Split Shot, weapon item

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

Split Shot stats, win rate and best heroes

Make your weapon fire multishot. Hitting more than one Hero per attack will grant a stacking weapon damage bonus. Targets can only be hit once per multishot.

Cgrade

Win rate

48.9%

36 of 43 at tier 2

Against its tier

−1.6

points; tier avg 50.5%

Bought by

2.0%

of players

Bought at

~17:56

average

Cost

1,600

souls

Bought in

321.9k

player games, 7 days

The read on Split Shot

Split Shot is a tier 2 weapon item costing 1,600 souls. About 1 player in 51 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 48.9% of those games: 36th of 43 tier 2 items, where the average is 50.5%.

It's usually bought around 18 minutes. Players who bought it before 11 minutes won 50.4%; those who bought it from 24 minutes on won 47.0%.

Vyper (65% of games), Wraith (11% of games) and Graves (8% of games) buy it most often.

What Split Shot does

Active

Make your weapon fire multishot.

Hitting more than one Hero per attack will grant a stacking weapon damage bonus.

Targets can only be hit once per multishot.

Weapon Multishot
5
Weapon Damage per Stack
8%
Cooldown
27s
Buff Duration
5s
Max Stacks
5
Stack Duration
12s

From the game's own tooltip, as of 4 Nov.

Win rate by the minute it's bought

40%45%50%55%2m7m12m17m22m27m32m37m42m47m

Each point is every player who bought Split Shot 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 Split Shot

HeroBuys it inWonBought atBuilds
Vyper65% of games46.8%~13:55Vyper build →
Wraith11% of games51.1%~22:50Wraith build →
Graves8% of games55.2%~16:55Graves build →
Deadman Danny7% of games50.4%~19:55Deadman Danny build →
McGinnis5% of games47.0%~22:48McGinnis build →
Calico3% of games50.1%~21:56Calico build →
Rem3% of games43.5%~19:26Rem build →
Paige2% of games52.3%~14:13Paige build →
Venator2% of games43.9%~25:10Venator build →
Nurse Harrow1% of games48.3%~22:47Nurse Harrow build →

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

Split Shot in the patch notes

Every patch →
  1. 30 April 20263 changes

    • Max Stacks reduced from 6 to 5
    • Weapon Damage per stack reduced from 10% to 8%
    • Cooldown increased from 24s to 27s
  2. 6 March 20263 changes

    • Cooldown reduced from 32s to 24s
    • Now supports custom count and angles per hero
    • Enabled for Celeste (3 at 70 degrees)
  3. 21 November 20251 change

    • Cooldown increased from 14s to 32s

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.