Buddy Im gonna fucking kill you (100% annotated)

Author's notes

Build designed to dominate the mid game, as silver you job is to get wave > fight > repeat since your tower damage isnt good enough to justify constantly split pushing and your kit isnt suited to clearing the jungle. Keep in mind that you need to keep up with the damage to proc lycan and you are a bruiser when you enter lycan so you also need to be tanky so you dont want to be building that many counter/support items. Major spikes: ult unlock, T3 1 and 4, T2 2, Inhibitor, Most T4s

Item categories

1. 1Laning

   Author's category · 9 items · WE GO LEFT TO RIGHT WE DONT THINK

   1. 1

      Melee Lifesteal

      Good sustain and buffs melee damage, your 2 is actually valuable now

   2. 2

      Monster Rounds

      If your laner is goated at clearing waves you might be able to skip but usually you want this. Also lets you jungle

   3. 3

      Close Quarters

      Builds into point blank and is a solid damage increase for silver

   4. 4

2. 2If youre in helloptional

   Author's category · 8 items

   1. 1

      Healing Rite

      EMERGENCY ITEM

   2. 2

      Cultist Sacrifice

      Built from Monster Rounds

      Win more item, if youre not able to get it by 8 minutes skip it. This is your biggest consideration in lane, if you can play for it play for it

   3. 3

      Slowing Bullets

3. 3If gun carries are a problem or theres a haze on the enemy team [This category is here purely for symmetry and I wanted to put something in it]optional

   Author's category · 1 items

   1. 1

      Metal Skin

4. 4Mid game

   Game stage · 8 items · Vaguely left to right, you should be willing to fuck around with your build more atp though

   1. 1

      Stamina Mastery

      Built from Extra Stamina

      Massive buff to your chase and rotation speed, you NEED this item to keep up. Also keep in mind people will try to run from you the moment you proc your ult because they are terrified of the wolp

   2. 2

      Hollow Point

      Massive damage and a bit of shred, you should be able to proc your ult 100% of the time with this and express shot until way later

   3. 3

5. 5Situationaloptional

   Author's category · 11 items · Note that situational DOESNT mean ignore, generally youre gonna want at least like 2 situational items every game

   1. 1

      Counterspell

      Against telegraphed CC and executes (ie: shiv, holliday, geist if youre goated) (DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST VENATOR ULT GUN DAMAGE, IT ONLY COUNTERS THE TRUE DAMAGE KEEP THIS IN MIND)

   2. 2

      Dispel Magic

      Debuffs that are annoying you (haze fixation, infernus in general, disarms, silences)

   3. 3

6. 6Choose One

   Author's category · 2 items

   1. 1

      Unstoppable

      Built from Debuff Reducer

      When you get lycan you will become public enemy number 1 and CC really hurts you

   2. 2

      Spellbreaker

      Built from Debuff Reducer

      If youre getting oneshot by spirit

7. 7Late game

   Game stage · 7 items · Left is more generally useful but you should aim to be more versatile late

   1. 1

      Inhibitor

      Get earlier when losing, generally damage reduction > resistances since stacking resists is bad

   2. 2

      Silencer

      If youre getting shredded by spirit damage or problematic abilities are locking you down get this

   3. 3

      Scourge

      The spirit res is too much to ignore and %health damage is never bad, if they arent buying bullet resists you can get this later or if theyre maxing bullet res get it early

8. 8Notably Situational Late Gameoptional

   Author's category · 10 items

   1. 1

      Juggernaut

      Built from Enduring Speed

      Annihilate their fire rate

   2. 2

      Witchmail

      Good spirit res and makes your 1 a 1 second cooldown

   3. 3

      Arctic Blast

      If you need the CC or theres like a mina or theyre building alot of bullet res etc, theres alot of reasons to want this item but not enough for it to be core. Use your judgement

9. 9Testoptional

   Author's category · 14 items · Ordered from most potential to least potential, if you use any of these dm me on twitter @DeadlockSilver so I can gather data

   1. 1

      Extra Spirit

      Might be compy as fuck

   2. 2

      Quicksilver Reload

      Might even be lane core now

   3. 3

      Surge of Power

      Built from Extra Spirit

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

Slam FireSlam Fire	Slam Fire: Ability unlocked, step 1	Slam Fire: 1 AP upgrade, step 21			Slam Fire: 2 AP upgrade, step 52					Slam Fire: 5 AP upgrade, step 10