God damn this cursed iron fist

Author's notes

Flexible HMC Ivy build || youtube.com/watch?v=_5wJFfzUhZk || ➤ "Ivy stop spamming heavy hits" ➤ "All that for what Ivy? Holy ass" ➤ "You are playing Ivy. You are worthless. Coward rat"

Item categories

1. 1Early game

   Game stage · 7 items · I like to stagger melee items to mindgame people out of insta-buying rebut

   1. 1

      Extra Health

      More hp on stone form

   2. 2

      Close Quarters

      More trooper and enemy damage

   3. 3

      Fleetfoot

      good early in lane, longer slides for inf ammo to compensate for no extra ammo pickup

   4. 4

2. 2Tough Lane?optional

   Author's category · 4 items

   1. 1

      Monster Rounds

      Can be avoided thanks to Close Quarters doing similar things, but vs Remlings or Graves this is a good investment

   2. 2

      Rebuttal

      Burgerbox lane. Usually good if they get it but you can avoid it yourself by parrybaiting with Stone Form and HMCs

   3. 3

      Extra Regen

3. 3Punchoptional

   Author's category · 2 items

   1. 1

      Colossus

      Built from Extra Health

      Rough heavy-melee damage at level 25 (21k) assuming enemy has no resists and you only have core purchased (excluding E.Shard): ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ | 483 HM | 𝟱𝟰𝟳 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗛𝗠 | 570 Ult HM | 𝟲𝟲𝟴 𝗨𝗹𝘁+𝗖𝗼𝗹 𝗛𝗠 |

   2. 2

      Crushing Fists

      Built from Melee Charge

      DO NOT RUSH THIS ITEM. While there is value here, its better purchased around the 25k mark as melee Ivy typically isnt doing damage anyway. Use as a late-game stabiliser

4. 4Stone Formoptional

   Author's category · 4 items

   1. 1

      Superior Duration

      If they get debuff reducer this is a *must* for your Stone Form stuns

   2. 2

      Echo Shard

      HMC with Stone Form > Heavy Melee > Echo Shard > Repeat || The 29/07 nerfs did nothing to this and double stoneforming. Still viable

   3. 3

      Greater Expansion

      Ballistic Enchantment gives us enough range as is, but if you want range on everything or are doing Vortex Web stuff, this is a nice addition

5. 5Bullet Res Reducersoptional

   Author's category · 4 items

   1. 1

      Point Blank

      Built from Close Quarters

   2. 2

      Hunter's Aura

      Doesn't stack with other players who may already have this. Look at your teams items before buying (or assume otherwise if you have characters on your team that may get it like Silver)

   3. 3

      Bullet Resist Shredder

6. 6Spirit Punchoptional

   Author's category · 8 items

   1. 1

      Stalker

      Bleed and damage reduction. Also gives gun invest for more damage

   2. 2

      Mystic Slow

   3. 3

      Suppressor

   4. 4

7. 7Situationalsoptional

   Author's category · 9 items

   1. 1

      Transcendent Cooldown

      Built from Superior Cooldown

   2. 2

      Vortex Web

      Web > Ult > Stone Form

   3. 3

      Arctic Blast

      Fliers or Escapees

   4. 4

8. 8Countersoptional

   Author's category · 6 items

   1. 1

      Slowing Hex

   2. 2

      Silence Wave

      vs. stoneform avoiders

   3. 3

      Disarming Hex

   4. 4

9. 9Greensoptional

   Author's category · 18 items

   1. 1

      Enduring Speed

      Makes chasing easier

   2. 2

      Dispel Magic

   3. 3

      Spirit Resilience

   4. 4

10. 10Gunoptional

    Author's category · 11 items

    1. 1

       Titanic Magazine

    2. 2

       Tesla Bullets

       Ol' Reliable

    3. 3

       Capacitor

       Built from Tesla Bullets

       Ol' Reliable (but shinier)

    4. 4

11. 11What is an HMC and how do I do one?optional

    Author's category · 3 items · HMC stands for Heavy Melee Cancel. HMC is a tech revolving around using certain active-items and abilities to cancel a heavy melee attack. To get an idea of what this looks like buy Fleetfoot and charge up a punch. Let go of the melee key as soon as a heavy melee has been channelled and any time during the swing activate Fleetfoot. If done correctly your character should instantly stop swinging and perform their active item animation, allowing you to instantly heavy melee again or perform other actions. Ivy can also perform an HMC using stone form, simply follow the steps above but replace Fleetfoot with Stone Form and you can replicate the same success. Not every active-item in Deadlock can HMC, only the following items can: 𝗙𝗹𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗼𝘁, 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁, 𝗙𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀𝘂𝘀, 𝗨𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 and 𝗩𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘁.For more information I recommend reading this wiki article: 𝗵𝘁𝘁𝗽𝘀://𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸.𝘄𝗶𝗸𝗶/𝗛𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆_𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗲/𝗛𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆_𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗲_𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗹 Additionally, this video by Cyrus on youtube does an excellent job covering the subject for beginners: 𝗵𝘁𝘁𝗽𝘀://𝘆𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘂.𝗯𝗲/𝟭𝟬𝗿𝘁𝟲𝗵𝗪𝗳𝟲𝗳𝗬

    1. 1

       Mystic Expansion

       I hate when builds don't imbue the lower-tier items so this is hidden here for that reason. No need to follow my inbue target if you prefer something else

    2. 2

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

Entangling ThornsEntangling Thorns			Entangling Thorns: Ability unlocked, step 3								Entangling Thorns: 1 AP upgrade, step 111				Entangling Thorns: 2 AP upgrade, step 15