DASHGOD REBORN [TEHHANK]
[UPDATED FOR 18TH APR PATCH] - RIP HMC. Leech rush OP! Maximise Dash cooldown, beef up your Torment Pulse and become very tanky! Careful positioning and choosing your fights means a good Dash Shiv can win any teamfight. You can hybrid into Melee, Gun or Knives in the End Game!
Lane / Early Game
Take from Left to Right. Read all item annotations.
Headshot Booster
Absolutely broken damage item. Just aim at the neck at medium ranges. I like to spam ALT FIRE with it alongside Mystic Shot.
Melee Lifesteal
Healing outscales Extra HP's Value. Do not spam Heavy Melee unless you can play around Parry. See Melee Items HMC.
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Gives you sustain and spirit power. Upgrade into SLOWING HEX if against Calico or Lash in lane.
Decay
Good for building and maintaing rage. Sell later.
Extra Stamina
Rush against Warden or Geist. Strong for overall mobility. Sell later for better greens.
Spirit Strike
Builds into Spirit Snatch now. Very good against spirit poke in lane. Resist shred is always OP.
Lane - Sustain
LOCKET HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Restorative Locket
RUSH IN LANE. One of the best healing items up until the late game. Sell later.
Extra Regen
Almost always pick this up as your best form of Lane sustain before Restorative Locket due to duo lane shift.
Healing Rite
Situationally good. Just make sure you don't get harrased while using it or you won't get the full heal.
Core Items for Dashgod
Take from Left to Right. Build is based around Dash and Torment Pulse Mix-Max with CDR and Amp.
Kinetic Dash
Spirit Shredder
Torment Pulse
Healbane
Compress Cooldown
Superior Cooldown
Mystic Vulnerability
Debuff Reducer
Healing BoosterKinetic Dash
Provides tank stats and a strong passive that allows you to splitpush. Get this item if you need to splitpush.
Spirit Shredder
Will amp all your spirit damage, including Torment Pulse. Lifesteal works independantly from other items, so its not diminished.
Torment Pulse
The sooner you buy Tormented Pulse, the more value you will get out of it. Scales off rage, spirit and CDR.
Healbane
Very strong item against sustain meta. The sustain from this huge since meta has shifted to early teamfights. Sell Enduring Spirit for this.
Compress Cooldown
Get ASAP to start getting your dash cooldown lower.
Superior Cooldown
PUT ON YOUR DASH. Rush if ahead. Lowers cooldown on everything including Torment Pulse.
Mystic Vulnerability
Good against tankier enemies OR you want to transition into Hybrid Knives with EE later.
Debuff Reducer
Pretty much essential in any meta. Reduces any debuff duration. Also good statline.
Healing Booster
Super important in Anti Heal meta. Grab afrer you have your basic lifesteal items.
Late Game
Take from Left to Right. Sell Extra Stamina, Restorative Locket and Cold Front. Refer to Late Game Actives.
Leech
Dispel Magic
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Bullet ResilienceItem 223594321 · unavailable
Spirit Resilience
Improved SpiritLeech
If you are snowballing, get this over Colossus. Will build out of healbane. Sell Spirit Lifesteal for this.
Dispel Magic
Pretty essential now where debuffs are everywhere and slowing hex and CC will counter you. Also heals a good chunk of HP.
Spirit Snatch
You can steal multiple sources of spirit res and spirit power. Smack people with light melee and let your dash and TP melt them.
Item 3713423303
You will be lacking Bullet Resist, so pick this up when you can. Rush against teams that have a lot of bullet DPS overall.
Bullet Resilience
Important against bullet dps comps.
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Good to round out your tank stats.
Spirit Resilience
Important against spirit heavy comps.
Improved Spirit
Gives a lot of raw spirit power which will scale all your damage items and your abilities. Raw spirit power does scale down rage generation though.
Late Game Actives
HIGHLY RECOMMEND E-SHIFT AND DEBUFF REMOVER.
Colossus
Best tank item in the game. Build this as your first 6k item. If you are snowballing, consider getting Leech instead.
Unstoppable
End game mandatory. Get it earlier if you are being hard focused with CC.
Phantom Strike
If the enemy has multiple flyers or hyper mobile enemies like Calico.
Ethereal Shift
Best defensive choice for a cheap cost. Activate when in danger OR to allow your dash come off from cooldown. Drain your Deferred HP with out losing HP.
Situational Items
Pick up one of these if you need a specific counter.
Slowing Hex
Return Fire
Reactive Barrier
Enduring Speed
Metal Skin
Knockdown
Suppressor
Mystic Slow
Echo ShardSlowing Hex
RUSH AGAINST CHARACTERS WITH MOVEMENT LIKE LASH. Will give you tank stats and sustain.
Return Fire
RUSH AGAINST HAZE OR WRAITH. Very good statline, but not as important as it was.
Reactive Barrier
RUSH AGAINST TOUGH LANES LIKE ABRAMS, BEBOP OR HARD CC.
Enduring Speed
RUSH AGAINST KELVIN. Otherwise pickup end game where mystic reverb is everywhere for slow resist.
Metal Skin
The anti Haze item. Use it late game to kill her outright OR use it to buy time to run away since her ult will last longer than Metal Skin.
Knockdown
RUSH AGAINST FLYERS. Shiv really struggles to get picks without his team or any CC in his kit, so Knockdown is really good.
Suppressor
RUSH into an enemy team that has a lot of Bullet DPS heroes like Haze, Wraith, Vyper etc.
Mystic Slow
Combined with Hunter's Aura, this reduces enemy attack speed around you by over 50% which is huge value. Tank stats got buffed.
Echo Shard
Experimental for double dashing. Used by the pro player Dash a lot.
Misc Spirit Items
Taken out of the core build. Mainly situational Spirit items.
Extra Charge
Mystic Burst
Mystic Expansion
Cold Front
Rapid Recharge
Surge of Power
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Diviner's Kevlar
Spiritual Overflow
Escalating ExposureItem 3612042342 · unavailableExtra Charge
Strong early game for your knife poke. Will deal up to 500+ damage on a single target if perfectly stacked. Sell later.
Mystic Burst
Spirit damage from all sources gives you rage. Very important throughout the game until you get IB.
Mystic Expansion
Extends range on all abilities. Extremely cost efficient for a 500 item. Pick up whenever you have a spare 500 souls.
Cold Front
More efficient than Improved Burst. Allows you to actually all in. Clears creeps super fast and scales well into the game.
Rapid Recharge
Transition to knives in late game. SKIP IF YOU NEED OPTIONAL TANK ITEMS.
Surge of Power
PUT ON YOUR DASH. Dash scaling is insane however this is a greed item most of the time and games won't last long enough.
Tankbuster
Gives you boosted rage generation, however cooldown is shared with your team per enemy player, so it's situational.
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PUT ON DASH. Scales off improved burst damage and will also slow enemies so you can easily land Echo Dash. Sell Mystic Reach for this.
Diviner's Kevlar
Improve CDs of all abilities, turns Torment Pulse into a DPS monster. Ulting will give you a huge shield that can save you and chain ult.
Spiritual Overflow
Provides more CDR not just for your dash and all your item cooldowns. Extra spirit power but will reduce your rage generation.
Escalating Exposure
Despite being nerfed, it's worth a lot more due to scaling all your spirit damage. Consider buying against tanky matchups like Abrams/ MoKrill etc.
Item 3612042342
Just a big ball of stats, more damage, more tank stats. Extremely expensive though.
Gundash Items
Berserker
Really strong but I think it's better for the late game. If you are a god at aiming, grab it earlier.
Point Blank
Extra stamina but its on a 3k gun item? Buy this if don't have extra stamina anymore. Sell Headshot Booster for this.
Headhunter
Gundash item. If you are looking to end the game quicker and you don't have leech yet, get this instead.
Burst Fire
Good against stacked movement slows. Shoutout to Shiv Slide Enthusiast on Discord.
Hunter's Aura
Very good value whether sidesplitting or teamfighting. Debuffing all enemies around you is very strong.
Frenzy
Extremely busted item due to the amount of raw stats it provides.