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Lifestrike is dead. Billy-ons will weep. (Billy is the best frontliner rn)
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Billy's lane is a bit weaker now, but our wave clear is stronger than most characters as you can spam light melees on troopers while you are reloading, so you can always have pressure. [ - ] Enemies are forced to respect you as walking up to the bridge and beyond gives you enough space to punish them hard. With Blasted you win every melee trade, and with Rising Ram and Bashdown you keep them out of position. [ - ] Look for opportunities to punish overextension whenever possible. Ideally wave prio is more important but if the enemy is disrespecting your space or hard pressuring your lane partner on your side you need to be there immediately. [ - ] Smart enemies will not give you space to kill them with, so in this scenario, shove wave hard and leave to go box and get even stronger. The enemy will either make an aggressive play for you to punish or you will get strong enough from wave shoving and box farming to dive them under their tower. [ - ] When your ultimate comes up, try to force value on it as soon as possible. The moment they give you space instantly dive with ult. [ - ] Golden rule: communicate with your lane partner when you're diving !!!
10.4k Souls


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เมเลไลฟ์สตีล
Activates on Bashdown. Heavy melee minion waves to keep the cooldown short. Feel free to sell this first.


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มอนสเตอร์ราวด์
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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โคลสควอร์เตอร์
Melee resist and bonus damage against close range targets. Upgrades into Point Blank which is a very strong item for Billy.


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สปิริตสไตรก์
Nice burst damage early on that builds into the lovely lovely Spirit Snatch.


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เมเลชาร์จ
Makes heavy melees good. When active this doubles your Blasted HP gain, so ALWAYS pop Blasted first now.


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ไลฟ์สไตรก์
Definitely way weaker, especially early on. Works well with Colossus. Much later provides nice relevant bursts.


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เอนดิวริงสปีด
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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สโลวิงบุลเล็ต
Feels good to keep targets right next you. Dash distance reduction gets more and more important the better your opponent is.


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ฮีลลิงไรต์
Actually OP item. Use this inbetween waves and hit boxes, take sinners, or take camps. Can be bought later if you're omega pooping on the enemy lane (would still buy anyway though).


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


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เอ็กซ์ตร้าเฮลธ์
Good for surviving big bursts more. Kind of emulates the health difference we had with early Lifestrike. Upgrades into Colossus in late game.


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รีบัตเทิล
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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รีแอกทีฟแบร์ริเออร์
Super clutch against cc from Haze, Paige, Mo & Krill, etc. Activates when hyperlined or parried as well.


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สปิริตชีลดิง
Nerfed, but still good. Now not the answer to everything but still worth considering.
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. Lifestrike is super nerfed and not viable until late, try to fight with Blasted up only!!!
19.2k Souls


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สปิริตสแนตช์
Still an insane item, arguably even better on Billy now once Bashdown reaches Lv3. Helps you reach bigger burst with Bashdown.


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บุลเล็ตรีซิสต์เชรดเดอร์
Resist, shred, and gets you 4.8k spirit. Synergizes well with Torment Pulse.


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สปิริตรีซิเลียนซ์
Spirit damage feels pretty prevalent as a frontliner right now, so I personally take Spirit Resilience at some point in the game. Very strong effect that pairs well with more spirit resist or Frenzy.


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Imbue [E]
ดูเรชันเอ็กซ์เทนเดอร์
Blasted is SUPER important this patch and you're way less OP without it active. Duration Extender also returns Blasted jungling to its former glory.


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ฮีโรอิกออรา
Bullet resist for everyone around you, move speed, fire rate, and winions all in one. Even better if you have a teammate with summons (Graves or McGinnis).


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เอสกาเลติงรีซิเลียนซ์
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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แบตเทิลเวส
Nice bullet resist and damage output increase.


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วาร์ปสโตน
Mobility to get in and/or out paired with a huge resist buff.


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


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


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บลัดทริบิวต์
Gives spirit resist, fire rate, and FAT debuff resist. Definitely pick into hard CC.


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โคลด์ฟรอนต์
Gives spirit resist and is lowkey a little OP. Strong early damage that scales and slows for a long duration. Effectively a 5th ability. Do not sleep on this item.


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


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เอนแชนเตอร์เอมเบลม
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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ดิสเปลเมจิก
Can be used to clear debuffs and curses like Warden's Binding Word or Vindicta's Stake. New spirit resist makes it even better into characters like Infernus.


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


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ดีบัฟรีดิวเซอร์
Big into cc heavy teams, works well with Reactive Barrier and upgrades into Spellbreaker or Unstoppable.


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เมทัลสกิน
Haze ult build is very popular right now but Metal Skin will help you avoid being insta-deleted.


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เคาน์เตอร์สเปล
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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กดใช้
ดิไวน์แบร์ริเออร์
If you're too grandpa to Counterspell Affliction in time (me) this item will be a very expensive band-aid to your poor reaction time.


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กดใช้
อันสต็อปเอเบิล
With everyone super strong right now CC is king more than ever. Look at the enemy team comp and determine if you need to survive one million stuns with Unstoppable.


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กดใช้
สโลวิงเฮ็กซ์
Better item now. 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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ซัปเพรสเซอร์
Very helpful when played into characters that rely on their m1.


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


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ไซเลนซ์เวฟ
Fallen from grace since last patch but still a silence which proves useful when ambushing enemies.


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กดใช้
เคิร์สเรลิก
Another item to shutdown carries with, boasting even more debuffs and clearing all buffs.
As the game progresses past the 20 minute mark, respawn timers will get much longer and deaths will result in opportunities for teams to make plays for objectives like walkers or mid-boss. [ - ] In the late game communicate with your team to keep waves shoved safely and avoid anyone being caught alone. [ - ] Prioritize safely collecting more souls while also looking for opportunities to get picks on the enemy team. Depending on the target, you may be able to mid-boss off one pick (high value pit fighters such as Dynamo or Abrams), but in most cases two picks is the safest mid-boss scenario. [ - ] Adjust your build to what is most necessary, sometimes it's worth grabbing one or two different items per game. Use your head and be smart in your items. [ - ] Ultimately, winning the game requires you to turn on your mic and work together.
39.2k Souls


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พอยต์แบลงก์
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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กดใช้
โคลอสซัส
Fat HP increase + insane resists and more weapon damage. Very good tank item. Now gives bonus melee damage when active, which is nice.


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เฟรนซี
Very good item to resist incoming spirit damage and retaliate with bonus stats. In primarily spirit comps, pair with Spirit Resilience for 75% resist.


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ครัชชิงฟิสต์
Only makes sense to invest in more utility since we have Melee Charge. The stun can be really useful for interrupting channels.


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ฮีลเบน
Cheap antiheal and heals on kill. Great for ganking playstyle.


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อินฮิบิเตอร์
Like Silencer, this item works with Bashdown, so you can affect multiple people at once. Gives a HUGE damage bonus and really good bonus health too. Destroy Abrams.


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ท็อกซิกบุลเล็ต
Strong antiheal and percent health bleed. Gives no stat bonuses which kind of sucks but this item is still good.


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กดใช้
ดีเคย์
50% heal reduction is pretty large and also bleeds 30% of someone's health for its duration. Gives bonus spirit power and health which are very nice.


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ทอร์เมนต์พัลส์
A lot of DPS by being near people, usually bought in mid-game but I personally don't prioritize spirit damage as much on this character.


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วอร์เท็กซ์เว็บ
Insane CC item. Pairs really well with Bashdown and Chain Gang. With Vortex Web you dictate the teamfight.


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บาวด์เลสสปิริต
If you're really agead or don't have any particular item you need to buy scaling your Blasted even further is pretty big.


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จักเกอร์น็อต
Great tank item to compliment bullet resists when going against multiple gun builds.


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กดใช้
แวมไพริกเบิร์สต์
Less healing than Leech passively but when active component is used it heals you by over 1000. With Frenzy pop Vampiric Burst below 50% HP to maximize fire rate and healing.


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ไซฟอนบุลเล็ต
Testing, but siphon bullets might be super back.


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คริปพลิงเฮดช็อต
Super easy to activate shred for both damage types + antiheal. Super necessary into high resistance frontliners like Yamato, Abrams, Victor, etc.


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ไซเลนเซอร์
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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ไททานิกแม็กกาซีน
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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เวทเต็ดช็อต
Builds from Slowing Bullets and gives a large weapon damage increase. Makes it extremely hard to get away from you. Best into characters dashing a lot.


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Imbue [E]
บัลลิสติกเอนชานต์เมนต์
This item is INSANE damage. Cultist Sacrifice is less necessary with how squishy jungle is now, and this grants you the range and damage aspect but better early on.


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กดใช้
คาปาซิเตอร์
Higher DPS and hard movement lock on whoever you hit. Very easy to hit targets with the active component after Rising Ram or Bashdown. Useful for slippery targets.


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สตอล์กเกอร์
Not terrible but the bleed doesn't seem to have much of a purpose in mid-game still after its rework.


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วีคเคนนิงเฮดช็อต
Cheap and easy bullet resist shred.


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กดใช้
อัลเคมิคัลไฟร์
Strong for ult usage and mid-boss fights. Bashdown and Rising Ram soft cc can be used to force people to stay in the fire.


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ฮันเตอร์ออรา
Big bullet resist shred on alone targets, and bullet resist shred around people in general.
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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