
Weapon item · tier 1 · 800 souls · passive
Headshot Booster stats, win rate and best heroes
Your next headshot against an enemy Hero deals bonus weapon damage.
The read on Headshot Booster
Headshot Booster is a tier 1 weapon item costing 800 souls. About 1 player in 14 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 48.4% of those games: 20th of 23 tier 1 items, where the average is 50.0%.
It's usually bought around 4 minutes. Players who bought it before 1 minute won 51.0%; those who bought it from 5 minutes on won 46.8%.
Lash (71% of games), Holliday (69% of games) and Paradox (46% of games) buy it most often.
It upgrades into Headhunter.
What Headshot Booster does
Stats
- Bonus Health
- +30
Passive
Your next headshot against an enemy Hero deals bonus weapon damage.
- Head Shot Bonus Damage
- +45
- Cooldown
- 9s
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 Headshot Booster 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 Headshot Booster
| Hero | Buys it in | Won | Bought at | Builds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71% of games | 50.7% | ~2:52 | Lash build → | |
| 69% of games | 47.5% | ~2:51 | Holliday build → | |
| 46% of games | 45.9% | ~4:26 | Paradox build → | |
| 44% of games | 51.7% | ~4:11 | Dynamo build → | |
| 30% of games | 44.0% | ~4:35 | Mirage build → | |
| 21% of games | 48.3% | ~3:34 | Bebop build → | |
| 15% of games | 52.0% | ~11:34 | Ivy build → | |
| 7% of games | 43.6% | ~5:30 | The Doorman build → | |
| 7% of games | 45.2% | ~4:12 | Viscous build → | |
| 6% of games | 45.0% | ~6:38 | Vindicta build → |
The heroes whose players buy Headshot Booster most often, with the win rate in those games.
Headshot Booster in the patch notes
Every patch →21 November 20251 change
- Cooldown increased from 8 to 9
6 December 20241 change
- Cooldown increased from 7.5s to 8.5s.
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.