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Ivy Gun build: Highdocker's Gun Ivy Build

Win rate46.0%
Matches213
Hero win rate52.9%
Core cost29,600

In-game build ID: 235098 v172In Deadlock, open this hero's builds, search for this ID and import it.

Early game

Laning
  1. Extended Magazine

    800 souls · Good because it helps alleviate Ivy's poor magazine size problem. Gives more long term damage output for wave at the start, which means its

  2. Titanic Magazine

    1,600 souls · Greatly increases your magazine, allowing effortless waveclear, and lets you trade (Not often) sometimes with the enemy in lane with your ra

  3. Tesla Bullets

    3,200 souls · Gun Ivy's BEST early/mid game item. Procs easily with ivy's high ROF, grants amazing jungle/camp clear, and allows easy proccage of debuffs.

  4. Capacitor

    6,400 souls · This item is better the earlier you buy it, B/C Capacitor requires FAR LESS ROF to consistently proc than Tesla Bullets. Its active is a gre

  5. Sprint Boots

    800 souls · Absolutely one of the best T1 health items in the game. When first bought, gives HP with investment, allows far faster box farming, and bett

Sustain/Greens

  1. Extra Health

    800 souls · INSANE item to buy if you want to postpone your 4.8k HP investment spike, to buy more items for farming and powerspikes, without being super

  2. Healing Rite

    800 souls · This item has INSANE value, even outside of lane. You will NEVER regret or feel bad buying this item, as it keeps you topped up for HP after

  3. Extra Regen

    800 souls

  4. Healbane

    1,600 souls · If planning to be hyper-active in the early game right after capacitor, this can be a good pickup against early healing characters. Otherwis

Early game

Lane Extra
  1. Headshot Booster

    800 souls · Best § 800 item in lane for winning lane and applying pressure. If buying, I reccomend going Extnd. Mag -> Headshot Booster -> Tesla for you

Mid game

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  1. Rapid Rounds

    800 souls · Slight damage increase. Powerspike more noticable when you buy swift striker.

  2. Swift Striker

    1,600 souls · Best § 1600 item for raw unconditional firerate, while giving bonus sprint speed that very useful in the early game. Helps immensely with gi

  3. Active Reload

    1,600 souls · Given that your character has a short reload time (Ivy does), this item is great, as you will be allowed to easily proc it to gain very high

  4. Bullet Resist Shredder

    1,600 souls · Easy to apply with Tesla/Capacitor, and provides a great Bullet Resist Shred debuff while giving spirit investment, and good base stats.

  5. Enduring Speed

    1,600 souls · Great for stacking your movespeed, after Fleetfoot lost its value with T3 Tether changes. Movespeed resist will come to be useful later in t

Mid game

Mid Survival
  1. Spirit Resilience

    3,200 souls · Required every game for the current spirit meta, and works well with creating more EHP (Effective HP) with siphon bullets.

  2. Dispel Magic

    3,200 souls · Insane counter to Infernus/Mirage on-hit buildups, and generally great for any enemy that is causing a debuff that is causing you to lose or

  3. Metal Skin

    3,200 souls · Insanely Overpowered, but situational. Hard counters Haze/Vyper/Gun Warden, Gun Drifter, and ANY character that has ~X > 75% damage done by

  4. Bullet Resilience

    3,200 souls · BEFORE BUYING, Consider this: If the enemy is doing Weapon Damage by mainly bullets, get metalskin instead. Otherwise, if its from abilities

Mid game

Mid Extra
  1. Slowing Bullets

    1,600 souls · Though it doesnt give raw stats, the latest slow change where regular slows also effect air dashing can certainly make this item more desira

  2. Burst Fire

    3,200 souls · This item has significant value in the late game when you have ~+200% wpn dmg and ~+50% firerate, and happen to have the flex slots to buy a

Late game

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  1. Siphon Bullets

    6,400 souls · When bought at around 20-25k souls, this item will actually feel effective due to characters starting to be at the 2500-3000HP range. Optima

  2. Headhunter

    3,200 souls · Can be bought earlier to make use of raw trade damage it provides. Real value comes from large % heal that is impactful late game when you a

HP 6.4ks

  1. Healing Tempo

    6,400 souls · Often has more value if you buy this when behind to support other m1s, though you can still retain a fair amount of value from this item due

  2. Colossus

    6,400 souls · Combined with Siphon bullets, and utilizing Ivy's above average health scaling, it gives great health value, and the dash slow on this item

  3. Juggernaut

    6,400 souls · Better with the diminishing movespeed buffs, and direct juggernaut movespeed buffs. Still, this item is optimal if you are using it to count

Debuffs

  1. Inhibitor

    6,400 souls · VERY good debuff that counts as antiheal and a massive damage reduction. Easy to buildup with your current firerate, and when bought, gives

  2. Silencer

    6,400 souls · While inhibitor is great, this item INSTANTLY applies the damage debuff without needing a buildup. Great for spirit meta. Built-In Silence i

  3. Crippling Headshot

    6,400 souls · Deletes victor, and heavily cripples any character that has high resists with high healing/sustain. Long debuff duration and easy proc makes

Late game

Late Extra
  1. Weakening Headshot

    1,600 souls · Here for the sake of being an easily accessible component for when you want to buy crippling headshot, and have a slot to spare for it. ONLY

  2. Weighted Shots

    3,200 souls · Very good upgrade that mainly serves to give you debuff resist that you may otherwise be lacking in the midgame. Damage is great too. Good b

Late game

Late Survival
  1. Healing Booster

    1,600 souls · Can potentially be picked up right after midgame to fill slots and build towards healing tempo.

  2. Spellbreaker

    6,400 souls · Gives all the late game stats you are lacking, and want more of. Provides a layer of protection against spirit nukers, and gives slightly mo

  3. Indomitable

    6,400 souls · This item is great against pick characters (Mo Krill, Holliday, Paradox, Bepop, etc.) But not reccomended until §40k+ souls. It doesnt get t

  4. Plated Armor

    6,400 souls · VERY SITUATIONAL. Very good counter against Haze and Infernus. If not enough against on-hit characters, combining this with Dispel Magic pra

  5. Unstoppable

    6,400 souls · Great when the team is only managing to kill you through CC/Stuns, or curses and countless debuffs of similar sort. Also gives survivability

Spirit

  1. Mystic Slow

    1,600 souls · With regular slows effecting air dashes as well now, this item can give you a little bit of the best of both worlds, making both movespeed a

  2. Compress Cooldown

    1,600 souls · When imbued on ult, and you are carrying people off cooldown, you can be perma rotating around mid-game skirmishes getting major map control

  3. Transcendent Cooldown

    6,400 souls · Treat this as a § 50k+ Soul Luxury item to let you proc Headhunter, Siphon, and Capacitor faster, alongside giving ability cooldowns. Very h

BRS Swaps

  1. Hunter's Aura

    3,200 souls · A very good replacement for Bullet Resist Shredder, when you are heavily slot locked, but have money to spend. Usually only do this at § 35k

  2. Hollow Point

    3,200 souls · A very good replacement for Bullet Resist Shredder, when you are heavily slot locked, but have money to spend. Usually only do this at § 35k

Late game

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  1. Debuff Reducer

    1,600 souls · Only buy if you need to stack significant DBR while being affordable. With Weighted shots and this, you have 40% DBR. Great against characte

  2. Fleetfoot

    1,600 souls · Can be worth your while if you dont buy many other mid/late extras (primarily replacing slowing bullets), allows for magazine uptime on camp

  3. Toxic Bullets

    3,200 souls · You will have enough firerate to reproc it even when its debuff removed (At around T3 tether max). This makes it a good antiheal option for

  4. Spellslinger

    6,400 souls · Spellslinger has been indirectly HEAVILY nerfed from the gun ivy playstyle. Fleetfoot is significantly worse on her, and you cant pop tether

  5. Armor Piercer

    6,400 souls · This should exclusively be used as a § 50k+ soul counter if the enemy has multiple plated armors, or a single high priority target has plate

Ability order

  1. 1Entangling Thorns+1
  2. 2Stone Form+1
  3. 3Kudzu Connection+1
  4. 4Air Drop+1
  5. 5Stone Form+2
  6. 6Stone Form+3
  7. 7Entangling Thorns+2
  8. 8Kudzu Connection+2
  9. 9Kudzu Connection+3
  10. 10Kudzu Connection+4
  11. 11Air Drop+2
  12. 12Air Drop+3
  13. 13Air Drop+4
  14. 14Stone Form+4
  15. 15Entangling Thorns+3
  16. 16Entangling Thorns+4

Author's notes

This build is Heavily Annotated. All Items have Notes. Over 100 Paragraphs of annotations, notes, etc. 9/29/2026 - Added a few paragraphs explaining patch, and a whole list of corrupted items rated by their negatives, as well as reccomended corrupted items as build paths. 9/30/2026 - Formatting Fixes. New update made build formatting far worse across different resolutions. Should work for 1080p-1440p. Unsure about 4k.

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