HipsterLion Anti Mage Drifter

Author's notes

Genius Drifter Build capable of silencing your enemies for 10s straight and applying anti heal up to 75%. With my build you never wanna go to base, you go to every single fight on map and condition your enemy with insane dmg and anti heal of your 2. Thank you for the support ( っ˶´ ˘ `)っ

Item categories

1. 1Early Game Spikes

   Author's category · 11 items · usually in order but you can get creative. buy a disable for 4.8k spirit spike

   1. 1

      Stalker

      everything about this item is good for drifter. dmg, chasing, shred, hp

   2. 2

      Melee Lifesteal

   3. 3

      Mystic Burst

      mystic burst+spirit strike = 80 more dmg on your 1

   4. 4

2. 2Lane Sustainoptional

   Author's category · 5 items

   1. 1

      Restorative Shot

   2. 2

      Extra Regen

      I play safe so I don't have to buy this but if your lane is very poke heavy but you wanna run boxes this can be good

   3. 3

      Healing Rite

      just so you don't have to go to base if you're 1 hp after a good fight.

3. 3only if you needoptional

   Author's category · 4 items

   1. 1

      Spirit Shielding

      you don't want to buy any of these unless you must because these hurt powerspikes on drifter but sometimes you gotta be more tanky

   2. 2

      Weapon Shielding

   3. 3

      Reactive Barrier

   4. 4

4. 4Mid Game Core

   Author's category · 4 items · usually left to right. don't forget other catagories

   1. 1

      Fortitude

      Built from Extra Health

      with this you don't have to go to base but this could be replaced with veil walker depending on their comp

   2. 2

      Silencer

      silencer+your 1 + silence wave = 10s silence that applies 3 times seprately but you can skip this if you don't need silences and go for late game choices

   3. 3

      Vampiric Burst

5. 5Disablesoptional

   Author's category · 6 items · can buy 1 or 2 vs mvp

   1. 1

      Spirit Sap

      spirit sap makes a lot of hard hitting spirit nukers to hit for way less in early to mid game. don't sleep on this item

   2. 2

      Slowing Hex

      against mobile heroes, if you can't quite catch them

   3. 3

      Disarming Hex

      Built from Rusted Barrel

6. 6Situationalsoptional

   Author's category · 7 items · you have 0 escape as this character so buy to survive

   1. 1

      Metal Skin

      against a good haze player or any true m1 dmg heroes. not like wraith, mirage or infernus that do spirit dmg too

   2. 2

      Counterspell

      against key abilities like lash ult, geist ult, mo ult, paradox swap,...

   3. 3

      Warp Stone

      mobility to get out of a bad situation against heroes like paradox, mo, haze,...

7. 7Late Game Choicesoptional

   Author's category · 8 items

   1. 1

      Inhibitor

   2. 2

      Indomitable

      Built from Reactive Barrier

   3. 3

      Juggernaut

      against many m1 heroes this can be pretty good.

   4. 4

8. 8Trash Binoptional

   Author's category · 21 items · Items that used to be good or I'm keeping an eye out for

   1. 1

      Spirit Snatch

      Built from Spirit Strike

   2. 2

      Veil Walker

   3. 3

      Melee Charge

   4. 4

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

RendRend	Rend: Ability unlocked, step 1	Rend: 1 AP upgrade, step 21			Rend: 2 AP upgrade, step 52			Rend: 5 AP upgrade, step 85