What are the best builds for Karrie?
Karrie is an extremely offensive hero. Once you use her, you can really contribute to the team with her skills and abilities. Despite being a marksman hero, Karrie can actually keep up with other famous assassins and fighters. In fact, she is known as the one who can beat them up.
Of course, if you pair Karrie with the right equipment, you can enhance her even more. This article is here to serve as your reference as we aim to bring Karrie to her greatness.
Karrie Strengths
- Tank killer - With Karrie’s skills, she has the power to kill bulk heroes such as tanks. With that, she is a very reliable one.
- Can solo fight - She is the marksman that you can leave alone on the lane. So unlike others, she is not that squishy.
- High attack speed - Karrie is a marksman hero with built-in high attack speed. That is why most users attempt to increase her attack speed by buying equipment that can improve this factor of Karrie.
Karrie Weaknesses
- Slow - She can be slow in the early game, so help is very much needed for Karrie.
- Rely on positioning- With Karrie, smart positioning is a must. If you do not know how to strategically place her during team fights, you might not be able to maximize her skills.
- Mana dependent - Karrie relies on mana. So this is one thing that can be her weakness. Hence, it is a challenge for you to find a remedy for this.
3. Attack Speed Effects
Enhance Karrie's attack speed with this build.
It was already stated that Karrie has high attack speed. Therefore, it is only reasonable that most users attempt to enhance mainly her attack speed. With this build, you can ensure that Karrie can deal as much damage to enemies in a small amount of time.
Use This Build If…
- You have a tank in your team - This build requires a marksman to gain as much gold early in the game. So you really need a tank to support you.
- You are the main marksman of the team - This build does not possess defense items. Most are offensive items. With that, it is understandable that this is purely for offensive marksman in the team.
- Your enemies are quick - With agile enemies, it can be difficult to catch them. Thus, improving the attack speed of Karrie will enable you to catch these quick enemies.
Skills
You can opt to focus on leveling up first the first skill of Karrie, in order to deal additional damage to enemies a the early game. This will help you poke enemies and disrupt them.
- Level One: First Skill - (Spinning Light Wheel)
- Level Two: Second Skill - (Phantom Step)
- Level Three: First Skill - (Spinning Light Wheel)
- Level Four: Ultimate Skill - (Speedy Lightwheel)
Items:
1. Swift Boots (710): Swift boots are extremely important to Karrie since she is slow in the early part.
2. Demon Hunter Sword (2180): Since we are aiming to enhance her attacks, we might as well buy an item that will help you to not just improve her attack but also her physical penetration. Demon Hunter Sword is the perfect choice to penetrate against tanks and fighters just by using her basic attacks.
3. Golden Staff (2000): Karrie will need critical damage so that she can put into use her ability to cast many attacks in a second. Golden Staff will give her the critical chance she needs.
4.Corrosion Scythe (2050): This item is known for dealing extra damage. But what’s not known to some users is that Corrosion Scythe also has the feature of slowing down enemies. So if you want to increase your damage while also slowing enemies down, this is the answer.
5. Endless Battle (2470): Karrie relies on mana. With her mana, she will not be able to use her skills. If we are not able to maximize the skills of Karrie, that might lead to the downfall of the team. Thus, always make sure that you get to activate her skills at all times by ensuring that her mana generation is being taken care of with the item Endless Battle.
6. Immortality (2250): This is an additional item that you may choose to pick in the latter part of the game if the game is being stretched to late game. You may choose to actually not follow this one, but Immortality is just being added here to serve as an extra caution in case enemies start to become too aggressive in the late game. Since you do not possess heavy defensive items and mostly for offensive only, this will will actually help you.
Emblem
The marksman emblem is the most suitable emblem for Karrie for this build.
Marksman Emblem
- Quantum Charge - Enhances Movement Speed and regenerates HP.
- Weakness Finder - Decreases the movement and attack speed of opponent.
- Swift - Improves Attack Speed.
- Agility - Enhances Movement Speed.
- Greed - Adds Physical Life Steal.
- Bravery - Increases Physical Attack damage
Battle Spells
This build is best paired with Inspire spell. When you activate the ultimate skill of Karrie and Inspire spell at the same time, this will surely bring a lot of headaches to your enemies.
2. Sustained DPS
Level up Karrie's sustained DPS by buying these items.
The sustained DPS build is the best option if you are aiming to become a more aggressive marksman. Basically, this will ensure that you will stay longer in the game to be able to maximize your offensive capabilities.
Use This Build If…
- Enemy team composition is very bulky - Again, sustained DPS will enable you to stay longer in the game. Hence, if you are fighting against bulky heroes, this is the best option.
- There are no other offensive players on the team - If you will notice, there is a defense item in sustained DPS. That is because it will help you be safe. So if you are one of the few offensive players on the team, make sure that you will not die instantly.
- You are fighting against assassins and fighters - Assassins are known for being monsters in the field. If you do not possess enough defense items, you will get killed off instantly by them. So this build will help you counter them.
Items:
1. Endless Battle (2470): This item is called the all-in-one item for marksman. That is because Endless Battle provides a solution to the mana-dependency of heroes, but also to their speed, cooldown time, and more.
2. Swift Boots (710): This item is self-explanatory. Do not buy this one and you will always be caught by enemies.
3. Windtalker (1820): Windtalker is best for the attack speed and critical hits of Karrie. When used, Karrie’s damage will increase simultaneously with her attack speed.
4.Corrosion Scythe (2050): This item is mostly used by marksman heroes. That is because fighters and assassins are known to be quick. So in order to outplay them, buying an item that will help you slow them down is the best option. And the answer to that is the Corrosion Scythe.
5. Haas’s Claws (1810): Haas’s Claws is a one-stop shop for sustained DPS build. This very cheap item contains enough benefits in order for Karrie to increase her lifesteal capabilities. This is very useful, especially since Karrie has high attack speed. So every time she hits, her HP will increase.
6. Immortality (2250): This item is for final touch only since this is purely for defense. If you buy this immediately, you will get behind in offense, so make sure to buy immortality when you already have enough offensive items on your hands.
The attack and defend item is very helpful for users that like going on solo lanes.
Skills
Just like other builds of Karrie, her first skill is needed in the early game. So you can follow this process in leveling her up:
- Level One: First Skill - (Spinning Light Wheel)
- Level Two: Second Skill - (Phantom Step)
- Level Three: First Skill - (Spinning Light Wheel)
- Level Four: Ultimate Skill - (Speedy Lightwheel)
Emblem
Physical Emblem is good for sustained DPS. You can even enhance more skills of Karrie by utilizing these talent points:
Physical Emblem
- Open Fire - Increases Physical Attack.
- Swift - Improves Attack Speed.
- Bravery - Upgrades Physical Attack.
- Shield - Magic Defense.
- Firmness - Physical Defense.
Battle Spells
To maximize her power, the inspire spell is highly recommended. Not only with this allow you to ensure that Karrie has enough attack speed, but this will also make you deal a lot of damage in a short amount of time. Thus, allowing you to hit more enemies.
1. Jungle
Using Karrie as the hypercarry? Then use this build.
From the name itself, the jungle build will ensure that if Karrie is your core hero, you will be able to supply her with the needed items. In fact, not all marksman heroes are qualified to become the core nowadays. Most assassins often fill this role that only a few marksmen can keep up with it. However, Karrie is that hero that deals much damage to the point that she can be reliable as the main damage hero.
Use This Build If…
- You are the core hero of the team - As said earlier, the jungle build is for the jungler or core hero of the team. So in order to make Karrie that hero that can provide as much damage as possible, use this build.
- You want to carry your team - You cannot carry your team and dominate your teammates if you are not the jungler. The teams listed under this build are actually designed to ensure that you get the balance of offensive and defensive items.
- You can deal with the pressure - Being the core hero of the team comes with great responsibility. So if you can deal with the pressure and trust your capabilities in using Karrie, then be the jungler.
Items
1. Endless Battle (2470): It was mentioned that one of Karrie’s weakness is her dependency on mana. With Endless Battle, you will be able to meditate on this problem since Endless Battle regenerates mana.
2. Ice Hunter’s Swift Boots (710): This boots are made for junglers in order to help them farm faster and easier.
3. Golden Staff (2000): Golden Staff is a good item to enhance the critical and attack speed of Karrie. Basically, this will help you enhance the basic attack of Karrie.
4. Windtalker: This is a very common purchase among marksman heroes. Windtalker is highly popular because it is inexpensive and works enough to give additional damage to the hero.
5. Rose Gold Meteor (2120): Rose Gold Meteor gives Karrie the shield and defense she needs. With this, Karrie will gain additional shield when her life is at a critical level.
6. Wind of Nature (1910): This will serve as the best asset that you could ever have, given that the Wind of Nature allows its users to be temporarily free from all attacks given by enemies.
Skills
To ensure that Karrie can defend herself in the early game, follow this sequence when leveling her up:
- Level One: First Skill - (Spinning Light Wheel)
- Level Two: Second Skill - (Phantom Step)
- Level Three: First Skill - (Spinning Light Wheel)
- Level Four: Ultimate Skill - (Speedy Lightwheel)
Emblem
The assassin emblem is more helpful compared to the marksman emblem if you are aiming to be the jungler. That is because you can actually benefit from getting kills, which is not present in the marksman emblem.
- Veteran Hunter - Additional gold when you eliminate jungle creeps. Extra 50 Gold upon eliminating Jungle Creeps.
- Wild Power - Additional gold upon killing an enemy affected by the Retribution spell, capped at 1100.
- Demon Slayer - Damage received and dealt from and to Lords and Turtles decreases and increases by 20%
- Iron - Damage received from monsters is reduced.
- Knowledge - Cooldown reduction
- Swift - Improves Attack Speed.
Battle Spells
By default, the Retribution spell is being used if you are the jungler of the team. That is because this will help you farm in the early game. In the mid to late game, this will help you steal Lords or turtles and slow down enemies.
Karrie is very strong against heroes that are slow. The following are her best rivals:
- Layla
- Sun
- Gord
- Tigreal
- Miya
Karrie is weak against assassins and fighters such as:
- Natalia
- Karina
- Chou
- Moskov
- Freya
