Bullet Lifesteal, vitality item

Vitality item · tier 2 · 1,600 souls · passive

Bullet Lifesteal stats, win rate and best heroes

Bgrade

Win rate

50.8%

13 of 43 at tier 2

Against its tier

+0.3

points; tier avg 50.5%

Bought by

12.3%

of players

Bought at

~18:27

average

Cost

1,600

souls

Bought in

2.0M

player games, 7 days

The read on Bullet Lifesteal

Bullet Lifesteal is a tier 2 vitality item costing 1,600 souls. About 1 player in 8 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 50.8% of those games: 13th of 43 tier 2 items, where the average is 50.5%.

It's usually bought around 18 minutes. Players who bought it before 12 minutes won 51.9%; those who bought it from 24 minutes on won 51.3%.

Haze (67% of games), Vyper (57% of games) and Venator (56% of games) buy it most often.

It upgrades into Fury Trance, Leech and Vampiric Burst.

What Bullet Lifesteal does

Stats

Bonus Health
+90
Weapon Damage
+10%
Bullet Lifesteal
+15%

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

Win rate by the minute it's bought

45%50%3m8m13m18m23m28m33m38m43m48m53m

Each point is every player who bought Bullet Lifesteal 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 Bullet Lifesteal

HeroBuys it inWonBought atBuilds
Haze67% of games53.8%~14:16Haze build →
Vyper57% of games47.1%~17:26Vyper build →
Venator56% of games46.9%~16:53Venator build →
Vindicta47% of games51.9%~21:50Vindicta build →
Drifter29% of games52.6%~20:33Drifter build →
Rat King24% of games53.9%~16:34Rat King build →
Warden23% of games49.9%~19:22Warden build →
Wraith19% of games51.5%~21:35Wraith build →
Lady Geist15% of games53.7%~23:38Lady Geist build →
McGinnis14% of games46.5%~17:34McGinnis build →

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

Bullet Lifesteal in the patch notes

Every patch →
  1. 30 October 20262 changes

    • Weapon Damage increased from 6% to 10%
    • Bullet Lifesteal increased from 13% to 15%
  2. 22 May 20261 change

    • Now grants +6% Weapon Damage
  3. 30 April 20261 change

    • Lifesteal reduced from 16% to 13%

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.