Weapon item · tier 1 · 800 souls · passive
High-Velocity Rounds stats, win rate and best heroes
The read on High-Velocity Rounds
High-Velocity Rounds is a tier 1 weapon item costing 800 souls. About 1 player in 4 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 50.2% of those games: 8th of 23 tier 1 items, where the average is 49.9%.
It's usually bought around 5 minutes. Players who bought it before 1 minute won 53.3%; those who bought it from 6 minutes on won 47.5%.
Deadman Danny (93% of games), Vindicta (90% of games) and Celeste (86% of games) buy it most often.
It upgrades into Opening Rounds, Express Shot, Sharpshooter and Armor Piercer.
What High-Velocity Rounds does
Stats
- Weapon Damage
- +8%
- Bullet Velocity
- +45%
From the game's own tooltip, as of 5 Nov.
Win rate by the minute it's bought
Each point is every player who bought High-Velocity Rounds 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 High-Velocity Rounds
| Hero | Buys it in | Won | Bought at | Builds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Deadman Danny | 93% of games | 54.1% | ~2:28 | Deadman Danny build → |
 Vindicta | 90% of games | 49.7% | ~3:14 | Vindicta build → |
 Celeste | 86% of games | 48.4% | ~3:21 | Celeste build → |
 Warden | 84% of games | 50.8% | ~2:20 | Warden build → |
 Rat King | 81% of games | 54.7% | ~3:32 | Rat King build → |
 Paradox | 76% of games | 46.8% | ~4:26 | Paradox build → |
 Paige | 73% of games | 56.0% | ~2:23 | Paige build → |
 Grey Talon | 62% of games | 48.3% | ~5:14 | Grey Talon build → |
 Solomon | 57% of games | 46.0% | ~3:54 | Solomon build → |
 Viscous | 50% of games | 46.5% | ~5:52 | Viscous build → |
The heroes whose players buy High-Velocity Rounds most often, with the win rate in those games.
Upgrades into
High-Velocity Rounds in the patch notes
Every patch →30 October 20261 change
- Bullet Velocity reduced from 60% to 45% (upgrades unaffected)
6 March 20263 changes
- No longer grants +5% Fire Rate
- Now grants +8% Weapon Damage
- Bullet Velocity increased from +50% to +60% (these changes affect upgrades)
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.