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Hi All. So I play Joule pretty Hardcore right now.... I've been trying some new things because since the patch where they changed beam from 3 hits to 6 CP Joule doesn't feel as strong. Her Crits with WP are nice, but there's really no reason to pick her over Taka or Glaive or Krul (WP or Aftershock Krul) if you're looking for big Damage. so I wanted to work on CP Joule.

so for fun one day I started playing around with subbing in different items. The new contraption is absolutely insane. I played with an Adagio that decided to pick 2 contraptions boots, serpents mask and 1 shield 1 armor and we completely wrecked the other team like I've never seen before. He had, seriously almost the entire map on our side lit up in blue lol. he must've had like 200 scout traps on the map lol. and man do mines do more damage as the game progresses? anytime we had team fights we did it in the middle of like 10 mines and well... LOL GG MOFOS.

So I fell in love with Contraption at that moment and started using it. I realized that it has some really nice benefits to Joule. First the cool down time is nice. Energy regen is nice. All is not as good as with clockwork, but along with the 20% cooldown difference (not too noticeable, honestly), and 5 energy recharge difference (which IMO for joulue is negligible because she's hardly ever out of energy), what you gain is more than worth it:

+200 health
+16 health regen
Mines
Flares
Stormguard Passive

I'm looking at this and I honestly don't think Clockwork compares. I know it has its place but the CD for abilities 1 and 2 is negligible and the ability to put mines EVERYWHERE is fantastic. I have been doing this with CP, so the build is Shatter glass, then contraption, then boots, broken myth, eve, and either an armor/shield or another shatter glass if I'm not taking a lot of damage. I have been doing fantastic. has anyone else been using contraption instead of clockwork in their builds? I absolutely love this idea...

That's a pretty interesting Adagio build. May I ask what tier you play in? I never thought of using 2 contraptions because I thought that multiples of the same item run off the same cooldown timer now.

Support Adagio is one of my mains and I build Contraption/Boots/Eve/Fountain/Crucible with the last slot situational.
For Support Joule I run Contraption/Boots/Fountain/Crucible/Clockwork/situational. Not a lot of power but I rely on the Rocket Leap stuns, especially stunning them when they're on a mine.

shhhh, b'quiet...you're gonna get the best item ever nerfed.