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Notes on Itembuild changes, methodology, and product development.

This category explains how Itembuild works from the inside.

The build suggestions here are not hand-written lists per hero. An engine scores them: it reads your hero, the enemy composition, and your team roles, then rates every item. These notes open up that scoring.

Why open it up? Because a recommendation you cannot check is not one you should trust. Once you know why the engine raises a penetration item when the enemy has two tanky heroes, you can judge for yourself when the advice fits and when it does not.

Two kinds of notes end up here. Methodology notes take one part of the scoring apart in depth: how counter relationships between heroes are weighted, why buy order matters as much as the item list itself, and what changes when you mark an enemy as far ahead.

The second kind is change notes: what moved, and when. So if a recommendation looks different from last week, there is a date and a reason attached rather than a silent shift.

All of it gets written after the change ships, never before. Nothing here is a roadmap or a promise. If a note says the engine now does something, it already does.

Worth stating plainly: this engine does not copy build lists from anywhere else. It reads hero attributes, item properties, and counter relationships, then scores every item against the specific match you describe. That is why two players on the same hero can end up with different builds.

If you just want to use the tool, the How to Use page is the better starting point.