Spirit Ballin 4.1

Author's notes

This build aims to play around Ball while keeping damage as high as possible. Use your burst early to get ahead, then lean into your disruption and tankiness late.

Item categories

1. 1Lane Optionsoptional

   Author's category · 2 items

   1. 1

      Extra Regen

      Sell later

   2. 2

      Monster Rounds

      Early lane pressure. Likely sell later

2. 2Lane Start

   Author's category · 3 items

   1. 1

      Mystic Burst

   2. 2

      Mystic Expansion

      Splatter triple hits

   3. 3

      Arcane Surge

      Most important on Ball and Splatter

3. 3Early Optionsoptional

   Author's category · 3 items

   1. 1

      Healbane

      I don't think this item will ever not be good

   2. 2

      Reactive Barrier

      This item still has 1.8 Spirit scaling and you're building a lot of Spirit

   3. 3

      Suppressor

      A really good option against shoot you heros, but it does fuck with your slots

4. 4Early game

   Game stage · 3 items

   1. 1

      Improved Spirit

      Actually a bigger damage bump on Splatter than Compress CD. Obviously helps Ball too

   2. 2

      Enchanter's Emblem

      CD for Ball is really nice. Can skip for another T2 or in addition to

   3. 3

      Compress Cooldown

      Splatter or Ball

5. 5Mid game

   Game stage · 4 items · These are your core items

   1. 1

      Warp Stone

      Vitality 4800.You can delay until after Tankbuser if you want

   2. 2

      Tankbuster

      Built from Mystic Burst

   3. 3

      Duration Extender

      You really want duration online before max Ball ~14k

   4. 4

6. 6Mid Optionsoptional

   Author's category · 4 items · Sometimes items

   1. 1

      Debuff Reducer

      Can also be bought in lane, but against specific people like Infernus or Abrams

   2. 2

      Spirit Resilience

   3. 3

      Metal Skin

   4. 4

7. 7Late game

   Game stage · 3 items

   1. 1

      Superior Cooldown

      Built from Compress Cooldown

      Earlier if you want

   2. 2

      Greater Expansion

      Built from Mystic Expansion

   3. 3

      Spirit Burn

      Usually procs just by hitting someone with Ball

8. 8Late Damageoptional

   Author's category · 3 items

   1. 1

      Torment Pulse

      Keeps doing a lot of damage, but it's hard to fit in

   2. 2

      Boundless Spirit

      Built from Improved Spirit

      If you're slot locked

   3. 3

      Scourge

      The debuff resist is really tasty. Best when against tanks or spirit damage

9. 9Late Utilityoptional

   Author's category · 4 items

   1. 1

      Superior Duration

      Built from Duration Extender

      Better with some of the T4s that like duration. Burn, Phantom Strike, Scourge

   2. 2

      Phantom Strike

      Great item, but so much less valuable if they get Indom

   3. 3

      Transcendent Cooldown

10. 10Late Survivaloptional

    Author's category · 4 items · Probably 1 most games

    1. 1

       Witchmail

       Can replace Kevlar if they are heavily Spirit

    2. 2

       Plated Armor

       Can replace Kevlar if a lot of their damage is coming from on hit

    3. 3

       Indomitable

       Built from Reactive Barrier

       I think Unstop is usually better, but the barrier is good with Ball

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

SplatterSplatter	Splatter: Ability unlocked, step 1				Splatter: 1 AP upgrade, step 51	Splatter: 2 AP upgrade, step 62	Splatter: 5 AP upgrade, step 75