Shiv build guide

Dew

by dewVersion 55Updated Sep 17, 2026Guide #369681

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Author's notes

shiv

Item categories

1Early game
Game stage · 7 items · rough L-R, can go healbane earlier
1. 1
  Restorative Shot
2. 2
  Monster Rounds
3. 3
  Extra Charge
4. 4
  Radiant Regeneration
5. 5
  Mystic Vulnerability
6. 6
  Healbane
7. 7
  Dispel Magic
2Early Situationaloptional
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Extra Regen
2. 2
  Healing Booster
  Built from Extra Regen
3. 3
  Restorative Locket
4. 4
3Early-Mid
Author's category · 5 items · rough L-R, can choose to buy vests/emblem
1. 1
  Rapid Recharge
  Built from Extra Charge
2. 2
  Compress Cooldown
3. 3
  Superior Cooldown
  Built from Compress Cooldown
4. 4
4Mid-Late
Author's category · 6 items · rough L-R, unstop earlier if lots of cc
1. 1
  Escalating Exposure
  Built from Mystic Vulnerability
2. 2
  Transcendent Cooldown
  Built from Superior Cooldown
3. 3
  Bullet Resilience
  can buy metal skin instead
4. 4
5Late game
Game stage · 5 items · no order, can build anything this row
1. 1
  Ethereal Shift
2. 2
  Juggernaut
3. 3
  Plated Armor
4. 4
6Late Situationaloptional
Author's category · 6 items
1. 1
  Boundless Spirit
2. 2
  Spellbreaker
  Built from Debuff Reducer
3. 3
  Phantom Strike
4. 4
7Other Situationaloptional
Author's category · 11 items
1. 1
  Decay
2. 2
  Spirit Snatch
3. 3
  Tankbuster
4. 4

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
Serrated KnivesSerrated Knives	Serrated Knives: Ability unlocked, step 1				Serrated Knives: 1 AP upgrade, step 5	Serrated Knives: 2 AP upgrade, step 6	Serrated Knives: 5 AP upgrade, step 7