Introduction Top
Hi, I know there are a lot of
Glaive builds already available especially one created by SIXX. Anyway, I started with Glaive since the beginning and have been pretty much trying most of the build SIXX created in his post. However, during one game, out of desperation being push to base by 2 crystal and 1 tank, I purchased
Breaking Point with a shield and it completely turned the tie. I tried it out a few more time with a lot of different teams, most have a heavy tanks
Ardan,
Catherine or
Adagio with crystal or weapon or mix of both and the build works wonder.
People argue a lot about
Breaking Point before however, with this build, getting
Breaking Point is a must.
Since Vainglory Fire didn't list the stats of
Breaking Point accurately, let me listed it here
Gain 9 Weapon power (15 if you are melee) and 5% critical chance & critical damage per second whenever you are attacking enemy heroes. If not, you lose a stack each second. 20 stacks max
Early Game Top
Get
Swift Shooter with 2
Halcyon Potion. First ability should be
Twisted Stroke
Farm while be careful. Get iron contract to earn faster but sell it later. You must get this item to ensure there will be enough gold for later use. Since it won't be there in final build, I didn't put it as core.
Get another
Swift Shooter, then
Book of Eulogies to gain a little more damage and recover your health after killing each creeps.
Get
Afterburn as second ability to help knock back enemies or getting away from dangerous situation.
Before going to midgame, before the 8 minutes, you should have a build like this
Blazing Salvo,
Swift Shooter,
Iron Contract,
Book of Eulogies,
Sprint Boots
Midgame Top
Finish
Breaking Point, then try to get
Kinetic Shield, then
Barbed Needle and ready for team gank. Upgrade to
Sprint Boots to
Travel Boots
Try to keep your gold mine or steal from the other team as much as you can. Try to knock enemy team to fatal position as much as you can, when they are fleeing, try to use
Twisted Stroke and then
Bloodsong to finish them off If play well, your
Glaive can even outplay
Koshka or
Taka
Your build before the 21st Minute eshould be like this
Breaking Point
Travel Boots
Aegis
Barbed Needle
Heavy Steel
Blazing Salvo
PS: Don't forget to sell your iron contract as you can farm pretty fast now.
Late Game Top
Finish
Serpent Mask. This is when you will get to strike fear into the enemies' heart, including their tank.
You should finish all your core item by the 20th minute (if you have not lost yet).
Breaking Point
Travel Boots
Aegis
Serpent Mask
Get
Blazing Salvo and complete
Tornado Trigger to increase your damage per second.
Tips, You can jump into the middle of their team, knock their tank closer to your teammate, attack the one with the least defensive capability. Activate your
Aegis's shield to buy some more time or when you see the stun coming. Try to last as long as you can.
Tips:
In Team Gank
The first few slashes will not do much damage but after that, you can start seeing more red. When your health running low, activate your
Twisted Stroke, follow by
Bloodsong and mwahahaha,
RED everywhere. If they flee, use your boots and get close to them as fast as possible but don't be too reckless only be reckless in team gank where not turret spotted, without your
Breaking Point's Stacks, you should just leave them alone.
Since your
Serpent Mask's 20% weapon life steal is making use of your
Breaking Point damage, you are healing as a much faster rate, imagine you can last 10 seconds your stats will be Weapon: +150, critical chance +75% (25% from level 5
Twisted Stroke) meaning 3 out of 4 strike is critical, Critical Damage +50%, meaning you are dealing 200% normal damage per critical attack. Basically, you are having 1
Tyrant's Monocle, 1 Sorrow Blade after 10 second. With an item of your choice, I normally choose
Tornado Trigger to make use of the Damage per second, you can literally strike fear into the enemy team. This build is the perfect counter if their team go all blue. Get
Metal Jacket if they build all weapon or
Atlas Pauldron if there is a mix.
With this build, I did 1v2 with Tanky
Ardan and Weapon
Vox or Crystal
Celeste or Weapon
SAW and got away with one kill most of the time.
One weakness of this build the stun. especially
Catherine,
Koshka,
Celeste or
Krul. It can reduce your
Breaking Point stacks especially
Koshka's ultimate. After being stun, get your shield up immediately then use
Bloodsong (you should probably have full
Bloodsong's Stack from enemy's attack)
Late Game, if you know the next gank will decide the outcome of the match, sell your
Travel Boots, get
Weapon Infusion and
Crystal Infusion and consume, then get a
Sprint Boots or
Travel Boots if you have enough and engage. Now, in a right position with a right timing, your
Bloodsong can take more than half of the other team health and you can watch them run away in fear!!
Alright, I hope you find my build useful. Comments are more than welcome.
Enjoy Vainglory!
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