Cultist Sacrifice, weapon item

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

Cultist Sacrifice stats, win rate and best heroes

Target an enemy NPC and consume it for 170% Bonus Souls and grants a powerful long lasting buff.

Cgrade

Win rate

49.6%

29 of 46 at tier 3

Against its tier

−1.0

points; tier avg 50.6%

Bought by

8.5%

of players

Bought at

~12:37

average

Cost

3,200

souls

Bought in

1.4M

player games, 7 days

The read on Cultist Sacrifice

Cultist Sacrifice is a tier 3 weapon item costing 3,200 souls. About 1 player in 12 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 49.6% of those games: 29th of 46 tier 3 items, where the average is 50.6%.

It's usually bought around 13 minutes. Players who bought it before 9 minutes won 53.4%; those who bought it from 14 minutes on won 46.3%.

Pocket (68% of games), Seven (51% of games) and Rat King (45% of games) buy it most often.

It builds from Monster Rounds.

What Cultist Sacrifice does

Stats

Out of Combat Regen
+2
Weapon Damage vs. NPCs
+30%
Bullet Resist vs. NPCs
+30%

Active

Target an enemy NPC and consume it for 170% Bonus Souls and grants a powerful long lasting buff.

Weapon Damage
+10%
Bonus Health
+50
Ability Range
+12%
Cooldown
270s
Duration
160s

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

Win rate by the minute it's bought

40%45%50%55%8m13m18m23m28m33m38m43m48m

Each point is every player who bought Cultist Sacrifice 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 Cultist Sacrifice

HeroBuys it inWonBought atBuilds
Pocket68% of games44.0%~11:26Pocket build →
Seven51% of games55.1%~12:23Seven build →
Rat King45% of games54.2%~12:34Rat King build →
Venator41% of games46.7%~10:50Venator build →
Billy39% of games48.8%~12:52Billy build →
Lady Geist10% of games46.5%~13:45Lady Geist build →
Warden9% of games47.7%~14:38Warden build →
Wraith7% of games47.7%~15:49Wraith build →
Paradox6% of games45.4%~13:19Paradox build →
Victor5% of games53.3%~11:34Victor build →

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

Builds from

Cultist Sacrifice in the patch notes

Every patch →
  1. 16 September 20261 change

    • Bounty reduced from 180% to 170%
  2. 22 May 20263 changes

    • Weapon Damage increased from 8% to 10%
    • Weapon Damage boon scaling increased from 0.7 to 0.8
    • Bonus Souls increased from 170% to 180%
  3. 6 March 20261 change

    • Ability Range reduced from +15% to +12%
  4. 21 November 20251 change

    • Now provides Weapon Damage instead of Fire Rate

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.