
Vitality item · tier 2 · 1,600 souls · passive
Battle Vest stats, win rate and best heroes
While you are above 65% health, gain weapon damage and bonus fire rate.
The read on Battle Vest
Battle Vest is a tier 2 vitality item costing 1,600 souls. About 1 player in 10 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 48.8% of those games: 38th of 43 tier 2 items, where the average is 50.5%.
It's usually bought around 13 minutes. Players who bought it before 8 minutes won 51.3%; those who bought it from 15 minutes on won 45.2%.
Venator (69% of games), Warden (37% of games) and Shiv (35% of games) buy it most often.
What Battle Vest does
Stats
- Out of Combat Regen
- +3
- Bullet Resist
- +18%
Passive
While you are above 65% health, gain weapon damage and bonus fire rate.
- Weapon Damage
- +22%
- Fire Rate
- +7%
From the game's own tooltip, as of 4 Nov.
Win rate by the minute it's bought
Each point is every player who bought Battle Vest 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 Battle Vest
| Hero | Buys it in | Won | Bought at | Builds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 69% of games | 47.1% | ~11:40 | Venator build → | |
| 37% of games | 50.7% | ~10:54 | Warden build → | |
| 35% of games | 43.8% | ~11:00 | Shiv build → | |
| 31% of games | 49.5% | ~13:48 | Billy build → | |
| 27% of games | 54.2% | ~12:38 | Rat King build → | |
| 27% of games | 43.4% | ~9:07 | Pocket build → | |
| 24% of games | 47.1% | ~13:02 | Paradox build → | |
| 19% of games | 52.9% | ~13:45 | Abrams build → | |
| 19% of games | 54.4% | ~12:57 | Haze build → | |
| 14% of games | 44.3% | ~14:33 | Silver build → |
The heroes whose players buy Battle Vest most often, with the win rate in those games.
Battle Vest in the patch notes
Every patch →30 October 20261 change
- Weapon Damage increased from 18% to 22%
22 May 20261 change
- Weapon Damage increased from 15% to 18%
Valve's notes from their posts on Steam, newest first.
Standard ranked and unranked matches from 28 Oct to 4 Nov, via deadlock-api. Updated 4 Nov.