Spirit Strike, spirit item

Spirit item · tier 1 · 800 souls · passive

Spirit Strike stats, win rate and best heroes

When you perform a Light or Heavy Melee attack against a hero, deal extra spirit damage with the attack and reduce the target's Spirit Resist. Cooldown is 2x longer for Light Melee hits.

Bgrade

Win rate

49.5%

13 of 23 at tier 1

Against its tier

−0.4

points; tier avg 49.9%

Bought by

15.8%

of players

Bought at

~8:12

average

Cost

800

souls

Bought in

2.6M

player games, 7 days

The read on Spirit Strike

Spirit Strike is a tier 1 spirit item costing 800 souls. About 1 player in 6 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 49.5% of those games: 13th of 23 tier 1 items, where the average is 49.9%.

It's usually bought around 8 minutes. Players who bought it before 4 minutes won 49.6%; those who bought it from 10 minutes on won 48.8%.

Calico (93% of games), Baba (77% of games) and Yamato (77% of games) buy it most often.

It upgrades into Spirit Snatch.

What Spirit Strike does

Passive

When you perform a Light or Heavy Melee attack against a hero, deal extra spirit damage with the attack and reduce the target's Spirit Resist.

Cooldown is 2x longer for Light Melee hits.

Spirit Damage
40
Spirit Resist
-6%
Duration
6s
Cooldown
8s

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

Win rate by the minute it's bought

45%48%50%4m9m14m19m24m29m34m39m44m

Each point is every player who bought Spirit Strike 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 Strike

HeroBuys it inWonBought atBuilds
Calico93% of games48.6%~5:28Calico build →
Baba77% of games55.9%~7:50Baba build →
Yamato77% of games47.5%~6:00Yamato build →
Bebop73% of games48.5%~6:35Bebop build →
Drifter68% of games51.1%~6:58Drifter build →
Billy65% of games49.6%~12:02Billy build →
Viscous59% of games47.8%~11:21Viscous build →
Apollo54% of games48.6%~9:11Apollo build →
Abrams46% of games52.9%~9:43Abrams build →
Shiv27% of games45.8%~7:32Shiv build →

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

Upgrades into

Standard ranked and unranked matches from 29 Oct to 5 Nov, via deadlock-api. Updated 5 Nov.