Combustible is Drogoz's default talent, allowing Fire Spit to now knockback and deal an additional 30% of its damage to targets hit over 2s.

Combustible is an excellent talent that grants Drogoz tons of poke, and strong AOE damage. Typically, this is used on maps with tons of cramped areas (Jaguar Falls, Splitstone Quarry, Frog Isle), or maps with changes in height (Ice Mines, Serpent Beach, Frozen Guard) as his spit's knockback (KB) and extra Damage over Time (DoT) can help disorient solo targets, constantly apply pressure to grouped up targets, like the support/front line, and push enemies out of their positions.

Fusillade is Drogoz's Level 2 talent, granting his direct shots to deal an extra 25% damage on hit.

Fusillade rewards players who know how shoot well with Drogoz. It allows him to focus on dealing huge damage on squishies, finishing off damaged enemies, and long ranged poke. It is typically played on maps with more separated flank routes (Brightmarsh, Stone Keep), and long maps (Ice Mines, Frozen Guard)

WYRM Jets is Drogoz's Level 8 talent, giving his boosters, empowered flight qualities.

WYRM Jets gives Drogoz significantly increased mobility in air, allowing him to reach much more higher sections of map with ease. In addition, the added mobility allows Drogoz to maneuver around his counters, regroup with his team, easily sneak to apply pressure on their backline, or dodge stray fire. It is typically played on maps with huge skyboxes (Frog Isle, Jaguar Falls, Warder's Gate), and maps with a combination of changes in height and a huge skybox (Stone Keep, Serpent Beach).

Defense Items are generally items to keep your survivability higher, not exactly high value, but is still worth taking in certain scenarios. In terms of Defense Items, Haven is your biggest priority if you buy a Blue Item. Drogoz's midair velocity is not fast (even with loadout/talents, which I will get to), Since most of the damage taken will tend to be direct, Haven has the greatest value. Resilience is another value pick if their team has significant Crowd Control (CC), as Resilience counters Drogoz significantly in terms of his mobility, giving him less of a way to escape danger. Blast Shields is rare item, but is perfect when their team has significant AOE or they have a Lian. Lastly, Illuminate is not so much of a useful pick unless you have to track down either Sha Lin, Skye, or Strix.

Utility Items are strong value picks for Drogoz, granting him much more increased attributes. In terms of Utility Items, Drogoz gain the most value with all but 1 of these items. The 3 Utility Items are Morale Boost, Nimble, and Master Riding. Morale Boost grants Drogoz increased access to his ult, allowing him to further pick main targets off the map, or give him more mobility to gain distance or more desirable positions. Nimble allows him to boost his midair velocity, in addition to his ground speed, allowing him to maneuver around the map more easily. Master Riding allows Drogoz to play more aggressively, poking enemies in desirable positions that he can ride to with his mount, or plan a specific ambush onto certain characters. Chronos is the odd one out, as cycling through Drogoz's Cooldowns is not difficult, as he has many Cooldown reduction (CD) cards, which makes his kit more versatile, and makes it easier to cycle through.

Healing Items are generally a fairly non-value option on Drogoz, especially as in general, he has to use his slots to build items for Offense, Utility, and occasionally the odd Defense. But also in addition, due to how potent Cauterize (Anti-Heal) is in the game, most Drogoz players won't have use for half of the healing items. For Drogoz, the most value you can get with a Green Item is Rejuvenate, allowing Drogoz to come back to a support, and get back to full health. Kill to Heal is useful for the odd casual match of 5 DPS, due to fact that most likely you'll be getting eliminations while off Cauterize. The last two, Life Rip and Veteran, are really unremarkable choice buys, as they don't give huge benefits to Drogoz's high burst and generalist playstyle.

Offense Items are a high value choice for Drogoz, giving his burst damage more usefulness. The two most obvious choices are Cauterize and Wrecker, in most situations, you will be forced to weigh each one over the other, as Wrecker synergizes well with all of Drogoz's abilities, while Cauterize is a strong all-round pick for most matchups. However if you're facing with shield survivant enemies such as Torvald, Fernando, and Ruckus, often grabbing Wrecker is a safe option. Bulldozer is a situational pick, mostly dependent of enemy comp, whether fighting against a combo of Barik, Ying, Grohk, and Imani. Deft Hands is not really useful, as you have the card "Hot Swap" to fill for increased reload speed, and the fact that Drogoz has much more value with Utility or Defense cards.

Personally, I feel as if Propel is such required card that it needs to be talked about alone. Drogoz's thrust is such a limiting dash of mobility, only offering vertical movement. However, when you add Propel at Level 3-5, he gains so much more additional mobility. This extra dash of mobility allows Drogoz to gain much more speed in air, giving him the upper hand in movement, allowing him to gain more aggressive forward positions, and juke enemies in short bursts.

In addition, in Patch 2.05, Propel became even more of a require card in all Drogoz builds. Thrust had a buff where adding forwards distance with a card, added significantly more momentum to thrust.

These 4 cards tend to be the main backbone of most Drogoz Builds, as they offer high value due their active CDR.

Thrill of the Hunt gives you high CDR on your Thrust on Elimination, which is a fairly common thing due to your high burst damage.

Masterful grants a CDR based on how many players are hit with a detonated Fire Spit, however it does have an internal CD of 5s.

Spitfire at Level 4 allows you to reduce Salvo's CD to 15s, as long as you hit your targets.

Condescension is primarily a backup main card to Thrill of the Hunt or Masterful, as it directly reduces the active CD of Thrust provided you hit a target with Fire Spit.

After the main cards, these remaining cards are fairly useful to use have as filler cards in the build. Most of these filler cards can actually be very useful if they had more points allocated, but the main cards and Propel keep points restricted for it.

Altitude gains you back booster fuel on Elimination, staying airborne more often.

Rain of Fire allows you to not utilize too much fuel to keep afloat mid-air after using Thrust.

Fuel Tank gives you more Fuel capacity for your boosters which is fairly useful in tandem with Rain of Fire.

Hyper Boost allows you to use Salvo as a way to keep having additional fuel in the booster, without relying on Eliminations.

Follow The Scent, while not as good as it was Season 0-1, allows for an easier way to hit your Fire Spit, due to it size increase, making it a pretty noob friendly tool to learn how to detonate Fire Spit.

Bask and Lung Capacity are the healing options for Drogoz for filler cards, but Lung Capacity has the edge due to it's health gain based on per champion hit.

Decimate in 2.05 is a very useful filler card, as on Level 2, it effectively brings back Salvo's original radius, bringing back Fire Spit+Salvo as a damage combo.