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Recommended build, generated from match data

Snapshot settings: Phantom+ ranked, normal mode, Oct 5, 2026 (Oct 5, 2026 update) to Oct 8, 2026 · 286 matches on this playstyle of 1,036 · generated Oct 9, 2026, 10:33 AM UTC

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Customise this build (swaps and imbue targets)

Situational swaps

Healbane instead of Enchanter's Emblem · Mid · when: enemies heal a lot (lifesteal, healing items or healers)
Metal Skin before Tankbuster · Late · when: most of the enemy team's damage is bullets
Spirit Resilience before Superior Cooldown · Late · when: most of the enemy team's damage is spirit damage
Warp Stone before Boundless Spirit · Late · when: you need an escape or a gap-closer

Imbue targets

Mystic Expansion
Duration Extender

Pick a swap or an imbue target to see a customised version. The recommended build above stays unchanged.

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Published guides that Sinclair players started matches with in this period, most used first, with copies and near-identical guides removed. Usage comes from the API's analysed matches and counts the guide selected at match start; it doesn't show whether players followed it. Game mode can't be filtered for this data.

RAIGEKI THE ULTIMATE WIZARD - RANK 1 SINCLAIR

by RAIGEKIVersion 148Guide updated Oct 8, 2026Guide #280256

Matches started with it: 124
Won: 42.7%
Players: 105
In-game favourites: 33,962 (not match usage)

Items, as published

1Early game
Game stage · Don't throw your lane before you get to T2 assistant, once you get T2 assistant you can pressure hard and usually force their guardian.
1. 1
  High-Velocity Rounds
  Probably the best item in Deadlock
2. 2
  Opening Rounds
  Built from High-Velocity Rounds
  Good stats, makes our gun really strong lane poke, gun spikes later with weave
3. 3
  Extra Charge
  Try to save both bolt charges in lane for when assistant is up.
4. 4
2If dying too much consider one of these.optional
Author's category
1. 1
  Dispel Magic
  Most often defensive buy. Slowing hex is very popular right now and this with assistant up makes you almost immortal.
2. 2
  Warp Stone
  All around good survivability item and enables a lot of stolen ults. Usually buy vs pocket / dynamo
3. 3
  Metal Skin
  Best anti gun item in the game. Buy if you need it to channel seven / dynamo ult or if you're getting ran down by drifter / haze / silver
3Core Items
Author's category · Usually this order, don't fight with a giant bag hard saving for carpet like a noob. Trans cd should always be last.
1. 1
  Greater Expansion
  Makes everything easier to hit and makes almost every ult better. Now that we're permafighting we usually want this before carpet.
2. 2
  Magic Carpet
  Legit the do everything item, lets you be anywhere on the map, force lanes in without fear, and enable some ults better than any other item. Use shadow weave while channeling and be the invisible UAV.
3. 3
4AP order always starts 221114433, after this max ult or rabbit based on the lobby you're in. Assistant is always maxed last.
Author's category
No items listed.
5Lategame Utilityoptional
Author's category · Buy off vibes, if you don't know what to buy kevlar and DB are always good.
1. 1
  Vortex Web
  If you bought shex you can upgrade to this, really strong initiation item from invis.
2. 2
  Echo Shard
  Much worse with the recent nerf imo, still obviously strong against grounded teams but I don't really buy this very often.
3. 3
  Scourge
  Throw on largest monkey and farm damage, really strong with how much spirit power / duration / range we get
6Full Bolt Damageoptional
Author's category · If your team lacks damage you can start buying these instead of carpet / cdr / duration
1. 1
  Mystic Reverb
  Stand 4 meters behind assistant and both your bolts will hit at the same time making this do 2x dmg
2. 2
  Spirit Burn
  If they have tons of healing
3. 3
  Tankbuster
  Bad on this hero but enables reverb / spirit burn
7Situationalsoptional
Author's category
1. 1
  Extra Regen
  If needed for lane
2. 2
  Extra Health
  If you bought regen for lane you can scoop this at some point for green spike.
3. 3
  Healbane
  Not my job but sometimes antiheal is really important
4. 4
8Only here so quickbuy worksoptional
Author's category
1. 1
  Mystic Expansion
2. 2
  Compress Cooldown
3. 3
  Duration Extender

Skill order

Published by the guide's author (not measured from matches).

Skill order published in RAIGEKI THE ULTIMATE WIZARD - RANK 1 SINCLAIR, one row per ability in slot order
Vexing BoltVexing Bolt		Vexing Bolt: Ability unlocked, step 2					Vexing Bolt: 1 AP upgrade, step 7	Vexing Bolt: 2 AP upgrade, step 8	Vexing Bolt: 5 AP upgrade, step 9

Among the 12 most-used guides with at least 10 analysed matches: 1 copy and 0 near-identical guides hidden, 6 beyond the top 5. “Core items” counts items in the author's non-optional categories.

What to buy, in order

Rapid Recharge + Greater Expansion + Superior Duration style

1Early
High-Velocity Rounds
~1:06
2Early
Opening Rounds
~3:41
from High-Velocity Rounds
3Early
Extra Charge
~4:00
4Early
Extra Spirit
~5:43
5Early
Improved Spirit
~7:25
from Extra Spirit
6Mid
Rapid Recharge
~9:50
from Extra Charge
7Mid
Enchanter's Emblem
~12:14
8Mid
Mystic Expansion
~15:13
Imbue: Vexing Bolt
9Late
Duration Extender
~21:43
Imbue: Rabbit Hex
10Late
Boundless Spirit
~21:46
from Improved Spirit
11Late
Greater Expansion
~21:58
from Mystic Expansion
12Late
Superior Duration
~24:19
from Duration Extender
13Late
Superior Cooldown
~25:50
14Late
Tankbuster
~26:10
continuation

Times are when players on this build typically bought each item (observed guidance, not deadlines). Dashed steps are late continuations: this style's most-bought late items, added so the build runs to the late game. Stage details below show how many of this group bought each item, optional items and situational swaps.

By stage

“Bought” percentages say how many players in this group bought the item; they are not win rates. Swaps are our advice from each item's current game text, not measured matchup results.

1Early
0–9 min
1. 1
  High-Velocity Rounds
  60% bought · ~1:06 · most 0–2 min
2. 2
  Opening Rounds
  58% bought · ~3:41 · most 2–5 min
  Built from High-Velocity Rounds
3. 3

Skill order

The most common choice at each point among these 286 players. The first four points match 159 of them; 15 used this exact full order.

Sinclair skill order: unlocks and upgrades in order, one row per ability in slot order
Vexing BoltVexing Bolt			Vexing Bolt: Ability unlocked, step 3			Vexing Bolt: 1 AP upgrade, step 6		Vexing Bolt: 2 AP upgrade, step 8	Vexing Bolt: 5 AP upgrade, step 9

Final inventory target

About this recommendation

Sample: Sinclair, normal mode, ranked matches with average rank Phantom or higher, from Oct 5, 2026 (Oct 5, 2026 update) to Oct 8, 2026, never more than 14 days: 1,036 matches, 44.4% won. Unranked matches carry no badge, so a rank bracket means ranked matches only.
Playstyle: the most common trio of 3,200+ soul items by 30:00 was Rapid Recharge, Greater Expansion, Superior Duration. 286 matches built all three (28% of the sample); 51.4% of them were won. That describes these players, not this exact build, which no one may have followed item for item.
Items: bought by at least 50% of the group; late items are counted among the 107 matches that reached 35:00. If that leaves fewer than 2 late items, the build continues with the group's most-bought late items (at least 30%). Order and times are the group's medians.
Inventory: checked after every purchase with game recipes, observed sales and the observed limits of 12 items and 4 active items.
Ranked Sinclair matches by rank in this window: Oracle 606 · Sentinel 456 · Phantom 583 · Eternus 154 · Emissary 542 · Acolyte 492 · Seeker 579 · Mystic 502 · Ritualist 533 · Ascendant 299 · Initiate 268.
Snapshot generated Oct 9, 2026 from the Deadlock API public data lake (data as of Oct 8, 2026).

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Hero: Sinclair (60)
Build source: generated, Phantom+ ranked sample
Build version: 2026-10-09T10:33:03.627Z
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Not claimed: that this is the best build, or that it wins more than alternatives. No win rate is computed for the assembled build.

Spectral AssistantSpectral Assistant	Spectral Assistant: Ability unlocked, step 1	Spectral Assistant: 1 AP upgrade, step 2			Spectral Assistant: 2 AP upgrade, step 5											Spectral Assistant: 5 AP upgrade, step 16

Audience ParticipationAudience Participation							Audience Participation: Ability unlocked, step 7			Audience Participation: 1 AP upgrade, step 10	Audience Participation: 2 AP upgrade, step 11			Audience Participation: 5 AP upgrade, step 14

RAIGEKI THE ULTIMATE WIZARD - RANK 1 SINCLAIR

by RAIGEKIVersion 148Guide updated Oct 8, 2026Guide #280256

Matches started with it: 124
Won: 42.7%
Players: 105
In-game favourites: 33,962 (not match usage)

Items, as published

1Early game
Game stage · Don't throw your lane before you get to T2 assistant, once you get T2 assistant you can pressure hard and usually force their guardian.
1. 1
  High-Velocity Rounds
  Probably the best item in Deadlock
2. 2
  Opening Rounds
  Built from High-Velocity Rounds
  Good stats, makes our gun really strong lane poke, gun spikes later with weave
3. 3
  Extra Charge
  Try to save both bolt charges in lane for when assistant is up.
4. 4
2If dying too much consider one of these.optional
Author's category
1. 1
  Dispel Magic
  Most often defensive buy. Slowing hex is very popular right now and this with assistant up makes you almost immortal.
2. 2
  Warp Stone
  All around good survivability item and enables a lot of stolen ults. Usually buy vs pocket / dynamo
3. 3
  Metal Skin
  Best anti gun item in the game. Buy if you need it to channel seven / dynamo ult or if you're getting ran down by drifter / haze / silver
3Core Items
Author's category · Usually this order, don't fight with a giant bag hard saving for carpet like a noob. Trans cd should always be last.
1. 1
  Greater Expansion
  Makes everything easier to hit and makes almost every ult better. Now that we're permafighting we usually want this before carpet.
2. 2
  Magic Carpet
  Legit the do everything item, lets you be anywhere on the map, force lanes in without fear, and enable some ults better than any other item. Use shadow weave while channeling and be the invisible UAV.
3. 3
4AP order always starts 221114433, after this max ult or rabbit based on the lobby you're in. Assistant is always maxed last.
Author's category
No items listed.
5Lategame Utilityoptional
Author's category · Buy off vibes, if you don't know what to buy kevlar and DB are always good.
1. 1
  Vortex Web
  If you bought shex you can upgrade to this, really strong initiation item from invis.
2. 2
  Echo Shard
  Much worse with the recent nerf imo, still obviously strong against grounded teams but I don't really buy this very often.
3. 3
  Scourge
  Throw on largest monkey and farm damage, really strong with how much spirit power / duration / range we get
6Full Bolt Damageoptional
Author's category · If your team lacks damage you can start buying these instead of carpet / cdr / duration
1. 1
  Mystic Reverb
  Stand 4 meters behind assistant and both your bolts will hit at the same time making this do 2x dmg
2. 2
  Spirit Burn
  If they have tons of healing
3. 3
  Tankbuster
  Bad on this hero but enables reverb / spirit burn
7Situationalsoptional
Author's category
1. 1
  Extra Regen
  If needed for lane
2. 2
  Extra Health
  If you bought regen for lane you can scoop this at some point for green spike.
3. 3
  Healbane
  Not my job but sometimes antiheal is really important
4. 4
8Only here so quickbuy worksoptional
Author's category
1. 1
  Mystic Expansion
2. 2
  Compress Cooldown
3. 3
  Duration Extender

Skill order

Published by the guide's author (not measured from matches).

Skill order published in RAIGEKI THE ULTIMATE WIZARD - RANK 1 SINCLAIR, one row per ability in slot order
Vexing BoltVexing Bolt		Vexing Bolt: Ability unlocked, step 2					Vexing Bolt: 1 AP upgrade, step 7	Vexing Bolt: 2 AP upgrade, step 8	Vexing Bolt: 5 AP upgrade, step 9

Among the 12 most-used guides with at least 10 analysed matches: 1 copy and 0 near-identical guides hidden, 6 beyond the top 5. “Core items” counts items in the author's non-optional categories.

Skill order

Published by the guide's author (not measured from matches).

Skill order published in CF3 Magic Bolts of Boom V2.1, one row per ability in slot order
Vexing BoltVexing Bolt		Vexing Bolt: Ability unlocked, step 2	Vexing Bolt: 1 AP upgrade, step 3		Vexing Bolt: 2 AP upgrade, step 5			Vexing Bolt: 5 AP upgrade, step 8
Spectral AssistantSpectral Assistant	Spectral Assistant: Ability unlocked, step 1						Spectral Assistant: 1 AP upgrade, step 7		Spectral Assistant: 2 AP upgrade, step 9							Spectral Assistant: 5 AP upgrade, step 16
Rabbit HexRabbit Hex				Rabbit Hex: Ability unlocked, step 4						Rabbit Hex: 1 AP upgrade, step 10	Rabbit Hex: 2 AP upgrade, step 11	Rabbit Hex: 5 AP upgrade, step 12
Audience ParticipationAudience Participation						Audience Participation: Ability unlocked, step 6							Audience Participation: 1 AP upgrade, step 13	Audience Participation: 2 AP upgrade, step 14	Audience Participation: 5 AP upgrade, step 15

Unlock1 / 2 / 5 AP upgrade costOrder only; no timings

Skill order

Published by the guide's author (not measured from matches).

Skill order published in Piggy`s Support Sinclair (twitch.tv/piggyxdd), one row per ability in slot order
Vexing BoltVexing Bolt		Vexing Bolt: Ability unlocked, step 2												Vexing Bolt: 1 AP upgrade, step 14	Vexing Bolt: 2 AP upgrade, step 15	Vexing Bolt: 5 AP upgrade, step 16
Spectral AssistantSpectral Assistant	Spectral Assistant: Ability unlocked, step 1				Spectral Assistant: 1 AP upgrade, step 5	Spectral Assistant: 2 AP upgrade, step 6							Spectral Assistant: 5 AP upgrade, step 13
Rabbit HexRabbit Hex			Rabbit Hex: Ability unlocked, step 3							Rabbit Hex: 1 AP upgrade, step 10	Rabbit Hex: 2 AP upgrade, step 11	Rabbit Hex: 5 AP upgrade, step 12
Audience ParticipationAudience Participation				Audience Participation: Ability unlocked, step 4			Audience Participation: 1 AP upgrade, step 7	Audience Participation: 2 AP upgrade, step 8	Audience Participation: 5 AP upgrade, step 9

Unlock1 / 2 / 5 AP upgrade costOrder only; no timings

Not shown: 1 entries for other heroes' abilities and 212 entries after the order starts again.

Skill order

Published by the guide's author (not measured from matches).

Skill order published in Styllar Bolt Magician, one row per ability in slot order
Vexing BoltVexing Bolt		Vexing Bolt: Ability unlocked, step 2					Vexing Bolt: 1 AP upgrade, step 7	Vexing Bolt: 2 AP upgrade, step 8	Vexing Bolt: 5 AP upgrade, step 9
Spectral AssistantSpectral Assistant	Spectral Assistant: Ability unlocked, step 1				Spectral Assistant: 1 AP upgrade, step 5	Spectral Assistant: 2 AP upgrade, step 6										Spectral Assistant: 5 AP upgrade, step 16
Rabbit HexRabbit Hex			Rabbit Hex: Ability unlocked, step 3									Rabbit Hex: 1 AP upgrade, step 12	Rabbit Hex: 2 AP upgrade, step 13	Rabbit Hex: 5 AP upgrade, step 14
Audience ParticipationAudience Participation				Audience Participation: Ability unlocked, step 4						Audience Participation: 1 AP upgrade, step 10	Audience Participation: 2 AP upgrade, step 11				Audience Participation: 5 AP upgrade, step 15

Unlock1 / 2 / 5 AP upgrade costOrder only; no timings

Skill order

Published by the guide's author (not measured from matches).

Skill order published in twitch.tv/oses7, one row per ability in slot order
Vexing BoltVexing Bolt			Vexing Bolt: Ability unlocked, step 3			Vexing Bolt: 1 AP upgrade, step 6	Vexing Bolt: 2 AP upgrade, step 7	Vexing Bolt: 5 AP upgrade, step 8
Spectral AssistantSpectral Assistant	Spectral Assistant: Ability unlocked, step 1	Spectral Assistant: 1 AP upgrade, step 2							Spectral Assistant: 2 AP upgrade, step 9							Spectral Assistant: 5 AP upgrade, step 16
Rabbit HexRabbit Hex				Rabbit Hex: Ability unlocked, step 4								Rabbit Hex: 1 AP upgrade, step 12	Rabbit Hex: 2 AP upgrade, step 13	Rabbit Hex: 5 AP upgrade, step 14
Audience ParticipationAudience Participation					Audience Participation: Ability unlocked, step 5					Audience Participation: 1 AP upgrade, step 10	Audience Participation: 2 AP upgrade, step 11				Audience Participation: 5 AP upgrade, step 15

Unlock1 / 2 / 5 AP upgrade costOrder only; no timings

Not shown: 16 entries after the order starts again.

RAIGEKI THE ULTIMATE WIZARD - RANK 1 SINCLAIR

Items, as published

Skill order

CF3 Magic Bolts of Boom V2.1

Items, as published

Piggy`s Support Sinclair (twitch.tv/piggyxdd)

Items, as published

Styllar Bolt Magician

Items, as published

twitch.tv/oses7

Items, as published

Sinclair builds

What to buy, in order

By stage

Skill order

Final inventory target

Upgrades and replacements

RAIGEKI THE ULTIMATE WIZARD - RANK 1 SINCLAIR

Items, as published

Skill order

CF3 Magic Bolts of Boom V2.1

Items, as published

Piggy`s Support Sinclair (twitch.tv/piggyxdd)

Items, as published

Styllar Bolt Magician

Items, as published

twitch.tv/oses7

Items, as published

Skill order

Skill order

Skill order

Skill order