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Certified Lover Boy

    When do we go hand of midas, scepter boots of travel on invoker
    and when do we go aquila, treads and scepter. I'm kinda confused. Although the items are situational I'm not able to figure a way out. Thanks :)

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      I rarely buy midas now. Going directly for Aghs is better especially if you got a good laning phase (e.g. not very pressured or not much ganks).

      I only buy aquila when:
      1. There are too many physical heroes in the enemy team.
      2. I know i can push early because my mid will leave the lane to jungle farm/gank lanes

      Certified Lover Boy

        Nice, thanks ^^

        Feachairu

          not invoker player but generally

          dont go midas
          buy aquila if you vs physical damage enemy,like lina who hits you alot(i guess?) but don buy aquila if you vs storm,since he short range better 2 null/1 null/mwand
          travel and scepter not sure,but for wq invoker they usually go 2null/1null-phase-urn-vessel-agh

          Obamacare

            I tend to see lots of combo focused invokers still go for midas, probably because they learned the combos and want to do some refresher cataclysm combo and get commended by everyone. The difference between the two builds is just that one is focused more around farming most of the map and getting ahead, hence Midas and the other one is more focused around fighting around the aghanims timing and just getting cheap stats beforehand for better sustain, hence treads into aghs

            100% WINRATE MASTER

              midas: when u have gold advantage and want to leverage ur gpm / when u find urself underlvl and its risky to farm on the map

              generally no need midas

              boots of travel is useless to get first if u dont even have items to escape : eg euls, forcestaff

              consider going for linkens first for the the mana regen so that u can keep killing.

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              Peekaboo

                hey fam, Item builds are all generally based around What the enemy has/What your team has and your role in the game.

                I see alot of midas suggestions etc, That item is extremely trashcan.. The only midas i bought in my last 25 or so invoker games i bought it after urn and stick and bought the midas at around 11mins because i decided that i was the lategame win condition.

                Basi starts are good vs physical damage heros.

                General rule of thumb.
                Quas wex = Null -> Phase -> urn -> Vessle - > Aghs -> mobility -> bkb/linkens -> Utility (sheep, refresher, oct, shivas)
                Quas Exort = double null or Aquila -> treads -> urn (if no urn on your team, not needed but helpful) -> forcestaff/euls -> aghs
                meme machine all exort = double null -> sneakers -> Euls -> blink -> aghs -> travels
                Meme machine 4 points quas Lift time = null -> phase -> meme hammer -> Urn -> vessle -> aghs

                Read my massive post about the TA matchup if you wanna learn some maths behind the early damage numbers of invoker.