Vitality item · tier 3 · 3,200 souls · active
Metal Skin stats, win rate and best heroes
Become immune to bullets.
The read on Metal Skin
Metal Skin is a tier 3 vitality item costing 3,200 souls. About 1 player in 34 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 40.9% of those games: 46th of 46 tier 3 items, where the average is 50.6%.
It's usually bought around 30 minutes. Players who bought it before 23 minutes won 43.9%; those who bought it from 36 minutes on won 39.4%.
Baba (14% of games), Bebop (5% of games) and Shiv (5% of games) buy it most often.
What Metal Skin does
Stats
- Bullet Resist
- +12%
Active
Become immune to bullets.
- Active Movespeed Penalty
- -1.5m
- Gravity Scale
- 20%
- Dash Distance
- -20%
- Duration
- 5s
- Cooldown
- 24s
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 Metal Skin 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 Metal Skin
| Hero | Buys it in | Won | Bought at | Builds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Baba | 14% of games | 52.1% | ~26:42 | Baba build → |
 Bebop | 5% of games | 39.5% | ~30:03 | Bebop build → |
 Shiv | 5% of games | 36.4% | ~29:05 | Shiv build → |
 Billy | 4% of games | 40.5% | ~29:33 | Billy build → |
 Yamato | 4% of games | 40.1% | ~29:28 | Yamato build → |
 Silver | 4% of games | 38.0% | ~29:55 | Silver build → |
 Victor | 4% of games | 44.8% | ~30:19 | Victor build → |
 Warden | 4% of games | 38.3% | ~28:39 | Warden build → |
 Drifter | 4% of games | 40.9% | ~29:57 | Drifter build → |
 Infernus | 4% of games | 40.9% | ~29:55 | Infernus build → |
The heroes whose players buy Metal Skin most often, with the win rate in those games.
Metal Skin in the patch notes
Every patch →30 October 20261 change
- Now increases your gravity by 20% while active
6 March 20261 change
- Bullet Resist reduced from 15% to 12%
8 May 20252 changes
- Effects revision at start to make it more apparent.
- Added metal footstep sweetener sound when Metal Skin is active.
6 December 20242 changes
- Duration increased from 3.5s to 4s.
- Stamina movement distance reduced by 25%.
7 November 20241 change
- No longer blocks melee damage.
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.