Support Ivy

Author's notes

Support/disruptor Ivy. NOT Left > Right.

Item categories

1. 1Lane

   Author's category · 5 items · Deny souls, Ivy's weak early

   1. 1

      Extra Charge

      Easy farm + poke

   2. 2

      Healing Rite

      Heal + Kudzu + Stone Form, stay in lane forever

   3. 3

      Rescue Beam

      Built from Healing Rite

      Yoink

   4. 4

      Trophy Collector

      Easy to stack and gives good stats

   5. 5

      Compress Cooldown

      More ult, more pressure on the map

2. 2Lane Optionaloptional

   Author's category · 7 items · Don't spend too much

   1. 1

      Monster Rounds

      Defending alone/ Vs Rem boosted minions

   2. 2

      High-Velocity Rounds

      Vs Heroes that deny a lot

   3. 3

      Rebuttal

      Vs. Melee (Abrams,Billy,etc)

3. 3Core Mid Game

   Author's category · 8 items · Fly around and help!!

   1. 1

      Vortex Web

      Built from Slowing Hex

      Vortex makes it easy to stun and silence multiple enemies

   2. 2

      Alchemical Fire

      Can skip if you're low on souls

   3. 3

      Duration Extender

      Can imbue Stone Form too if you're hitting them a lot

4. 4Late game

   Game stage · 8 items · Try to get your actives first

   1. 1

      Rapid Recharge

      Built from Extra Charge

      Low Priority unless you need to clear many waves by yourself

   2. 2

      Greater Expansion

      Big Ult

   3. 3

      Superior Cooldown

      Built from Compress Cooldown

      Stepping stone for Transcendent

5. 5Active items

   Author's category · 10 items · Sell Alchemical if you need

   1. 1

      Disarming Hex

      Built from Rusted Barrel

      Vs Gun (Drifter, Infernus, Vyper, Silver, etc)

   2. 2

      Decay

      Vs Healing (Abrams, Geist, Billy, Rem, etc)

   3. 3

      Knockdown

      Vs Flying (Vindicta, Seven, Grey Talon) or focusing someone

6. 6Support Optionsoptional

   Author's category · 3 items

   1. 1

      Guardian Ward

      Small barrier

   2. 2

      Divine Barrier

      Built from Guardian Ward

      Cleanse ally

   3. 3

      Healing Nova

      Built from Healing Rite

      More team heal, can be useful (don't use two heals)

7. 7Vs Heavy Spirit damageoptional

   Author's category · 5 items

   1. 1

      Spirit Resilience

      Spirit Resistance

   2. 2

      Counterspell

      Can even parry ultimate like Drifter. Train you parries!

   3. 3

      Debuff Reducer

      Not bad, but spirit resistance and counterspell will usually be better

8. 8Vs Heavy Gun damageoptional

   Author's category · 3 items

   1. 1

      Bullet Resilience

      Very good

   2. 2

      Plated Armor

      Good, but expensive.

   3. 3

      Juggernaut

      Also gives Melee Resistance, good item

9. 9Debuff reduceroptional

   Author's category · 3 items

   1. 1

      Reactive Barrier

      Niche, but can be bought early

   2. 2

      Indomitable

      Built from Reactive Barrier

      CC focus on you

   3. 3

      Enduring Speed

      Good vs slows, can upgrade to Juggernaut

10. 10Laning as Ivy

    Author's category · 0 items · Ivy is pretty weak early. Your gun deals almost no damage from long range and your cooldowns are very long. Focus on farming and denying souls, damaging the minions with Thorns. Avoid using Thorns on enemy heroes directly, instead use them to deny areas that you don't want them to go like bridges and corners. Your main objectives is keeping you and your partner alive, while denying souls and getting a few crates.

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11. 11Transition to Mid Game

    Author's category · 0 items · After unlocking Air Drop, you can easily disrupt fights in other lanes. Push the wave, ping where you're going and help your team. Always check the situation with F1-F5 and look at the scoreboard. Losing lanes are risky to help, but you may save their game with a good play. Winning lanes are easy to gank, but sometimes they don't really need the help. Ivy rewards good game sense and communication.

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12. 12Objectives

    Author's category · 0 items · Deadlock has multiple objectives to fight for. Rifts spawn buffed troops to push lanes, Urns give souls and Mid Boss drops 3 Revives. As a character with high mobility and huge area denial, you should always be prepared for them. Try to remember when they spawn so you can be ready to fight and carry someone that is behind. Just make sure to pick fights you can win and don't forget to push lanes, and some people might try to get your base while everyone's fighting.

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13. 13Mid-Late Game

    Author's category · 0 items · This is where you will need to be very careful with your cooldowns. Some heroes are late game monsters (Seven, Gheist) while other will start to fall off (Apollo, Calico). Your active items should be bought and sold accordingly, so make sure to pay attention to who is carrying fights and who can be mostly ignored or just slowed/silenced. Remember that this build is mostly supportive, so you may need to buy a few damage items like Exposure or Echo Shard in very long games.

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14. 14Ability Points

    Author's category · 0 items · Early points can be used on either Thorns (lane clear) or Stone Form (health sustain), but you don't need to max them since we're not building full spirit. Your first max should be either Connection or Air Drop. Max Connection with a strong gun carry or when you need big heals, Max Air Drop for good teamfights. Air Drops will be better on most games, but if you have someone like Drifter or Haze and they're carrying the game, go Connection and help them stay alive.

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15. 15Active items

    Author's category · 0 items · Vortex should stay in your build in most matches, as the slow + grouping is too strong to give up on Ivy. Beam can be replaced with Nova/Barrier or in rare cases another counter item. Don't be afraid to sell and replace actives when you have a lot of souls, your duty as a support is to make fights easier for your team and disable high priority targets. Every game is different, don't buy X counter just because it worked once, as many items are useless against certain heroes.

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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 51										Entangling Thorns: 2 AP upgrade, step 15