Drifter build guide
by BMEVersion 15Updated Aug 20, 2026Guide #767587
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Markiplier tried selling me the Elo Potion
1Lane->4.8ks
Author's category · 10 items · Rough L-R
Extra Regen
This item is broken on drifter sell later
Melee Lifesteal
Good trade tool sell later
Stalker
sell later
Spirit Strike
Mystic Burst
Spirit Snatch
Built from Spirit Strike
Can skip burst to rush this if have money this is a huge spike
Extra Spirit
Finish Spirit 4.8k if you didnt buy shex or sap
Veil Walker
Sneaky golem
Mystic Shot
Has the same CD as Rend so your normal kill combo gets to use it twice
Spirit Shredder
Skippable for other gun items if want
2Early Optionalsoptional
Author's category · 12 items
Headshot Booster
Good poke item
Extra Health
Healing Rite
3Core
Author's category · 2 items
Tankbuster
Built from Mystic Burst
2nd damage spike, Rend is a nuke
Spirit Burn
3rd damage spike, Rend doing like 2k on random people you use it against now
4Piggy Items
Author's category · 6 items · You need a few of these
Counterspell
Dispel Magic
Warp Stone
5Low Stack High Cortoptional
Author's category · 4 items
Superior Duration
Superior Cooldown
Transcendent Cooldown
Built from Superior Cooldown
Good if you have active items
6High Stack Low Cortoptional
Author's category · 8 items · Gun items if stacks
Kinetic Dash
If you have a lot of stacks really early you can buy this instead of SSB but just get burst fire
Burst Fire
Very good if you have stacks backing it up
Surge of Power
Built from Extra Spirit
Also very good if you have stacks backing it up
7Super Piggy Itemsoptional
Author's category · 4 items · Dying sucks
Plated Armor
Spellbreaker
Indomitable
Built from Reactive Barrier
8Good Items I can't put in a categoryoptional
Author's category · 7 items
Debuff Reducer
makrill blyat holliday blyat
Healbane
Weakening Headshot
9Imbuesoptional
Author's category · 3 items
Compress Cooldown
Duration Extender
Quicksilver Reload
10I've been told this is compy but IDKoptional
Author's category · 2 items
Melee Charge
Fleetfoot
HMC apparently the method
11
Author's category · 0 items · AP order game dependent. Max 1 if need the Silence, Max 2 if need antiheal
No items listed.
12Elo Panaceaoptional
Author's category · 1 items
Golden Goose Egg
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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.
| Rend: Ability unlocked, step 1 | Rend: 1 AP upgrade, step 5 | Rend: 2 AP upgrade, step 6 | Rend: 5 AP upgrade, step 9 |
Sprint Boots
Rebuttal
Burger
Grit
Trophy Collector
Built from Sprint Boots
Snowball
Spirit Shielding
Built from Grit
Reactive Barrier
Built from Grit
Rusted Barrel
Racist (against gun heroes)
Slowing Hex
Racist (against movement abilities)
Spirit Sap
Racist (against spirit heroes)
Spirit Resilience
Metal Skin
Ethereal Shift
Escalating Exposure
Mercurial Magnum
Reloads your gun and beats metal skin (your build already does that)
Silencer
Super racist (against spirit heroes) ((OP item))
Spiritual Overflow
OP item
Crippling Headshot
OP item
Inhibitor
Racist (against everyone)
Unstoppable
Hunter's Aura
can buy for gun 4.8k if want
Spirit Rend
Built from Spirit Shredder
good upgrade from spirit shredder
Cursed Relic
Sometimes you will need a curse
Refresher
| Stalker's Mark: Ability unlocked, step 2 | Stalker's Mark: 1 AP upgrade, step 7 | Stalker's Mark: 2 AP upgrade, step 8 | Stalker's Mark: 5 AP upgrade, step 12 |
| Bloodscent: Ability unlocked, step 3 | Bloodscent: 1 AP upgrade, step 10 | Bloodscent: 2 AP upgrade, step 11 | Bloodscent: 5 AP upgrade, step 16 |
| Eternal Night: Ability unlocked, step 4 | Eternal Night: 1 AP upgrade, step 13 | Eternal Night: 2 AP upgrade, step 14 | Eternal Night: 5 AP upgrade, step 15 |
Unlock1 / 2 / 5 AP upgrade costOrder only; no timings
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