Armor Piercer, weapon item

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.

Bgrade

Win rate

55.5%

21 of 44 at tier 4

Against its tier

+0.7

points; tier avg 54.8%

Bought by

1.5%

of players

Bought at

~37:19

average

Cost

6,400

souls

Bought in

238.0k

player games, 7 days

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

45%50%55%60%17m22m27m32m37m42m47m52m57m62m

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

HeroBuys it inWonBought atBuilds
Haze11% of games60.0%~36:33Haze build →
Venator7% of games51.5%~36:14Venator build →
Vyper5% of games54.9%~37:00Vyper build →
Warden5% of games56.9%~37:13Warden build →
Vindicta5% of games54.2%~37:54Vindicta build →
Rat King3% of games55.6%~37:26Rat King build →
Wraith3% of games54.6%~38:25Wraith build →
Holliday3% of games52.8%~37:56Holliday build →
Ivy2% of games52.7%~37:48Ivy build →
McGinnis1% of games48.2%~36:56McGinnis 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 →
  1. 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.