By DeadlockStrat · Reviewed
Start from what you actually own. Keep essential counters and the items your path depends on, then compare a useful upgrade, a new addition or an explicit replacement. Keeping your current build can be the correct result.
Give the continuation planner your real match state
Under Late game, open Continue my build. Enter owned items, available souls, unlocked inventory slots and the enemy threats that matter now. Do not enter the original planned purchases as if you already own them.
The engine cannot see your match, rank, enemy inventory or which opponent is ahead. Recheck the lineup and main threat after a major fight. Leave an item protected unless you are willing to replace it; a low price alone is not a reason to sell.
Compare additions, upgrades and replacements
An addition needs a free inventory slot. An upgrade consumes its owned components and charges the remaining payment. A replacement sells an explicitly replaceable item before buying another and must still preserve needed counters and selected-path synergies.
Read the proposed removed item, replacement, refund, purchase payment, additional souls required and reason together. Refunds appear separately. Each newly calculated future sequence follows Low → High payment order, and the inventory is validated after every transition.
Check affordability with a concrete example
Suppose you have 500 souls, sell an unrelated 800-soul item for the normal 400 refund, and buy a 1,600-soul item with no owned components. The replacement still needs 700 additional souls: 1,600 minus 500 minus 400. The refund does not make the purchase free.
If the old item is instead a valid upgrade component, do not sell it first by habit. Consuming it can preserve more value than the normal sale refund. Enter the exact owned inventory so the engine can distinguish the two cases.
When keeping the build is preferable
Keep the current inventory when no validated improvement fits your slots and active limit, when the proposed change would remove an essential counter, or when the replacement does not solve the problem you are facing. Buying something merely because souls are available can weaken a coherent build.
The continuation planner returns at most three future steps before you reassess. Between those purchases, enemy threats, slot unlocks and your available souls can change. Recalculate from the new inventory instead of treating a long-match plan as an irreversible shopping list.
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Evidence and review
These are tactical explanations of the Build 6839 reference, reviewed 1 November 2026. They are not match-statistical rankings. Item mechanics can change: the planner verifies current definitions separately and blocks automatic recommendations when the reviewed mechanics no longer match.
- Versioned community item and ability definitions
- How recommendations and patch checks work
- Dated patch reference
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