Wraith is a farm-hungry hypercarry duelist: she blinks onto an isolated target with Project Mind, shreds it 1v1 with Full Auto plus a stack of Card Trick cards, and leaves before the enemy team can collapse on her. She's a weapon-carry core with a heavy spirit splash — her gun builds the cards, but the thrown cards and Full Auto's bonus damage scale with Spirit, so hybrid out-damages pure-gun right now. Mechanically she's dead simple (point, shoot, blink), but she's the squishiest archetype at 730 HP, so the whole skill is target selection, positioning and patience. Pick her if you like out-farming the lobby and deleting one carry per fight.
Early game
Laning is Wraith's weakest window — she's fragile, so lane to farm, not to brawl. Last-hit with the SMG, throw the occasional Card Trick to secure denies and poke, and keep Healing Rite up to stay healthy. One early point in Card Trick (with Extra Charge for a third card) gives real lane pressure, and her true lane spike is Card Trick 2AP plus Quicksilver Reload. Respect the sustained lane bullies — Billy, McGinnis and Venator out-trade you face to face, so versus them play abilities-over-trades and hug your Guardian. First buys are sustain and a touch of damage, not greed: Monster Rounds smooths last-hitting and jungle camps, Mystic Burst rides every Card Trick bullet, and Restorative Shot (buffed this patch) wins the small trades you can't avoid. The −10 base-HP cut this patch makes an early Extra Health more valuable than it used to be.
Mid game
This is Wraith's scaling window — farm sidelanes and jungle hard to hit your item spikes, then teleport into objective fights once you have a damage lead. Ricochet is the mid-game pivot: every bounced bullet feeds Card Trick, so it's both an explosive farm tool and a fight spike. With the Urn reworked into a king-of-the-hill capture and split-push viable again, you get the farm time you need before committing. In skirmishes, use Project Mind (now with its ~300 spirit-scaled bullet shield) to blink onto an overextended squishy, Full Auto them down, and blink or sprint out. Hold Telekinesis for the enemy carry — don't waste it clearing a wave or lifting a tank. Pair Quicksilver Reload with a low-cooldown ability so casting it reloads your 52-round clip and Full Auto never stops mid-duel.
Late game
Late, Wraith is a full hypercarry turret. Ricochet plus Spellslinger means you spam fat cards while you shoot, max-stack Full Auto keeps you from ever running dry, and the sustained DPS is absurd. Your fight role is simple but disciplined: sit at the edge of the fight with Full Auto on, blink to a flank, and ult the single most dangerous target to remove it from the equation. You're a damage dealer, not an initiator — you still fold instantly to focus fire, so you need a frontline to peel and you must position before you commit. Leech keeps your DPS topping you off, and Cheat Death or Unstoppable is your insurance against the burst that deletes squishy carries.
Combos & tricks
Shoot-to-build, then throw: Card Trick summons cards from weapon damage, so hold Full Auto and dump the clip to stack cards fast, then alt-cast the first card for its suit effect (slow, heal, etc.) — Ricochet supercharges this since bounce bullets count toward generation. Blink-shield assassinate: Project Mind (lvl 2) onto a backliner arrives with a ~300 spirit-scaled bullet shield, which is exactly what makes the engage survivable — Full Auto the squishy, then blink out. Ult to delete the carry: Telekinesis is single-target lockdown, so lift the enemy hypercarry, juggle them with Full Auto plus cards in the air, then slam them into your team to finish or away from theirs to peel — pair with Decay so they can't escape on landing. Spirit-on-gun: imbue Surge of Power onto Full Auto so every bullet applies spirit, turning you into a hybrid shredder that ignores pure bullet-armor stacking. Tesla plus Ricochet lets you clear a contested wave AND mass-generate cards, so you walk out of it already loaded for the engage.
Project Mind
Full Auto
Telekinesis
