Just played a few games with this build after abstaining from deadlock for about two months. This is the exact silly goober playstyle I was itching for. Thank you for this.
I tried it this evening and I freaking love it ! As a bonus, I tend to forget about actives and don't use them enough, this build forces me to get used to them.
Stacking move and sprint speed is so good, I'm looking into making a zoomies build (not meant for gameplay, just for funsies, but i think if all items and conditions are stacked you can have 50m/s using veil walker + frenzy, this makes running through the middle of the map faster than mid boss room faster than taking the teleport from purple to yellow
I saw this video and went to try the character for the first time-- I had a lot of fun! My teammates thought it was funny and the enemies thought it was super annoying, hahah
I would love if you showed the "Damage Dealt by Type" graph for this! You said Torment Pulse is doing a majority of the damage, but i love seeing that information and what items and abilities you are getting value from. Knowing the damage potential of the build makes me more likely to try it, and its also helpful info that shows me how to play the build and tweak it if i need to.
@@SilhouetteLifter That is good feedback. I definitely wish I had included a screenshot in this video, but I will be sure to do so in future ones! Thank you!
I have a weird playstyle... and tried this out since the character design and turning into a cat seems up my alley... just tried this build and became a literal demon and somehow did the most damage in the lobby and most souls. Half the lobby was basically rolling with it or just got cat related ptsd.
I feel like the lack of late game fights shown goes to show the downsides of the build, it seems like an amazing mid game build though power spike falls off late game. Which can be fine assuming your team is willing to collapse on the mid game. Though I'm surely going to try out this build myself. Well designed looking forward to trying it!
@@Tinkerer_Red please do try it out! I’d love to hear what you think about it after a game or two. Honestly the reason for a lack of coverage of late game fights is partially a hardware issue on my side. I am sure you could see some frame rate issues with the replay, and that was really bad in the big team fight clips. I think you’ll find that you have really good value in late game fights because of how much damage your ultimate is able to do and because you are applying so many debuffs to the enemy team. I will be building a new PC next week and I hope to post some full match gameplay using this build!
@@wp_twentytwo So I streamed it for 16 hours today, and yea... yeah it fucking works! Late game it's a lot like the viscous distraction build. speed into enemy base, cold front, torment pulse, alch fire, ult, cat, then zip around for a little while till your weak divine barrier to get out quick. They end up never leaving their base despire the minimal amount of damage it puts out late game, though it is still making upwards of 2-3 kills from a single run around. Highly Recommend the build, only changes i would suggest are fleet foot is situational, really only needed if they buy slowing hex for you. Alch fire didnt really do much but if you insist on staying as Ava at all times like i did, it's just a good way to help clear more stuff or just another annoyance for the enemy to deal with. Good build, I like it, meow meow meow
@@Minwu325 I can see that working! I’ll have to try it to see if looking to be oppressive in lane works out better for me compared to running around for other objectives.
Just tried the build out. It was soo fun, and good. One question that has nothing to do with the build. How do you get the green and red outlines of active items on players? 13:42
@@mugiwaraboy7023 take a look at the cast mode options in the settings, I forget what it is called exactly but one of them allows you to activate those abilities in 1 press and it preselects the target on your screen based on where you are aiming. Definitely recommend it!
Interesting approach, not sure I like having two active item slots dedicated to speed. I want all of them to make sure I have stuff to do in fights other than hang around proccing Torment. I use Fortitude in combo with Enduring and that feels plenty speedy enough for me. I'm also using Improved Reach over Improved Spirit to help with getting in range for Torment / Cold Front / Ult, not sure I think that's worth it though. I've also been skipping Suppressor/Mystic Slow recently. The purple actives are a big deal to feel online in fights and with Reach, Cooldown, Cold Front, Mystic Vuln, and Torment Pulse that's already 5 purples. Adding Mystic Slow would be 6 and I wouldn't feel like I could get any more purple actives until very late in the game.
@@good_beans that is all sound for sure, the less time you want to spend running crates the more I understand dropping one of the speed actives. I played yesterday with knockdown in place of divine barrier and had a good time. Reach sounds great and fits in in many ways, I just haven’t justified giving it the purple slot yet. I’ll have to give it a try!
@@tron3747 I like that! Small changes to actives can change the entire playstyle of the build while keeping mostly the same objective, very very fun. I may try this while running rescue beam as well.
He's done it again, the innovator TwentyTwo has made a new playstyle I was never privy too, and it's hilarious I love it It's now time to pussymaxx lads 😼
@@ZephenTheGreat42 Good thought! Helping out my haze would be a fine play, potentially better than running the crate route in this situation. My thought process is primarily that if I am able to clear boxes on my own I will be able to buff my stats but also keep up on eco without forcing anyone else to split eco with me. This means that their 2 players on lane with my 1 haze are having to split souls while my haze is getting them to herself. Now if the wave was pushed to my walker in this situation I definitely think defending would be best, as I consider that to be a much more important objective. Also running crates means that I get to zoom around as the cat :)
@@wp_twentytwo haven't had the time either, but overall looks like most of the nerf makes it so that it comes online a fair bit later. The movement speed debuff is only ~20% due to enduring speed in the build. And until you get superior cooldown, Ava uptime is not 100%.
ive had games with 4k hp with like 1 tier 4 health item, fortitude the 1250 speed and lifestrike. She is so tank centric and heals well with melee that she is just better as a frontline assasin
I appreciate the feedback, I wanted to try and show something that demonstrated just how long you could stay in cat form for, so I added the video in. If people don’t like that editing style that is good information to have.
@@PedroDelClaro93 Parts for my new PC are on the way! Very excited to play at more than 60fps. FPS does drop pretty bad in the video because I crank graphics up for recording in replay.
This needs to be gatekept
gatecapt
This is the spirit that makes this game so dang fun. Super creative unorthodox way to play I love everything about this.
@@YeetMan. I couldn’t agree more!
agreed
Somehow the cat is more effective at chasing down and executing low health enemies from across the map than owl
I don’t blame you, Catmaxxing sounds like fun!
You finally found the microwave build.
That's what we love about Deadlock - all the interesting ways of playing every single hero. Good work on that!
@@lockblaze It is definitely one of my favorite parts of the game! Glad you like it!
How is this guy already dropping cat tech??? Man is crazy with it I fear.
Just played a few games with this build after abstaining from deadlock for about two months. This is the exact silly goober playstyle I was itching for. Thank you for this.
@@Shardel Awesome! Glad you like it
I tried it this evening and I freaking love it !
As a bonus, I tend to forget about actives and don't use them enough, this build forces me to get used to them.
@@morysh7155 this is such a good build for practice using actives, I noticed that too!
This is pretty sweet. I’ve had my eye on her, and this solidifies that for me. Thank you
I have achieved rank 8 on calico playing this build exclusively, you are truly an innovator sir
@@cloud_ow4602 Let’s go! You are the cat goat
0:00 - intro
0:20 - short montage
1:40 - ability breakdown
4:25 - ability upgrade order
6:08 - items
12:20 - gameplay tips
14:52 - gameplay breakdown
19:07 - outro
tried the build and its super fun to zoom around the map
Great content, love that deadlock lets builds like these work. Can't wait to see more!
Stacking move and sprint speed is so good, I'm looking into making a zoomies build (not meant for gameplay, just for funsies, but i think if all items and conditions are stacked you can have 50m/s using veil walker + frenzy, this makes running through the middle of the map faster than mid boss room faster than taking the teleport from purple to yellow
@@tron3747 50m/s!! Wow I need to try that lol
sprint speed doesnt stack with 110 percent sadly
I saw this video and went to try the character for the first time-- I had a lot of fun! My teammates thought it was funny and the enemies thought it was super annoying, hahah
Best video I've seen today.
@@Porpoise0fLight thank you!
beautiful, thanks for coming at this game sideways
I would love if you showed the "Damage Dealt by Type" graph for this! You said Torment Pulse is doing a majority of the damage, but i love seeing that information and what items and abilities you are getting value from. Knowing the damage potential of the build makes me more likely to try it, and its also helpful info that shows me how to play the build and tweak it if i need to.
@@SilhouetteLifter That is good feedback. I definitely wish I had included a screenshot in this video, but I will be sure to do so in future ones! Thank you!
This is the most fun build i've ever played in this game hoooolyyy
Brooo i think the wrecking ball mains have one brain, i made exactly the same build 😂
@@hino_owari lol! We just wanna go fast
@@wp_twentytwo we just wanna play as some animals
@ can’t even argue with that, hamster and cat are both fun
My favorite
Peak build going to make a video about it :3
@@chwikha6610 nice! Looking forward to it!
I have a weird playstyle... and tried this out since the character design and turning into a cat seems up my alley... just tried this build and became a literal demon and somehow did the most damage in the lobby and most souls. Half the lobby was basically rolling with it or just got cat related ptsd.
I can't believe this build works 😂 I had the funniest game in a long time, zooming around Holliday, McGinnis and Infernus. Protip: avoid Bebop 💀
@@23UAS Awesome!! That is a good tip too haha
i am a viscous main and love your content maybe im gonna try cat maxxing
@@lordqx2297 Thank you! I think it is definitely worth a try! Running around as the cat can be a pretty good time.
I feel like the lack of late game fights shown goes to show the downsides of the build, it seems like an amazing mid game build though power spike falls off late game. Which can be fine assuming your team is willing to collapse on the mid game. Though I'm surely going to try out this build myself. Well designed looking forward to trying it!
@@Tinkerer_Red please do try it out! I’d love to hear what you think about it after a game or two.
Honestly the reason for a lack of coverage of late game fights is partially a hardware issue on my side. I am sure you could see some frame rate issues with the replay, and that was really bad in the big team fight clips. I think you’ll find that you have really good value in late game fights because of how much damage your ultimate is able to do and because you are applying so many debuffs to the enemy team.
I will be building a new PC next week and I hope to post some full match gameplay using this build!
@@wp_twentytwo So I streamed it for 16 hours today, and yea... yeah it fucking works! Late game it's a lot like the viscous distraction build. speed into enemy base, cold front, torment pulse, alch fire, ult, cat, then zip around for a little while till your weak divine barrier to get out quick. They end up never leaving their base despire the minimal amount of damage it puts out late game, though it is still making upwards of 2-3 kills from a single run around.
Highly Recommend the build, only changes i would suggest are fleet foot is situational, really only needed if they buy slowing hex for you. Alch fire didnt really do much but if you insist on staying as Ava at all times like i did, it's just a good way to help clear more stuff or just another annoyance for the enemy to deal with.
Good build, I like it, meow meow meow
calico is insane in lane, you could just build to win lane and then pivot into something similar to this if you must
@@Minwu325 I can see that working! I’ll have to try it to see if looking to be oppressive in lane works out better for me compared to running around for other objectives.
@@wp_twentytwoabuse the 2 with the 500 melee healing and you will win a lot of lanes
First we had Ivy Spirit Bomber
Now we have Nyan-Neko IFV
Just tried the build out. It was soo fun, and good. One question that has nothing to do with the build. How do you get the green and red outlines of active items on players? 13:42
@@mugiwaraboy7023 take a look at the cast mode options in the settings, I forget what it is called exactly but one of them allows you to activate those abilities in 1 press and it preselects the target on your screen based on where you are aiming. Definitely recommend it!
@@wp_twentytwo Omg thanks! Thats soo useful. I tried the build a few more games btw and its insane how fun it is! Subscribed!
@ Thank you!!
Interesting approach, not sure I like having two active item slots dedicated to speed. I want all of them to make sure I have stuff to do in fights other than hang around proccing Torment. I use Fortitude in combo with Enduring and that feels plenty speedy enough for me. I'm also using Improved Reach over Improved Spirit to help with getting in range for Torment / Cold Front / Ult, not sure I think that's worth it though.
I've also been skipping Suppressor/Mystic Slow recently. The purple actives are a big deal to feel online in fights and with Reach, Cooldown, Cold Front, Mystic Vuln, and Torment Pulse that's already 5 purples. Adding Mystic Slow would be 6 and I wouldn't feel like I could get any more purple actives until very late in the game.
@@good_beans that is all sound for sure, the less time you want to spend running crates the more I understand dropping one of the speed actives. I played yesterday with knockdown in place of divine barrier and had a good time. Reach sounds great and fits in in many ways, I just haven’t justified giving it the purple slot yet. I’ll have to give it a try!
"How the monstrous cartridge works"?
catmaxxing is valid tbh
I would also suggest looking into Heroic aura + return fire as actives that would help in team fights
@@tron3747 I like that! Small changes to actives can change the entire playstyle of the build while keeping mostly the same objective, very very fun. I may try this while running rescue beam as well.
next guide needs to be what to queue as to actually get calico!
@@ViscousEnjoyer oh yea it is tough! It sucks going 3 or 4 games in a row without getting it
Death by a thousand cuts build
LETS GOOO
You gotta try to find a fix for the low frame rate 🙏
@@SkeleMann man oh man I do agree - good news is that it is in the mail and will be here next week!
He's done it again, the innovator TwentyTwo has made a new playstyle I was never privy too, and it's hilarious I love it
It's now time to pussymaxx lads 😼
At 17:00 why didnt you go help haze in mid right lane or try to gank vicous in outter right lane?
@@ZephenTheGreat42 Good thought! Helping out my haze would be a fine play, potentially better than running the crate route in this situation.
My thought process is primarily that if I am able to clear boxes on my own I will be able to buff my stats but also keep up on eco without forcing anyone else to split eco with me. This means that their 2 players on lane with my 1 haze are having to split souls while my haze is getting them to herself. Now if the wave was pushed to my walker in this situation I definitely think defending would be best, as I consider that to be a much more important objective.
Also running crates means that I get to zoom around as the cat :)
Chances of being killed by a cat a very low... but not 0
Well, it was fun while it lasted.
@@Shardel I haven’t been able to play it since the patch, is it dead?? We get to Meow now that has to make up for any nerfs :)
@@wp_twentytwo haven't had the time either, but overall looks like most of the nerf makes it so that it comes online a fair bit later. The movement speed debuff is only ~20% due to enduring speed in the build. And until you get superior cooldown, Ava uptime is not 100%.
Ok, nvm, patch notes say 30% but in-game it says 50% and really does feel like 50%. It's dead, Jim.
@ oof we may be cooked. I’m going to try tonight
can you cancel the ult faster?
@@xjudoflip7381 you cannot sadly
washed
Cats HATE water.
i love catmax builds, and its kinda sad tank is just kind of better
ive had games with 4k hp with like 1 tier 4 health item, fortitude the 1250 speed and lifestrike. She is so tank centric and heals well with melee that she is just better as a frontline assasin
Hunters Area after improved spirit IMO but yeah the build is hilarioush
@@SylveonShihoin I do need to try this!
@@wp_twentytwo LOL it’s great against haze wraith and vyper especially when you catch them farming alone :3
What the cat
The video on the top right is actually so annoying
I appreciate the feedback, I wanted to try and show something that demonstrated just how long you could stay in cat form for, so I added the video in. If people don’t like that editing style that is good information to have.
DELETE THIS, THE OTHERS MUST NOT KNOW
dude's playing at 10fps max wth
@@PedroDelClaro93 Parts for my new PC are on the way! Very excited to play at more than 60fps. FPS does drop pretty bad in the video because I crank graphics up for recording in replay.
not fun
i can play melee build n destroy opponents n hav fun in whole match
@@eyeteyteras1717 not fast enough to melee my cat tho