Vitality item · tier 1 · 800 souls · passive

Melee Lifesteal stats, win rate and best heroes

Your next Melee attack heals you. This heal is 30% effective vs non-heroes. Cooldown is 1.5x as long for Light Melee hits.

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Win rate

49.4%

14 of 23 at tier 1

Against its tier

−0.6

points; tier avg 49.9%

Bought by

16.4%

of players

Bought at

~4:22

average

Cost

800

souls

Bought in

2.7M

player games, 7 days

The read on Melee Lifesteal

Melee Lifesteal is a tier 1 vitality item costing 800 souls. About 1 player in 6 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 49.4% of those games: 14th of 23 tier 1 items, where the average is 49.9%.

It's usually bought around 4 minutes. Players who bought it before 1 minute won 52.5%; those who bought it from 6 minutes on won 47.8%.

Calico (97% of games), Billy (95% of games) and Silver (89% of games) buy it most often.

It upgrades into Lifestrike.

What Melee Lifesteal does

Stats

Melee Damage: +12%

Passive

Your next Melee attack heals you.

This heal is 30% effective vs non-heroes.

Cooldown is 1.5x as long for Light Melee hits.

Heal on Melee Hit: 100
Cooldown: 8s

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 Melee Lifesteal 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 Melee Lifesteal

Hero	Buys it in	Won	Bought at	Builds
Calico	97% of games	48.6%	~2:02	Calico build →
Billy	95% of games	49.3%	~3:32	Billy build →
Silver	89% of games	46.5%	~4:20	Silver build →
Abrams	85% of games	52.8%	~5:15	Abrams build →
Yamato	79% of games	47.6%	~4:12	Yamato build →
Drifter	76% of games	50.9%	~2:39	Drifter build →
Apollo	41% of games	49.3%	~6:27	Apollo build →
Viscous	39% of games	48.4%	~5:50	Viscous build →
Baba	12% of games	54.2%	~7:37	Baba build →
Bebop	11% of games	49.7%	~9:39	Bebop build →