MY NAME IS JOHN MARSTON! (Fully Annotated)

Author's notes

Use your Deadeye ability. What do you mean this is not RDR? I'm supposed to aim? Without auto aim or time slow? Click their heads. Maximize Crackshot as much as possible. Hit your headshots and you can do major damage.

Item categories

1. 1Early game

   Game stage · 10 items · Buy Left to Right. Wolf ate our brains out. Sell Restorative Shot first, then if you must, choose between Battle Vest or Recharging Rush.

   1. 1

      Headshot Booster

      Hit your headshots! A boosted crackshot at the start of the game does 100 damage from any range.

   2. 2

      Restorative Shot

      Essential for early sustain

   3. 3

      Extra Stamina

      With bounce pad to escape/maneuver, this will probably be enough Stamina.

   4. 4

2. 2Mid game

   Game stage · 5 items · This is the point where your Deadeye highlights their vitals.

   1. 1

      Weighted Shots

      Huge damage boost. Movement slow lets you hit more headshots on mobile characters and synergizes with Crackshot. Negatives outweighed by Holliday's high base move speed and bounce pad.

   2. 2

      Ricochet

      CRITICAL BUY. Headshots with this proc level 3 Crackshot. If winning, win harder. If losing, hurt everyone in the deathball and/or break minion armies attacking your base.

   3. 3

3. 3Late game

   Game stage · 4 items · Prioritize Armor Piercing if Metal Skin makes you suicidal.

   1. 1

      Inhibitor

      Lots of damage, extra health mitigates Glass Cannon reduction. Reducing their damage helps your whole team. Also serves as a good "fuck you" to Abrams, Victor, Rem, etc

   2. 2

      Vampiric Burst

      Turn Doc's gun into an autopistol. With this much damage, by now you can outheal and destroy some characters. By the time you get this, you can kill some with just bodyshots!

   3. 3

4. 4Very Late Gameoptional

   Author's category · 3 items · Try not to let them bully you.

   1. 1

      Silencer

      Some characters really deserve to be silenced. First temporarily and then forever.

   2. 2

      Crippling Headshot

      The debuff you apply with this does not have a cooldown. Hitting headshots can drastically affect teamfights. 12 seconds is a very long time in combat.

   3. 3

      Lucky Shot

5. 5Optional But Still Usefuloptional

   Author's category · 8 items

   1. 1

      Active Reload

      Significant boost to pretty much everything you want. greater potential for damage in a shorter timeframe and helps you stay alive.

   2. 2

      Trophy Collector

      Built from Sprint Boots

   3. 3

      Restorative Locket

6. 6Optional Countersoptional

   Author's category · 10 items · Low Priority/Counters

   1. 1

      Counterspell

      Can be quite helpful if you know when to use it.

   2. 2

      Rebuttal

   3. 3

      Metal Skin

      If you're struggling to fight other bullet users, make them hate their life and then end their life.

   4. 4

7. 7Optional Ability Boostsoptional

   Author's category · 3 items · Significantly better if you have a coordinated team.

   1. 1

      Superior Duration

      Extends your Lasso duration enough to work with friendly reaction times. Also makes bounce pads last really long.

   2. 2

      Greater Expansion

      A longer lasso means you can get more picks. A lot of the time though, you want enemies to stay away. Lasso isn't very good... but its fine if your team is good

   3. 3

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

Powder KegPowder Keg		Powder Keg: Ability unlocked, step 2						Powder Keg: 1 AP upgrade, step 81			Powder Keg: 2 AP upgrade, step 112