i just wanna grill <3 - Support Vindicta

Author's notes

BACK FROM THE DEAD PT 2 God bless you Yoshi for making Stake not a completely dead ability to scale ; w ; Ult stacking weapon damage is really strong, but not required for Vindicta to function. Lets you pivot late game to melt people if you have the stacks. Now with Tankbuster on Stake!

Item categories

1. 1A Ghost's Gourmet Grill

   Author's category · 6 items · Vindicta can uniquely scale and play the game off of using Trophy Collector and high base damage abilities and cheap scaling items. She's probably the best suited for grabbing Trophy because her base kit is so good. We use T2 stake w/ burst and HSB to have plenty of early game damage. Try and get your guardian early.

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      Headshot Booster

      Lane pressure. Way more uptime than Burst early, so get it first. Usually the first item you sell as well.

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      Mystic Burst

      Procs on Stake with the T1 point. With that and HSB you have 200 damage on demand really early, which can win a lane on it's own. Keep up the pressure.

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      Trophy Collector

      Games go really long. You want to be fighting anyways since snipe is very strong until around 20 minutes. You pretty much will always get value out of this right now.

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2. 2carpet.

   Author's category · 1 items · I really like this item; map rotations, escape, really good stats, wheee low gravity. Fun.

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      Magic Carpet

      no this is not optional (you can skip it for later if you need to but this is usually when I'd get it)

3. 34800 Vitalityoptional

   Author's category · 0 items

   No items listed.

4. 4Lunch Service

   Author's category · 5 items · Time to get the grill hot. We hit our investments, and now just need to get the grill roaring hot. If you decide to skip carpet, just grab enduring and healbane somewhere after Alchemical Fire.

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      Alchemical Fire

      The namesake item; the Grill. This is your damage for your Stakes, alongside applying debuffs constantly. Helpful for farming too; throw it on a camp and gun it down in between fights/objectives.

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      Mystic Expansion

      Range is no longer bad on Stake. This is cheap; put this on to make your stakes more obnoxious. 6400 Spirit as well (and it's cheap).

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5. 5Customer Serviceoptional

   Author's category · 5 items · Some lanes can't be autopiloted. These are for particularly difficult customers.

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      Monster Rounds

      Anti Rem/Sinclair/McGinnis item. When you need the wave to die ASAP and your laner can't do it alone.

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      Enduring Speed

      This is generally better than any shielding/barrier on Vin. You want to AVOID, not MITIGATE. For heavy slows early.

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      Healbane

6. 6Dinner Service

   Author's category · 4 items · While burgers are delicious, Vindicta is excellent at cooking stakes. These boost her skills.

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      Superior Cooldown

      Builds into Trans Cooldown. More Crows, more Snipes.

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      Transcendent Cooldown

      Built from Superior Cooldown

      33% more grilling! Late game you'll want this for more Stake combos and Divine Barriers.

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      Superior Duration

7. 7Fine Diningoptional

   Author's category · 3 items · Wealthy late game upgrades for 30+ mins

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      Vortex Web

      Built from Slowing Hex

      This is a funny item for having a THIRD stake late game. If your stakes are winning fights alone, why not add another.

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      Ballistic Enchantment

      Built from Mystic Expansion

      Even MORE range for your stake. Even MORE annoying for the enemy team.

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8. 8SECURITYoptional

   Author's category · 4 items · Sometimes a customer simply needs to be thrown out. By armed guards.

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      Suppressor

      Anti-many M1s. Not needed much with T1 Stake, but still helpful if you're being shredded.

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      Mystic Vulnerability

      Cheap spirit resist shred

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      Crippling Headshot

      Late game, your team will generally always need one of these. Ideally someone else gets it, but you can use it well too.

9. 9FUN counter itemsoptional

   Author's category · 5 items

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      Counterspell

      Anti-Lash technology. Sometimes required.

   2. 2

      Rescue Beam

      Sometimes you just need to medevac a teammate out of a key CC ultimate to win the game. Pretty funny w/ Flight's range bonus.

   3. 3

      Cheat Death

      Break in case of Yamato, really. Or a fed Calico. Sometimes you just need this.

10. 10i wanna fly moreoptional

    Author's category · 2 items

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       Majestic Leap

       Can replace Magic Carpet if you're bored. It's fun, not better than carpet atp I think

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       Stamina Mastery

       Buy with Carpet, kinda feels necessary to have both.

11. 11oh i have STACKSoptional

    Author's category · 4 items

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       Unstoppable

       Non-negotiable if you're going gun. If you think you can always Counterspell Phantom Strike, you cant.

    2. 2

       Titanic Magazine

       Read Slinger ->

    3. 3

       Spellslinger

       This and Tit Mag are all you need to dump gun damage if you have a lot of stacks. Max Ult if you have at least 8, I usually wait for 10 stacks.

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

StakeStake		Stake: Ability unlocked, step 2	Stake: 1 AP upgrade, step 31		Stake: 2 AP upgrade, step 52						Stake: 5 AP upgrade, step 11