Early Game, YOU RELY ON MURDER.
Get Monster Rounds asap, wardens farm is abysmal without MR. Second you want Mystic Expansion, you might be thinking, really second item? yes, even if you do not have cage unlocked it is still good to get because warden is one of two characters in the game where his firerate scales with spirit power. Mystic expansion allows you to get your first kill, no one expects your cage range to be the entire lane early game so this allows you to get fed. if you and your laner are able to capitalize off of this first cage, it only allows you to snowball harder. Next is QSR, qsr is one of if not the best item on warden early because not only does it do all the random shit it does, like give u fire rate, we dont care about that (well we do but not for this purpose), it reloads your mag. That alone makes warden unstoppable. With one point into cage early, cage gives you 20% bullet damage towards enemies who are cc'd by it, with this in mind, you gun them down, throw your flask to reload, gun them down more.0 items