Siphon Life Abrams | Immortal

Author's notes

Inspired by LightbringerDL, check out his twitch! - Siphon life deals up to 1k dmg and heal equally PER ENEMY hero. - Even if you get parried/cced, you'll keep healing and killing. - Surge of Power allows us infinite chasedown without slow. - Gun investment is great with Healing Tempo and Surge of Power. * Abrams is early-midgame carry. So, create kill pressure on map -

Item categories

1. 1Early game

   Game stage · 8 items · Left To Right | Damage is weak till Arcane Surge. Play to scale.

   1. 1

      Extra Regen

      Great sustain when combined with your passive.

   2. 2

      Mystic Expansion

      They removed Siphon Life Radius scaling with spirit (but it deals damage to everyone in the radius now!)

   3. 3

      Arcane Surge

      Insane value with your Siphon Life and extra stamina regen helps a lot too. Sell late (preferably after Greater Expansion).

   4. 4

2. 2Situationaloptional

   Author's category · 3 items

   1. 1

      Reactive Barrier

      Good vs getting parried & heavy cc like Wraith ult, Bebop hook, Mo&Krill ult, Paige cc, Haze Sleep, etc.

   2. 2

      Healbane

      Anti-heal vs heavy lifesteal and heal like Rem, Silver, Victor, Lady Geist, etc.

   3. 3

      Battle Vest

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

3. 3Core Items

   Author's category · 7 items · L - R (Flexible) | Buy 1 Tier 3 Green Utility item whenever needed for 4.8k vitality spike.

   1. 1

      Surge of Power

      Built from Extra Spirit

      Best if imbuing Siphon Life for more damage and more heal. Feels great to shoot and run at the same speed as enemy. They can't escape you.

   2. 2

      Improved Spirit

      Built from Extra Spirit

      Flat Spirit boost. Component for Boundless.

   3. 3

4. 4Choose 1optional

   Author's category · 2 items · for 4.8k

   1. 1

      Spirit Rend

      Built from Spirit Shredder

      No need to rush upgrading to this early but if you want the 4.8k

   2. 2

      Weighted Shots

      Built from Slowing Bullets

      Slowing Bullets and +%40 weapon damage with +%20 debuff resist is great. Anti-heal counters you hard. -% Stamina recovery and -movespeed is not cool though. Good vs debuff spamming enemies.

5. 5Utilityoptional

   Author's category · 4 items · Situational gamechangers

   1. 1

      Dispel Magic

      Anti-heal, cc and slows counter you hard (especially Infernus Napalm and Afterburn). Dispel debuffs with this.

   2. 2

      Counterspell

      Can be used to parry Tier 2 Walker towers, Infernus Ult and Lash ult, Warden shackle, Vyper poison, Doorman ult (even from inside), etc.

   3. 3

      Metal Skin

6. 6Mobilityoptional

   Author's category · 2 items

   1. 1

      Stamina Mastery

      Great mobility but outperformed by Arcane Surge.

   2. 2

      Warp Stone

      If you need bullet resist, then this is great. Takes an active item slot though.

7. 7Extra Utilityoptional

   Author's category · 5 items · T4 Actives | L - R from Best to Worst

   1. 1

      Phantom Strike

      To take that pesky Vindicta off the sky (or Lash, Bebop) and follow up with Shoulder Charge

   2. 2

      Divine Barrier

      Mainly for cleansing Pocket Ult (-%100 antiheal), Infernus DoT, etc. Can replace or buy together with Dispel Magic. %50 cd refund if used on ally.

   3. 3

      Colossus

8. 8Extra Spiritoptional

   Author's category · 7 items · L - R | Most value to least

   1. 1

      Ethereal Shift

      Use Siphon Life or even Ult then activate this. Great synergy. You can also activate Infuser before this.

   2. 2

      Escalating Exposure

      Full Siphon Life stacks this to 11 stacks (+%50 spirit dmg) which means +%50 more damage and heal. +%17 Spirit resist on us and -%8 spirit resist on enemies is great.

   3. 3

9. 9Extra Defenseoptional

   Author's category · 9 items · L - R | From most value to Least

   1. 1

      Witchmail

      Avoid using your ultimate for infinite cooldown reduction on Siphon Life and Shoulder Charge. Feels amazing if enemy has lots of spirit damage (75+ dmg ticks), feels horrible if they don't.

   2. 2

      Bullet Resilience

      You have 0 bullet resist in the build. This fixes it. Very cheap too!

   3. 3

      Healing Tempo

10. 10Extra Weaponoptional

    Author's category · 10 items · L - R Value

    1. 1

       Spiritual Overflow

       +%15 Spirit Lifesteal, +40 Spirit, +%32 Fire-rate. If you want extended duration on Siphon Life, hold it till you activate this.

    2. 2

       Crushing Fists

       Applies -%bullet resist and Reloads ammo when you melee attack. Great for farming T3 camps and good synergy with Shoulder Charge.

    3. 3

       Point Blank

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

Siphon LifeSiphon Life		Siphon Life: Ability unlocked, step 2	Siphon Life: 1 AP upgrade, step 31		Siphon Life: 2 AP upgrade, step 52		Siphon Life: 5 AP upgrade, step 75