Vitality item · tier 4 · 6,400 souls · passive
Plated Armor stats, win rate and best heroes
Gain a chance to either deflect incoming bullets, preventing all weapon damage or prevent all on-hit effects from bullets.
The read on Plated Armor
Plated Armor is a tier 4 vitality item costing 6,400 souls. About 1 player in 20 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 52.0% of those games: 42nd of 44 tier 4 items, where the average is 54.9%.
It's usually bought around 35 minutes. Players who bought it before 29 minutes won 53.7%; those who bought it from 41 minutes on won 49.3%.
Shiv (20% of games), Abrams (15% of games) and Rat King (14% of games) buy it most often.
What Plated Armor does
Stats
- Bonus Health
- +130
Passive
Gain a chance to either deflect incoming bullets, preventing all weapon damage or prevent all on-hit effects from bullets.
- Deflection Percent
- 30%
- On-Hit Prevention Percent
- 50%
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 Plated Armor 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 Plated Armor
| Hero | Buys it in | Won | Bought at | Builds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Shiv | 20% of games | 49.5% | ~33:40 | Shiv build → |
 Abrams | 15% of games | 57.1% | ~34:28 | Abrams build → |
 Rat King | 14% of games | 54.1% | ~33:55 | Rat King build → |
 Billy | 12% of games | 53.3% | ~34:56 | Billy build → |
 Silver | 11% of games | 50.6% | ~35:42 | Silver build → |
 Baba | 11% of games | 58.9% | ~33:15 | Baba build → |
 Mo & Krill | 9% of games | 51.2% | ~33:44 | Mo & Krill build → |
 Victor | 9% of games | 57.8% | ~35:14 | Victor build → |
 Bebop | 7% of games | 49.9% | ~35:09 | Bebop build → |
 Warden | 6% of games | 49.1% | ~35:08 | Warden build → |
The heroes whose players buy Plated Armor most often, with the win rate in those games.
Plated Armor in the patch notes
Every patch →16 September 20261 change
- Fixed on-hit damage prevention not blocking the following on-hit spirit damage effects: Mercurial Magnum, Vindicta's Flight, Wraith's Full Auto, and Tesla Bullets/Capacitor
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.