Vitality item · tier 4 · 6,400 souls · passive
Cheat Death stats, win rate and best heroes
The read on Cheat Death
Cheat Death is a tier 4 vitality item costing 6,400 souls. About 1 player in 53 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 54.9%.
It's usually bought around 37 minutes. Players who bought it before 29 minutes won 55.5%; those who bought it from 43 minutes on won 51.8%.
The Doorman (33% of games), Pocket (9% of games) and Wraith (7% of games) buy it most often.
What Cheat Death does
Stats
- Bonus Health
- +200
- Bullet Resist
- +15%
Passive
When you would take lethal damage, instead become temporarily death immune and remove all non-stun debuffs.
While death immune, you deal reduced damage and have reduced healing.
- Death Immunity Duration
- 4.5s
- Cooldown
- 90s
- Damage Reduction
- -60%
- Incoming Healing
- -60%
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 Cheat Death 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 Cheat Death
| Hero | Buys it in | Won | Bought at | Builds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Doorman | 33% of games | 51.2% | ~30:21 | The Doorman build → |
 Pocket | 9% of games | 57.3% | ~39:18 | Pocket build → |
 Wraith | 7% of games | 61.1% | ~35:29 | Wraith build → |
 Dynamo | 5% of games | 57.6% | ~38:08 | Dynamo build → |
 Rem | 5% of games | 54.9% | ~34:14 | Rem build → |
 Mirage | 4% of games | 45.9% | ~31:06 | Mirage build → |
 Mina | 4% of games | 56.8% | ~40:14 | Mina build → |
 Viscous | 3% of games | 52.5% | ~36:26 | Viscous build → |
 Sinclair | 3% of games | 53.8% | ~39:25 | Sinclair build → |
 Lady Geist | 3% of games | 57.5% | ~37:59 | Lady Geist build → |
The heroes whose players buy Cheat Death most often, with the win rate in those games.
Cheat Death in the patch notes
Every patch →6 March 20261 change
- No longer reduces movement speed by -2m during the death immunity phase
21 November 20251 change
- Removes all non-stun debuffs on proc
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.