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Author's notes

Hybrid between Melee, gun and Spirit Haze

Item categories

1. 1Laning Stage

   Author's category · 10 items · You can put 1AP into Smoke for fsater rollouts

   1. 1

      Golden Goose Egg

      For passive lane (wrap at Cultist)

   2. 2

      Monster Rounds

      to go for Cultist and negate Egg somewhat

   3. 3

      Melee Lifesteal

      Skippable only when you have another heal source or Medic is enough

   4. 4

      Extra Spirit

   5. 5

      Cultist Sacrifice

      Built from Monster Rounds

      Smoke->Enemy side->Yoink T3 creep->Profit. Buy at 8 minute

   6. 6

      Trophy Collector

      for even faster traveling around the map

   7. 7

      Compress Cooldown

   8. 8

      Melee Charge

      Very good damage. Skip for Quicksilver if full spirit

   9. 9

      Veil Walker

   10. 10

       Surge of Power

       Built from Extra Spirit

       Haze loves everything in this item

2. 2Counter and heal itemsoptional

   Author's category · 6 items

   1. 1

      Healing Rite

      Always good. Just don't peek if you see enemies

   2. 2

      Rebuttal

      To hardly punish heavy melee comp, or to stand up against light melee abusers

   3. 3

      Extra Regen

      Gives enough heal when dealing with consistent and low enough damage

3. 3Early-Mid game

   Author's category · 6 items

   1. 1

      Extra Charge

      You are questioning; "how farming?" and the answer is stealth steal of jungle creeps

   2. 2

      Shadow Weave

      Counterintuitive but still, you can now use Smoke only for cleanse or lifesteal

   3. 3

      Echo Shard

      2 Daggers makes 2 guaranteed heavy melees, or good stuns

4. 4Early-Mid Optional itemsoptional

   Author's category · 10 items · can swap with same tier items

   1. 1

      Stalker

      DOT does NOT wake up targets

   2. 2

      Hunter's Aura

      -firerate makes it very good sidegrade of Point Blank, but worse bullet damage. The reason why not PB is that it works with every bullet damage, including Fixation

   3. 3

      Improved Spirit

      Built from Extra Spirit

5. 5Late game

   Game stage · 6 items · Can max Smoke 1st/2nd for lifesteal or dispel

   1. 1

      Burst Fire

      Don't shoot until you ended your melee combo to not waste Burst Fire's duration

   2. 2

      Boundless Spirit

      Built from Improved Spirit

   3. 3

      Spiritual Overflow

   4. 4

6. 6Early Game Survivabilityoptional

   Author's category · 6 items

   1. 1

      Weapon Shielding

      Built from Grit

   2. 2

      Battle Vest

   3. 3

      Debuff Reducer

   4. 4

7. 7Support in disguiseoptional

   Author's category · 11 items · For even more fun (very niche though)

   1. 1

      Guardian Ward

      Built from Grit

   2. 2

      Heroic Aura

   3. 3

      Alchemical Fire

   4. 4

8. 8Armor for Mid gameoptional

   Author's category · 4 items

   1. 1

      Bullet Resilience

   2. 2

      Metal Skin

   3. 3

      Spirit Resilience

   4. 4

9. 9Some counterbuy and survivaloptional

   Author's category · 7 items

   1. 1

      Blood Tribute

      Highest Debuff resist among all (aside of Active Unstoppable) items

   2. 2

      Stamina Mastery

      God among Green items, can survive everything with just it if you are good enough

   3. 3

      Fortitude

      Built from Extra Health

10. 10Optional Weapon itemsoptional

    Author's category · 8 items

    1. 1

       Active Reload

       If you love it

    2. 2

       Slowing Bullets

    3. 3

       Mystic Shot

    4. 4

11. 11Ultra Late

    Author's category · 3 items · For L-R

    1. 1

       Leech

    2. 2

       Glass Cannon

       can change with any fitting T4 item. -15% hp is not a big problem when you have less total hp than 6 McG turrets (still buy counter items)

    3. 3

       Armor Piercer

       if enemies have too much bullet resist

12. 12Ultra Lateoptional

    Author's category · 11 items · Game. There's no path or right item. Buy what you need, you have time to read item's descriptions in Late Game

    1. 1

       Crushing Fists

       Built from Melee Charge

       Can rush earlier just for fun, but then better to pair with something else

    2. 2

       Crippling Headshot

       More shred?

    3. 3

       Silencer

13. 13Survivability itemsoptional

    Author's category · 11 items

    1. 1

       Frenzy

    2. 2

       Plated Armor

    3. 3

       Spellbreaker

       Built from Debuff Reducer

    4. 4

14. 14Honorable Mentionoptional

    Author's category · 17 items

    1. 1

       Restorative Shot

       Instead of Melee Lifesteal. better heal overall but if you hit enemies

    2. 2

       Swift Striker

       For items that benefit firerate like Siphon or Toxic. If you bought Gun item that doesn't benefit from firerate, SKIP

    3. 3

       Opening Rounds

Categories appear in the author's order. Only the editor's default Early, Mid and Late sections are marked as game stages; the author's own categories keep their names. “Built from” links come from the game's item recipes.

Published ability order

Published ability order: unlocks and upgrades in the author's order, one row per ability in slot order

Sleep DaggerSleep Dagger		Sleep Dagger: Ability unlocked, step 2					Sleep Dagger: 1 AP upgrade, step 71	Sleep Dagger: 2 AP upgrade, step 82				Sleep Dagger: 5 AP upgrade, step 12