Vitality item · tier 3 · 3,200 souls · passive
Counterspell stats, win rate and best heroes
Your next parry protects you from the damage and effects of enemy abilities and items. On a successful spell parry heal and gain move speed and Spirit.
The read on Counterspell
Counterspell is a tier 3 vitality item costing 3,200 souls. About 1 player in 19 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 48.5% of those games: 39th of 46 tier 3 items, where the average is 50.7%.
It's usually bought around 26 minutes. Players who bought it before 19 minutes won 52.1%; those who bought it from 31 minutes on won 45.4%.
Vindicta (42% of games), Shiv (15% of games) and Grey Talon (11% of games) buy it most often.
What Counterspell does
Stats
- Bonus Health
- +50
- Spirit Power
- +5
Passive
Your next parry protects you from the damage and effects of enemy abilities and items. On a successful spell parry heal and gain move speed and Spirit.
- Healing
- 150
- Spirit Power
- 20
- Move Speed
- +1.75 m
- Buff Duration
- 6s
- Cooldown
- 23s
- Spell Parry Duration
- 0.8s
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 Counterspell 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 Counterspell
| Hero | Buys it in | Won | Bought at | Builds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Vindicta | 42% of games | 51.3% | ~21:43 | Vindicta build → |
 Shiv | 15% of games | 46.2% | ~24:55 | Shiv build → |
 Grey Talon | 11% of games | 48.6% | ~27:53 | Grey Talon build → |
 Holliday | 10% of games | 47.9% | ~26:24 | Holliday build → |
 Calico | 7% of games | 49.1% | ~25:12 | Calico build → |
 Paradox | 7% of games | 46.0% | ~26:29 | Paradox build → |
 Deadman Danny | 6% of games | 50.9% | ~26:49 | Deadman Danny build → |
 Venator | 6% of games | 44.6% | ~26:27 | Venator build → |
 Apollo | 6% of games | 47.1% | ~28:04 | Apollo build → |
 Sinclair | 5% of games | 44.2% | ~25:34 | Sinclair build → |
The heroes whose players buy Counterspell most often, with the win rate in those games.
Counterspell in the patch notes
Every patch →22 May 20261 change
- Spirit Power reduced from +8 to +5
30 April 20262 changes
- Cooldown increased from 20s to 23s
- Bonus health reduced from +75 to +50
6 March 20261 change
- Bonus Health reduced from 100 to 75
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.