Rat King build guide

communist rat king (full noted)

by gutinoVersion 6Updated Oct 3, 2026Guide #837239

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Author's notes

full noted, your main damage source is ballistic but this build revolves around spamming rats to shred enemies defenses and reload your weapon/increase your shots with quicksilver/magnu

Item categories

1start
Author's category · 4 items · sell restorative and opening if needed
1. 1
  High-Velocity Rounds
2. 2
  Opening Rounds
  Built from High-Velocity Rounds
  damage spike
3. 3
  Recharging Rush
  really good to get your rats back, spamming rats is the key for laning
4. 4
2if taken damage on lane
Author's category · 3 items
1. 1
  Restorative Shot
  after some matches i realized resto's sustain is necessary in lane
2. 2
  Rebuttal
3. 3
  Extra Regen
3end lane
Author's category · 3 items
1. 1
  Bullet Resist Shredder
  use your 2 to shred enemies bullet resist
2. 2
  Ballistic Enchantment
  bigger grenades with ballistic buff wow
3. 3
  Trophy Collector
  makes you faster and makes your grenade bigger
4early greens (pick one)
Author's category · 2 items
1. 1
  Weapon Shielding
  great 1.6k against ballistic
2. 2
  Spirit Shielding
  1.6k against spirit
5core
Author's category · 5 items · rush mercurial if you are fed
1. 1
  Berserker
  ballistic damage
2. 2
  Mercurial Magnum
  Built from Quicksilver Reload
  spam rats in your enemies for free reloads + a lot of damage
3. 3
  Fortitude
  pretty underrated item, good to get your 4.8k alongside with a extra 1.6 item
6anti heal
Author's category · 1 items
1. 1
  Toxic Bullets
  great anti heal + great ballistic item
7endgame core
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Vampiric Burst
  ult + vamp + 3 = immortal rat
2. 2
  Spellslinger
3. 3
  Transcendent Cooldown
  Built from Superior Cooldown
  as i said in superior cd, you can evolve to transcendent after
4. 4
8hard lane/taken too much damage
Author's category · 7 items
1. 1
  Plated Armor
2. 2
  Juggernaut
3. 3
  Witchmail
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
Scrap GrenadeScrap Grenade	Scrap Grenade: Ability unlocked, step 1	Scrap Grenade: 1 AP upgrade, step 2			Scrap Grenade: 2 AP upgrade, step 5