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This is a spirit build! We focus on slash and ult early! It might be worth levelling bombs before slash, but I personally prefer levelling slash since it's a more consistent ability.
Check out my melee bruiser Calico build: 209974
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近战疗法
Great healing in lane from punching minions. And we upgrade this into Lifestrike for more sustain. Procs on your 2 as well!
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生命打击
Use off CD with heavy melee in lane. It's a 100 health heal on a 4 sec CD. Just so good for sustain, means you never have to leave lane. Lets you permafight in lane.
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暗袭背刺
Great poke in lane and gives you move speed for chasing.
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冰天雪地
Adds to your burst damage, and the slow is great. We also can upgrade this into Arctic Blast.
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大伤元气
A bunch of extra damage on our 2 and punches. We upgrade this to Spirit Snatch.
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疾跑靴
Must buy for rotating around the map and ganking other lanes.
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附魔纹章
Cooldown reduction is really rare so this is a great item since it gives you some.
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猎怪弹
Great if enemies are pushing to your tower or you need to push and take objectives.
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疗愈子弹
Great healing if you hit it off cooldown, the weapon damage is also nice early. If you can't save for Lifestrike this is a good pickup.
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加速回复
If you don't like using Resto Shot this is good for healing. Usually not needed since you rush Lifestrike.
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治疗仪式
Great for healing if you get really low in lane. Sprint speed is also nice for rotating.
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额外生命
Extra health is great in lane and we can upgrade this to Fortitude later. Only buy if you need the survivability in lane.
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对等还击
Great against Viscous in lane since it works against Viscous Puddle Punches. Also a very good item against people building melee (usually Abrams). Only buy if you can actually parry consistently.
If you lack slots, upgrade items.
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元灵收割
Spirit resist and power steal is amazing. Plus even more melee damage and it procs on your 2. Great damage over the course of a game. Makes you far better in 1v1s as well.
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痛苦脉冲
Great damage over the course of a game/fight. And makes you a little tankier. Also helps with farming. Just super good core item for us.
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疾速不怠
If you are boxmaxxing with cat form then buy this. The slow resist is also good if that is being an issue.
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冷却压缩
More uptime on your ult means more fights you can take.
Get as needed.
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超速冷却
Cooldown reduction is really useful. Gives you way more uptime.
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极地冰暴
Really great item, great for catching people and for clearing waves in cat form. The combo with it is Arctic Blast, 2 immediately so the AB travels with you, light punch, 1, 4.
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灵力高涨
Upgrades into Boundless, helps with damage. I often skip this for a 6k item, since by this point you are usually tight on slots due to buying counters.
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子弹坚甲
For bullet resist since you have none built into the core. Can skip if you aren't taking much gun damage or already have anti-bullet items.
Pick and choose depending on what you need. Some can be built in lane/early.
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法术反制
Great against almost everything in the game. Especially Lash.
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减益缩短
No longer works on parry stun. But still a great pick up most games.
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减益消除
Really great against a ton of characters, especially Vindicta, Infernus, and others who debuff you.
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元灵护体
If you need anti-spirit. Very common buy.
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坚毅之心
Purchase if you want to stay on the map. The move speed is great for rotating, the heal lets you stay on the map longer, and the weapon damage is really nice.
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穿幕行者
I have been testing this out since it got buffed, it is quite nice for ambushes and the heal is great in the mid game for staying on the map (like Fortitude). If you get this, get it quite early.
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元灵防护
Got nerfed and no longer scales with spirit power but instead with boons, decent early still.
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疗愈护符
Really nice for the stamina. Healing got a big nerf so is meh now. Great to pick up for general survivability.
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回应射击
Got nerfed but is still good against gun carries. Gives you lots of survivability. Often build in lane.
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应急屏障
Nice in some lanes such as against Bebop. And late game has good spirit scaling.
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不治魔咒
Easy to proc anti-heal. The heal on kill is also really great during midgame fights.
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元灵压制
Great at stopping gun carries. Super good in lane against gun characters. Easy to proc and can go on many people.
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减速魔咒
Good against Lash, Pocket, Mina, and other movement focused people. Often a must buy against a good Mina.
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天锤压顶
If no one else on your team is going to buy this and you really need to stop a Vindicta/GT or Seven ult.
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元灵衰竭
Builds into Silence Wave, easy to use and great for 1v1s.
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沉默之潮
Very strong at the moment, silence is very good against many characters and it reduces their resist. I recommend against characters like Yamato and Pocket.
Get depending on game state. If you don't know what to get, go Scourge first.
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敌之灾患
Really good. Makes you really tanky and can do a lot of damage if you get into the middle of their team. You can rush earlier if you feel it would be good or have the money.
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破阵之势
Great against gun carries and is good to pick up if you have no free slots.
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超凡冷却
Not worth unless you have 3 Active Items in my opinion. But once you do its a very good upgrade and good for slots.
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灵力无边
Gives you some much needed damage in the late game with your ult and gloom bombs. Great if you are trying to oneshot their carries.
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身躯虚化
Great on Calico, helps you live much longer. The cooldown for it is super short. Great with Transcendent CD.
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秘术脆弱
Upgrades into Escalating Exposure.
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伤上加伤
Only get after Scourge. Great for anti-tank and general increased damage for your team.
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元灵燃烧
Anti-heal + more burst damage. If you need to burst carries this is really useful.
You can get some of these earlier as counter buys.
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势不可挡
Really great in late teamfights. Especially good if you are really struggling against CC. Or for midboss.
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破咒护符
Incredible against Lash, Grey Talon, and any other spirit burst characters.
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幻影突袭
Amazing for shutting down fliers and gun carries. And for getting on top of the people you need to target in team fights.
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铁板重甲
Great but usually only buy once you already have bullet resist. Great against Haze.
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巫师护甲
Very situational. Only get against lots of incremental spirit damage (McGinnis turrets, Infernus, Warden Ult) and have Spirit Resilience already.
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巨人
Extra resists and health is great. Also works as an alternative upgrade for Extra Health.
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扰动
If you need to screw over one enemy in particular.
I wouldn't buy anything here really. They probably suck!
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魔毯
Fun and silly! Also good escape tool. Just worse to get than other 6ks though.
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灵能涌动
It's nice on your bombs. You like all the things it gives you. I just personally prefer to focus on slash earlier since bombs are inconsistent to hit before you get Arctic Blast. You can get after AB!
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衰变
I don't think this is really all that worth it compared to just getting Healbane. Since any person incredibly reliant on healing will just get Debuff Remover. But maybe get against Mo or Abrams.
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重装克星
There isn't much reason to get this since you want your gloom bombs to do over 165, which makes this a super late game item, and by that point there are better items to get.
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容光焕发
Kind of fun, but not very good. Adds up to a decent amount of heal in longer fights since Torment Pulse and Scourge easily procs it.
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秘术缓速
Just feels really nice, makes it super easy to hit your ults second/end damage burst. Probably also nice against like Vyper.
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寻猎季节
DO NOT EVER BUILD THIS UNLESS YOU ARE 100% SURE YOU WILL GET LOTS OF STACKS. This is often a trap item, which puts you -3k souls down, without giving you anything much in return until later.
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铜皮铁骨
This since it got buffed is actually kinda really good against some characters, especially Haze. I'd get this if just buying Bullet Resilience or Juggernaut isn't enough maybe.
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战斗背心
Kinda nice. The bullet resist is good and the weapon damage/fire rate is meh. I don't usually go this since I usually just rush Bullet Res, Return Fire, or Surpressor against gun problems
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武器防护
It's nice, but I just prefer to go Return Fire or Suppressor or rush Bullet Resilience early.
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特异供奉
This is kinda nice for easily doing T3 camps in the early game. The stats it gives are nice but aren't super impactful on us.
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