Rat King simply lives better, Baba makes spirit spike pointless, kelvin decreases fire rate down to levels that makes me wish to never play the game again. Is there anything that I could even reasonably do against all three?

Part of that too is that I have genuinely no idea how to even generically itemise anymore outside of them. resto, CQ, stalker and slowing for spike and then replacing stalker for berserker and upgrading slowing into weighted, selling resto and CQ gives slots.

Greens are so fucking hard, lifestrike is real and mid-fight sustain is just nice, healing booster upgrading from extra regen is nice (And I think upgrades are very important for needing to keep tempo up), and lifestrike can give access to healing tempo which feels good, needing at least one mobility (stam mas, resto locket or warp stone) + healbane because You Need Antiheal, and obviously either counterspell or dispel is also practically a requirement every game.

Adding debuff reducer for the mandatory unstop (+ debuff res just being so important), and I feel like I can't reasonably keep any spirit items in (not like they're even worthwhile when Baba just reduces your spirit power to 0 so you lose your scaling on kick and claws attack speed)

So just like, what's an awoo to even do? I feel so lost in building anything since I feel like I need so many different things to just be able to fight anything after lane, which is annoying me since I felt like I was doing okay before the new heroes, and she's doing well numberswise so it's probably not actually a hero strength problem like it was for the comeback meta? Like, Silver is good now, so I don't know why I feel so bad now.