My focus whenever tailoring builds on any hero is the effectiveness at any point in the game. This means making the most of the early game, mid game, and late game, without sacrificing too much on either front. SO I like to start with a Tension Bow for that early game fear factor and ganking potential. Next, you should go into Aftershock, for even more bursting power. This also diversifies your build with CP to avoid any hard counters on WP. While building Aftershock you should get...

Alternating Current - kind of useless before a Heavy Prism. Before upgrading Blazing Salvo to AC, I recommend going Frostburn or Eve first instead.

@CrystalSawce thanks for your continued feedback, I appreciate it and will check out your build. What you said is true but will make you extremely vulnerable to stuns and focusing. This build does not begin with Shatterglass and is not going to have the stacked CP power you mentioned. Additionally, Aftershock applies to mainly his Roadie Run and only the first shot of his ult. While your build relies on the focus fire of SAW ult, this one is reliant on his A as a one shotting ability.

Cool guide brah. Skaarf's passive actually gets countered by Ardan's passive though. You might want to change that threat slot. I play Glaive as a tank/ CP carry when I'm tryharding, and his stun followed by burst is deadly for Ardan. Don't think that he actually has to compete in DPS- his kit is completely burst-oriented ;D

Good question @CrystalSawce If you build 2 Shatterglasses, which is a flat crystal boost, the enemy's shield value becomes more valuable. Obviously, late game shield values are much higher than early game due to leveling and builds. And since Shatterglass will be built towards the late game in this build, you'll be providing the most value for the enemy shield values (the higher the incoming CP damage, the more effective x shield value is). So to maximize your potential late game damage,...

"Onward, Virgil!"* (pretty sure this is a reference to Inferno) Although glad you addressed this, I'm not sure this still works the nerf on BP Petal is pretty significant; she now stacks at 3/4 the speed (damage/stack nerf). Great guide overall, but not amazingly original since I've seen a lot BP Petal guides and BP Petal is problematic in either patch depending on if your team knows how to focus and chain stuns.

Cool build that I unfortunately haven't seen a lot of love for yet. However, I think this build is going to be pretty weak with the new patch, because Breaking Point on ranged only stacks a little damage (+9 or something/stack). Adagio has some of the most trouble staying in a fight and he will probably get bursted/kited down in this one.

Actually Breaking Point is now nerfed (for ranged)- however it might be a little to good on melee right now.

Thank you very much! Some of my notes on laning were definitely aimed towards newer players, and are not as relevant for higher ELO players. I'm going to update and add even more content soon!

Why no Warhorn? You are going to lose against Warhorn Catherine!