New Player Builds/KaalNeri

# Kaal/Neri

## Retainer and Vessel

### Summary

Kaal has considerable built-in durability, and gains strength in a raging battle. As such, using an auto-attack focused Vessel such as Neri complements his kit.

### Roles

Carry - Depends on items to deal tons of damage.

Durable - Has damage mitigation or other means of surviving heavy damage.

Disabler - Has crowd control that disrupts enemies.

Initiator - Has a means of starting fights effectively.

## Pros and Cons

### Pros

* Ranged attacks help build Rage safely
* Strong early game
* Scales well into the late game

### Cons

* Susceptible to CC chains
* Forgoing Resource takes away from Kaal's ability to initiate fights
* Sometimes relies on his Ultimate lategame

## Ability max priority

  Kaal E

## Talents

### Capstones

Double Up interacts with many on-hit items, effectively increasing their damage by 50% by doubling their effects every second auto attack. It is essential to the rest of the build, such that even the increased Attack Speed from Fever of Battle pales in comparison.

## Items

### Starting Items

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Boots are cheap- allowing for more consumables such as Cleansing Potions and Healing Potions for a particularly difficult match-up. In addition, extra movement speed can help Kaal catch up to (or escape from) an enemy during an early skirmish.

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Aged Dagger grants a respectable increase to Attack Speed, allowing Kaal to generate Rage faster and to out-trade lane opponents.

On a first back, Kaal can pick up a Bloodgreed Scalpel to gain both increased lifesteal for additional sustain and to begin building a Saturated Switchblade

A riskier play is to start the game with no active items and to instead begin with Scalpel, relying instead on auto attacks to sustain.

### Rush Items

Chain lightning is affected by Double Up, causing it to deal an absurd amount of damage when clearing waves or engaging in extended fights. In combination with its Health and Health Regeneration bonuses, it is a cornerstone for auto attack-focused builds both for winning early trades and for farming waves of minions.

As such, the power of Thunderlord's Mallet necessitates its expedited presence. In other words: get this as soon as possible.

### Core Items

Saturated Switchblade grants a respectable amount of lifesteal, which is handy for builds that focus on attacking enemies with plenty of auto attacks. Because Neri deals Physical Damage, Kaal greatly benefits from lifesteal while using Neri.

In addition to its lifesteal, Saturated Switchblade's on-hit Physical damage is affected by Double Up, causing it to deal its damage twice on empowered attacks. This results in a considerable spike in damage when acquired.

Because of Kaal's Desolate Hardening and increased resistances from The Faceless Lord's Blessing, additional Health is more beneficial due to his inherent ability to already gain % effective Health. As such, what better Health than constantly increasing Health?

### Offensive

Peacemaker grants an impressive amount of Physical Power and lifesteal, further increasing Kaal's capabilities to both dish out and take damage. In addition, it unlocks access to Peacemaker: Call From Below, which can help to either turn around a difficult fight, or secure victory.

Enemies that invest heavily in Armor may be more difficult to take down, so investing in Ardor when enemies start building items that grant Armor or Block Rating is worth considering.

### Defensive

In addition to an impressive amount of Health gained from the base stats, Infernal Wish grants a second chance when approaching death, which can mean the difference between scoring an Ace or lying in defeat.

What better way to stop auto attackers than to make them attack slower? In addition, this item grants a respectable amount of Resource, as well as the very valuable Block Rating stat- which reduces the damage of incoming auto attacks.