Dysponująca potężną bronią i śmiercionośnym jadem Vyper jest w stanie prześlizgnąć się na tyły wroga i zdjąć cele o wysokim priorytecie w huraganie kul.
Dysponująca potężną bronią i śmiercionośnym jadem Vyper jest w stanie prześlizgnąć się na tyły wroga i zdjąć cele o wysokim priorytecie w huraganie kul.
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
The patch changed spirit Vyper's laning phase from bursty poke to sustained poke. The biggest choice here is between Opening Rounds and Mystic Shot (I wouldn't get both); read annotations. Venom on Guardians makes you even more of a objective melter (remember to be in range when it triggers!)
Overstatted item. Spirit resist, spirit power, regen, cooldown reduction? Good early priority 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-reliable option. Good in winning lanes or against long-ranged characters who you can poke with this.
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.
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.
Defensive Lane Items
Buy as needed. You probably want at least one or two unless you're truly stomping lane. In hard lanes, get one of these first thing.
Map Sustain
Choose your favorite; Fortitude feels better in current patch but VW still has its place. Can delay in very greedy games, or if you're desperately hurting for damage.
Mid / Late Game - Core
Buy simulatenously with the Greens category below as needed. Healbane should be picked up early if you're getting shredded by sustain-heavy heroes; otherwise this is in rough order of priority L -> R.
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 pickup for me most games.
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 green items.
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, 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.)
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.
Surprisingly good, especially if you're having a rough game and are transitioning into a more supportive role. Builds into Divine Barrier too.
For your friend who came into this game from League of Legends and is now raging about how many stuns there are in this game. Or you, I guess.
Pretty solid if you need to shut down a gun carry early into the game, but late game I'd rather have Juggernaut.
It's solid for more sustain, but not my favorite on Vyper. More of an Ivy item, you know what I mean? Yeah you do.
Underrated imo, but probably a bit too expensive unless you're really struggling to do dmg and accepting a more supportive role. Then it's a great pickup for you and your team.
Good against Lash, Haze, etc. in lane. Not great past early-mid game in my opinion - in most cases Debuff Remover is more useful (or straight up Spirit Resilience, or Spellbreaker).
If you're getting absolutely shredded by on-hit effects, this is decent. But I still prefer Juggernaut.
For that MnK that just loves you so much. Deadlock's BKB, for you Dota knowers. Although far less ubitiquous or generally necessary than BKB...
Situational Items
All are annotated with my thoughts. I wouldn't consider any of them a core part of the build, but occasionally I may get one of these if the game really calls for it, and if you have a soft spot for one of these items, go for it. Unordered.
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.
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.
I HATE this guy and want them to SUFFER. A classic Spirit Vyper item, but a bit pricey for hybrid. The random 20% weapon damage is a surprise, but a welcome one.
Feels a bit overkill, cooldowns aren't really a problem outside of bola, but another reasonable upgrade path w/ Transcendent.
The actives are all self-explanatory, I feel. You're already a pretty item-hungry character so it feels bad to have to buy these. If you're in a pub and nobody else is doing it though...
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?
A bit overkill, but if you're out of things to upgrade and have Mystic Expansion. Does make your bolas bigger, that's fun.
The silence is whatever. No stamina usage feels terrible though - albeit sliding from a run is very possible with this build.
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.
I'd rather have Glass Cannon; the consistent weapon damage jives better with Mercurial Magnum; still this is good with our bonkers fire rate.
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.
Ability Point Order
Wijący Sztylet
Śmiertelna Trucizna
Pełznięcie
Petryfikujący Bolas
1
1
1
2
2
5
1
2
5
2
5
5