Lane
5k≈ 6–9 minBuy
14%Mystic Shot1,600
10%Extra Health800
9%ActiveRusted Barrel800
20%Improved Spirit1,600Abilities
Mystic · Projectile
Violet
AmbitiousNimbleCreativeIn development
Builds
optimised by the simulator · generated 2026-10-23≥ 25% of offensive souls in each; vitality is free.
14%Mystic Shot1,60010%Extra Health8009%ActiveRusted Barrel80020%Improved Spirit1,600Early mid
12k≈ 13–16 minBuy next
12%Battle Vest1,600
16%Enchanter's Emblem1,600
15%Spirit Lifesteal1,600
15%Extra Charge800
18%Mystic Vulnerability1,600Abilities
Mid game
20k≈ 20–24 minBuy next
9%Spirit Shredder1,600
17%ActiveAlchemical Fire3,200
10%ActiveSpirit Sap1,600
Upgrade26%Rapid Recharge3,200Upgraded: Sold:
Sold: Abilities
Late game
32k≈ 30–35 minBuy next
12%Toxic Bullets3,200
Upgrade23%Boundless Spirit6,400
Upgrade29%Escalating Exposure6,400Upgraded:
Abilities
Very late
45k≈ 40 min +Buy next
7%Kinetic Dash1,600
Upgrade14%Spirit Rend3,200
Upgrade23%ActiveFocus Lens6,400
24%Mercurial Magnum6,400Upgraded: Sold:
Sold: Abilities
Each phase lists what to buy since the previous one; the % on a card is how much of the build's score you lose without it. Lit pips under an ability are its upgrade tiers (green: new in this phase). Hover anything for details.
How builds are chosen
For each net worth, the optimiser searches items and ability upgrades that maximise the score: damage per second against the reference enemy × effective health^weight, averaged over short, standard and long fights, each both fresh and mid-match (long cooldowns still recovering from the previous fight). Each checkpoint starts from the previous one's items, so the builds read as a path.
Gun, spirit and hybrid differ only in where the offensive souls go. The fight assumptions (accuracy, distance, the target…) are on the Data page and adjustable in the simulator.
Abilities
Ability 1
Living Ink
22s
2 charges
35
Damage
+0.7 × spirit power
1.5s
Cooldown Reduction per Hit
120%
Bullet Damage
25m
Max Drawing Size
+0.12 × spirit power
20s
Drawing Duration
scales with ability duration
- Duration
- 10sscales with ability duration
- Cast Delay
- 0.1s
- Charge Delay
- 7sscales with charge cooldown reduction
- 1Tier 1-4s Cooldown
+15m Max Drawing Distance - 2Tier 2On Empower: Gain +10% Fire Rate for 10s, stacking 5 times
- 5Tier 3+1s Cooldown Reduction Per Hit
Improve scaling
Partly simulated
• Empower: the next Max Shots bullets are steered (they hit at the ability hit rate), deal the bullet damage multiplier without headshots and splash spirit damage; Violet fires slower meanwhile.
• Each steered hit takes the cooldown reduction off every running ability cooldown (half off item cooldowns); the passive refreshes Flow State whenever another ability is cast.
• Draw (the ink wall) is not scored.
Values are base values with their scaling; the simulator shows them at a chosen net worth and build.
Growth without items
HealthGun DPS ×10Spirit power ×10
Value by net worth
Boons come with net worth; gun DPS is every bullet hitting at close range, no headshots. Items and investment bonuses come on top (see builds).
Patch history
Changed in the game files
- • Violet added: — → Violet (6782 → 6815)
No patch notes mention Violet in the captured notes.
Weapon
Creative Solutions- Bullet damage
- 30
- Fire rate
- 1.54 /s
- Magazine
- 15
- Reload
- 2.7 s
- Falloff
- 20–64 m
- Headshot
- ×1.65
- DPS
- 46.2 / 36.1
Base stats
- Health
- 710
- Health regen
- 2
- Move speed
- 6.9
- Sprint speed
- 2.5
- Stamina
- 3
- Light melee
- 50
- Heavy melee
- 116
- Headshot damage taken
- 1
Per boon
- Bullet damage
- +0.55
- Health
- +34
- Melee damage
- +1.2
- Spirit power
- +1.1
35 boons in all, the last at 49.2k souls.
Investment bonuses
| Souls | Weapon dmg | Base health | Spirit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 800 | +9% | +9% | +7 |
| 1.6k | +12% | +12% | +11 |
| 2.4k | +15% | +15% | +15 |
| 3.2k | +18% | +20% | +19 |
| 4.8k | +46% | +38% | +38 |
| 6.4k | +54% | +42% | +45 |
| 8k | +62% | +46% | +52 |
| 11.2k | +74% | +50% | +59 |
| 16k | +86% | +54% | +66 |
| 22.4k | +100% | +60% | +75 |
| 28.8k | +115% | +66% | +100 |
Souls spent in a category (each owned item's full price) unlock the highest tier reached. The biggest step is at 4.8k; after it each tier adds less per soul (weapon: +17.5% per 1k souls up to it, +5% per 1k to the next), so piling souls into one category has diminishing returns. Builds and tier lists include it.