Shadow Weave, weapon item

Weapon item · tier 3 · 3,200 souls · active

Shadow Weave stats, win rate and best heroes

Become Stealthed. Whenever you take damage while Stealthed you get briefly revealed.

Bgrade

Win rate

51.2%

17 of 46 at tier 3

Against its tier

+0.6

points; tier avg 50.6%

Bought by

2.0%

of players

Bought at

~20:50

average

Cost

3,200

souls

Bought in

321.3k

player games, 7 days

The read on Shadow Weave

Shadow Weave is a tier 3 weapon item costing 3,200 souls. About 1 player in 51 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 51.2% of those games: 17th of 46 tier 3 items, where the average is 50.6%.

It's usually bought around 21 minutes. Players who bought it before 16 minutes won 54.0%; those who bought it from 25 minutes on won 49.0%.

Drifter (31% of games), Sinclair (8% of games) and Calico (4% of games) buy it most often.

It builds from Sprint Boots.

What Shadow Weave does

Stats

Out of Combat Regen
+5
Sprint Speed
+2m

Active

Become Stealthed. Whenever you take damage while Stealthed you get briefly revealed.

Attacking or using an ability will end your stealth and start an ambush, temporarily granting you bonus Weapon Damage and Spirit Power.

Stealth Duration
13s
Spot Radius
20m
Invis Sprint Speed
+5m
Ambush Weapon Damage
50%
Ambush Spirit Power
25
Ambush Duration
5s
Time to Full Ambush
6s

From the game's own tooltip, as of 5 Nov.

Win rate by the minute it's bought

45%50%55%60%8m13m18m23m28m33m38m43m48m

Each point is every player who bought Shadow Weave 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 Shadow Weave

HeroBuys it inWonBought atBuilds
Drifter31% of games52.5%~20:26Drifter build →
Sinclair8% of games45.7%~19:52Sinclair build →
Calico4% of games50.3%~21:29Calico build →
Abrams4% of games55.2%~21:25Abrams build →
Paradox3% of games48.6%~22:35Paradox build →
Venator3% of games48.6%~19:02Venator build →
Bebop2% of games50.4%~21:20Bebop build →
Dynamo2% of games51.1%~15:42Dynamo build →
Rem2% of games40.6%~15:45Rem build →
The Doorman2% of games46.7%~25:07The Doorman build →

The heroes whose players buy Shadow Weave most often, with the win rate in those games.

Builds from

Shadow Weave in the patch notes

Every patch →
  1. 30 October 20264 changes

    • No longer has Ambush Fire Rate or Melee Damage
    • Now has +50% Ambush Weapon Damage
    • Ambush bonuses now build up over 6s of being stealthed before reaching full power (invis progress UI pulses when it is charged up)
    • Abilities used to break stealth now benefit from the Ambush bonus on their own damage (previously the bonus was applied after the ability had already gone off)
  2. 16 September 20263 changes

    • Now builds from Sprint Boots
    • Sprint speed increased from 1.5 to 2
    • Cooldown reduced from 45s to 37s
  3. 22 May 20264 changes

    • Duration increased from 10s to 13s
    • Ambush Fire Rate increased from 20% to 25%
    • Ambush Spirit Power increased from 20 to 25
    • Ambush Melee Damage increased from 20% to 25%
  4. 30 April 20269 changes

    • Moved from T4 to T3
    • Out of Combat Regen reduced from 10 to 5
    • Duration reduced from 18s to 10s
    • Ambush duration reduced from 8s to 5s
    • Cooldown increased from 32s to 45s
    • Spot Radius increased from 18m to 20m
    3 more changes in the full notes →
  5. 21 November 20252 changes

    • Reveal distance reduced from 20m to 18m
    • Full invisibility distance reduced from 50m to 30m

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.