Styllar M1 Sinclair

Author's notes

Bolt and then pivot to Assistant lategame. Go Trophy if you can play active and get stacks. Go Cultist if your team sucks and you need to play more passive. You can max bunny over Assistant if you want. AP is not set and is very flexible.

Item categories

1. 1Lane

   Author's category · 7 items · Rough L-R - can tempo Rapid Recharge if you're rich and get 4.8k spirit spike after

   1. 1

      Monster Rounds

      Kill their wave before they kill your wave otherwise our abilities are way harder to use.

   2. 2

      High-Velocity Rounds

   3. 3

      Opening Rounds

      Built from High-Velocity Rounds

      Shoot people without shitty velocity.

   4. 4

2. 2Get a 1600 Green and Cultist if you want it

   Author's category · 4 items

   1. 1

      Cultist Sacrifice

      Built from Monster Rounds

      Gun spike and money. Get this if your team is AFK and bad.

   2. 2

      Reactive Barrier

      Good if enemy team is able to proc it consistently and you need more survival.

   3. 3

      Enchanter's Emblem

3. 3Mid game

   Game stage · 8 items · Get Expansion in lane instead of Improved Spirit if noob

   1. 1

      Warp Stone

      Core movement item for survivability as well as being really good for enabling certain ults like Pocket / Dynamo / Lash. Can go Dispel/Counterspell over this instead.

   2. 2

      Mystic Expansion

      If you are noob then buy this over Improved Spirit in laning phase. Also allows you to hit all 3 creeps in T2 camps.

   3. 3

      Boundless Spirit

4. 4Buy 2/3 if you need

   Author's category · 3 items · Based on game

   1. 1

      Greater Expansion

      Built from Mystic Expansion

      Amazing for bolt / rabbit / actives and almost every ult you steal.

   2. 2

      Superior Cooldown

      All of our power is in our buttons and this gives us more buttons.

   3. 3

      Superior Duration

      Really strong for rabbit, items, and most ults you steal. Also makes it easier to abuse the double TP we get with Spectral Assistant.

5. 5Survive

   Author's category · 5 items

   1. 1

      Dispel Magic

      If there's slowing hexes or silence waves, you will need this.

   2. 2

      Counterspell

      Can be bad due to desync but it's good against mobile burst heroes like Calico / Lash / Pocket and it can also save you from CC. Usually Warp Stone is better if you can't buy both.

   3. 3

      Metal Skin

      Good if you are getting jumped by a roaming pick Haze or if you need it to survive vs. gun Warden / Geist / etc. Also good when popping certain ults like Dynamo or Seven.

6. 6Late game

   Game stage · 5 items · NOT L-R - read annotations and buy off vibes

   1. 1

      Divine Barrier

      Good if getting owned by Pocket / Drifter / Ivy ult.

   2. 2

      Diviner's Kevlar

      Good if you need survival with ults that make you targeted in fights more like Warden / Seven / Dynamo but it's pretty luxury.

   3. 3

      Transcendent Cooldown

      Built from Superior Cooldown

7. 7Situationaloptional

   Author's category · 11 items

   1. 1

      Extra Regen

      If you need it - otherwise don't buy.

   2. 2

      Grit

      Good item for taking trades in lane and if you plan on upgrading to Reactive or Weapon Shielding. Don't get Spirit Shielding most of the time cause Weapon is usually better.

   3. 3

      Extra Health

      Good for flat HP early. Don't bother upgrading though.

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