RAIGEKI THE ULTIMATE WIZARD - RANK 1 SINCLAIR

Author's notes

10/8 update: Small build change to incorporate trophy again as objective damage being gutted makes active play early the move. Twitch.tv/RAIGEKl Feel free to ask me any questions on the Sinclair discord @RAIGEKI

Item categories

1. 1Early game

   Game stage · 8 items · 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

2. 2If dying too much consider one of these.optional

   Author's category · 4 items

   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

3. 3Core Items

   Author's category · 6 items · 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

4. 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 · 0 items

   No items listed.

5. 5Lategame Utilityoptional

   Author's category · 6 items · 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

6. 6Full Bolt Damageoptional

   Author's category · 5 items · 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

7. 7Situationalsoptional

   Author's category · 9 items

   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

8. 8Only here so quickbuy worksoptional

   Author's category · 3 items

   1. 1

      Mystic Expansion

   2. 2

      Compress Cooldown

   3. 3

      Duration Extender

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

Vexing BoltVexing Bolt		Vexing Bolt: Ability unlocked, step 2					Vexing Bolt: 1 AP upgrade, step 71	Vexing Bolt: 2 AP upgrade, step 82	Vexing Bolt: 5 AP upgrade, step 9