Ivy build guide

Sleeper Agent Scourge Rush Ivy [Annotated] [V4.1]

by HeggyVersion 27Updated Oct 6, 2026Guide #630381

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Suspiciously scourge shaped Ivy... OVERVIEW: Play as a support for early/midgame, save ppl, do chores, farm. Lategame use egg and buy turbo 6ks. Use air drop with scourge to become an unstopable force of unlimited damage and hp. Your lategame is similar to if a Victor could fly and had stoneform. Lategame AP order flexible, kudzu connection is now recommended, but stoneform max first works fine as well. Very team comp dependent.

Item categories

1Egg :3
Author's category · 1 items
1. 1
  Golden Goose Egg
  WHEN TO SELL: Either when egg gives enough to get scourge/exposure or when buying scourge/exposure, usally 25-30 min UPDATE #2: EGG IS SO BACK! Since you can get resists from egg its worth again imo
2Early Game L>R || Add 800 purple if no egg
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Extra Charge
  Sell this if you get witchmail
2. 2
  Mystic Expansion
  Larger radius on stoneform catches a lot of people out, esepcally in earlygame
3. 3
  Extra Spirit
  Can sub with suppressor if needed, remove improved spirit from queue if getting suppressor early
3Greens [Pick 1]optional
Author's category · 3 items
1. 1
  Return Fire
  When into bullet hell and plan to buy plated late game [RF >SpirRes > Plated]
2. 2
  Enchanter's Emblem
  Solid buy in most games, the order for greens I usally take with this is [EE>MetalSkin>Witchmail]
3. 3
  Trophy Collector
  lose out on earlygame resists which hurts a lot, but the buffs can be really nice. I recomend buying after egg.
4For Laneoptional
Author's category · 3 items · Only if you really need it!
1. 1
  Extra Regen
  If super bad and hard lane | Can sell after lane, may cause slot issues mid to late game
2. 2
  Rebuttal
  Anti punch | Can sell after lane, may cause slot issues mid to late game. Overall goated item and op if used well
3. 3
  Close Quarters
  Cheap melee resist, can be good if you are getting punched a ton. Always buy rebuttal before this
5More Greens [Pick 1]optional
Author's category · 2 items
1. 1
  Spirit Resilience
  Pick if spirit heavy comp
2. 2
  Metal Skin
  Pick if into bullet
6Mid Game L>R
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Improved Spirit
  Built from Extra Spirit
  Buy early game if no egg
2. 2
  Greater Expansion
  Built from Mystic Expansion
3. 3
  Duration Extender
4. 4
7CORE
Author's category · 2 items · Bread and Butter.
1. 1
  Escalating Exposure
  I cannot overstate how important this item is for this build, you NEED this.
2. 2
  Scourge
  Most important item in build, try to get this ASAP after getting early-mid game stuff
8Late game
Game stage · 2 items · Consider witchmail in many games
1. 1
  Superior Cooldown
  Built from Compress Cooldown
  Prob buy every game but can skip if really needed
2. 2
  Boundless Spirit
  Built from Improved Spirit
  Since scourge changes hit, this has become a much stronger item for adding dps, big spirit power buff, big spirit investment. Most games I skip it for earlier 6k greens though, staying alive is prio
9Good Utiloptional
Author's category · 10 items · Late game/counterbuys, suppressor is by far my most bought from here
1. 1
  Mystic Slow
  I dont take this often, but I think its worth for games when you want more slows and cc
2. 2
  Ethereal Shift
  Get out of jail free card + buffs after and short CD for what you get. Very good
3. 3
  Infuser
  More heal = live longer, can sell emblem for this
10Big Tank Items
Author's category · 4 items · BUY AT LEAST 1 || Pick based off of damage resist needed
1. 1
  Colossus
  Generally good for going into teams with diverse damage profiles, not the best, but holds up most of the time.
2. 2
  Juggernaut
  Great when into some bullet and slow comps, also if playing into melee heavy comps, prio this and torment pulse
3. 3
  Witchmail
  Makes you super strong, cdr is insane. Consider buying spellbreaker instead of this if burst spirit damage is the issue[If you dont know what to buy, BUY THIS, trust me]
11Gun Itemsoptional
Author's category · 7 items · For Stoneform followup/sustained or poke damage. | Pick 1 or 2 if needed, but gun buys are mostly for fun(can still work out tho!). 6.4k gun items are usally endgame buys only [If you want to go gun then take tether to max before stoneform max!]
1. 1
  Toxic Bullets
  Overall good pick + good into tanks
2. 2
  Tesla Bullets
  Solid
3. 3
  Capacitor
12add to 3.2k gun for 4.8koptional
Author's category · 2 items
1. 1
  Spirit Shredder
  Buy this to hit 4.8k if buying a 3.2k
2. 2
  Split Shot
  Untested, but i can see it working well with other debuff gun items
13Counterbuyoptional
Author's category · 11 items · Consider subbing some greens for these or buying them early if needed
1. 1
  Healbane
  Pick if into turbo healing, can be replaced by spirit burn lategame if needed
2. 2
  Dispel Magic
  Pick if debuff issues
3. 3
  Counterspell
  Counter everything (especally beebop & lash)
14Testing branchoptional
Author's category · 9 items
1. 1
  Radiant Regeneration
2. 2
  Diviner's Kevlar
  Not super good but can be fun.
3. 3
  Magic Carpet
  MORE FLIGHT. LESS GRAVITY.
4. 4
15Outdated/Not good atmoptional
Author's category · 5 items
1. 1
  Battle Vest
  Only buy into super gun heavy comps. Moving this to outdated becasue i just dont buy it anymore. Every time i think about it return fire just seems like a better option
2. 2
  Bullet Resilience
  I still think this is worth considering into super bullet heavy comps, but i almost never find myself buying it. Only worth taking if you already have every other anti bullet iten and still need more
3. 3
16READMEoptional
Author's category · 0 items · Infodump has some oudated info at the moment, i havnt gotten around to rewriting it for newer sets of items etc, so take some of the buy sugestions with a grain of salt. Pretty much sub bullet vest sugestions with return fire and locket with enchanters, plus some buy orders have changed.
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17INFODUMP [Build Overview]optional
Author's category · 0 items · Buy Left to right until you get superior cooldown, then buy what you need. Powerspike(sleeper agent activation codeword) is usally at 25K-30K. Ap order is flexible, the order listed is what i use most of the time, but honestly you can take thorns max first instead of airdrop max first and have things still work. Also stoneform 3 is skipable is you want to put ap elsewhere. Always remember that you can use scourge(and thorns!) while flying. It is easily one of the best ways to stay on people while avoiding getting shot(most of the time). For the first 20 ish min of the game you are going to be playing a weird support ivy, keep lanes clean, help people escape, stun and slow when needed. Once you can pop egg and get scourge/exposure, you can begin your rampage. Understand that without a 6.4k greens and some util you are not going to be able to tank a ton of hits, so using airdrop and scourge together is a good idea, especally right after buying scourge.
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18INFODUMP [Pick 1 Greens]optional
Author's category · 0 items · You load into a match, buy your earlygame items, and now are faced with chosing greens, what should you pick? The two pick one areas that get you to 4.8k green are very matchup dependent. Your 1.6k shold reflect a smaller part of what the issue is going to be from the enemy team, maybe they have mostly spirit but also haze or wraith, consider a bullet vest. Maybe you are into a gun heavy comp, but they also have a mina who is getting fed, take enchanters emblem. Trophy collector is more of a neutral pick, and requires you to hunt assists, but pulls its weight pretty well. Locket is also solid, and is a neutral ish pick, but leans anti spirit, basically if you plan on buying spirit resilience but dont want an emblem on top of that, and want something that provides a bit more neutral value.
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19INFODUMP [Pick 1 Greens] Continoptional
Author's category · 0 items · Between spirit resilience and metal skin, pick what will counter the priamary damage source of the enemy, lots of spirit damage? Spirit resilience. Haze, and Drifter? Metal skin. Buying resists for this build is all about trying to cover all areas of damage you will be taking, adressing the big sources with big items, and the small sources with small items. its very rare you will be buying all of one resist or another, ive pretty much never bought bullet vest and metal skin, just because you are almost never going to face a comp where gun damage makes up such a large portion of your issues. Also, a bit unrelated, but still putting it here, if melee heavy characters become fed/problematic, buy torment pulse, juggernaut, and maybe rebuttal.
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20INFODUMP [Overall Build Sugestions]optional
Author's category · 0 items · Most of the time im taking purples first, and then greens, but if know I want TC, I usally buy it right after egg. This does make your earlygame even weaker, so be aware of that. I would say the most standard build ive found is 4.8K Purples ---> Enchanters Emblem ---> Metal Skin ---> Buy midgame purples ---> Get scourge and Mystic Vuln, then when you can afford Exposure with egg, use egg. After that i take superior CD 99% of games, and Witchmail after that since its so strong. Past that its mostly counterbuys. Investing in Metal skin works really well in lots of games since there is already a ton of spirit rez in this build by default, on top of getting emblem early. Metal skin lets you frontline hard into most gun carry chars, and gets huge value at almost every point in the game.
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21INFODUMP [Misc tips that you prob dont need]optional
Author's category · 0 items · First off, Metal skin blocks damage from spawn turrets. Its kinda crazy tbh and super funny to mess around with. Think about looking for lineups for thorns, so you can clear lanes faster, Its not practical in almost any way imo, but its pretty fun tbh. FLIGHT IS A DISTRACTION!!! For some reason a ton of people have a deep urge to aimlessly shoot at flying objects(especally ivy shaped ones). Use this to your advantage, waste their time. Using tether and then stoneform can heal a teammate, this is rarely ever useful, but if you have downtime in lane it dosnt hurt, and can help a little in situations in lane where everyone is really low.
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22Support Itemsoptional
Author's category · 7 items · For emergencies only! If you are taking these often then maybe look at other builds that are designed for support
1. 1
  Healing Booster
  Built from Extra Regen
  This one can be used selfishly so maybe its ok
2. 2
  Healing Nova
3. 3
  Rescue Beam

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Published ability order

Published ability order: unlocks and upgrades in the author's order, one row per ability in slot order
Entangling ThornsEntangling Thorns	Entangling Thorns: Ability unlocked, step 1					Entangling Thorns: 1 AP upgrade, step 6			Entangling Thorns: 2 AP upgrade, step 9			Entangling Thorns: 5 AP upgrade, step 12