Spirit Sap, spirit item

Spirit item · tier 2 · 1,600 souls · active

Spirit Sap stats, win rate and best heroes

Target an enemy to reduce their Spirit Resist and Spirit Power.

Dgrade

Win rate

46.6%

42 of 43 at tier 2

Against its tier

−3.9

points; tier avg 50.5%

Bought by

1.3%

of players

Bought at

~17:46

average

Cost

1,600

souls

Bought in

217.3k

player games, 7 days

The read on Spirit Sap

Spirit Sap is a tier 2 spirit item costing 1,600 souls. About 1 player in 75 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 46.6% of those games: 42nd of 43 tier 2 items, where the average is 50.5%.

It's usually bought around 18 minutes. Players who bought it before 9 minutes won 48.5%; those who bought it from 26 minutes on won 47.4%.

Mina (21% of games), Calico (6% of games) and Rem (4% of games) buy it most often.

It upgrades into Focus Lens.

What Spirit Sap does

Stats

Bonus Health
+50

Active

Target an enemy to reduce their Spirit Resist and Spirit Power.

Spirit Resist
-9%
Spirit Power
-30
Duration
12s
Cast Range
35m
Cooldown
22s

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

Win rate by the minute it's bought

45%50%4m9m14m19m24m29m34m39m44m49m

Each point is every player who bought Spirit Sap 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 Spirit Sap

HeroBuys it inWonBought atBuilds
Mina21% of games45.6%~14:02Mina build →
Calico6% of games51.8%~25:57Calico build →
Rem4% of games42.6%~21:00Rem build →
Mirage2% of games42.2%~12:40Mirage build →
Sinclair2% of games44.0%~17:43Sinclair build →
Solomon2% of games46.9%~14:02Solomon build →
Bebop2% of games49.5%~23:11Bebop build →
Drifter1% of games49.6%~18:37Drifter build →
Violet1% of games47.4%~21:23Violet build →
The Doorman1% of games43.3%~26:00The Doorman build →

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

Upgrades into

Spirit Sap in the patch notes

Every patch →
  1. 30 October 20262 changes

    • Cooldown increased from 18s to 22s
    • Cast range reduced from 40m to 35m
  2. 6 March 20262 changes

    • Spirit Power loss increased from -24 to -30
    • Cooldown reduced from 32s to 18s
  3. 21 November 20251 change

    • Cooldown reduced from 35s to 25s (matches Focus Lens)

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.