Time Waster Viscous

Author's notes

Hit em' with the ooooooool time waster. You do not do damage. You steal farm and you deny game-winning ults. Waste their time. Give them nothing.

Item categories

1. 1Early game

   Game stage · 5 items

   1. 1

      Trophy Collector

      I buy trophy collector because I like the dinging noise it makes. This is actively hostile to your lanemate. Maybe don't do this.

   2. 2

      Healing Rite

      The first step towards narsty beam plays.

   3. 3

      Rescue Beam

      Built from Healing Rite

      Hooray! Rescue Beam!

   4. 4

      Majestic Leap

      I buy this to run urn early, but often get Healing Rite and Beam first instead if lane isn't a stomp. Run every urn. They are yours by mandate of heaven. Use to escape from fights in cube as well.

   5. 5

      Duration Extender

      Put on cube for majestic leap escapes

2. 2Mid game

   Game stage · 5 items

   1. 1

      Superior Duration

      Built from Duration Extender

      Makes majestic leap cube escapes more reliable, also very good for ball both duration and stun.

   2. 2

      Ethereal Shift

      Us this to stall out more cubes. This is also how you counter silences.

   3. 3

      Compress Cooldown

      Put on cube, obviously.

3. 3Late game

   Game stage · 4 items

   1. 1

      Indomitable

      Built from Reactive Barrier

      Fuck tha curse

   2. 2

      Extra Charge

      I always get this. Puddle punch rotates are very important. It's still a must buy even though you don't do any damage.

   3. 3

      Cheat Death

      This combined with indom REALLY helps to counter curses.

4. 4Frivolitiesoptional

   Author's category · 3 items

   1. 1

      Spellbreaker

      Counter buy item for dealing with fucking wizards. Also reduces curse time which is nice.

   2. 2

      Rapid Recharge

      Built from Extra Charge

      More punch. More rotate.

   3. 3

      Witchmail

      I usually buy this as one of my last items. Its very funny.

5. 5Imagine damageoptional

   Author's category · 2 items

   1. 1

      Torment Pulse

      This is good on you because of the stalling you do, but its not really important because again, you don't do damage.

   2. 2

      Boundless Spirit

      Big boom. You might want to get this over support hybrid items but your mileage may vary.

6. 6More Healingoptional

   Author's category · 2 items

   1. 1

      Healing Booster

      Viscous' support value is more in ability blocking and positioning via punch. Healing is very secondary. However, you'll be doing healing incidentally, so this is still good.

   2. 2

      Healing Tempo

      Built from Healing Booster

      If you're already buying healing booster, you should probably also get this.

7. 7Other Items and Counterbuys!optional

   Author's category · 8 items

   1. 1

      Divine Barrier

      Silence/Hex are your biggest counters (Other than curse) and this clears them. Helps with clearing ult debuffs that your cube can't (Affliction, Drifter's whistle, etc). Replacesb Ethereal Shift.

   2. 2

      Diviner's Kevlar

      Good for ballers.

   3. 3

      Plated Armor

8. 8Graveyard for my son.optional

   Author's category · 1 items

   1. 1

      Golden Goose Egg

      This is my son. Yoshi killed him.

9. 9GENERAL INFO:

   Author's category · 0 items · The goal of this build is to waste as much of the enemy's time as possible. You need to be an enticing target constantly, but not in a way that gets you killed all the time. To that end, echo-cube and e-shift juggling into leap-escapes is the play. Use your first cube fairly early while getting jumped. Try to stall out a few seconds once it pops via your healthbar, then pop e-shift. By the time e-shift is up, ideally, the cube is back. Then after that cube, stall if you can, but pop echo into another cube early enough that you definitely don't die. Then, use the extended duration of your cube to let leap's damage cooldown come off, and leap away to safety. Even if they keep chasing you, by the time any of them catch you, you should have more resources to burn. Use ball as a last resort also, and you can beam heal yourself in ball on the way out.

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10. 10THE STRATEGY:

    Author's category · 0 items · During fights, you're a support. You cube allies, beam them or puddle punch them out of danger, and puddle punch enemies into bad positions. Outside of fights, you steal the enemy jungle, shove lanes in a braindead fashion, and generally be annoying and constantly demanding of the enemy's attention. Ideally, you have several enemies occupied for minutes at a time, and can get away scott free because of your build. You especially want to annoy enemy carries, and get in the way of them solo farming. You want to be annoying enough that they try to chase you, then stay tantalizingly out of reach so that they KEEP wanting to chase you, to the detriment of their team.

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11. 11LEAP STUFF:

    Author's category · 0 items · Leap is one of the best items for Viscous. With T2 cube and superior duration, cube lasts longer than leap's damage cooldown, meaning you can leap out of it by mashing leap, even in the middle of the enemy. Also, if you place a puddle punch on a wall, then leap just before the punch hits you, you gain INSANE momentum combined from leap and punch. If you do this off of a slope like at the urn pickup, and cube in midair, you gain even more momentum. If you hit it right, you can deliver Urn in less than 10 seconds.

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12. 12BEAM STUFF:

    Author's category · 0 items · Beam is part of the bread-and-butter toolkit of support viscous. Beam + cube is an amazing combo, and you can also use beam in ball to truly yank your allies out of certain death. There are a million ways to use beam to shift a teamfight, but most often you'll be using it to deny the enemy team picks. Pay very close attention to allies when they're deep in enemy territory or up a lane, and try to get them out if they mess up and overstay their welcome.

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13. 13ECHO AND E-SHIFT:

    Author's category · 0 items · Echo Shard and Ethereal Shift are the items that allow you to stall out fights for a very long time. If you get good with your cooldown juggling and stall with puddle punch between cooldowns enough, you can drag fights out with multiple opponents almost indefinitely. The careful juggling of your cube, echo, and e-shift cooldowns is the primary learning curve you'll need to get through to see this build shine. In general, try to wait as long as possible to use your echo shard. You want to get 2 cubes before you pop echo for a third. That's not always possible, but thats the goal. The ideal is: Cube - delay a few seconds - e-shift - cube - echo - cube. Anywhere in that process, if you can sneak in an extra cooldown by puddle punching around instead of cubing or e-shifting, that's great. But you always want to leave your last cube for a leap-escape. The goal is to stall as long as possible AND not die.

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14. 14Oh, also:optional

    Author's category · 1 items · You might want this early for enemy jungle stealing and lane clearing. Sell it later for slots. I'm allergic to gun items so I'm putting it down here for my protection.

    1. 1

       Monster Rounds

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 5				Splatter: 1 AP upgrade, step 91						Splatter: 2 AP upgrade, step 152