Quirky Wizard Lizard

Author's notes

Build based around Dagger (1). Can do shockingly good damage if you can hit them consistently, and you basically won't ever run out of them if you don't miss. Late game, can pretty easily deal 1000+ damage per dagger once you start stacking them.

Item categories

1. 1Early Game/Laning Phase

   Author's category · 9 items · Buy L --> R. Order between regen and mystic burst is very flexible.

   1. 1

      Extra Regen

      Can skip if you aren't taking damage in lane, but I almost always end up buying this. Sell first.

   2. 2

      Rapid Rounds

      Very helpful early.

   3. 3

      Enchanter's Emblem

      Can skip if you buy a different 1.6k green. Sell later, but stay above 4.8k green spike. Good for spirit heavy lane.

   4. 4

2. 2Early Alternativesoptional

   Author's category · 9 items · Can be bought for help in lane

   1. 1

      Healing Rite

      Buy if low.

   2. 2

      Rebuttal

      For when they have one braincell and all it says is Q.

   3. 3

      Extra Stamina

      Gotta go fast. Buy if you plan to upgrade it.

3. 3Early Countersoptional

   Author's category · 7 items · Cheap, early counter items

   1. 1

      Spirit Shielding

      Good for early heavy spirit burst damage

   2. 2

      Reactive Barrier

      If they have tons of CC, also if you plan to buy indomitable later

   3. 3

      Return Fire

      Say NO to Graves skulls

4. 4Mid game

   Game stage · 8 items · Buy L --> R

   1. 1

      Spirit Lifesteal

      Same thing as bullet lifesteal. Would recommend skipping both to buy counter items.

   2. 2

      Surge of Power

      Built from Extra Spirit

      Big damage boost to daggers, and move speed and fire rate are always nice for vyper.

   3. 3

      Spirit Shredder

      Some spirit shred and sustain, and reaches gun spike.

5. 5Mid Alternativesoptional

   Author's category · 5 items · Can swap out mid game items for these as needed.

   1. 1

      Restorative Locket

      Nice to have for emergencies

   2. 2

      Stamina Mastery

      Built from Extra Stamina

      Movement is good

   3. 3

      Spirit Resilience

      Heavy spirit damage

6. 6Mid Countersoptional

   Author's category · 5 items · Useful counter items for mid game

   1. 1

      Dispel Magic

      Dealing with Debuffs

   2. 2

      Counterspell

      The Cool Way to deal with CC

   3. 3

      Warp Stone

      Keep getting kidnapped by doorman? First, skill issue. Second, buy this.

7. 7Late game

   Game stage · 4 items · Buy L --> R. BUY COUNTERS

   1. 1

      Mystic Reverb

      Can also imbue on venom (2), but putting on daggers provides some nice consistent lifesteal while dealing good aoe damage

   2. 2

      Spirit Rend

      Built from Spirit Shredder

      Honestly Vyper's gun is so innacurate this is just a random chance to add more spirit shred to the people you shoot

   3. 3

      Superior Cooldown

8. 8Late Alternativesoptional

   Author's category · 7 items

   1. 1

      Spiritual Overflow

      Built from Spirit Lifesteal

      Buy instead of leech? Better gun, less sustain. Make sure to stay above green spike (4.8k worth of green items).

   2. 2

      Ricochet

      Great for dealing with big groups. Good with on-hit debuffs (Toxic Bullets, Silencer, etc.)

   3. 3

      Spellslinger

9. 9Late Countersoptional

   Author's category · 10 items

   1. 1

      Plated Armor

   2. 2

      Spellbreaker

   3. 3

      Indomitable

      Built from Reactive Barrier

   4. 4

10. 10Ultoptional

    Author's category · 3 items · Make sure your team gets mid every time

    1. 1

       Greater Expansion

       B E E G

    2. 2

       Refresher

       "Wanna see me do it again?"

    3. 3

       Superior Duration

11. 11You have nothing else to buy?optional

    Author's category · 1 items

    1. 1

       Transcendent Cooldown

       Built from Superior Cooldown

       Very low piority, buy counters/alternatives first. Only buy if you have nothing else to get

12. 12Personal Thoughts on Spirit Vyperoptional

    Author's category · 0 items · Vyper has a lot of high spirit scalings. 2.8 on venom, 2.0 on ult, and effectively 2.8 on max stacks daggers (0.8 for no stacks, 0.4 for each stack, 5 max stacks, (0.4*5) +0.8=2.8 scaling), so spirit can do some pretty good damage. Vyper is still Vyper, so gun is still very strong, but daggers make you a threat at longer ranges as well. With the tier 3 dagger upgrade, you are basically never running out of daggers if you can hit anything with them.

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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 3		Screwjab Dagger: 1 AP upgrade, step 51	Screwjab Dagger: 2 AP upgrade, step 62		Screwjab Dagger: 5 AP upgrade, step 8