Slithering | Hybrid Build

Author's notes

How to play: - Use your Venom on %30-50 hp enemies to finish them off. - You should ideally use ultimate to counter enemy ultimates. - You can use ult AFTER Venom to ensure enemy can't dispel it. - Slide to keep Mercurial Magnum buff up with infinite ammo - Her gun fall-off range is 15-33m. Stay close range.

Item categories

1. 1Early game

   Game stage · 8 items · Left to Right | Use your Venom on %50 or below hp enemies for most damage.

   1. 1

      Close Quarters

      Matches your gun range perfectly. Upgrade later.

   2. 2

      Extra Stamina

      Good enough for your early game

   3. 3

      Improved Spirit

   4. 4

2. 2Sustainoptional

   Author's category · 3 items · survive longer

   1. 1

      Healing Rite

      Good vs burst spirit damage. Pop this and open boxes or hide. Scales with Spirit.

   2. 2

      Battle Vest

      Good vs gunners like Venator, Silver, Haze, etc.

   3. 3

      Enchanter's Emblem

      Good vs spirit damage (like Geist, Abrams, etc)

3. 3Core Items

   Author's category · 8 items · L - R | Buy some Situational or Utility items in between cores whenever needed.

   1. 1

      Stamina Mastery

      Built from Extra Stamina

      Great synergy with your infinite Dash-Slide spam. +2 Stamina isn't the main factor.

   2. 2

      Point Blank

      Built from Close Quarters

      Vyper's gun fall of range is 15-33m, this item is great on her. Slow is extra useful.

   3. 3

      Burst Fire

4. 4Utilityoptional

   Author's category · 6 items · Situational gamechangers

   1. 1

      Reactive Barrier

      Scales with Spirit. Great vs cc like Haze sleep, Wraith ult, Abrams stun, Paige immobilize, etc.

   2. 2

      Healbane

      Anti-heal and +7 spirit. Good vs heavy healing laners like Abrams, Rem, etc. Your 2 already has built in anti-heal but still.

   3. 3

      Enduring Speed

5. 5Extra Gunoptional

   Author's category · 8 items

   1. 1

      Toxic Bullets

      Good synergy with Ricochet. Scales with Spirit and applies antiheal. Great vs tanky lifestealers like Abrams, Calico, Silver, Geist.

   2. 2

      Weighted Shots

      Good synergy with ricochet. -%25 Dash Distance and -%30 slow is really good.

   3. 3

      Blood Tribute

      +35 fire-rate and +%40 debuff resist is great. 50 hp/sec is negligible if you have some lifesteal.

6. 6Extra Defenseoptional

   Author's category · 10 items · L - R Value | Buy Escalating Resilience for Bullet Resist

   1. 1

      Inhibitor

      Anti-heal and anti-damage. More of a defensive item. Great synergy with Ricochet.

   2. 2

      Diviner's Kevlar

      Great shield and spirit buff. Perfectly in sync with your ultimate.

   3. 3

      Plated Armor

      Great vs on-hit gun carries like Infernus, Wraith, Haze, Mina, etc.

7. 7Extra Utilityoptional

   Author's category · 6 items · L - R | Most valuable to least

   1. 1

      Phantom Strike

      If enemy outranges you, you're much weaker. Use this vs long range/flying heroes like Vindicta, Talon, Venator, etc.

   2. 2

      Capacitor

      Active ability disables movement, great vs mobile heroes like Mina, Calico, Celeste, etc. Gives you many solo kill angles. Not really a damage boost though.

   3. 3

      Unstoppable

8. 8Extra Spiritoptional

   Author's category · 7 items · L - R | Most valuable to Least

   1. 1

      Silence Wave

      AoE burst damage and silence. Good vs annoying heroes like Mina, Geist, etc. Cancels your slide animation though.

   2. 2

      Surge of Power

      Replace Fleetfoot with this. Can also be used on Screwjab Dagger but Venom spirit scaling is 2.8x, +67 dmg.

   3. 3

      Mystic Reverb

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

Screwjab DaggerScrewjab Dagger	Screwjab Dagger: Ability unlocked, step 1	Screwjab Dagger: 1 AP upgrade, step 21												Screwjab Dagger: 2 AP upgrade, step 142