Drifter build guide

Ricefields Butcher

by ricehatVersion 3Updated Aug 14, 2026Guide #764122

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Published guide

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Author's notes

Collection of the best from other guides. Throw your two (Stalker's Mark) on tanks and find squishies during teamfights.

Item categories

1Early / Lane | Left to Right
Author's category · 9 items
1. 1
  High-Velocity Rounds
2. 2
  Opening Rounds
  Built from High-Velocity Rounds
3. 3
  Battle Vest
4. 4
  Stalker
  Chips away in Lane HARD. Later on this becomes a key item for roaming / ganking.
5. 5
  Kinetic Dash
6. 6
  Spirit Strike
7. 7
  Enduring Speed
  Slow resistance. Can build into Juggernaut to counter M1's.
8. 8
  Healbane
  Anti-heal and for aggressive playstyles for its heal on kill.
9. 9
  Spirit Snatch
  Built from Spirit Strike
2BRS or Hexoptional
Author's category · 2 items
1. 1
  Bullet Resist Shredder
2. 2
  Slowing Hex
3Laningoptional
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Grit
2. 2
  Enchanter's Emblem
3. 3
  Extra Regen
  Still one of the best laning restorative items. Best used for when you need to go around and hitboxes to recoup from damage in lane.
4. 4
4Pick up 1 or 2 of these
Author's category · 6 items
1. 1
  Dispel Magic
2. 2
  Spirit Resilience
3. 3
  Veil Walker
4. 4
5Only one
Author's category · 2 items · Hunter's Aura if enemy high fire rate
1. 1
  Hunter's Aura
2. 2
  Berserker
6Mid to Late Game
Author's category · 8 items
1. 1
  Superior Duration
2. 2
  Burst Fire
3. 3
  Vampiric Burst
4. 4
7Speedoptional
Author's category · 2 items
1. 1
  Heroic Aura
  Good for your and your team.
2. 2
  Swift Striker
8Târgoviște, 1475optional
Author's category · 1 items
1. 1
  Refresher
9Address meoptional
Author's category · 1 items
1. 1
  Weighted Shots
10Curfewoptional
Author's category · 1 items
1. 1
  Shadow Weave
11Spirit Heavy / Infernusoptional
Author's category · 2 items
1. 1
  Fury Trance
2. 2
  Blood Tribute
  Pretty risky item. Great for light but annoying debuff lineup, notably against disablers like Abrams and Ivy. Preferable pickup would be after getting 4.8k spike in Greens. Great combo with Healbane.
12Late Optionalsoptional
Author's category · 7 items · Stacks low? Run spirit.
1. 1
  Ricochet
  Good after Silencer.
2. 2
  Siphon Bullets
  For high health pool heroes, make yourself tanky as well.
3. 3
  Cursed Relic
  Ensures shutdowns. Also prevents ability and item usage. What else is there to say?
13Survivabilityoptional
Author's category · 10 items
1. 1
  Unstoppable
2. 2
  Plated Armor
  Against plenty of on-hits Infernus Afterburn, Toxic Bullets, Inhibitor, and so on and so forth.
3. 3
  Spellbreaker
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 14	Rend: 2 AP upgrade, step 15