This is the Go-to build for Nova. Top
Longshot help her to slow the good target in teamfight without overextending (super important). And provide extra range to finish those retreating fugitives.
Rapid Projection pretty useful to block skill shots, tank damages more often and save your mana for more shots!
Snipe Master really stack faster now, thanks to the 6sec-snipe.
With
Double Tap and
Crippling Shot vulnerability, your usefulness in teamfight increases a lot, as well as your burst and skirmishes capabilities.
At lvl 20, with +75% from
Snipe Master, your snipe hit around 1k5 damages with vulnerability on your target.
If you are quick enough, with rewind, you can hit with two snipes + pinning and auto attack extra damage to reach around 3k5 burst - quite enough to kill most targets.
Available Variations Top
Covert Ops can be really useful for engagement and skirmish (60% slow is a big deal). Absolutely viable if your team lack CC.
Advanced Cloaking, I like it less but make Nova swifter than ever. Can be really useful during the roaming phase and to get the best positioning (or even escaping when in a bad situation). However, according to me, it's utility decreases when your overall positioning skills increases (+ it can make you play a little too greedy).
Remote Delivery can be useful to fool enemies on your real position (as the range is really insane). Most of the time however,
Rapid Projection is better to have more often and at lower cost that useful clone to block skill shot, and tank damages (from minions/towers/etc).
One in the Chamber make your dps pretty steady with
Double Tap and
Rapid Projection but unless you find it REALLY hard to stack with
Snipe Master, never take it.
Snipe Master is the only way to get the damage burst that make nova a little competitive.
Precision Barrage can be useful if your team is heavy wombo combo oriented or has a lot of stun or enemy team tend to pack a lot. If you find yourself in situations where you can land these nukes (and hit!) as often as you can use rewind, then take it!
Mudslinging on others builds Top
You don't need
Tactical Espionage, learn to save mana and back at the right time.
Holo Stability only match with
Lethal Decoy which does very little damages.
Psionic Efficiency indeed let you a lot of mana that you will never use.
The full snipe build with
Psionic Efficiency or
Explosive Round and
Perfect Shot has LESS burst that the build with Pinning shot vulnerability and just a little more dommage on the long run if you hit every ****ing 3 sec on an hero. Test the two builds in Try Mode on the mannequin.
Remember that the full snipe build will be less useful to your team and your burst will not be the best + you will need to have perfect positioning to be able to land a snipe every 3 sec and never miss and never get caught + if you do so, you will always be visible and never surprise opponents.
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