Eat 'em Up (Gun Drifter)

Author's notes

im da dwifta babee Fully annotated gun drifter build, I'll do my best to keep it updated

Item categories

1. 1Early game

   Game stage · 7 items · Get greedy and get stacking

   1. 1

      Close Quarters

      Early damage up close off everything

   2. 2

      Stalker

      Great for extra damage in lane

   3. 3

      Trophy Collector

      Absolutely amazing if you can get stacks rolling, otherwise take Enduring Speed

   4. 4

      Kinetic Dash

      Great fire rate boost for fights, make use of it!

   5. 5

      Slowing Bullets

      Great for chasing people down

   6. 6

      Bullet Resist Shredder

      Mark 'em and tear 'em apart

   7. 7

      Fortitude

      Keeps you roaming longer, which is good

2. 2Lane helpoptional

   Author's category · 4 items · As needed

   1. 1

      Battle Vest

      For heavy gun lanes, boosts your damage too

   2. 2

      Reactive Barrier

      Bebop's still throwing uppercuts, because he sucks (also good for seven and more)

   3. 3

      Extra Regen

      General rough lane

3. 3Mid game

   Game stage · 7 items · Roam around and take farms/sinners, gank fights and keep stacking

   1. 1

      Toxic Bullets

      Quintessential Drifter item, big damage and antiheal

   2. 2

      Superior Duration

      Great for getting stacks in larger fights with ult, and for escapes

   3. 3

      Point Blank

      Built from Close Quarters

      Great extra damage and slowing item, can be replaced with some of the other gun 3.2k items below

4. 4Survivabilityoptional

   Author's category · 4 items · As needed, ususally take 1+

   1. 1

      Counterspell

      The goat

   2. 2

      Dispel Magic

      Alternative to CS if they're more debuff heavy

   3. 3

      Metal Skin

      If they have decent gun carries you're really gonna need this

5. 5Alternativesoptional

   Author's category · 6 items · Some bonus situational items, read annotations

   1. 1

      Enduring Speed

      Replaces TC if you can't get stacks

   2. 2

      Weighted Shots

      Built from Slowing Bullets

      Good stat stick upgrade to SB if you need to keep that around

   3. 3

      Hollow Point

      raw damage

6. 6Late Survoptional

   Author's category · 3 items · Replace old greens

   1. 1

      Indomitable

      Built from Reactive Barrier

      If you bought reactive in lane you'll probably get this

   2. 2

      Spellbreaker

      Anti-burst, great for Lash, Pocket, etc. Also good debuff res

   3. 3

      Plated Armor

      Really only needed if their gun heroes have lots of on-hit procs (haze, infernus, etc)

7. 7Late gameoptional

   Game stage · 8 items · Not L-R, just grab what you need/want, sorta L-R prio tho

   1. 1

      Silencer

      T3 claws silence but this gives you consistant silences

   2. 2

      Crippling Headshot

      It's just more damage, need I say more?

   3. 3

      Inhibitor

      Big debuff, very strong

8. 8Purgatoryoptional

   Author's category · 3 items · ignore this

   1. 1

      Spirit Strike

      More claws damage, sell later

   2. 2

      Mystic Burst

      Early game burst on claws, sell first later

   3. 3

      Spirit Snatch

      Built from Spirit Strike

      If you want to keep spirit strike around and they have a lot of spirit heroes

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 51	Rend: 2 AP upgrade, step 62					Rend: 5 AP upgrade, step 11