Arctic Blast, spirit item

Spirit item · tier 4 · 6,400 souls · active

Arctic Blast stats, win rate and best heroes

Release an expanding ice blast that deals spirit damage, Freezing and then Slowing targets it hits. Slowed targets have their stamina regen frozen

Cgrade

Win rate

52.8%

40 of 44 at tier 4

Against its tier

−2.0

points; tier avg 54.8%

Bought by

3.3%

of players

Bought at

~30:04

average

Cost

6,400

souls

Bought in

543.3k

player games, 7 days

The read on Arctic Blast

Arctic Blast is a tier 4 spirit item costing 6,400 souls. About 1 player in 30 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 52.8% of those games: 40th of 44 tier 4 items, where the average is 54.8%.

It's usually bought around 30 minutes. Players who bought it before 23 minutes won 55.0%; those who bought it from 36 minutes on won 51.3%.

Calico (75% of games), Mo & Krill (31% of games) and Pocket (19% of games) buy it most often.

It builds from Cold Front.

What Arctic Blast does

Stats

Spirit Resist
+10%

Active

Release an expanding ice blast that deals spirit damage, Freezing and then Slowing targets it hits.

Slowed targets have their stamina regen frozen

Damage
175
Freeze Duration
1s
End Radius
16m
Cooldown
24s

From the game's own tooltip, as of 5 Nov.

Win rate by the minute it's bought

45%50%55%60%12m17m22m27m32m37m42m47m52m57m

Each point is every player who bought Arctic Blast in that minute of the game. Earlier buyers usually win more: getting a big item early means a player is already ahead, so read this as when it's bought, not what it does.

Heroes who buy Arctic Blast

HeroBuys it inWonBought atBuilds
Calico75% of games51.3%~23:36Calico build →
Mo & Krill31% of games54.1%~31:31Mo & Krill build →
Pocket19% of games51.5%~34:41Pocket build →
Drifter10% of games55.5%~32:12Drifter build →
Shiv7% of games51.1%~33:26Shiv build →
Lash7% of games55.3%~35:29Lash build →
Apollo4% of games53.3%~36:02Apollo build →
Yamato4% of games52.8%~34:40Yamato build →
Silver3% of games52.0%~32:53Silver build →
Ivy3% of games57.0%~24:50Ivy build →

The heroes whose players buy Arctic Blast most often, with the win rate in those games.

Builds from

Arctic Blast in the patch notes

Every patch →
  1. 22 May 20265 changes

    • Slowed targets now have their stamina regen frozen for the 4s slow duration
    • Radius increased from 12m to 16m
    • Damage height increased from 5m to 7m
    • No longer does 15% damage amp
    • Immobilize increased from 0.75s to 1s
  2. 30 April 20261 change

    • Damage Height increased from 3.5m to 5m

Valve's notes from their posts on Steam, newest first.

Standard ranked and unranked matches from 29 Oct to 5 Nov, via deadlock-api. Updated 5 Nov.