes from dagger poke, big Venom pops, and eventually Bola (Vyper pairs great with strong laners who can burst people into Venom range quickly!). I generally don't buy ALL of these every game, nor exactly in this order (although L -> R is in rough order of general priority); read annotations and buy according to your lane and how it's going!
Overstatted item. Spirit resist, spirit power, regen, cooldown reduction, AND a bit of extra health from early vitality investment. Good early priority in most lanes, especially against spirit nukers.
You need to hit two daggers to trigger this now, or trigger it on a decent Venom pop, but it still helps a LOT in lane with your poke. Get early in most lanes.
I like this in losing lanes or vs close quarters heroes; your goal in lane is to keep your enemies at or below half health so Venom is scary, this helps with that. Also good for farming.
More spirit burst, on your already-good gun. The more aggressive option compared to Opening Rounds. Good in winning lanes or against long-ranged characters who you can poke with this.
The news of its demise was greatly exaggerated. Still hugely helpful with big venom pops (or bolas), even if it's hard to trigger on dagger now. In losing or farm-heavy lanes, get after Tesla.
Big farm accelerator and buying it now makes Vyper's gun significantly better earlier to make up for the damage we lost on dagger. You're gonna be shooting more early, and this helps.
Worth if any enemies with substantial regen / healing are a problem (Billy, Shiv, Abrams, Geist, Kelvin) - easy to proc w/ Tesla. Get early against regen-heavy heroes in lane; otherwise delay or skip.
Defensive Lane Items
Buy as needed. You probably want one or two unless you're truly stomping lane. In hard lanes, get one of these first thing.
Consistent, good, reliable, friend. I get it most games. Builds into Healing Tempo if you're going the Radiant Regeneration route.
If, and only if, you can consistently hit daggers (or Mystic Shots) this is a quite a good lane sustain option, and it builds into Radiant Regeneration (if you want that item, get it early!)
Get if you're planning on going into Fortitude. Not worth if you're Veil Walker-ing or Rad Regen-ing.
Vs Viscous (Puddle Punch is parryable!) or otherwise very punchhappy laners. Looking at you, Billy and Abrams.
If you have 800 souls and your options are buying healing rite or backing to heal, buy healing rite. You REALLY don't want to miss early waves if you can help it.
Can save your hide in an obnoxious spirit burst heavy lane (e.g. Mina + GT) if Emblem isn't enough - only if you're getting stomped in lane and need all the defensive help you can get.
Map Sustain
Choose your favorite. Read annotations!
More consistent than VW and makes you tankier. Get in a slower-paced, farm-heavy game where you're trying to scale into gun damage faster.
Mid / Late Game - Core
Buy simulatenously with the Greens and Counter Actives categories below as needed. In rough order of priority L -> R, but don't be afraid to adjust (e.g. Merc early if you need gun-based damage now). Itemize against your enemies!
High priority, even if you're itching for more gun-oriented items. Movespeed, scaling for tesla bullets and merc magnum (not to mention your abilities), and did I mention the movement speed?
Gaben personally designed this item for Vyper. My dad works at Valve and he told me that. Makes your slides 200% more silly and slippery. Priority, except if you have Rad Regen (see Healing Tempo)
Not particularly important by itself, but we want it as a component of Merc Magnum, and it's nice for a quick reload.
Crazy, crazy good item. High priority after Boundless. Basically doubles your gun damage AND gives fire rate. Make sure it's always active when you're shooting.
Late Game Luxury
What I would buy if and only if I had all the Core items and felt I didn't need more defensive or counter items.
Worthwhile pickup in the very late game; another fire rate + spirit power steroid pairs nicely with Merc Mag. If only the buildup was faster on Vyper.
It's VERY fun, and can shred teamfights if you happen to catch them all clumped up (and not die in the process). Only pick up in very late game.
More gun investment, and more movement speed. The MS (and spirit resist) when below 50% can save your skin. Get if you're facing a heavy spirit lineup in the very late game.
Greens
You probably want Leech (if you don't have Rad Regen) or Healing Tempo (if you do have Rad Regen), eventually upgrade Enduring Speed to Juggernaut when you run out of slots, and maybe one of Escalating / Spirit Resilience as needed. The rest are highly situational but sometimes important to have (Counterspell, Debuff Remover, etc.). Annotated for the games they're good into.
ONLY IF YOU HAVE RAD REGEN! Basically permanent Burst Fire. A huge fire rate and movespeed buff as well as a nice healing boost - throw daggers constantly to proc Rad Regen and keep the buff going!
Honestly, this is just a better bullet resilience for Vyper. Get this and/or Juggernaut if orange characters are terrorizing you.
Shuts down gun carries and upgrades Enduring Speed. Good slot-efficient (albeit expensive) item. I prefer this (+ Escalating) for dealing with heavy gun lineups late game.
This is here for the spirit and debuff resistance. Note that this + Debuff Remover gives you time to parry an Abrams' heavy melee after Charge (if they have no duration up).
Great item. Shuts down Lash ults, Abrams ults, Yamato slashes, GT birds / shots, etc. Basically any ability that you can see coming and don't want to get hit by.
Incredibly important against heroes reliant on debuffs to do damage (Infernus, Haze, Mirage), or if you keep getting disarm / silence / knockdown / etc. spammed on you.
Pretty good into obnoxious spirit burst (e.g. Lash, Pocket, GT, Calico, Yamato), but only in that situation - otherwise Spirit Res is more consistent and cheaper.
Counter Actives
In a perfect world, you wouldn't be the one buying these - Vyper is a fairly greedy, stat-intensive carry. However, in pubs, often you need some of these to shut down dominant enemies, and if nobody else is doing it, it falls on you. Or yell at them in chat. Annotated for the kind of heroes they counter.
Shuts down heroes with slippery movement abilities in the early / mid game; Calico (it turns off everything but her 1!), Mina, Wraith, Pocket, etc.
Often a necessity against dominant fliers. If they buy debuff remover, ask somebody on your team to buy it too and apply it after the first is removed; Vindicta, GT, Lash, Bebop ult, etc.
AoE silence is incredibly useful to turn fights, and the minus spirit res is really nice too. Easy to apply after a group bola; good vs pretty much everybody!
I HATE this guy and want them to SUFFER. Comboing this after Bola can remove an enemy from fighting for an obscene amount of time. If the enemy is being carried by one person, get and spam on them.
The added movement is nice but not essential most games. Can help escape and chase, and bullet res after blinking is huge. Can be good vs slippery gun carries (Haze, Infern, etc).
Can be game winning vs a dominant gun carry and/or flier. Get on top of them, drag them down, and disarm them too. Helps if REALLY struggling to stay on them, or if they're in the skybox.
Annotation Station
This category is NOT recommended and is safely ignorable if you don't particularly care about any of these items. It's here to add annotations to items that aren't in the build but are common-ish on Vyper.
See Split Shot. I don't like this item early as it rewards drawn out engagements (which Vyper is weak at), and late game there's just higher value options.
It's really good on gun Vyper, and not bad on hybrid either, but it's not priority for me. It can help make Vyper's spray more consistent in chaotic fights, and great with e.g. Billy ult.
Spirit power, gun investment and a good active. Throw it on the ground right after Bola to let it ramp up before they awake. Not priority, but if you do pick it up, pick it up early.
Quite a good item for a more gun-focused Vyper IF you can manage the health drain (wouldn't recommend for inexperienced players!). If you want fury trance, get this instead. Trust me.
Builds out of Monster Rounds if you enjoy that, and the stats are actually quite good, although I find it a bit greedy for a hybrid Vyper that wants to get active early- you farm plenty fast w/ Tesla.
In theory a tank shredder, but I've always found this item to be a bit underwhelming. Would rather have Tesla Bullets + Healbane, unless you're going against Victor + MnK + Abrams + Billy + Shiv.
Yes, it lets half of your bullets go through Petrify, but as fun as that sounds it's not THAT good. That said, this IS good if you're getting owned by plated armor or really high bullet resist heroes.
Your gun shoots real fast, this can be decent, but again nothing special. Maybe if they're ALL spirit - outgoing damage reduction is quite nice.
Effect is pretty weak for a tier 4 in my humble opinion, but 60% fire rate and a bit of CD reduction is far from nothing. If you need the reload speed, you're doing something wrong.
Better now with the Dagger changes making it easier to proc, and stacks nicely with t2 dagger. Underrated, but a bit of a detour imo. Crippling Headshot is more worthwhile.
A bit overkill, but if you're out of things to upgrade and have Mystic Expansion. Does make your bolas bigger, that's fun.
I REALLY wouldn't get this with the current state of Screwjab Dagger - I don't think the price is worth what you get. Still, if you're desperate for the true dagger-slinging experience, here ya go.
Feels a bit overkill, cooldowns aren't really a problem outside of bola, but another reasonable upgrade path w/ Transcendent.
It's solid, but Merc Magnum and Boundless are just higher priority and if we fill up all the slots with purple there's no room for the orange and green, yknow?
Ability Point Order
Daga seghettata
Veleno letale
Serpeggiamento
Bola pietrificante
1
1
1
2
5
1
2
2
5
2
5
5
1
2
1
2
5
1
2
1
2
1
2
5
5
5