Ballistic Enchantment, weapon item

Weapon item · tier 3 · 3,200 souls · passive

Ballistic Enchantment stats, win rate and best heroes

Imbue an ability with increased range. Dealing damage with that ability grants you increased weapon damage per unique hero hit. Has reduced effect on non-heroes.

Agrade

Win rate

52.5%

5 of 46 at tier 3

Against its tier

+1.8

points; tier avg 50.6%

Bought by

5.3%

of players

Bought at

~22:18

average

Cost

3,200

souls

Bought in

866.1k

player games, 7 days

The read on Ballistic Enchantment

Ballistic Enchantment is a tier 3 weapon item costing 3,200 souls. About 1 player in 19 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 52.5% of those games: 5th of 46 tier 3 items, where the average is 50.6%.

It's usually bought around 22 minutes. Players who bought it before 17 minutes won 57.2%; those who bought it from 26 minutes on won 48.0%.

Rat King (70% of games), Venator (23% of games) and Viscous (17% of games) buy it most often.

It builds from Mystic Expansion.

What Ballistic Enchantment does

Stats

Radius
+22%

Passive

Imbue an ability with increased range. Dealing damage with that ability grants you increased weapon damage per unique hero hit. Has reduced effect on non-heroes.

Weapon Damage per Stack
+20%
Ability Range
+22%
Duration
20s
Non-Hero Weapon Damage
+5%
Non-Hero Stack Limit
8

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

Win rate by the minute it's bought

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Each point is every player who bought Ballistic Enchantment 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 Ballistic Enchantment

HeroBuys it inWonBought atBuilds
Rat King70% of games55.5%~20:35Rat King build →
Venator23% of games47.5%~24:57Venator build →
Viscous17% of games50.3%~23:56Viscous build →
Seven12% of games54.5%~20:49Seven build →
Rem10% of games46.9%~24:52Rem build →
The Doorman9% of games46.9%~25:25The Doorman build →
Lady Geist7% of games49.1%~23:22Lady Geist build →
Holliday4% of games47.5%~22:35Holliday build →
Paradox3% of games48.4%~24:38Paradox build →
Deadman Danny3% of games51.9%~23:53Deadman Danny build →

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

Builds from

Ballistic Enchantment in the patch notes

Every patch →
  1. 16 September 20261 change

    • Duration increased from 14s to 20s
  2. 6 March 20264 changes

    • Weapon damage per stack increased from 18% to 20%
    • Range reduced from 30% to 25%
    • Non-hero weapon damage increased from 4% to 5%
    • Ability Range reduced from 25% to 20%

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.