
Weapon item · tier 4 · 6,400 souls · passive
Armor Piercer stats, win rate and best heroes
Your Bullets have a chance to become unavoidable, piercing through enemies and ignoring their Bullet Resistance.
The read on Armor Piercer
Armor Piercer is a tier 4 weapon item costing 6,400 souls. About 1 player in 69 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 55.5% of those games: 21st of 44 tier 4 items, where the average is 54.8%.
It's usually bought around 37 minutes. Players who bought it before 31 minutes won 57.5%; those who bought it from 43 minutes on won 50.9%.
Haze (11% of games), Venator (7% of games) and Vyper (5% of games) buy it most often.
It builds from High-Velocity Rounds.
What Armor Piercer does
Stats
- Bullet Velocity
- +60%
- Weapon Damage
- +8%
Stats
Your Bullets have a chance to become unavoidable, piercing through enemies and ignoring their Bullet Resistance.
- Proc Chance
- 60%
From the game's own tooltip, as of 5 Nov.
Win rate by the minute it's bought
Each point is every player who bought Armor Piercer 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 Armor Piercer
| Hero | Buys it in | Won | Bought at | Builds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11% of games | 60.0% | ~36:33 | Haze build → | |
| 7% of games | 51.5% | ~36:14 | Venator build → | |
| 5% of games | 54.9% | ~37:00 | Vyper build → | |
| 5% of games | 56.9% | ~37:13 | Warden build → | |
| 5% of games | 54.2% | ~37:54 | Vindicta build → | |
| 3% of games | 55.6% | ~37:26 | Rat King build → | |
| 3% of games | 54.6% | ~38:25 | Wraith build → | |
| 3% of games | 52.8% | ~37:56 | Holliday build → | |
| 2% of games | 52.7% | ~37:48 | Ivy build → | |
| 1% of games | 48.2% | ~36:56 | McGinnis build → |
The heroes whose players buy Armor Piercer most often, with the win rate in those games.
Armor Piercer in the patch notes
Every patch →30 October 20261 change
- Chance increased from 55% to 60%
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.