Rat King

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Author The Blue Lesbian · Updated Oct 4, 2026 · Favorites 2

Item order

Stages top to bottom, items left to right

1
Spirit S Tier
40,000 Souls
All item notes
- Escalating Exposure — This lets your rat swarms build a debuff on enemies that increases the amount of damage they deal.
- Scourge — Put aura on yourself with middle mouse button. When aura is up you get spirit and debuff resist and deal spirit damage to people around you passively like Victor does. Mostly good against spirit.
- Refresher — Active item that automatically resets your ult cooldown. Mostly used to get two banners active at once but can also be used if you REALLY need your banner faster.
- Superior Duration — Increases the duration of all the debuffs you put on enemies, your shield, the time rats stay on people, and your ult.
- Suppressor — Makes your rat swarms reduce enemy fire rate. Good against lots of strong guns.
- Spirit Burn — Can trigger from just your rats biting people once you have enough spirit items. Deals good damage and really fucks up enemy healing.
- Transcendent Cooldown — Biggest cooldown reducer in the game, works on both abilities and active items.
- Radiant Regeneration — Makes every bite your rats do give you a stack of good regen. Using abilities heals you and gives move speed.
2
Vitality S Tier
48,000 Souls
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- Siphon Bullets — Does not require gun damage to work. Any shot you land with your gun will steal max hp from the enemy to make you tankier. Better if shooting people with more max health.
- Leech — Gives you very good passive lifesteal for both gun or your rat swarms.
- Juggernaut — Makes you harder to slow down, gives some constant regen, and makes enemies shoot slower when they attack you.
- Witchmail — Gives you good spirit damage resistance and makes spirit damage you take reduce some of your cooldowns.
- Indomitable — Gives you an automatic immunity to any kind of stun with a 1 minute cooldown. If they try to stun you then every ability gets 20% of its cooldown completed. (WORKS ON DOORMAN ULT)
- Metal Skin — Active item that makes you completely immune to bullets for 24 seconds, gives you a good chance to get away or heal back your health.
- Cheat Death — 5 seconds of life after death with 90 second cooldown. Mostly good to secure your ult placement when you're about to die.
- Plated Armor — Really good if enemies have LOTS of gun damage or if they have effects that fuck you up from their bullets like toxic bullets, silencer, inhibitor, etc.
3
Weapon S Tier
33,600 Souls
All item notes
- Spiritual Overflow — An item that brings together spirit and gun. Gives you ability duration and a little bit of spirit lifesteal. Also makes shooting enemies give extra spirit lifesteal and fire rate and spirit damage.
- Frenzy — Bullet lifesteal and fire rate. When you are under half health you move and shoot faster and get debuff resist.
- Silencer — Shoot enemies reduce the spirit damage they deal and eventually disable their abilities for 2.5 seconds
- Opening Rounds — Increases the speed of your bullets, which should let you hit shots easier. Could be good for any build if you miss a lot.
- Berserker — Makes you deal up to 70% more gun damage if you are actively taking damage.
- Point Blank — Makes you deal more damage and apply a slow when shooting people at close range. Good because you SHOULD be closer to enemies than your backliner teammates so that you block things trying to hit them.
- Heroic Aura — Gives nearby allies resistance to gun damage and activating it will make allies shoot and move faster, including all types of minions.
- Escalating Resilience — Good regardless of build to help you tank gun damage. More max ammo and gun damage. Shooting people will build up to a max of 30% bullet resistance on yourself.
4
Spirit A Tier
40,000 Souls
All item notes
- Mystic Reverb — Can be put on your rat swarm to cause extra damage and slow enemies. Also makes them give you more lifesteal.
- Lightning Scroll — Makes the slam when you place your ult down stun enemies and deal extra spirit damage. Also slows enemies down on any spirit damage.
- Superior Cooldown — Big cooldown reduction, only for abilities.
- Rapid Recharge — Gives you more uses of your rat swarm ability and makes those uses come back faster.
- Greater Expansion — Makes the range of your bomb and ult larger. Makes it easier to hit ult slams and covers more of the map.
- Surge of Power — Put on your rat swarm to make them stronger and to give yourself some fire rate.
- Mystic Vulnerability — Makes your rat swarm reduce the spirit resistance of enemies, stacks less than escalating but works for entire team.
- Mystic Slow — When your rat swarms bite people they will be slowed down a lot.
- Bullet Resist Shredder — When your rat swarm bites people it will cause all gun damage to hurt them more, including your teammates' damage.
- Tankbuster — Can make your rat swarm damage higher.
- Disarming Hex — Turns off the gun of whatever enemy you click it on. Good against Haze, Vindicta, Wraith, Vyper, etc.
- Silence Wave — Turns off abilities for any enemy you click it on. Good against Celeste, Apollo, Yamato, etc.
5
Vitality A Tier
52,800 Souls
All item notes
- Spirit Resilience — Good if enemy team is dealing lots of spirit damage.
- Bullet Resilience — Good if enemy team is dealing lots of gun damage.
- Colossus — When activated you get lots of resistances but move slower and get a larger hitbox.
- Divine Barrier — Can be used on yourself by clicking middle mouse button to get a shield and remove all debuffs. Good against lots of debuff items and people like Infernus.
- Spellbreaker — Gives debuff resistance and spirit resist. If you take really high spirit damage it reduce it a lot. Good against people like Yamato.
- Vampiric Burst — Only good if you have to build gun. Can activate to get temporary fire rate and bullet lifesteal.
- Warp Stone — Lets you teleport and get bullet resistance upon teleporting.
- Spirit Lifesteal — Gives you lifesteal from the damage your rats are dealing and any other spirit damage items.
- Healing Tempo — Makes you move and shoot faster when you heal, also increases your already existing healing.
- Healing Booster — Increasing your already existing healing.
- Diviner's Kevlar — Gives you a shield whenever you activate ult, increases the duration of all of your abilities, and makes your ult cooldown shorter.
- Bullet Lifesteal — This gives you lifesteal on your bullets, only pick if you are doing a gun build obviously.
6
Weapon A Tier
56,000 Souls
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- Weighted Shots — Increases your weapon damage and gives debuff resist. Shooting people will build up a slowing effect on them.
- Ballistic Enchantment — If you put this on your rat swarm then you will get large stacks of gun damage when they bite people.
- Ricochet — Gives firerate and causes your bullets to bounce to nearby targets so you hit multiple people at once. Can increase the spread of debuffs on your bullets and let you deal more damage with gun.
- Lucky Shot — Gives max ammo and gives a chance for bullets to deal double damage. Better if you already have high fire rate.
- Armor Piercer — Makes your bullets move faster to hit easier and gives a chance to ignore bullet resistance.
- Spirit Rend — Good if you're doing spirit or have spirit members on your team. When you shoot enemies they lose spirit resistance and your entire team gets spirit lifesteal against them.
- Recharging Rush — Dealing enough damage gives you charges back on your rat swarm. Has a 25 second cooldown though.
- Hollow Point — When you are at a high enough health your gun gets more damage and reduces enemy bullet resist.
- Spellslinger — Using abilities while actively in combat will decrease time to reload and increase fire rate.
- Express Shot — Makes your bullets faster to hit easier and makes one shot every 8 seconds hit a second time to deal extra damage and stack more bullet effects.
- Crippling Headshot — REQUIRES LANDING HEADSHOTS. If you can consistently, it will reduce enemy bullet and spirit resist AND their healing.
- Crushing Fists — FOR HEAVY MELEE ONLY. Don't buy if you think you'll be parried. Makes your heavy melee (holding Q) deal more damage and eventually stun people.
7
Ehhh
145,600 Souls
All item notes
- Boundless Spirit — Generally large spirit buffs, not anything specifically crazy. Pick if you are fully spirit and don't have better options.
- Focus Lens — Generally I would just want Silence Wave between the two. But this does generally the same thing to one person and deals some damage.
- Spirit Snatch — MELEE ITEM. This gives your melee hits spirit damage, if you want to do melees and spirit I guess?
- Knockdown — Stuns people, more stun if they're in the air. Mostly only good against Vindicta and Seven's ult but is a priority against them.
- Mercurial Magnum — Can be put on your rats to give them more damage and to cause your bullets to deal spirit damage and fire rate when you use rats.
- Decay — CAN be good against people like Kelvin, Victor, etc. Anyone that heals a lot. But kind of niche cause your team could just deal more damage.
- Torment Pulse — Hurts enemies if they get too close to you. Can pair with debuffs that trigger on spirit damage and spirit lifesteal.
- Fortitude — Not anything super crazy. Generally just gives you a chunk of extra health and some regen.
- Lifestrike — ONLY FOR MELEE. Makes you heal and slow enemy down on melee hits.
- Stamina Mastery — Helps you run around easier. Gives an extra air jump/dash and extra stamina.
- Healing Nova — Heals you and allies nearby for some amount of health. Can be a fine support item but not incredible later.
- Healbane — One of the most basic antiheals. Just makes enemies heal less when your rats hit them. Also causes you to heal a little bit if you kill someone with the effect.
- Debuff Reducer — Just kind of reduces the duration of debuffs / gives debuff resist. Good against debuff items and Infernus and stuff.
- Enchanter's Emblem — Some spirit resist, better early on. Gives a tiny amount of cooldown reduction but isn't super notable compared to other items.
- Guardian Ward — Can put a shield on yourself with middle mouse button to move faster and get a little bit of shield hp. Upgrades into divine barrier to deal with debuffs but doesn't do that itself.
- Return Fire — Can potentially have synergy with your self shield ability, mostly against gun enemies. But falls off a lot against stronger builds.
- Alchemical Fire — Throws a circle of fire onto the cground that deals spirit damage constantly and reduces bullet resistance. Can potentially give you more area denial alongside all of your abilities.
- Burst Fire — Makes you move and shoot faster when your bullets hit enemies. Mostly good if you are already going toward a gun build.
- Tesla Bullets — Causes bullets to have a chance of extra SPIRIT DAMAGE which will make any effects that "trigger on rats damage" in other notes to have a chance to happen on bullets.
- Toxic Bullets — Causes your bullets to eventually apply a bleeding effect. This bleed effect IS SPIRIT DAMAGE so anything that "triggers on rat damage" and stuff will trigger from the bleeding.
- Headhunter — REQUIRES HEADSHOTS. If you hit headshots you will deal a chunk of bonus damage and get some healing.
- Reactive Barrier — Good because it upgrades into indomitable to give a free stun immunity. This item itself only gives a shield and does not prevent the stun.
- Enduring Speed — Slow resist and slight movement buff. Upgrades into juggernaut to give survivability.
- Inhibitor — Simply better on other characters. Your bullets build up a healing reduction on enemies. But it's so much better on characters with higher fire rate.
- Infuser — Leech is probably just better for you because you might not predict when you're about to deal a lot of spirit damage to capitalize on the lifesteal.
- Counterspell — REQUIRES really good parry timing to do anything at all.
- Majestic Leap — Could be used before activating ult to give yourself some shield. Not really optimal at all though.
- Split Shot — This makes your weapon shoot additional shots from one bullet temporarily. Can be fine, I guess. Much better items to pick though.
- Kinetic Dash — Requires you to dash jump a lot to see benefits, if you don't it's useless. Also only for gun.
- Arcane Surge — Requires you to dash jump a lot to see benefits, if you don't then it doesn't do anything. Spirit version.
- Fleetfoot — Kind of just makes you move faster and get some slow resistance. Not the best thing in the world and takes up an active item slot.
- Active Reload — This item is alright. Not amazing, but it can give some fire rate and bullet lifesteal if you're doing gun. Lets you reload faster sometimes.
- Cold Front — Slows people down around you, it's not incredible but could help your team a little bit.
- Arctic Blast — Freezes people around you for a bit and slows them after, prevents stamina usage. Mostly to help your team but not super crazy.
- Echo Shard — Could potentially use this on shield to get a second one after the first breaks. Or on bomb to have two going at once. Kind of niche though.
- Cursed Relic — Use this if you want to allow your team to really fuck up one person specifically. It disables their gun AND abilities for 4 seconds but also hurts your own damage a lot while it's active.
- Spirit Sap — Used to reduce the spirit power and resist of one target, not incredible.
- Improved Spirit — Middle step between extra spirit and boundless spirit, just gives some spirit power. Not insanely good.
- Duration Extender — Put on ult or rats for more duration usually. Upgrades to better duration item.
- Compress Cooldown — Can reduce the cooldown of one ability. Not super amazing, but you can use it and it upgrades to better cooldown reducers.
- Dispel Magic — Can be activated to clear debuffs, good against people like Infernus.
- Unstoppable — This gives some debuff resist but spellbreaker is typically better. Requires you to BASICALLY parry by using the active item to get stun immunity for 7 seconds. Indomitable is simpler to use????
- Phantom Strike — You probably shouldn't be the one using this. It's technically a Vindicta counter.
- Rescue Beam — This heals you and a target ally for 20% hp but liiike it's better on other backline supports I think.
8
Early Game Stuff??
35,200 Souls
All item notes
- Extra Charge — Gives you an extra use of your rat swarm and can be upgrade into a WAY better version later.
- Mystic Regeneration — Gives you a bit of regen when your rats bite people, decent early healing. Can be upgraded into a WAY better version later.
- Slowing Hex — This is kind of ONLY really a counter to Apollo. It will disable all of his abilities. But it also generally slows anyone down and disables any other evasive abilities (bat swarm, grapple, teleport..)
- Rusted Barrel — This will halve someone's fire rate if used on them. Can upgrade into disarming hex to fuck with Haze, Wraith, Vyper, etc.... by disabling their gun
- Spirit Strike — Very NOT priority. ONLY MELEE. Gives some spirit damage to melee hits.
- Mystic Burst — Fairly weak but upgrades into an alright item if you want. Causes your rats to deal a chunk of extra spirit damage if they hurt enough.
- Mystic Expansion — Very good early item, put on your ult for more range. Upgrades into an even better version that buffs all of your abilities at once.
- Extra Spirit — VERY weak on its own. But it upgrades into one or two decent or better items if you hold onto it.
- Extra Health — Gives a slight boost in health. Can upgrade to fortitude for more health. OR, THE BETTER OPTION, can upgrade to colossus to give you an active item that provides heavy resistances.
- Extra Regen — Sort of weak on its own. Only slight regen boost. Can upgrade to healing booster and then healing tempo which are both WAYY better items for later.
- Extra Stamina — Gives a tiny bit of stamina buff. Doesn't really upgrade to anything that's super crazy, just other stamina buffs.
- Grit — Not notable on its own. Can eventually upgrade into indomitable for stun immunity (if you upgrade to reactive barrier) or divine barrier for debuff removal and shield (if you upgrade to guradian ward)
- Sprint Boots — Weak movement boost. BUT can upgrade to enduring speed and then juggernaut to give survivability.
- Close Quarters — Makes your gun deal more damage at close range. You want to be at close range to tank for your team and this upgrades as well.
- Extended Magazine — Mostly extra max ammo. Can upgrade into better items later.
- Headshot Booster — REQUIRES HEADSHOTS. Damage buff when hitting headshots. Upgrades also require headshots to do anything huge.
- High-Velocity Rounds — Makes your bullets move faster so that you can hit shots easier and not much else. Has good gun upgrades though.
- Monster Rounds — Kind of useless because you specifically probably don't need huge damage against NPCS especially if you can get better items instead for general damage. Also only effects gun.
- Rapid Rounds — Increases your fire rate a bit, nothing huge though. Upgrades into better fire rate increases.
- Titanic Magazine — Like extended magazine, this one is also mostly just max ammo. Not super useful unless you have way too much fire rate.
- Swift Striker — This is an alright fire rate increase but doesn't do much else and is relatively weak compared to others. Upgade rapid to burst fire instead if you can.
- Slowing Bullets — Your bullets applie a slow to enemies. Fairly simple a decent. Upgrades into weighted shots which is even better. Mostly for gun though, COULD potentially help your teammates kill fast people.
- Long Range — You should NOT bother with this because it requires being long range. You should NOT be that far from the enemies unless your entire team needs to retreat.
- Intensifying Magazine — Could be fine, makes you do more damage if you hold down your fire button. But other characters use it way better.
- Weakening Headshot — REQUIRES HEADSHOTS to reduce bullet resistance. Upgrade also requires headshots.
- Spirit Shredder — Fine if your team has lots of spirit, upgrades to better version too. Your bullets will decrease spirit resist and give your entire team spirit lifesteal against that target.
- Battle Vest — Can be fine, not anything super insane later. Just some small gun damage and fire rate while you're at high health.
- Trophy Collector — ONLY get if early into match. Assists will give you ability range and move speed. It's fine but not incredible.
- Melee Charge — Only good for melee.
- Weapon Shielding — Not worth it because it's only good against weak damage. It's a small shield when you take gun damage.
- Spirit Shielding — Not worth it because it's only good against weak damage. Small shield when you take spirit damage.
9
DONT PICK
56,800 Souls
All item notes
- Glass Cannon — This isn't amazing for you because it reduces your health quite a bit. The damage CAN be nice but this really isn't an item for tanks.
- Restorative Shot — Only good really early and if enemies are dealing barely any damage. The flat healing is not enough to justify in street brawl.
- Cultist Sacrifice — This is mostly used in standard mode matches for farming and stuff, I feel like it's too niche for street brawl items.
- Blood Tribute — This can give good buffs to gun builds but it drains your health so you probably don't want it on a tank.
- Sharpshooter — This is a similar issue to long range where it wants you to be far away and you SHOULD be close to enemies to tank hits for your team.
- Ethereal Shift — If you activate this you become invincible for 4 seconds BUT enemies will probably just ignore you and kill your team. Because you're the tank.
- Melee Lifesteal — Not worth it unless you want to invest fully into melee.
- Fury Trance — You CAN realistically buy this on your gun builds if you want fire rate and spirit resist. BUT IT DISABLES YOUR ABILITIES WHILE ACTIVE AND PREVENTS STAMINA. NOT amazing for you.
- Mystic Shot — Too weak to be useful in street brawl, doesn't upgrade.
- Veil Walker — You really don't need this in street brawl at all.
- Shadow Weave — Don't really need in street brawl.
- Hunter's Aura — Way worse item in street brawl because there's barely ever going to be only one person that wants to stay close.
- Stalker — Niche close range item that is better on assassin characters and isn't super good in street brawl anyways.
- Vortex Web — Typically for you this would be just a way worse version of slowing hex because you don't have abilities to make use of it.
- Magic Carpet — Is this even in street brawl??????
- Golden Goose Egg — Is this even in street brawl??????
- Healing Rite — Niche early game healing item, you probably don't want this in street brawl generally.
- Rebuttal — This item can be good, BUT it requires you to be good at parrying melees from the enemy.
- Restorative Locket — Not very good in street brawl since you are constantly taking damage. Builds up stacks over time that can be activated to heal you per stack.