JonJon Venator annotated for dummies

Author's notes

JonJon's Venator build for people who suck at venator (me included) This build focuses on grenades and stacking weapon damage while remaining tanky Play for waves, camps and box routes. You wanna scale into the lategame with as few deaths as possible so you can annihilate people in teamfights

Item categories

1. 1Early Game Core

   Author's category · 5 items · L -> R most games

   1. 1

      Restorative Shot

      Lane sustain and damage, buy first wave every game unless you're sure you can greed and shove with monster rounds early / sell when you need after lifesteal

   2. 2

      Close Quarters

      Get in their face

   3. 3

      Monster Rounds

      The most important buy in you're game

   4. 4

2. 2Early gameoptional

   Game stage · 3 items · Insert healing rite into the buy order when you're low

   1. 1

      Healing Rite

      Neccesary for sustain, sell if needed once you get bullet lifesteal

   2. 2

      Rebuttal

      For the billy and viscous making you're life miserable

   3. 3

      High-Velocity Rounds

      If you struggle with last hitting souls

3. 3Mid Game Core

   Author's category · 5 items · L -> R every SINGLE game

   1. 1

      Battle Vest

      Broken stats / sell late when you have nothing else to sell

   2. 2

      Enduring Speed

      Built from Sprint Boots

      Essential for getting around

   3. 3

      Bullet Lifesteal

      Sustain

4. 4Mid gameoptional

   Game stage · 3 items

   1. 1

      Recharging Rush

      Interesting buy if you wanna prio grenades more

   2. 2

      Melee Charge

      If you like melee

   3. 3

      Slowing Bullets

5. 5Late game

   Game stage · 5 items · L -> R every game

   1. 1

      Weighted Shots

      Built from Slowing Bullets

   2. 2

      Hollow Point

   3. 3

      Point Blank

      Built from Close Quarters

   4. 4

6. 6Anti Hate crime

   Author's category · 3 items

   1. 1

      Counterspell

   2. 2

      Debuff Reducer

   3. 3

      Reactive Barrier

7. 7Late game

   Game stage · 12 items · Order here is up to you / Prio resists a little more until you're comfortable and then continue stacking damage

   1. 1

      Vampiric Burst

      Built from Bullet Lifesteal

      Super strong, recommend getting early

   2. 2

      Spirit Resilience

      Always gets value

   3. 3

      Escalating Resilience

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

Consecrating GrenadeConsecrating Grenade			Consecrating Grenade: Ability unlocked, step 3				Consecrating Grenade: 1 AP upgrade, step 71	Consecrating Grenade: 2 AP upgrade, step 82	Consecrating Grenade: 5 AP upgrade, step 9