Viscous build guide

Round

by Foxing - The AlbatrossVersion 1Updated Jul 26, 2026Guide #736575

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Author's notes

Edit of 'Spirit Ballin' [517082] to accomodate for my own buy habbits and playstyle

Item categories

1E A R L Y⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀optional
Author's category · 6 items
1. 1
  Mystic Burst
2. 2
  Mystic Expansion
3. 3
  Enchanter's Emblem
4. 4
  Arcane Surge
5. 5
  Compress Cooldown
  can put on splatter, whatever tickles your fancy. || -22 secs w/ ball t1 || -2.5 secs w/ splatter t2 ||
6. 6
  Improved Spirit
2optional
Author's category · 2 items · Early invest
1. 1
  Cold Front
  Get after Improved spirit if you're set on buying Arctic Blast later
2. 2
  Debuff Reducer
  Get after Improved spirit if you're set on buying Unstop or Spellbreaker later
3optional
Author's category · 3 items · Instead of E.Emblem
1. 1
  Healbane
2. 2
  Reactive Barrier
3. 3
  Suppressor
  early bullet res
4C O R E⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀optional
Author's category · 6 items
1. 1
  Warp Stone
  Vitality 4800
2. 2
  Superior Cooldown
  Built from Compress Cooldown
3. 3
  Tankbuster
  Built from Mystic Burst
4. 4
5optional
Author's category · 5 items · !!Do not react buy!! Get any of these after early
1. 1
  Return Fire
2. 2
  Weapon Shielding
3. 3
  Spirit Resilience
4. 4
6D A M A G Eoptional
Author's category · 6 items
1. 1
  Spirit Burn
2. 2
  Boundless Spirit
  Built from Improved Spirit
3. 3
  Scourge
  Tankier ball vs stacked spirit teams
4. 4
7U T I L I T Yoptional
Author's category · 6 items
1. 1
  Superior Duration
  Built from Duration Extender
  Only adds ~1 second to ball. Get this for duration on items and cube not for ball
2. 2
  Greater Expansion
  Built from Mystic Expansion
  +0.4m to ball & +0.5m to splatter
3. 3
  Transcendent Cooldown
8S U R V I V A Loptional
Author's category · 6 items
1. 1
  Witchmail
2. 2
  Plated Armor
3. 3
  Indomitable
  Built from Reactive Barrier
4. 4
9
Author's category · 12 items · Beetles that roll balls out of human faeces demand to be hidden away from the rich man, because there is nothing he wouldn't buy.
1. 1
  Golden Goose Egg
  I am round and I am proud. I am spherical and its hysterical. I am rotund while they are stunned.
2. 2
  Golden Goose Egg
3. 3
  Golden Goose Egg
4. 4

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 5	Splatter: 2 AP upgrade, step 6	Splatter: 5 AP upgrade, step 7