Core items:
Breaking Point,
2x Tyrants Monocle,
Tornado Trigger
Final build:
Breaking point,
2x Tyrants Monocle,
Tornado Trigger,
1 Defense item of choice,
Thought behind this build:
Due to the heroic perk baptiste has, he will get +35% weapon damage after landing 4 hits, so I made this a high damage build. This build gives you:
100% Critical hit chance
80% Crit damage (base stats calculated in)
~220% Attack speed (!)(base stats calculated in)
+195 weapon damage (without breaking point stacks)
+445 weapon damage (with breaking point stacks)
Alternatively you can switch the BP with a Sorrow blade, which will allow you to disingage, which I don’t particularly recommend against some enemies. But it will be helpful against slippery enemies. If you wanna be more tanky, then switch out the TT for another defense item.
CP:
Core: Shatterglass, Clockwork, Broken Myth
Glass:
Shatterglass,
Clockwork,
Broken Myth,
Dragons Eye,
Halcyon Boots and 1 Defense item.
More tanky:
Core items+2 defense items+Halcyon boots
This build makes use of Baptistes boost to ability damage due to his heroic perk, also of his life gained from soul fragments. I found this build to be hard to make kills with in team fights, because its just that bursty, but you should go off with a few wins and a bath of assists. Abilities should do around 700 damage (in glass)to enemies without aegis(vice versa) once you get 4 soul fragments.
Captain Baptiste:
Difficult to make captain builds, so I am just gonna talk about very viable items.
Dragons eye:
You’ll be tanky, so you’ll stay longer at the front lines, which can boost your CP into laner lvl, good pick.
Clockwork:
I mean, it’s good and all, but you shouldn’t be dealing damage anyway, so this pick is to me overshadowed by the almighty contraption.
Contraption:
Gives great boosts to HP and cooldown, also counters Taka, Kestrel and Flicker, so it’s quite situational. Although if you are a mine/vision fanatic like me, then this is a must-have. Baptiste will make good use of the cooldown reduction, which only makes this item better.
Nullwave Gauntlet:
Baptiste will have trouble facing off against a captain, so if the enemy captain is being an ass you can just use this… And it also has a cooldown reduction if I’m not mistaken
Aftershock:
If you wanna go full utility and also bully the enemy captain, then this is a must-have. Oh, don’t worry, this also gives cooldown reduction.
Now that I have talked about all the items I should tell you how to focus during a team fight with CP and Captain Baptiste. So, you land the B on the most slippy hero(Taka, Vox, Koshka, etc), the A on the front line fighter, ignore the captain unless you can bully with Nullwave or Aftershock.
And with that, thanks for reading! Good luck in the Halcyon Arena of violent death.