Kowz Vindicta Ouchie Gun Build (now w/ comments!)

by Kowz19v5Updated 8/27/2024In-Game

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Build ID: 12451 - copy and import it in the Deadlock shop

Description

Version 3. Item annotations and guidelines at the bottom now added! This is a gun focused build that is survivable while also dealing incredible damage.

Skill Path

Recommended ability leveling order for this build

Stake

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Flight

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Crow Familiar

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Assassinate

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Laning Phase (~3k souls)

Buy in roughly the order listed.6 items

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CRASH COURSE VINDICTA TUTORIAL

You're a slippery ranged sniper that excels at killing people from above. Use your (2) Flight to fly above or around your enemies, throw your (1) Stake to trap them in place, then throw your Alchemical Fire where you have them trapped, throw your (3) Crow Familiar, and start blasting. When they're almost dead, or too far away to shoot for any real damage, fire off your (4) Assassinate -- note that your ultimate does more damage to heroes under 50% HP. Good luck!0 items

A Bullet & Spirit Damage Hybrid

This build is well rounded, dealing similar levels of bullet and spirit damage throughout the game. Items like ALchemical Fire, Tesla Bullets, and Shadow Weave all help boost your spirit damage while the bulk of your items being Weapon slots helps boost your bullet damage as well. This division of damage makes you relevant in every game and prevents enemies from hard countering you with a single purchase of either Improved Bullet or Spirit Armor.0 items

Alchemical Fire

This item helps accelerate your farm, increases you and your team's damage, and provides you with Bullet Shield Health, weapon damage, and much appreciated spirit power. Whenever you (1) Stake enemies, throw your Alchemical fire onto them. The extra damage is nothing to scoff at and makes this an incredible item in team fights and ganks. Later on it will also benefit from Superior Duration, further increasing its effectiveness. It can also be thrown at any time onto enemies engaged with your team, creating an area that they will want to get out of lest they take substantial damage.0 items

Shadow Weave, your Bread & Butter

Health regen, Spirit Shield Health, ammo, and an ability that increases your fire rate as well as your spirit power. It also can be used as an escape tool as well as an initiation. Additionally, it doesn't take up a valuable weapon slot and also boosts your HP. This item is cracked, especially when used in conjunction with other fire rate boosts. Vindicta benefits tremendously from the boosted fire rate and spirit power, increasing her DPS in flight by a huge margin.0 items

The Ammo & Reload Problem

Ammo is a big concern for Vindicta. You will pick up either Quicksilver Reload or Active Reload, but neither of these alone truly solve your ammo problem and you can't afford to pick up both. She is at her best when she's shooting her gun, and she's her scariest when she shoots fast. The issue is having enough bullets to fire continuously. Fortunately, this build conveniently (and strategically) picks up Basic Magazine, Extra Regen, Ammo Scavenger, Long Range, and Shadow Weave to boost her ammo.0 items

Fire Rate, the Staple of your Burst Damage

Every build juggles survivability, sustainability, DPS, and burst. Fire Rate is the core of your "burst" in this build. You can't rush Fire Rate too early, nor too late, and it's important that you have the ammo to sustain that strategy and the damage to make a higher fire rate worth it. Your abilities carry you until you eventually grab Shadow Weave and Burst Fire. From there, you're off to the the races. And by that I mean you become a machine gun.0 items

Veil Walker, Should You Buy It?

This build maintains high HP and keeps you slippery, but on top of that it has a good chunk of Bullet and Spirit Shield Health built into it from your Alchemical Fire and Shadow Weave. If you're moving around the map a lot, engaging in long, drawn out fights over large distances, or the enemy heroes are making it so that staying in the air indefinitely not an option, you can pick up Veil Walker and begin playing closer to the ground or relying on veils to juke your enemies.0 items

Assassinate

Your ultimate is never useless, but as the game goes on it becomes weaker and weaker due to you not building spirit power. This build recommends picking up your max level Assassinate in the mid game, but depending on how your game is going you may very well skill it earlier or later. The extra souls on kill is VERY good, but securing a kill with or without it takes priority, especially when you're not building for spirit power and killing someone with Assassinate is less reliable. If you're not getting many kills with your ultimate, max Stake and Flight before Assassinate.0 items

Late Game Itemization & Paths

I've outlined four groups of late game itemization options. Slow build transforms you into an extremely annoying sniper who makes enemy lives miserable in fights. Cannon build lets you becomes a turret that melts enemies so long as you're free to shoot them uncontested. Sustain build keeps you a tankier brawler capable of going toe to toe with many heroes. Utility build helps you stay alive, use abilities effectively, and be a more general nuisance. 0 items

Vindicta's Gameplan

Your Stake and Flight can help you secure kills in the early game, doubly so once you get Assassinate. Farm lanes and creep camps using Alchemical Fire and Tesla bullets. Roam and gank frequently, especially if you max Assassinate early. Once you have Superior Stamina you become quite agile and capable of escaping most ganks if you play your cards right. Aim to be highest net worth and use that advantage to crush team fights from the sky. Play around your team, they're your frontline.0 items

Spirit vs Gun Builds

The two builds I have experimented with the most are spirit damage focused build and gun focused builds. The spirit damage variants focus on having a maddeningly annoying Crow Familiar and a powerful Assassinate. The gun focused builds lean much heavier into sustained burst damage with a more even split between bullet and spirit damage. I think in most games the spirit damage build will have higher impact, supposeding someone can hit their crows and land their stakes, but the gun build feels more consistent and has a higher carry potential.0 items

Which do you prefer?

To preface, both builds are good and which is better depends on the game. I prefer spirit build because I find it to be more fun. You will get lots of kills while annoying enemies to no end. That said, I also think the spirit build can be frustrating in games where you need a more traditional sustainable DPS. You also need to ask the question of what kind of damage your team needs. Its never good if your team stacks too heavily on one damage type. The gun build is a solid mix of both damage types, giving you an edge when it comes to staying relevant in every game.0 items

Kowz Vindicta Ouchie Gun Build (now w/ comments!)

Description

Skill Path

Laning Phase (~3k souls)

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Optional Laning Phase

Early Game (~16k souls)

Optional Early Game

Mid Game (~33k souls)

Mid Game Survival

Optional Mid Game

Late Game Slow

Late Game Cannon

Late Game Sustain

Late Game Utility

CRASH COURSE VINDICTA TUTORIAL

A Bullet & Spirit Damage Hybrid

Alchemical Fire

Shadow Weave, your Bread & Butter

The Ammo & Reload Problem

Fire Rate, the Staple of your Burst Damage

Veil Walker, Should You Buy It?

Assassinate

Late Game Itemization & Paths

Vindicta's Gameplan

Spirit vs Gun Builds

Which do you prefer?