Faith's Hybrid Lash (Annotated)

Actually W lane item in ANY patch. Massive poke when combined with whip.

Cheap good spirit early on. You can buy burst instead aswell if you prefer but it can be tricky to hit 80 damage

This item is still very solid early, but falls off after lane. It still pairs nicely with the gun items as it lets you reload and keep applying pressure. Sell if needed.

Burst is super nice early. You prefer to use this when you're whipping for extra heal, but any proc is damage.

[Apparently Fixed (but not visually)] This item really grew on me. Massive whip in lane allows you to pretty much never miss

I personally use my grapple a fuck ton in lane so I prio this early. You can sell this after reaching T3 Grapple

Generalist buy, PLEASE replace with enchanters / reactive depending on lane

Really solid. Lets you get 4.8k invest when paired with headhunter. This is generally quite tricky to land, but if you wait until the knock-up from your slam, you basically get a free proc.

Still my personal favourite lane healing item. Buy this whenever you are dying in lane too hard.

Laning someone with stuns? Buy this. (Bebop / Abrams / Krill etc). Buy grit first if you are going down this

Great item if both laners are spirit, or you see 4+ spirit characters in the tab menu.

This just upgrades off headshot booster, I am TIRED of talking about the 4.8k investment but this does give you it.

Buy this whenever you feel you need it. I like to prioritise damage upgrades until i feel like i'm getting caught out a lot, though recently I've been buying it more often

Tankbuster is generally a really good buy, however buying it too early doesn't really give you that much more damage (as their health has not scaled much). Buy if no slots

This item is basically a must if you want sustained damage in teamfights. Cycling your abilities 20% faster is huge and will let you play a lot more agressive

Struggling to land ults? This helps massively. You can absolutely go without it but it does give you a LOT more range on it.

Unironically my favourite item for lash right now. -15% gravity means you can walljump at height limit PERMANENTLY, which means you can wait and hit a max distance slam EVERY TIME.

More lash ults = good. Core to being a strong lategame player, land those ults! Feel free to buy much earlier if you're having a rough game. Just pivot to being an ultbot and you'll be fine

Imbue on slam. Extra damage + slow is very potent and the lifesteal is actually really solid too. I sometimes buy this before tankbuster + stamina mastery if i'm gigastomping. Can replace with siphon

Insane Item. I sometimes prefer counterspell but if they're slowing hex'ing you or hitting you with capacitor, this is an absolute MUST buy. PLEASE buy this item if you need it

If you're laning early and you see both laners buy resist, this is worth getting. This also builds into Focus Lens now, which makes it very viable to keep into lategame, because lens is good :)

Still my favourite item into Mina / Wraith / Vindicta. Stopping people from using movement abilities will absolutely get you a kill, especially if you notice these characters escaping stupid shit alot

Still very decent. Gives consistant spirit power AND a percentile spirit boost. This also scales mystic shot quite massively, which is why I buy it over other spirit items

Even though gun lash & greens got nerfed, this is still a very solid buy. If the enemy team has a lot of characters with high hp (4k+), you get crazy value

Very nice anti heal and decent damage. I'd usually replace healbane with this lategame if I ended up buying it

Lowers armours. Good if the enemy has a lot of resistances. Also gives you more gun spike, which is crazy rn

"I keep getting stunned out of my ult by one guy and im really fucked off about it"

Simply better than curse for lash. This builds off Spirit Sap so I would upgrade that if you can. You can sell slowing hex for this if you still need anti (ability) movement lategame

If you want an excuse to keep QSR but you need an upgrade for slots here it is. Imbue on 3.

This is okay, but mainly to fill flex slots. Unless you have more then one or two actives then feel free to delay buying this and invest into spikes

This isn't great. I'd only buy this if you really can't live with two grapples lategame or if you're REALLY cucked on flex slots

I actually think you can make an argument for this item now

With the recent changes it makes sense to buy Spirit Resilience over this sometimes, but I generally prefer this overall because of the heavy debuff resist attached

Goat anti-gun. Try not to use this when you're running because of the movespeed penalty, use it when you're stuck to the ground for any reason and there's a gun carry looking at you.

This item's alright, but i'd only buy it if a proc-based gun character is overfarmed (Haze, Infernus ETC.). Otherwise just get metal skin

Amazing item for general use. If you are locked in enough to parry abilities buy it. I generally prefer this over debuff remover, but if there's a lot of hard to parry debuffs just buy dispel magic

Glorpstone is still an incredible escape item, use it to teleport to rooftops when you're out of stamina when running / get behind cover.

Still my favourite roaming tool after all these patches. This allows you to change lanes incredibly quickly, but sacrifices the survivability of glorpstone

This item is a replacement for Unstoppable, but only if they don't have too many stuns. You get this very slightly more in comparison to unstop but if they have multiple stuns in ult you just die.

This is good if you're REALLY stomping

Testing, seems very good if you're already buying reactive

This item gotta be good on whip, buffed too

idk man add a billion damage

REMOVE abilities

kinda crazy if they got a lot of resistance. Just keep headshotting

Builds into spirit rend

Actually incredibly good if you're winning. Makes diving in a lot less risky and you end up being a powerhouse if you get this + Remover

This is an alternative to Trophy collector. If you can't get stacks on trophy buy this. Gives you the health and movespeed but sacrifices the free souls

Read trophy hunter. Only buy if you're running it

Builds into infuser

Builds into spellbreaker

stamina type shit (upgrades into stamina mastery)

Still good. It can feel like it's doing nothing sometimes but when you start landing it multiple times you'll be thankful you have it. Slam -> Cold Front -> Whip is your combo

Imbue whatever you use most. 1, 2, 3, and 4 all valid

There was a time where I would run this over headhunter, but I find that the nerfs were pretty brutal to it

Metal skin is better

Fun item. Buy if one person is really pissing you off or you really just dont like someone that day

Still very strong for healing. Hit this button then slam and whip and you are full HP.

Really nice item for followups. Locks them in place so with your slam -> whip -> Arctic combo you can get most people killed in a teamfight.

This item is actually fine now but I want to take a moment out of my time to realise that I have been updating this build for months but it was on the wrong one.. oops..

Doesnt build from sap anymore, going in the bin unless you really like silence wave

This is for T2 grapple, where you get a flat +7 damage to your gun every time you use it. This gives you slightly less burst then mystic, but a massive amount more mobility and consistent damage

The lash gun meta is real and you cant deny its presence. Buy this if they dont have resistances (unlikely) and crippling isnt your thing