Starting Items
Death's Toll Now I know many people would argue that Bumba's Mask is better for jungle-ing, but for me I prefer this. It may not help quite as much with jungle-ing than Bumba's but it does help and it has the additional bonus of helping when you're in lane or fighting other gods. Increases your health, physical power and adds a slight heal/mana heal to basic attacks, if you have issues jungleing then consider going for Bumba's instead.
Achilles' Spear This I know will be contentious. I use this to when I need to clear a jungle camp quickly (mid camps for example) or when 1-on-1 with the enemy jungler. It adds a huge boost to your attack speed, 35% life steal and a movement buff, but at the cost of taking more damage. Use this when 1-on-1 in combination with your '3' and so long as you can keep landing your basic attacks you will win, miss lots of attacks or get hit by CC and you will die. Just do not use this in big team fights.
Healing Potion Mana Potion - These should be pretty self explanatory. Use them to improve sustain. You could potentially drop the health one in favour of two mana and use your '2' to heal.
Early Game Items
Ninja Tabi Attack speed, movement speed and physical power. These boots have everything that Baka needs. Some people prefer the
Warrior Tabi which gives more physical power at the cost of attack speed, but I swear by the Ninja's.
The Executioner More attack speed! More physical power! This item strips away the physical protections of the enemy gods with each basic attack. Great for dealing with the tanker opponents!
If you're going to be primarily pushing and trying to get towers rather than kills this item could be swapped out for
Titan's Bane, which provides a penetration that also works on structures but at the cost of the attack speed buff.
Mid Game Items
Bloodforge Lots of physical power and some life steal, its passive works great with Baka who is purely an auto attack hero giving even more life steal and physical power. This item can really make the difference between just loosing a fight and winning.
Hastened Fatalis Provides more attack speed and movement speed both things Baka massively relies on. It passive also means you can stick to people like glue, between this and your leap no one should be escaping!
Item 5
This is where you need to start making decisions about how the game is going and what you need.
Pick
one from the following:
Golden Bow This item is great, really under appreciated. Adds a small amount of crit chance (10%) - by this point your attack speed should be so high that even 10% will result in a descent number of crits. Additional physical power more damage per hit! And additional movement speed. Plus it's passive means your damge from basic attacks spill over onto nearby enemy for 50%.
When and why to buy Golden bow
Golden Bow is best bought when you're doing a lot of lane pushing. Be it split pushing or counter pushing. The passive on the Golden Bow improves your 'clear' allowing you to wipe out waves of minions faster and thus push the lane quicker. The stats and crit chance are also helpful in fights, however if you're primarily concerned with your 'kill potential' then you'd be better served getting the death bringer.
Deathbringer This is the item to go for if you're interested in pure DPS and 'kill potential'. A huge increase in physical power and good crit chance (20%) combo'd with your huge attack speed and the item passive (extra damage on crits) makes this item
the dps item for Baka.
When and why to buy Deathbringer
Buy Deathbringer when your damage output and getting kills is your priority and the enemy team doesn't have too much CC.
Magi's Blessing The only defensive item I ever buy on Baka. This is primarily for its anti-CC passive, but bonus health and protections never hurt!
When and why to buy Magi's Blessing
Get this item when the enemy team has lots of CC, too much for a set of beads alone to handle. In these games it's passive can be a real life saver considering what a 'glass cannon' this build is.
Qin's Sais More physical power and more attack speed. It's passive deals damage based upon the targets max hp. This is great for dealing with the tankier opponents.
When and why to buy Qin's Sais
Get this item only when there are multiple tanky gods on the other team other wise a Deathbringer will net you much more damage output overall.
Item 6
If you haven't already then it is time to sell the old
Death's Toll and replace it with something more relevant to the end game.
Golden Bow This item is great, really under appreciated. Adds a small amount of crit chance (10%) - by this point your attack speed should be so high that even 10% will result in a descent number of crits. Additional physical power more damage per hit! And additional movement speed. Plus it's passive means your damge from basic attacks spill over onto nearby enemy for 50%.
When and why to buy Golden bow
Golden Bow is best bought when you're doing a lot of lane pushing. Be it split pushing or counter pushing. The passive on the Golden Bow improves your 'clear' allowing you to wipe out waves of minions faster and thus push the lane quicker. The stats and crit chance are also helpful in fights, however if you're primarily concerned with your 'kill potential' then you'd be better served getting the death bringer or if you already got it then
Rage.
Deathbringer This is the item to go for if you're interested in pure DPS and 'kill potential'. A huge increase in physical power and good crit chance (20%) combo'd with your huge attack speed and the item passive (extra damage on crits) makes this item
the dps item for Baka.
When and why to buy Deathbringer
Buy Deathbringer if you didn't already and you need to up your damage output to keep up late game.
Qin's Sais More physical power and more attack speed. It's passive deals damage based upon the targets max hp. This is great for dealing with the tankier opponents.
When and why to buy Qin's Sais
Generally the only time I get this 6th item is when I didn't go with a crit item for 5th and need extra damage and there are tanky characters that are giving me trouble.
Rage This item will pretty much double the frequency of your crits. Physical power more crit chance and a passive that increases crit chance further. This is great for scoring consistent crits.
When and why to buy Rage
I get this 6th item only when I've got
Deathbringer 5th item and want to increase the frequency of those potent crits. If you didn't get death bringer 5th item get that instead though.
Magi's Blessing This is primarily for its anti-CC passive, but bonus health and protections never hurt!
When and why to buy Magi's Blessing
If you didn't get this 5th item but are having issues with CC a lot then get it 6th item. pretty simple really.
Active Items
I generally don't bother with
Hand of the Gods on Baka, since its nerf means it doesn't help with pushing lanes mid-late game anymore and between his 2 and 3 he can clear camps very quickly after level 2 anyway.
As stated I mainly go for
Achilles' Spear as mentioned in the main build, the second active varies slightly but as a rule of thumb will normally be
Greater Purification.
If the other team doesn't have any substantial CC you can consider getting one of the teleports which can really aid with aggressive split pushing but as a rule of thumb beads are generally the way to go..
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