Gun Viktor Hyper Carry - ALL ANNOTATIONS

Author's notes

Gun gives us so much more urgency than spirit does. We scale hard and always dominate late game, but we can also take objectives really fast, farm well and fight all the way through the game. Merc mag nerfs hit hard but other buffs make up for it. E6 gun Viktor main before ranked reset.

Item categories

1. 1Early game

   Game stage · 11 items · use aura for slow in lane

   1. 1

      Monster Rounds

      Sell 1st - Really good item for early-mid where we take a lot of objectives and camps. Late we have enough damage not to need it

   2. 2

      Opening Rounds

      Sell 4th - Really good damage and bullet velocity is huge

   3. 3

      Swift Striker

      Love firerate and speed, just consistently good item

   4. 4

2. 2alternate 1600 vitality itemsoptional

   Author's category · 4 items

   1. 1

      Enchanter's Emblem

      Replace battle vest with this into very heavy early spirit and no gun, in this meta, it's an unlikely buy

   2. 2

      Healbane

      If enemy has no gun damage even early and you want to fight a lot and they have a lot of healing, maybe get this? I've never bought it tbh

   3. 3

      Healing Booster

3. 3alternate 1600 spirit itemoptional

   Author's category · 2 items

   1. 1

      Slowing Hex

      If into apollo or something replace the least useful spirit 1600 (usually compress cooldown or surpressor)

   2. 2

      Compress Cooldown

      I really like this item, just gives us 20% more uptime. But we just end up running out of slots

4. 4alternate 1600 gun itemsoptional

   Author's category · 3 items

   1. 1

      Kinetic Dash

      Used to get this a lot but titanic mag gives us so much ammo it isn't worth getting this

   2. 2

      Intensifying Magazine

      Used to get this but we don't really need the gun damage, and never reloading is nice

   3. 3

      Slowing Bullets

      This is a very good buy I just prefer Swift striker / Titanic mag but this is prob better.

5. 5Core Mid-Late

   Author's category · 9 items · L->R in utility, though very game dependent as all late items are, I'm almost always buying L->R until frenzy and then getting situational items. Survivability is almost always better than more damage on this character late game.

   1. 1

      Berserker

      70% gun dmg for 3200 is so good, we can keep it up forever with 2 and 3.

   2. 2

      Bullet Lifesteal

      First component of leech, if not buying leech don't buy this

   3. 3

      Leech

6. 6Situationaloptional

   Author's category · 11 items · You want to get something from this category almost every game, but I would stay mostly true L->R untill Leech

   1. 1

      Dispel Magic

      Not a forced buy on this character because we have two lives, but it's still op

   2. 2

      Warp Stone

      Good item, I just like the 6400 vitality more

   3. 3

      Juggernaut

      Built from Enduring Speed

7. 7Very situatuational (I never buy)optional

   Author's category · 8 items

   1. 1

      Lucky Shot

      never built this we never need to buy 6.4k of just gun dmg

   2. 2

      Spiritual Overflow

      Alright item but we don't need more damage, and duration + spirit lifesteal is wasted on us.

   3. 3

      Silencer

      Maybe there's a universe where you want to buy ricochet, silencer, inhibitor and just debuff all the enemies, but I would rather just DPS and stay alive

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

Pain BatteryPain Battery	Pain Battery: Ability unlocked, step 1								Pain Battery: 1 AP upgrade, step 91	Pain Battery: 2 AP upgrade, step 102	Pain Battery: 5 AP upgrade, step 11