Billy tanking is so much fun!
[Formerly GiggleNuts' Silly Billy]
Annotated and includes additional categories for pivoting your build. I highly recommend prioritizing 4.8k bonuses if you decide to pivot from the main build early.
Billy's lane has very little poke and needs his enemies to be close to him for him to do some serious damage. Your job as Billy in lane is to not fall behind in souls and punish the enemy for overextending and/or getting too aggressive with you or your partner. You will generally be clearing wave first and then looking for people to catch off guard with Rising Ram and start your combo to do a lot of damage to them. Try and steal enemy camps as soon as they come up with Blasted. It's always good to steal camps and this will force enemies to fight. Make sure your lane partner joins you. Look for kills around 7:30 - 8:00 minute mark so you can steal Sinner's Sacrifices as well. Don’t be afraid to rearrange the order of items depending on the situation. Your worst enemies in lane are people who restrict your movement, such as Warden, Doorman, or Vindicta, avoid laning into them if you can. Try to lane into characters who have little mobility. Your best friends in lane are Bebop, Vindicta, and Paige, as they force your enemy to stay close to you and create opportunities for you.
12.8k Souls


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근거리 치유
Activates on Bashdown. Heavy melee minion waves to keep the cooldown short.


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클로즈 쿼터
Melee resist to help you make all melee damage trades positive. Extra gun damage in Billy's effective range.


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괴수탄
Helps you kill all NPCs faster to gain wave prio and take jungle faster. Take less chip damage from all NPCs. Super good item.


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확장 탄창
Extra bullets and damage, very good for how cheap it is. Can be upgraded into Escalating Resilience later on.


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활성 효과
희생 제물
FAT buffs and soul returns, plus slightly higher NPC damage dealt and less received. Junglemaxxing is here. Skip for Point Blank if you have multiple junglers on your team.


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마법사의 문장
Very good spirit power (+ resist) increase item. Spirit power not only increases your damage but also your Blasted bonus HP scaling.


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전투 조끼
Nice bullet resist and damage output increase.


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쾌속 질주
Must have item to stay in your enemies' face, better than Sprint Boots as it improves your move speed instead of sprint speed.


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반격
For the naughty laners who like to melee you a lot. Don't just spam it like a bot, that will get you killed.


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추가 재생
Very solid green item, always worth taking if you're taking more damage than you'd like.


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활성 효과
치유 의식
Extra speed and big HP regen. Great for leaving to run boxes quickly while regenning HP.


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반응성 방벽
Super clutch against cc from Haze, Paige, Mo & Krill, etc.


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마법 차폐
Nerfed, but still good. Now not the answer to everything but still worth considering.


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무기 차폐
Not as broad use as Spirit Shielding but still nice.
After lane I would generally recommend trying to play around your ult's cooldown. Farm by catching trooper waves and stealing enemy jungling. Using Blasted in jungle will allow you to leave camps with more HP than you entered with. Make sure to pause jungling to prioritize catching the nearest wave EVERY time, the jungle will still be there and is worth less than troopers. When ult is off cooldown, keep farming but look at your map and try to scope out where a fight is going to happen and start rotating. If one is already happening and you can make it, start rotating. Billy is an insane teamfighter when his ult is ready. You can also rotate for fights when you have no ult if you can gank quickly, or if you catch someone seriously out of position.
26.4k Souls


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마법 손아귀
Still an insane item, arguably even better on Billy now once Bashdown reaches Lv3.


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총탄 저항 분쇄
Resist, shred, and gets you 4.8k spirit. Synergizes well with Torment Pulse.


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초근접 사격
Huge damage increase up close, which is where all your fights will be. Gives a slow effect as well to help you stay on top of your target.


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고통의 파동
Free fat DPS for existing near enemies. Very nice item that scales.


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활성 효과
보복 사격
Situational pick but can be used with other resists to put more pressure as you tank.


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총탄 저항
More useful now than pre-November patch. Fat resist bonus when low.


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활성 효과
강철 피부
No more bullets for you, evil gun carry. Be aware you can still be punched and have spells cast on you.


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판금 갑옷
Very good item against really strong gun characters when you already have some bullet resist.


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광전사
If you can sustain yourself enough to take the high damage this will turn you into a dps monster.


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활성 효과
영웅의 오라
Help your team become tankier when you lead the charge.


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마법 저항
Can work into main build to be super tanky against spirit. Be aware of diminishing returns.


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마법 차단
Not only helps you eat large spirit damage chunks but gives base spirit and debuff resist too.


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신비의 상처
Cheap resist and shred that pairs well with Spirit Snatch.


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활성 효과
재앙
Fat spirit resist and max health percentage damage.


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활성 효과
공허의 화신
Get out of jail free card + short period of big buffs after exiting Ethereal Shift.


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중량탄
Gives additional weapon damage + debuff and spirit resist.


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침묵탄
Lowers enemy spirit damage output, and silences them. It builds up stacks on your Bashdown so you can hit multiple people with it at once. Very good.


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마법 방어
Super good item, highly recommend against characters who rely on their abilities. Can also parry walker stomp to proc a free heal and stat bonus.


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활성 효과
약화 제거
Extremely important item to remember, can be used to clear debuffs and curses like Warden's Binding Word or Vindicta's Stake.


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활성 효과
둔화 주술
Unironically OP item. Silences movement abilities, so it's very good for shutting down characters who rely on them like Lash, Mina, or Infernus.


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억제
Can replace Bullet Resist Shredder for this, good into gun carries.


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활성 효과
무장 해제 주술
Good for giving you the edge against characters relying on their gun.


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활성 효과
충격의 모루
Like Slowing Hex, kind of OP, lets you get picks easier and shuts down people in the sky.


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활성 효과
침묵파
Fallen from grace since last patch but still a silence which proves useful against some heroes, notably Victor.


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활성 효과
저주
Another item to shutdown carries with, boasting even more debuffs and clearing all buffs.
Do not be afraid to grab items from the optional section. The “Late Game” section contains generally good picks for T4 items, with Frenzy and Colossus being the most favorable. Communicate with your team and try to bait the enemy team into a team fight when you have Chain Gang ready. Soul urn is very easy to bait fights with. Be aware of the enemy team's comp and do not get caught out by yourself, because if you die early or before the fight even begins, your team lost a huge ult and tank character, and will likely lose the fight if they don't have someone else to tank. Try to identify and target the enemy team's carries with your ult and kill them ASAP with your team. Communicate this with your team!! Secure picks, mid-boss, get Rejuve, team up, and destroy the enemy base.


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광란
Very good item to resist incoming spirit damage and retaliate with bonus stats.


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활성 효과
거인
Fat HP increase + insane resists and more weapon damage. Very good tank item.


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거머리
Very good for constantly staying in fights longer.


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생명 강타
[READ!!!] Can be upgraded into whenever you like, it's a comfort pick for me, you can skip too. Very good on Billy and lets him double dip in Blasted Bashdown tankiness.


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저항 증대
Great stat increases + bullet resist that scales pretty high and lasts a long time. Has no fall-off range so you can shoot targets from afar to get your resist stacks early.


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활성 효과
시공의 돌
Mobility to get in and/or out paired with a huge resist buff.


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활성 효과
절대 저항
Use this to face tank cc ults during sensitive moments such as midboss. Enemy team comp dependant item.


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대확장
Synergizes with all your Bashdown and Chain Gang very well and also gives you spirit resist on top.


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활성 효과
소용돌이 거미줄
Insane CC item. Pairs really well with Bashdown and Chain Gang. With Vortex Web you dictate the teamfight.


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초월 쿨다운
Luxury item, but extremely useful. Notably makes your items more effective as well.


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대형 탄창
Even more ammo and gun damage. Extra ammo is important because it scales our melee ammo replenish and lets us mix up our melee mindgames.


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활성 효과
축전기
Adds burst of damage and active ability slows + disables movement items, abilities, AND disables stamina usage. Use it to counter mobile targets.


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행운탄
Crazy damage output with this item on with no downsides and even more ammo.


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치유 억제
Cheap antiheal and heals on kill. Great for ganking playstyle.


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억제탄
Like Silencer, this item works with Bashdown, so you can affect multiple people at once. Destroy the raid boss Victor.


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활성 효과
부패
Antiheal best suited for characters with a large HP pool.


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약화 헤드샷
Super easy to activate shred for both damage types + antiheal.


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감쇠 헤드샷
Cheap and easy bullet resist shred.


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중공탄
Very good bullet damage boost and bullet shred. This will make you delete people instantly.


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활성 효과
화염 연금술
Free damage and considerable scaling bullet resist shred. Effect does not linger outside of the fire. Use it to control key spaces.


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헌터의 오라
Kind of a bully item but still pretty good. Slightly pricey.
DEFEAT THE ENEMY AND DEFEND THE GATES TO AGARTHA!!! YOUR BAT IS BEING INFUSED WITH WHITE MONSTER ENERGY FOR THIS MISSION! BRAVE THE FLAMES AND FACE TANK INFERNUS ULT!!!! AGARTHA IS COUNTING ON YOU, BILLY!!!!
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