Sorrowblade
Sorrowblade is the always your first finished item/tier 3 item. Make sure that you have a blazing salvo and sprint boots before or at the same time as buying Sorrowblade.
Sorrowblade is picked up becasue it is your main core item to dealing damage. Sorrow blade gives +150 weapon damage, which is a great base amount of damage. Sorrowblade damage also can be stretched and worked with, for example, critical damage with
Tyrant's Monocle, building stacks faster with
Breaking Point or more lifesteal with
Serpent Mask.
Bonesaw
Bonesaw is potentially your second tier 3 item,
Breaking Point being the other option. Bonesaw should be bought if the enemy is building armor up, even if it is just a
Coat of Plates, get Bonesaw because that will turn into
Metal Jacket or
Atlas Pauldron.
Bonesaw is an item that you want early or in the middle of the game. It shreds 7% of your targets armor (max of 7 stacks). This passive pairs very nicely with
Sonic Zoom as the two attacks also shred armor. Bonesaw also gives +50% attack speed which is great for stuttering and applying on hit effects. I recommend Bonesaw over
Tyrant's Monocle of you are stuck between the 2.
Tyrant's Monocle
Tyrant's Monocle is also potentially your 2nd tier 3 pickup, that you get before
Bonesaw if the enemy is showing no signs of building
armor. Tyrant's Monocle is great for early game damage, turning the 150
Sorrowblade damage into
225 damage on a critical.
Tyrant's Monocle is very scary, your basic attacks will all of a sudden annihilate the enemy (especially if they have no armor!) If the enemy are building armor, get
Bonesaw first, then potentially some defence and then you can buy Tyrant's Monocle. It is very bursty, and wont let you down :)
Journey Boots
Boots are very important in any Vox build, it even says in his bio;
Vox is a mobile sniper with a high-energy play style, able to quickly and frequently dash around the battlefield... and to be mobile you need to be fast!
Get
Sprint Boots at your first shop, to immediately be able to dart around fast, which helps with chasing fleeing enemies, running from danger, or quickly jumping in and out for that minion kill. Upgrade to
Travel Boots after buying
Sorrowblade because this is when major team fights start to take shape.
Only get
Journey Boots when the rest of your items are finished.
Aegis
Aegis is a strong defensive item to counter the enemy building
crystal power. Build kinetic sheild after
Sorrowblade if you see a hero going crystal that will most likely target you. these are heroes like CP
Fortress,
Skye,
Alpha,
Koshka and
Taka.
I recommend completing kinetic sheild into
Aegis after completing 2 full weapon items. That is a basic time to get Aegis, it will depend on wether you are getting killed fast by cp heroes (build aegis slightly sooner) or dominting foes easily (finish Aegis later).
Metal Jacket
Exactly the same as
Aegis above, except build if the enemy threat is going
weapon powerI like to build Metal Jacket instead of
Atlas Pauldron even if the opposition has
Krul because you are not going to be right next to the fast-hitting hero! You dance are kite on the back lines, not up in the middle where Atlas is used.
Complete
Coat of Plates into
Metal Jacket after completing your first 2 full weapon items. That's about time to get a Metal Jacket, it will depend on wether you are getting killed fast by WP heroes (build Metal Jacket sooner) or easily winning fights (finish Metal Jacket slightly later).
Serpent Mask
For your last item, you can choose wether you need some more defence or not. If you don't you pick between
Breaking Point and
Serpent Mask Build a Serpent Mask if the team fights are short and people are dying quite fast, and have gone for more aggressive builds than defensive.
Serpent Mask will increase your basic attack damage, and grant you
life-steal. You probably are thinking that you would like this item earlier, go ahead and try! I prefer to go for brute damage to kill the enemy faster will extra burst. Serpent Mask is great for keeping you alive longer in fights.
Breaking Point
For your last item, choose wether you need some more defence or not. If you don't need defence you pick between
Breaking Point and
Serpent Mask. Breaking Point is bought if everybody has built more defence and the fights go for a long time.
Breaking Point becomes extremely powerful over long battles, that is why you get it over
Serpent Mask if the fights go on for a while. You get 10 extra weapn power for every 125 damage dealt (+5 damage needed for each stack there after). By the end of a long fight, if you have stayed alive for long enough, you damage will be
insane!
Fountain Of Renewal
Takes this as you last item if the enemy is going full CP and you already have an
Aegis. Also you may want to get Fountain to help teammates that keep dying on you.
If the opposition have built
weapon and crystal, finish both
Aegis and
Metal Jacket, not Fountain. This item I rarely pick up but it could still be the best option for you and your team.
Good Vox Compositions
Protectors:
The best protecter for me I have found out is your daddy
Ardan
Ardan is very useful for getting you away from danger, and shielding you.
Vanguard grants you a speed boosts and sheild, great for escaping with and chasing.
Gauntlet Is amazing! You can attack oppositions from outside the ring without them touching you!
In a draft, I definitely recommend
Ardan being your teams for pick.
Jungle Carries:
Reim is a very effective team mate, firstly I feel that Reim is OP, he deals a
ton of damage and uses that damage to gain fortified health keeping him alive. With
Vox he can slow and root opponets, keeping them away from you. Also the fact the
Reim deals so much damage and is so in-your-face, the enemy might try to all take him out, leaving you a golden opportunity to kill them.
Taka I have found to work well,
the burst damage combined with him is huge! This comp if string at diving straight at the enemies main damage dealer and forcing them to run, heal or die. Taka draws a lot of attention to himself, and he will take a lot of damage, when he uses
Kaku (under his box) the enemy will target you. When this happens just play defensive and run away a bit, then when Taka is ready, hit the enemy with another round of burst.
Skye and yourself create a new type of fight, you two stay at the edge kiting and throwing masses of damage at enemies trying to get on top of you. Using
Forward Barrage and
Sonic Zoom together make chasing enemies immediately turn and run. Thats when
Vox and
Skye both can hunt that hero down and easily take them down.
Other Strong Heroes To Work With Are:
Celeste -
Fortress -
Phinn -
Koshka -
Alpha
But you can seriously make it work with any hero
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