Vyper build guide

Theatre's dubious dagger research

by TheaVersion 11Updated Jul 15, 2026Guide #711779

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Author's notes

#dynamo funni build

Item categories

1ehhoptional
Author's category · 1 items
1. 1
  Monster Rounds
2Early game
Game stage · 10 items
1. 1
  Close Quarters
  Indispensable so you can defend your territory in lane. Your territory = cover under/around bridge, among troopers. Be proactive!
2. 2
  Grit
  Shield item component, useful enough panic/clutch button in lane.
3. 3
  Extra Spirit
  in the short term we're buying this mainly for Ult + Poison cuz dagger is shoddy before T3
3damage scaling
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Boundless Spirit
  Built from Improved Spirit
  big central chunky damage upgrade (vyper has big spirit scaling numbers)
2. 2
  Infuser
  Theoretically: Pop this at like 3-4 dagger stacks to give you sustain and damage while you stay to kill the target.
3. 3
  Escalating Exposure
  Next step for scaling our dagger damage. Stalker proc lets us stack this a little faster (every 1s instead of every 1.4s if only using dagger).
4
Author's category · 0 items · Currently evaluating: does Double Shields let me weather the upfront damage people fight back with, so I can build my dagger stacks and get the kill?
No items listed.
5extra greensoptional
Author's category · 10 items
1. 1
  Spirit Resilience
2. 2
  Bullet Resilience
3. 3
  Juggernaut
4. 4
6big bucket of other possible damage extension itemsoptional
Author's category · 12 items
1. 1
  Arctic Blast
2. 2
  Spirit Burn
3. 3
  Mystic Reverb
  The damage this adds to our FIRST dagger is pathetic, but the slow and spirit lifesteal are hefty and the damage it adds to the 5th or so dagger is nice.
4. 4
7Rambleoptional
Author's category · 1 items · I (Dynamo main) am not good enough at Vyper in general so I'm still coming to terms with the extent to which she has to be either In There (being hyper aggressive) or Out, with very little in-between. E.g. in lane trying to hang back won't work (you'll get lit up trying to clear wave), you HAVE to take an aggressive position (among all the cover next the wave) and punish people who approach (while still dodging their nukes). Your "territory" range is very small (but you have very strong tools within that territory) and you need to establish your territory aggressively to control important things (cover, troopers). You are a viper; you hide in a den and strike punishingly at people who approach, or you slither sneakily through cover to approach a target. You absolutely do not live life out in the open, because you can not afford to let someone else have the first move.
1. 1
  Golden Goose Egg

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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 4	Screwjab Dagger: 1 AP upgrade, step 5	Screwjab Dagger: 2 AP upgrade, step 6			Screwjab Dagger: 5 AP upgrade, step 9