Venator build guide

The Highway to Hell

by bebungoVersion 29Updated May 15, 2026Guide #529921

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Observed usage

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Published guide

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In-game favourites: 9 (as last synced by the API; not match usage)

Author's notes

Time to make Venator's victims see their fate

Item categories

1Early game
Game stage · 7 items
1. 1
  Restorative Shot
2. 2
  Monster Rounds
3. 3
  Opening Rounds
  sell late
4. 4
  Battle Vest
  just look at the stats and TELL ME why I SHOULDN'T buy this (sell late)
5. 5
  Slowing Bullets
6. 6
  Cultist Sacrifice
  Built from Monster Rounds
  use EXCLUSIVELY on Tier 3 Neutrals
7. 7
  Compress Cooldown
  His ult is still REALLY GOOD after the nerfs (timed with when you MAX the ULTIMATE)
2NEED HEALINGoptional
Author's category · 3 items
1. 1
  Extra Regen
2. 2
  Healing Rite
3. 3
  Reactive Barrier
3Mid game
Game stage · 7 items
1. 1
  Hollow Point
  35% weapon damage, on top of -9% shread, on TOP of 60% investment!
2. 2
  Enduring Speed
  yay, now you have more health from the 4.8k investment :D (also give more move speed on the character that REALLY needs it)
3. 3
  Bullet Lifesteal
  3.2k/4.8k for green investment spike
4EXTRA CHARGES & COOLDOWNoptional
Author's category · 3 items
1. 1
  Extra Charge
2. 2
  Rapid Recharge
  Built from Extra Charge
3. 3
  Transcendent Cooldown
  Built from Superior Cooldown
  slot locked
5Late game
Game stage · 7 items
1. 1
  Siphon Bullets
  REALLY GOOD LATE NOW percentage damage and 15% more weapon. GOING to get NERFED. Abuse NOW
2. 2
  Vampiric Burst
  Built from Bullet Lifesteal
  Your survivability after buying Glass Cannon
3. 3
  Inhibitor
  META SLOP Weapon damage GOT BUFFED for SOME REASON. core core core core
6ACTIVESoptional
Author's category · 3 items
1. 1
  Colossus
2. 2
  Unstoppable
  If Needed, Usually I can get away with ONLY couterspell, but if dire buy this
3. 3
  Metal Skin
  "Help, their Haze is too fed and keeps solo ulting me!"
7COUNTERSoptional
Author's category · 8 items
1. 1
  Disarming Hex
2. 2
  Spirit Resilience
  Almost Always (never NOT valueble)
3. 3
  Plated Armor
4. 4
8TIME TO FIST 'EMoptional
Author's category · 3 items
1. 1
  Lifestrike
2. 2
  Phantom Strike
3. 3
  Crushing Fists

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 2									Consecrating Grenade: 1 AP upgrade, step 11		Consecrating Grenade: 2 AP upgrade, step 13