(TESTING) Venator Dopamine ULT Maxxing

Author's notes

Ult win

Item categories

1. 1Early game

   Game stage · 6 items · Can get battle vest after or before 1.6k gun items

   1. 1

      Close Quarters

      gives the most dmg to gutshot and nades this early, best T1 he can get early

   2. 2

      Restorative Shot

      pick over cq or hb if u want, sell first

   3. 3

      Opening Rounds

      easily his best t2 item, nades now hurt alot and gutshot will chunk them especially with wallstun

   4. 4

      Slowing Bullets

      highest raw weapon dmg t2 available, builds into weighted now which is even better

   5. 5

      Battle Vest

      always good and useful vs m1 lanes. sell late for better defensive options

   6. 6

      Compress Cooldown

      lower ult cd, more ult uptime

2. 2optional

   Author's category · 4 items · Cancer lanes

   1. 1

      Monster Rounds

      I usually always grab this for rem/grave lanes

   2. 2

      Healing Rite

      op

   3. 3

      Spirit Shielding

      best general t2 spirit res item

   4. 4

3. 3Mid game

   Game stage · 6 items · Get that 4.8k green after Hollow

   1. 1

      Hollow Point

      amazing item all around. OOC, flat hp, bullet shred, more dmg, and the bullet shred gets applied through ult shots as well

   2. 2

      Enduring Speed

      fuck stam mastery this mf hit leg day

   3. 3

      Bullet Lifesteal

      hp and nice little survivability, builds into vampiric

4. 4Up to youoptional

   Author's category · 4 items

   1. 1

      Melee Charge

      buy after weighted for timing with gutshot max if u go this route. sell rest shot for it if needed

   2. 2

      Point Blank

      Built from Close Quarters

      great melee resist and fat dmg up close, really useful vs some chars that stick to you and for aggressive gutshot plays

   3. 3

      Recharging Rush

5. 5Late game

   Game stage · 7 items · Roughly ordered, u choose if and when u want rapid i'm still testing it

   1. 1

      Vampiric Burst

      Built from Bullet Lifesteal

      fat spike in survivability and dps. use before ult for the most healing and to give it some fire rate

   2. 2

      Ballistic Enchantment

      still figuring out when to slot this if to even slot it for this build. (TESTING)

   3. 3

      Rapid Recharge

6. 6Fun Stuffoptional

   Author's category · 4 items

   1. 1

      Echo Shard

      very, very fun and actually compy. extremely underrated in non melee builds

   2. 2

      Greater Expansion

      makes gutshot braindead easy to land, increases wall stun range, trap radius, and nades become planetary

   3. 3

      Superior Duration

      longer stun longer burns

7. 7Situationals / Counter Buysoptional

   Author's category · 10 items

   1. 1

      Spirit Resilience

      Exodia

   2. 2

      Counterspell

      Counterspell

   3. 3

      Bullet Resilience

   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

Consecrating GrenadeConsecrating Grenade		Consecrating Grenade: Ability unlocked, step 2									Consecrating Grenade: 1 AP upgrade, step 111	Consecrating Grenade: 2 AP upgrade, step 122