The Doorman build guide

Axalotl's day ruining Doorman

by AxalotlVersion 14Updated Aug 12, 2026Guide #714553

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In-game favourites: 22 (as last synced by the API; not match usage)

Author's notes

Fulfill your Doorman destiny, make your opponents miserable Fully annotated, feel free to mess around with pickups to suit each game's individual needs

Item categories

1Laning
Author's category · 8 items · Go in order | L-R U-D
1. 1
  Extra Charge
  More bells more damage
2. 2
  Mystic Burst
  Kaboom rico
3. 3
  Mystic Shot
4. 4
  Extra Spirit
  More damage more dopamine
5. 5
  Sprint Boots
  for trophy
6. 6
  Compress Cooldown
  Ideally you should always have the door off cooldown
7. 7
  Mystic Expansion
  Door range for early game poke, cart is also an option if you want to ruin someone's day
8. 8
  Improved Spirit
  Built from Extra Spirit
2Counters in laneoptional
Author's category · 4 items · Must get at least one
1. 1
  Enchanter's Emblem
  Spirit carry like Vic
2. 2
  Debuff Reducer
  Debuffers
3. 3
  Reactive Barrier
  Stunners/debuffers
3The goat
Author's category · 1 items · I love you
1. 1
  Trophy Collector
  Built from Sprint Boots
  Get as early as possible
4THE ULTIMATE FUCK YOUoptional
Author's category · 1 items
1. 1
  Cursed Relic
  If scary fed enemy, kill
5HAVE YOU EVER FARMED SOUL WITH YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE???
Author's category · 6 items
1. 1
  Rapid Recharge
  Built from Extra Charge
  Many a bells
2. 2
  Greater Expansion
  Built from Mystic Expansion
  Great for door and bell
3. 3
  Tankbuster
  Built from Mystic Burst
6Lategame
Author's category · 6 items · Ruin your opponent's day!`
1. 1
  Escalating Exposure
  use with spirit burn for big damage
2. 2
  Vortex Web
  Good to disable movement, setting up kidnaps, and bell traps | can be sold for other actives
3. 3
  Knockdown
  Lash, Seven, Bebop, Vindicta, or any runners ruining your day? Ruin theirs instead for a cheap price of 3.2k
7FUCK YOU IN PARTICULARoptional
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Arctic Blast
  Disable movement jumpers like calico or use this to prevent runners
2. 2
  Silence Wave
  If you're getting into a lot of teamfights/need to disable a lot of people
3. 3
  Disarming Hex
  If you're being gunned down, especially good agaisnt infernus/haze/silver/vindicta/big gunners
8silliesoptional
Author's category · 3 items
1. 1
  Magic Carpet
  WEEEEE
2. 2
  Refresher
  I hate you in particular, let me ruin your day
3. 3
  Majestic Leap
  If you need to catch up or run after cheat death procs and youre getting jumped
9w pockettingoptional
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Rescue Beam
  If you have a good tank on your team LOOKING AT YOU VICTOR
2. 2
  Divine Barrier
  If you have a really annoying fed person on your team
3. 3
  Heroic Aura
  Great for teamfights but honestly if someone else already has one grab something else
10Important greensoptional
Author's category · 8 items · At least one, but buy more if needed
1. 1
  Witchmail
  Good for small ticks of spirit damage like Victor
2. 2
  Spellbreaker
  Built from Debuff Reducer
  Jacob Lash is an asshole, Bebop keeps doing the stupid pull grab combo on meee
3. 3
  Plated Armor
  Good against gun carries
11For 1optional
Author's category · 3 items · "hollow.. purple!"
1. 1
  Mercurial Magnum
  Spam
2. 2
  Mystic Reverb
  Your
3. 3
  Surge of Power
  Built from Extra Spirit
  bells
12Movement funoptional
Author's category · 3 items
1. 1
  Stamina Mastery
  Its just fun
2. 2
  Enduring Speed
  Built from Sprint Boots
  Just a fun weee item
3. 3
  Warp Stone
  Good for suprising when kidnapping
13Im feeling AMERICANoptional
Author's category · 8 items
1. 1
  Spiritual Overflow
2. 2
  Spellslinger
3. 3
  Crippling Headshot
4. 4
14BOOoptional
Author's category · 3 items
1. 1
  Veil Walker
  If you want to be sneaky
2. 2
  Shadow Weave
  Built from Sprint Boots
  If you want to be sneaky, but if you're going melee
3. 3
  Ethereal Shift
  If they don't instantly die
15If you want to throw handsoptional
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Crushing Fists
  Big melee damage
2. 2
  Lifestrike
  Survivability
3. 3
  Spirit Snatch
  Fuck your spirit
4. 4
16Earlygame
Author's category · 0 items · Poke with the doors and finish off with bell burst, try to always be grabbing farms and kill troopers with your bell as well. You should aim to get trophy hunter as early as possible to get a lot of stacks for it, and you should be supporting your teammate by jumping through your door to get those final blows. It's important to remember that you can shoot your bells to blow them up early. Also if you are laning against mcginnis always try to bell her turret spot so she gets less value and your teammate can push. Door should be opening up in front of your guardian and a high up spot on a wall, but if you're proficient at cart kidnaps you can do that too. You can follow the annotations, but you should be getting whatever is needed most in your lane, especially with an early green counter item.
No items listed.
17Midgame
Author's category · 0 items · After laning (winning or losing lane DOES NOT matter, the only thing that matters is which of your enemies were fed the most and the green/active you want to be picking to counter said enemy). You should rotate all sinners on your side starting from the double sinner next to blue walker and clearing wave with your bell. Grab the urn as much as possible and if someone jumps you ult them and run away. You don't have to get the midgame items in order but the most important things to get are the counter items. Mostly you want to farm, as this build is quite expensive and could become even more if you change up some items. You should also finish defining your playstyle for the match in this phase as Doorman can fulfill any role and is a very flexible character in general.
No items listed.
18Endgame
Author's category · 0 items · Finish up getting all of your items and upgrades, at this point you should have all 16 stacks on trophy hunter, but if the enemy team has too much damage sell it alongside other less important items to counterpick. If your enemies are really bad at escaping your ult or are spending too much stamina to escape or you have a lot of stunners on your team then you should pick up lightning scroll, aside from that get cursed relic to counter a really annoying character and that is about it for items. Gameplay wise you are now able to make strong solo pushes simply because you can shut down any one enemy response, if the response is more than one enemy then cheat death, cart, and run. Your bell is a great tool to clear waves and the cart can pull enemies into patron curse attack. That it from me, have fun!
No items listed.
19Hmmnmnmmb../b....optional
Author's category · 13 items · Testing
1. 1
  Leech
  Could be good for green spike and survivability but theres better picks out there
2. 2
  Healing Tempo
  Might pair well with radiant and leech but proc might not be often enough to justify it
3. 3
  Inhibitor
  If speccing gun this could be a good pickup but procs might not be reliable

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
Call BellCall Bell	Call Bell: Ability unlocked, step 1	Call Bell: 1 AP upgrade, step 2							Call Bell: 2 AP upgrade, step 9	Call Bell: 5 AP upgrade, step 10