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Calico Spirit build: I love cat[girl]s! Skelly's Spirit Assassin Build

Win rate57.3%
Matches344
Hero win rate49.1%
Core cost93,600

In-game build ID: 266497 v242In Deadlock, open this hero's builds, search for this ID and import it.

Early game

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_EarlyGame
  1. Melee Lifesteal

    800 souls · Very common buy. Great healing in lane from punching minions. And we can optionally upgrade this into Lifestrike for more sustain.

  2. Stalker

    1,600 souls · Great damage and stats in lane and gives you move speed for chasing. The foostep sound reduction is also nice. And this gives you wallhacks

  3. Sprint Boots

    800 souls · Must buy for rotating around the map and ganking other lanes. Builds into Enduring Speed or Trophy Hunter. If not going Trophy Collector, ge

  4. Trophy Collector

    1,600 souls · I think this is still mostly good. You can get Enduring Speed instead of this after Spirit Snatch if you prefer.

  5. Spirit Strike

    800 souls · We upgrade this to Spirit Snatch later. Adds to our burst and trades with our 2.

  6. Cold Front

    1,600 souls · Adds to your burst damage, and the slow is great. We also can upgrade this into Arctic Blast.

  7. Spirit Snatch

    3,200 souls · Hits your 4.8k spirit investment spike. Spirit resist and power steal is amazing. Plus even more melee damage and it procs on your 2.

Situational

Early Situationals
  1. Close Quarters

    800 souls · Nice for melee resist. If you want to kill minions and objectives, its as good as Monster Rounds. If you are planning to go more into gun, t

  2. Extra Regen

    800 souls · Good item. Get if you need healing in lane. Typically better than Healing Rite for that.

  3. Grit

    800 souls · You could get this much earlier in lane instead. We're mainly getting it here to hit our 4.8k spike. If you went Dispel Magic earlier, you c

  4. Rebuttal

    800 souls · Great against Viscous in lane since it works against Viscous Puddle Punches. Also a very good item against people building melee (Abrams and

  5. Enduring Speed

    1,600 souls · Great for move speed in fights and the slow resist. Lets you easily hit the second ult damage burst. You can get this instead of Trophy Coll

  6. Lifestrike

    3,200 souls · Buffed! So much fun. Use off CD with heavy melee in lane for a 80+ health heal on a 4 sec CD. Lets you permafight/push in lane. Slow is supe

Mid game

Mid Core
  1. Dispel Magic

    3,200 souls · Hits your 4.8k green investment. Must buy against Slowing Hex. Really great against a ton of characters.

  2. Hunter's Aura

    3,200 souls · Great for 1v1s. Gets you your 4.8k weapon investment. You could also go Mystic Shot + Spirit Shredder Bullets here instead.

  3. Torment Pulse

    3,200 souls · Great damage over the course of a game/fight. Good for tankiness and farming. You could get this earlier instead of Spirit Snatch if you pre

  4. Arctic Blast

    6,400 souls · Really great item, great for catching people and for clearing waves in cat form.

Late game

Mid-Late
  1. Improved Spirit

    1,600 souls · Good for damage, and builds into Boundless Spirit.

  2. Boundless Spirit

    6,400 souls · Gives you some much needed damage in the late game with your ult and gloom bombs. Great if you are trying to oneshot their carries.

  3. Scourge

    6,400 souls · Can swap for other things, not as strong as it used to be. Makes you really tanky and can do a lot of damage if you get into the middle of t

  4. Superior Cooldown

    3,200 souls · Cooldown reduction is really useful.

Situational

Situationals
  1. Counterspell

    3,200 souls · Great against certain characters and abilities. Especially Lash.

  2. Spirit Resilience

    3,200 souls · If you need anti-spirit. Very common buy although not absolutely necessary since we build many items that have spirit resist already. Always

  3. Bullet Resilience

    3,200 souls · Usually just go Metal Skin instead. In worst case scenario you could get this. But something like Plated Armor or maybe Disarming Hex will l

  4. Metal Skin

    3,200 souls · This since it got buffed is actually kinda really good against some characters, especially Haze and Drifter. I'd get this as an alternative

  5. Fortitude

    3,200 souls · The health is great for survivability, the move speed is great for rotating, and the heal lets you stay on the map longer. I prefer this ove

  6. Veil Walker

    3,200 souls · Nice for rotating around the map, ganking, escaping/survivability, and the heal is great. At the moment I don't like this too much since it

  7. Enchanter's Emblem

    1,600 souls · Great for more spirit resist early. Cooldown reduction is really rare so this is a great item since it gives you some.

  8. Reactive Barrier

    1,600 souls · Great item against hard CC. Scales well into the late game as well. You could get in lane even against some heroes.

  9. Spirit Shielding

    1,600 souls · Great against spirit damage. You can get in some lanes.

  10. Healbane

    1,600 souls · Easy to proc anti-heal (good against Abrams, Victor, etc.). The heal on kill is also really great during midgame fights.

  11. Restorative Locket

    1,600 souls · 8% spirit resist for 1.6k and the health and the stamina is really nice. I don't think you build this most games anymore with the nerf to it

  12. Debuff Reducer

    1,600 souls · Good if you need debuff reduction and are going to build Spellbreaker later (good if they have heavy spirit burst such as Grey Talon or Lash

  13. Silence Wave

    3,200 souls · Good item. Very common buy. Silence is very good against many characters.

  14. Suppressor

    1,600 souls · Great at stopping gun carries. Easy to proc and can proc on many people.

  15. Slowing Hex

    1,600 souls · Good against Mina, and other movement focused people.

  16. Mystic Shot

    1,600 souls · Pretty good. If you're getting 3 1.6k gun items to get your 4.8k spike then this would be one of them usually.

  17. Spirit Shredder

    1,600 souls · Pretty good. If you're getting 3 1.6k gun items to get your 4.8k spike then this would be one of them usually.

Late game

Usual Later Items
  1. Transcendent Cooldown

    6,400 souls · Great item once you have 2 actives. It also makes Torment Pulse tick faster!

  2. Spirit Burn

    6,400 souls · Anti-heal + more burst damage. If you need to burst carries or need anti-heal this is really useful.

  3. Indomitable

    6,400 souls · Very nice, I usually always get if I bought a barrier item earlier in the game.

  4. Ethereal Shift

    6,400 souls · Good, especially with Trans CD. Very good for surviving in fights and for countering certain ultimates.

  5. Colossus

    6,400 souls · Melee damadge and tankiness. Pick between this and Ethereal Shift for your last active slot.

  6. Mystic Vulnerability

    1,600 souls · Upgrades into Escalating Exposure. Spirit shred is extremely useful.

  7. Escalating Exposure

    6,400 souls · This with Scourge is good. You run into the middle of the enemy team with Scourge and this does work. Also has shred and gives you even more

  8. Crippling Headshot

    6,400 souls · Best item in the game for damage as it shreds resists so your entire team will do more damage. And anti-heal is so good.

  9. Tankbuster

    3,200 souls · Still good.

Situational

Situational Late Items
  1. Unstoppable

    6,400 souls · Really great in late teamfights. Especially good if you are really struggling against CC. Or for midboss.

  2. Spellbreaker

    6,400 souls · Incredible against Lash, Grey Talon, and any other spirit burst characters.

  3. Juggernaut

    6,400 souls · Great against gun carries and is good to pick up if you have no free slots.

  4. Plated Armor

    6,400 souls · Great but usually only buy once you already have bullet resist. Great against Haze.

  5. Witchmail

    6,400 souls · Kind of a meme item. Very situational. Only get against lots of incremental spirit damage (McGinnis turrets, Infernus, Warden Ult) and have

  6. Siphon Bullets

    6,400 souls · Might be quite nice against tanks if you've gone into more gun late game.

  7. Cheat Death

    6,400 souls · If you are actually like the only player on your team doing anything and you have like 65k souls you could get this.

  8. Stamina Mastery

    3,200 souls · fun item, good value, mmm mmmmovement. You could buy this in the mid game some time rather than getting resists perhaps.

  9. Warp Stone

    3,200 souls · Good for movement and the bullet resist is nice.

Situational

Other Random Situationals and Items I am Testing!
  1. Magic Carpet

    6,400 souls · Fun and silly! Also good escape tool. Just worse to get than other 6ks though. Meme item.

  2. Mercurial Magnum

    6,400 souls · Can't combo as well with Spiritual Overflow anymore.

  3. Cursed Relic

    6,400 souls · If you really need to screw over someone in particular.

  4. Disarming Hex

    3,200 souls · Against a gun carry who is running the game.

  5. Radiant Regeneration

    3,200 souls · Kind of fun, but not very good. Adds up to a decent amount of heal in longer fights since Torment Pulse and Scourge easily procs it.

  6. Knockdown

    3,200 souls · If no one else on your team is going to buy this and you really need to stop a Vindicta/GT or Seven ult.

  7. Decay

    3,200 souls · I don't think this is really all that worth it compared to just getting Healbane. Since any person incredibly reliant on healing will just g

  8. Compress Cooldown

    1,600 souls · More uptime on your 4.

  9. Mystic Slow

    1,600 souls · Just feels really nice, makes it super easy to hit your ults second/end damage burst.

  10. Spirit Sap

    1,600 souls · Builds into Focus Lens, easy to use and great for 1v1s. Makes your burst stronger.

  11. Mystic Burst

    800 souls · Bad early since not much procs it anymore.

  12. Phantom Strike

    6,400 souls · Good for shutting down fliers and gun carries. And for getting on top of the people you need to target in team fights.

  13. Battle Vest

    1,600 souls · The bullet resist and regen is great in lane. Later though you should just get Bullet Resilience. Also good for farming denizens.

  14. Return Fire

    1,600 souls · Good against Graves and gun carries.

  15. Weapon Shielding

    1,600 souls · It's nice, usually the other shields are better though in most games.

  16. Extra Health

    800 souls · You can build this into Fortitude or Colossus. You can buy this during laning to help with survivability potentially.

  17. Healing Rite

    800 souls · No point getting this because of T2 catform.

  18. Focus Lens

    6,400 souls · It's fine, good with your burst and the silence is nice.

  19. Spiritual Overflow

    6,400 souls · Nerfed into the ground.

  20. Lucky Shot

    6,400 souls · Great for damage and ammo, replaces Stalker.

  21. Spirit Rend

    3,200 souls · Good late game upgrade for Spirit Shredder Bullets.

  22. Cultist Sacrifice

    3,200 souls · Possible item for your 4.8k Weapon Investment, but imo it's not that necessary on Calico.

  23. Shadow Weave

    3,200 souls · I think the stats from this can be good. The invisibility is bugged with cat form I think though, so just be wary of that. Other items are u

  24. Point Blank

    3,200 souls · Feels pretty good. It is now fixed for your 2! Difficult on slots though. Good for melee resist if you need that.

  25. Fleetfoot

    1,600 souls · Not as good since the speed stacking nerf. I still like it though. Good for movespeed in ult and catform. Combine with a 3.2k weapon item to

Ability order

  1. 1Leaping Slash+1
  2. 2Gloom Bombs+1
  3. 3Ava+1
  4. 4Return to Shadows+1
  5. 5Ava+2
  6. 6Ava+3
  7. 7Return to Shadows+2
  8. 8Return to Shadows+3
  9. 9Return to Shadows+4
  10. 10Gloom Bombs+2
  11. 11Gloom Bombs+3
  12. 12Gloom Bombs+4
  13. 13Ava+4
  14. 14Leaping Slash+2
  15. 15Leaping Slash+3
  16. 16Leaping Slash+4

Author's notes

Fully annotated! This is a spirit build! Check out my melee bruiser Calico build (not updated as frequently): 209974

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