Double Barrel

Early damage, a hard ceiling

Medium weapon, damage 35 / 70 / 140 / 280, ammo 2, multicast 2, cooldown 4 seconds. Cost starts at 4 gold and doubles up the ladder to 32. Ten sellers include Colt, which is the on-the-nose weapon shop, plus Aila, Barkun, Valpak, and Silvia. Hellbilly is the listed drop. Karnok's Hunting Rifle is the other ammo gun in this guide and it scales by Enrage, not by this multicast. Do not import rifle advice onto this card.

Crow's Nest plus a single Double Barrel is the one-weapon crit plan: the nest's lifesteal clause turns on only while the barrel is your only weapon. Add Anchor and you lose that clause, gaining a health-percent hit instead. That trade is the Vanessa decision, and I am not calling one side correct for patch 20.1 because I do not have a fresh 10-win sample. The barrel's own history includes 20.0 among other versions. The 20.1 hotfix text does not name it, so I will not describe a November damage change.

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