see tomorrow's vid for my in depth build guide and how to use my exact build ingame, i will also talk about why LUCKY SHOT is one of the worst items in the entire game, and im not quite sure why people buy it!
Been using your builds lately and they’ve been incredibly effective! Thank you for how in-depth you go for these characters, you’re definitely my favorite Deadlock content creator!
Keep going dude, you're very clearly coming out ahead of the pack with the quality of your Deadlock content, timing is on your side. I appreciate that you always explain your reasoning for your item choices and you seem reasonable and open to criticism. I was using the top public build for Infernus because I just started but I switched to your's and it makes a lot more sense, should be #1.
much appreciate it, going to be uploading more frequently now have just had a weird past few days. look for the build video tomorrow, it’s a pretty good one i think :)
I love these videos you’ve put out for us! The guides are detailed and organized to provide genuine learning. A lot of “guides” are just showing the build without the substance of understanding the character itself first. You give us good insights about abilities, upgrades, buys, team play, playstyle…. all the goods and THEN give us a build video. I bet it’s a shit ton of work but I can’t explain enough how genuinely good and effective your vids are!
Nice. I haven't played in a few days, but I was looking to pick up Wraith as my next character to play and had a build in mind, but I love getting more input from your videos. The Haze build was so well made! So I'm looking forward to tomorrow's video.
Thanks for the video, I have been telling my friends that Tesla bullets aren't worth it and they go oh nah it's a good item and proceeds to buy it but I trust you ❤❤
For all my fellows that want to know why wraith actually sucks early game. Step 1: immediately push her out when laning starts, she won't have a card up yet and since her early game dps sucks (almost as bad as dynamo without his fire rate buff) there is 0 threat in playing this aggro early. Step 2: buy point ward, this gives you EXACTLY 80 spirit shield that nothing can break EXCEPT CARD. Meaning that now not only are you just doing more gun dmg than her, BUT NOW you can tank a card FOR FREE! Step 3: continue playing around the spirit shield until you snowball the lane out of control, DON'T GIVE HER ROOM TO BREATHE! The moment wraith can comfortably clear lane and take camps the game is over, her camp clearing with tesla bullets is too strong and her late game is bar none the best in the game. NEVER LET HER GET TO THIS POINT! Besides from all this, enjoyed the guide. As a wraith player and just overall deadlock enjoyer I can respect the advice given to the comminuty, that being said this street is 2 ways. (also I am low-key sick of ppl saying wraith is good early cuz she is NOT)
wraith is VERY good early, especially COMPARED to the other carries. no other carry has the damage output she has so early. spirit shields have long cooldown so wraith can work around those, only real problem is enchanters barrier but most heroes don’t want to buy that. she’s great most of the time, but i agree she has some stuff you can itemize to make fighting her easier, and she doesn’t do well against the lane powerhouses like viscous or bebop. point is just that she’s great early for a carry, strongest by far of the few
also, her late game isn’t even close to being the best in the game, haze and seven maybe even infernus have better late game. tesla bullets is one of the worst items in the game right now since the new patch made its internal cooldown almost double what it was before giving you half the procs as usual.
@@smeefu Maybe it's because I havn't played much of characters like bebop, but when compared to haze, infernus, and even ivy. Wraith's early is super rough against even the slightest of aggressive characters. The whole thing around playing around spirit shields is 100% true, but also think about how hard it is gonna be for a wraith to farm card while under constant poke, without card she can't win a 1v1, even with rapid fire in some cases. So either she conceeds a ton of hp to farm card and ssouls off creeps, or conceeds tons of farm to dmg trade. Also as somebody who has played most characters (besides abrhams bebop and dynamo) I can say that wraith's late game is the most oppressive. Maybe it's the build I use (cuz I do use a build that is inheritly meant for carrying) because I easily 1v4 teams. Even when they have good shutdown since wraith has the single best get out of jail free card in the game (the 20M+ tp on a 11ish cd)
@@smeefu True, tesla was nerfed, but think about how many times she can proc it in one clip anyways. While farming it becomes her best dmg source since she shoots for so long and solves her single target problem while shooting. Obviously you would sell it later but compared to literally every other 3k option. For camp farming and wave clearing I have seen none better than tesla.
Loved the video mate! Wanted to add that lucky shot might be worth considering as when it procs it doubles the card progression rate for that bullet (at least that’s the impression I got from reading the discord). Might already be in the video tomorrow but if you didn’t know, now you know!
@@harryhab2 I love playing wraith, and I have to agree with smeefu that the hybrid 6200s (crippling headshot and leech) are just too good on wraith if you have extra souls to spend. She makes full use of those items like almost no other hero can. I'd say lucky shot is a good option if you really just want to splitpush and take down objectives, because you can crit objectives just like everything else. But for general gameplay, I like the hybrid items better.
Alternative opinion for ability upgrade path, start with card trick for extra charge then next points go into the tp to increase range, then next 3 points into the 3 to get the bonus spirit dmg per bullet, then next into telekensis for cooldown and duration (3 points) then focus on maxing tp, then 3 (rate of fire ability) then telekenisis, wraith excels in 1v1s and maxing out her tp early is much more vital than maxing her ult which is only useful in 1v2,3....
maxing out the ult is insane for team fights, not just 1vX, and it’s insane for midboss too. there’s no possible way i can ever justify skipping the 2nd point in cards, it’s way too much damage this early to skip. but yeah you can certainly go another path than ult rush, i just have to get the first 2 points in cards fast.
Wraith's ult has the best final upgrade for teamfights, so you definitely want it by the time you're going to teamfight. In higher elo where smeefu plays, fights happen earlier and are more crucial to the game, so it makes sense to max ult first. But in my elo, I find that I can max another ability first and max ult second, and it lines up pretty well with when I want to start taking teamfights. It's good to adapt your build and skill order to the games you find yourself in; if those games don't look like high elo games, then sometimes your build doesn't have to exactly follow high elo builds.
I have been building Mystic Burst over Extra Charge because I don't see a use for an extra card slot when most of the time I won't even have 2 cards ready. I'll be using them to clear waves or poke or fight. Mystic Burst lets me poke much harder.
they are absolutely horrible, plus the new patch bugged them out hard so the internal cooldown is double the length it is meant to be making them proc basically half the time they used to, awful.
@@smeefu oh damn I didn't know they were bugged out thanks for that. Do you mind explaining why they suck even without the bugs tho, since I see it in quite a few popular public builds
@@the_odr9166 they arent THAT bad on wraith when they aren’t bugged, it does give her a farming speed spike but she really doesn’t need them to proc things like BRS as she has full auto and cards for that. so i just find it hard to spend 3k and a slot on the item when there are so many better items and your farming speed is still crazy fast
You said that she got poor AoE, but have you tried going Ricochet, that's the only thing you need to make her clear all and everything.. tho it's expencive, and you rarely get it/want it early b4 active reload and all that good stuff, it's still maybe my favourite upgrade on her.. :3
i just cant justify buying this item on wraith, it doesnt do enough for her. with haze it makes her ult incredible, infernus applies his afterburn to multiple targets, but wraith basically gets nothing other than some shared situation damage, too expensive for this hero i think :)
hey, been enjoying your build vids! just wondering if spirit strike would be removed from pocket’s build as stacking a heavy punch with spirit barrage got patched. thanks!
i would still use it, still an extremely strong item in lane especially for a hero like pocket. just proc it with a light melee now whenever you go in or whenever someone goes in on you.
full build video tomorrow, but these items are just bad. ricochet doesnt do enough for wraith with the price, for haze it makes her ult insane and for infernus it applies afterburn to more targets but what does it do for wraith? nothing good. tesla bullets are bugged right now and have their internal cooldown doubled, resulting in half the procs than from before.
not as good obviously, but still a good item as the stats on it are not bad at all, and most engagements are close range anyway. its only much worse on a hero like vindicta who likes a bit more range.
I'm not 100% sure but melees don't charge your cards right? So I don't think melee lifesteal is a great item for wraith (it is great in general). Your cards are extremely good poke and burst if the enemy pushes. Just buy close quarters for example to make your gun better and charge your cards. Moreover idk if leech is actually worth it because you have quite a lot of lifesteal from full auto, bullet lifesteal and if you buy it vampiric burst.
melee does charge cards. but in the full build video tomorrow you will see i also recommend spirit strike, these items together make a LIGHT melee attack do 130+ damage, heal you for 100+ AND reduce spirit resist by 12% making your cards hit even harder. melee items also just help you push wave much easier on wraith, as using gun takes way too long.
@@victorb7562 you’ll see in the build video, but generally spirit damage doesn’t do well in lategame in this game so i focus more on gun, with my cards just being to apply debuffs or to act as a little extra damage late.
that’s 3 ability points, the second talent in card trick will cost 2. and even if you couldn’t, of course this would mean you just save the points until the ult is unlocked.
haze and it’s not even close. doesn’t matter what items people buy, the same items will just hurt wraith harder, and wraith is not as threatening. gonna be making a carry specific tier list very soon!
see tomorrow's vid for my in depth build guide and how to use my exact build ingame, i will also talk about why LUCKY SHOT is one of the worst items in the entire game, and im not quite sure why people buy it!
i stopped buying it on haze cause of your haze vids
Thanks for putting these detailed guides out. There are so many OP BUILD .001% GAMEPLAY videos out there with little to no information.
Been using your builds lately and they’ve been incredibly effective! Thank you for how in-depth you go for these characters, you’re definitely my favorite Deadlock content creator!
appreciate this so much! thank you :)
Keep going dude, you're very clearly coming out ahead of the pack with the quality of your Deadlock content, timing is on your side. I appreciate that you always explain your reasoning for your item choices and you seem reasonable and open to criticism. I was using the top public build for Infernus because I just started but I switched to your's and it makes a lot more sense, should be #1.
much appreciate it, going to be uploading more frequently now have just had a weird past few days.
look for the build video tomorrow, it’s a pretty good one i think :)
I love these videos you’ve put out for us! The guides are detailed and organized to provide genuine learning. A lot of “guides” are just showing the build without the substance of understanding the character itself first. You give us good insights about abilities, upgrades, buys, team play, playstyle…. all the goods and THEN give us a build video. I bet it’s a shit ton of work but I can’t explain enough how genuinely good and effective your vids are!
great guide mate. been excited for a wraith one, and here it is!
I literally just checked to see if you uploaded lmao
Also, I would love to see an Abrams video!
Nice. I haven't played in a few days, but I was looking to pick up Wraith as my next character to play and had a build in mind, but I love getting more input from your videos. The Haze build was so well made! So I'm looking forward to tomorrow's video.
Incredible guide as usual, saw two live matches of you playing in the front page of spectate recently, keep up the great work smeefu!!
Great vid as always. I was not aware that so many parts of Wraith's kit scale well with spirit power
Seven vid would go hard
Ever since your infernus video I've been trying all of your builds and every single one of them slaps
You’re the GOAT. Been waiting for this!
Thanks for the video, I have been telling my friends that Tesla bullets aren't worth it and they go oh nah it's a good item and proceeds to buy it but I trust you ❤❤
Another banger man! I can't seem to click with Wraith but maybe it's because I'm not really playing towards the early game angle, will try it out :)
she’s much harder to play than someone like haze, maybe the build video tomorrow will help you out!
I need that seven build desperately 😭
lets go your haze one was great so im hoping to learn
Best Wraith Guide i have seen so far, very educational. Can you please create the build ingame?? That would be amazing, thx
will be out tonight or tomorrow with a build video :)
I love your builds, I would love a paradox build
Thanks for videos man, you are so cool! Waiting for this itembuild vid cause I definitely building her wrong😂
will be out tomorrow my friend! thanks for the comment
Your guides are the best there are. Keep it up. Would love a video on viscous or Paradox
Since i tryed ur haze ult build i am 9-0 defo going to try this one as well
For all my fellows that want to know why wraith actually sucks early game.
Step 1: immediately push her out when laning starts, she won't have a card up yet and since her early game dps sucks (almost as bad as dynamo without his fire rate buff) there is 0 threat in playing this aggro early.
Step 2: buy point ward, this gives you EXACTLY 80 spirit shield that nothing can break EXCEPT CARD. Meaning that now not only are you just doing more gun dmg than her, BUT NOW you can tank a card FOR FREE!
Step 3: continue playing around the spirit shield until you snowball the lane out of control, DON'T GIVE HER ROOM TO BREATHE! The moment wraith can comfortably clear lane and take camps the game is over, her camp clearing with tesla bullets is too strong and her late game is bar none the best in the game. NEVER LET HER GET TO THIS POINT!
Besides from all this, enjoyed the guide. As a wraith player and just overall deadlock enjoyer I can respect the advice given to the comminuty, that being said this street is 2 ways. (also I am low-key sick of ppl saying wraith is good early cuz she is NOT)
wraith is VERY good early, especially COMPARED to the other carries. no other carry has the damage output she has so early. spirit shields have long cooldown so wraith can work around those, only real problem is enchanters barrier but most heroes don’t want to buy that. she’s great most of the time, but i agree she has some stuff you can itemize to make fighting her easier, and she doesn’t do well against the lane powerhouses like viscous or bebop. point is just that she’s great early for a carry, strongest by far of the few
also, her late game isn’t even close to being the best in the game, haze and seven maybe even infernus have better late game. tesla bullets is one of the worst items in the game right now since the new patch made its internal cooldown almost double what it was before giving you half the procs as usual.
@@smeefu Maybe it's because I havn't played much of characters like bebop, but when compared to haze, infernus, and even ivy. Wraith's early is super rough against even the slightest of aggressive characters. The whole thing around playing around spirit shields is 100% true, but also think about how hard it is gonna be for a wraith to farm card while under constant poke, without card she can't win a 1v1, even with rapid fire in some cases. So either she conceeds a ton of hp to farm card and ssouls off creeps, or conceeds tons of farm to dmg trade. Also as somebody who has played most characters (besides abrhams bebop and dynamo) I can say that wraith's late game is the most oppressive. Maybe it's the build I use (cuz I do use a build that is inheritly meant for carrying) because I easily 1v4 teams. Even when they have good shutdown since wraith has the single best get out of jail free card in the game (the 20M+ tp on a 11ish cd)
@@smeefu True, tesla was nerfed, but think about how many times she can proc it in one clip anyways. While farming it becomes her best dmg source since she shoots for so long and solves her single target problem while shooting. Obviously you would sell it later but compared to literally every other 3k option. For camp farming and wave clearing I have seen none better than tesla.
Loved the video mate! Wanted to add that lucky shot might be worth considering as when it procs it doubles the card progression rate for that bullet (at least that’s the impression I got from reading the discord). Might already be in the video tomorrow but if you didn’t know, now you know!
yes i knew, i just think it’s useless hehehe!
thanks for the kind words
@@smeefu hahaha fair enough you’d definitely know better then me! Have a good day my dude
@@harryhab2 will explain my thoughts on lucky shot in the build video coming up!
@@harryhab2 I love playing wraith, and I have to agree with smeefu that the hybrid 6200s (crippling headshot and leech) are just too good on wraith if you have extra souls to spend. She makes full use of those items like almost no other hero can.
I'd say lucky shot is a good option if you really just want to splitpush and take down objectives, because you can crit objectives just like everything else. But for general gameplay, I like the hybrid items better.
Best guides without a doubt. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Wow, thanks!
Insane video, ty man
Been having trouble finding a third character after haze and lash so I’ll have to try wraith and see if I like her
Glad to see you’re on the melee LS wave… extra regen is 168/min and melee LS even min value vs minions is ~250/min
Great vid man always a banger. qq tho is your Infernus build and skll point in game updated?
gonna fully update it right now
fully updated, including new build order that is definitely better than before!
Alternative opinion for ability upgrade path, start with card trick for extra charge then next points go into the tp to increase range, then next 3 points into the 3 to get the bonus spirit dmg per bullet, then next into telekensis for cooldown and duration (3 points) then focus on maxing tp, then 3 (rate of fire ability) then telekenisis, wraith excels in 1v1s and maxing out her tp early is much more vital than maxing her ult which is only useful in 1v2,3....
maxing out the ult is insane for team fights, not just 1vX, and it’s insane for midboss too. there’s no possible way i can ever justify skipping the 2nd point in cards, it’s way too much damage this early to skip. but yeah you can certainly go another path than ult rush, i just have to get the first 2 points in cards fast.
Wraith's ult has the best final upgrade for teamfights, so you definitely want it by the time you're going to teamfight. In higher elo where smeefu plays, fights happen earlier and are more crucial to the game, so it makes sense to max ult first. But in my elo, I find that I can max another ability first and max ult second, and it lines up pretty well with when I want to start taking teamfights. It's good to adapt your build and skill order to the games you find yourself in; if those games don't look like high elo games, then sometimes your build doesn't have to exactly follow high elo builds.
love these vids! keep it up man
I have been building Mystic Burst over Extra Charge because I don't see a use for an extra card slot when most of the time I won't even have 2 cards ready. I'll be using them to clear waves or poke or fight. Mystic Burst lets me poke much harder.
just a play style thing then, i exclusively save my cards until i have 3 and then go hard for a kill
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hell ya wraith is so fun. also what do you think of the ricochet and inhibitor combo. I feel like its so busted for heroes like wraith
Wraith is fun!
I always stick to extremely high gun damage builds with wraith
Rushing vampric really helps against tanks like abrams and yea ofcourse toxic bullets
dude could you do a lash guide!!!!!
Hopefully the critics lets the game release before canceling it for some random reason
I am messing around with mcginnis rn, would like to see if my build would stand up to yours!
Nice video! Now haze please :)
already done haze! check my channel :)
my goat
Amazing guide but curios on ur thoughts on Tesla bullets
they are absolutely horrible, plus the new patch bugged them out hard so the internal cooldown is double the length it is meant to be making them proc basically half the time they used to, awful.
@@smeefu oh damn I didn't know they were bugged out thanks for that. Do you mind explaining why they suck even without the bugs tho, since I see it in quite a few popular public builds
@@the_odr9166 they arent THAT bad on wraith when they aren’t bugged, it does give her a farming speed spike but she really doesn’t need them to proc things like BRS as she has full auto and cards for that. so i just find it hard to spend 3k and a slot on the item when there are so many better items and your farming speed is still crazy fast
You said that she got poor AoE, but have you tried going Ricochet, that's the only thing you need to make her clear all and everything.. tho it's expencive, and you rarely get it/want it early b4 active reload and all that good stuff, it's still maybe my favourite upgrade on her.. :3
i just cant justify buying this item on wraith, it doesnt do enough for her. with haze it makes her ult incredible, infernus applies his afterburn to multiple targets, but wraith basically gets nothing other than some shared situation damage, too expensive for this hero i think :)
hey, been enjoying your build vids! just wondering if spirit strike would be removed from pocket’s build as stacking a heavy punch with spirit barrage got patched. thanks!
i would still use it, still an extremely strong item in lane especially for a hero like pocket. just proc it with a light melee now whenever you go in or whenever someone goes in on you.
i wanted sexy feet sniper but i already figured out how to play her so rude whip man guide next please !
i always max the 3 before anything else because it give the life steel so i can continue to rush melt enemy
just buy bullet lifesteal and try my upgrade order :)
@@smeefu do you have a ingame build for it ? I might try it to see if i can clap noob with it also
surprised no shadow weave mention
see tomorrows vid ;)
Given the number of Play hours of those Guides this Game is on current Playtest for roughly 3 years 😅
@@popopikatchu if you notice they slowly ramp up, it’s my total play hours hehe
where is the seven video waiting for it mate!
sorry had to delay it to after this one, needed more time to get my facts right on him!
Curious as to why there's no mention of either tesla bullets or ricochet?
full build video tomorrow, but these items are just bad. ricochet doesnt do enough for wraith with the price, for haze it makes her ult insane and for infernus it applies afterburn to more targets but what does it do for wraith? nothing good. tesla bullets are bugged right now and have their internal cooldown doubled, resulting in half the procs than from before.
what's your opinion on Mystic Shot after the nerf?
not as good obviously, but still a good item as the stats on it are not bad at all, and most engagements are close range anyway. its only much worse on a hero like vindicta who likes a bit more range.
Id like her alot more if her teleport wasnt so shit... id rather it let me go invis up to 40 metres or something
What's with the updated haze build? I was using it a while ago and some some different items there
i will always update if i find things better
I'm not 100% sure but melees don't charge your cards right? So I don't think melee lifesteal is a great item for wraith (it is great in general). Your cards are extremely good poke and burst if the enemy pushes. Just buy close quarters for example to make your gun better and charge your cards. Moreover idk if leech is actually worth it because you have quite a lot of lifesteal from full auto, bullet lifesteal and if you buy it vampiric burst.
melee does charge cards. but in the full build video tomorrow you will see i also recommend spirit strike, these items together make a LIGHT melee attack do 130+ damage, heal you for 100+ AND reduce spirit resist by 12% making your cards hit even harder. melee items also just help you push wave much easier on wraith, as using gun takes way too long.
@@smeefu and then sell spirit strike for something more directly buffing card trick right? And melee lifesteal for leech or a counter pick item?
@@victorb7562 you’ll see in the build video, but generally spirit damage doesn’t do well in lategame in this game so i focus more on gun, with my cards just being to apply debuffs or to act as a little extra damage late.
good videos as always but build could be a lot better. wraith scales insanely well if you build around fire rate and card spam.
full build video tomorrow!
you cant go from 2 ability points to ult, what do you mean?
that’s 3 ability points, the second talent in card trick will cost 2. and even if you couldn’t, of course this would mean you just save the points until the ult is unlocked.
do you find pocket to still be viable post-nerf?
Do we really still need to add ability descriptions?😭
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tried the melee life a few games and i really hate playing closerange with wraith, i would rather farm until 2k and get my cards doing big dmg
Who’s the better carry, haze or wraith?
Lower ranks Haze, Higher ranks wraith. Haze gets shut down too hard by players who actually use active items lol
haze and it’s not even close. doesn’t matter what items people buy, the same items will just hurt wraith harder, and wraith is not as threatening.
gonna be making a carry specific tier list very soon!
Paradox guide pleaaaase :(
is lucky shot not worth it? Also I see everyon get tesla although I feel like tesla sucks
You do not have 1000 hours on wraith, that's 41 days you liar
MONEY!
Pro tip don’t watch guides trust me I have 1500 hours of experience
nerf wraith
British??? Abili iiiiiis
19:24 how did you cancel haze's broken ass sleep there?
she cancelled it herself by shooting me