How to Put a Port Build Together

When you queue Vanessa with a Port build in mind, your starting build can be pretty flexible. The most important thing is looking to get ahead early. This will make it easier to pivot once you can track down your Port.

If you’re lucky, the Shovel can be a great starting item in order to have more chances at cross-Hero items.

Shovel

The entire premise of this build solely relies on finding Port as soon as possible. The sooner you get it, the more opportunities you have for it to generate items at the start of each day. A lot of these can be duds, so you’ll want as many chances as possible to hopefully acquire better loot.

Additionally, the sooner you find a Port, the faster you can upgrade it. Upgrading your Port is super important because it changes the rarity of the items you receive. Considering many of its items come from a different Hero, you’ll ideally want them created at Gold or Diamond tier. It’s much more difficult to upgrade cross-Hero items.

Port

Do your best to try and track it down as early as possible. This will typically be on Day Two or later since Silver tier items aren’t very common on Day One.

Pol, the Large item vendor, definitely has the best odds, but you can also find it as an Aquatic item from Nautica.

Pol

Nautica

The other most effective way to acquire Potions (or other unique Ammo items) is from PvE encounters. Trash Golem and Hulking Experiment are two solid fights that offer multiple potential drops. But of course, there are many others.

Check out our PvE Encounters guide for more details.

Trash Golem

Hulking Experiment

Aside from Port, Harpoon is the only other Vanessa item of this build. Thankfully, since it’s a Medium and Aquatic item, it’s pretty easy to find!

What’s normally a one-time destroy on a long Cooldown becomes a multi-item destroy at Charge speed. Port expands, reloads, and Charges the Harpoon repeatedly.

Harpoon can absolutely decimate certain builds that rely on key Small items, often turning what would be a ridiculous build into something completely worthless.

Kripp managed to find a Radiant enchant for his Harpoon, making its destruction inevitable and unstoppable. Though this isn’t required to make the item worth using.

Harpoon

Frost Potion is one of, if not the best, Ammo item that the Port can generate. Freeze is the most powerful disruption in the game, and Frost Potion’s four item Freeze is absolutely nuts! 

Combined with Port you can essentially lockdown your opponent’s entire board at all times, aside from anything that has a Radiant enchant. At that point, how you decide to kill them is entirely up to you.

Frost Potion

Energy Potion keeps the build running at optimal speeds, all the time. Permanent Haste is incredibly strong, especially when it’s applied to ALL your items!

Energy Potion

Battery goes one step further than Haste by Charging the Port, which in turn, Charges all your other items!

If that’s not crazy enough already, Kripp happened to find a second Battery, making sparks fly as his items repeatedly Charge again and again!

Battery

The icing on the cake of Kripp’s Port build is actually not an Ammo item itself. It’s the Matchbox he found with his Shovel.

While Matchbox leaves a lot to be desired with Pygmalien, it is absolutely busted with an arsenal of Potions!

This became the damage source of Kripp’s build, allowing everything else to be the perfect utility and disruption.

And if all of this isn’t crazy enough already, Kripp found an Icy enchant for the Matchbox, turning every single item cast into a Freeze!

Matchbox

It’s unlikely to be able to assemble all of this together, but due to the flexible nature of Potions, there are a lot of damage options available at your disposal. Rainbow Potion is a great alternative damage source, among many others.

Rainbow Potion

Something worth keeping in mind at the beginning, for your starting skill, Burn or Poison buffs are a great choice. They offer a nice boost to other early items, and can also be utilized with the Potions you find later on. Just make sure whatever you choose works with Small items.

As for what Kripp had, there are two skills that helped the most.

Oceanic Rush helps kickstart the build in order to start its disruption. This is very important for a build that otherwise lacks any other defensive capabilities. Get your Freeze online ASAP!

Oceanic Rush

Flanking Fire allowed the Port to give the Matchbox a nice extra 7 Burn for the fight.

Flanking Fire