Spirit item · tier 3 · 3,200 souls · passive
Tankbuster stats, win rate and best heroes
Charges up over time with bonus spirit damage, causing abilities dealing more than 165 damage to deal additional damage. Ignores Spirit Resistance.
The read on Tankbuster
Tankbuster is a tier 3 spirit item costing 3,200 souls. About 1 player in 3 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 49.4% of those games: 33rd of 46 tier 3 items, where the average is 50.7%.
It's usually bought around 21 minutes. Players who bought it before 16 minutes won 51.6%; those who bought it from 25 minutes on won 47.5%.
Lash (93% of games), Pocket (92% of games) and Mina (91% of games) buy it most often.
It builds from Mystic Burst.
What Tankbuster does
Stats
- Bonus Health
- +50
Passive
Charges up over time with bonus spirit damage, causing abilities dealing more than 165 damage to deal additional damage. Ignores Spirit Resistance.
- Damage
- 40
- Current Health Bonus Damage
- 7.5%
- Charge-Up Time
- 14s
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 Tankbuster 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 Tankbuster
| Hero | Buys it in | Won | Bought at | Builds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Lash | 93% of games | 51.2% | ~19:05 | Lash build → |
 Pocket | 92% of games | 44.9% | ~18:45 | Pocket build → |
 Mina | 91% of games | 45.4% | ~17:54 | Mina build → |
 Grey Talon | 90% of games | 48.2% | ~18:47 | Grey Talon build → |
 Deadman Danny | 85% of games | 54.3% | ~19:41 | Deadman Danny build → |
 The Doorman | 82% of games | 46.8% | ~20:16 | The Doorman build → |
 Apollo | 79% of games | 49.2% | ~21:20 | Apollo build → |
 Paradox | 79% of games | 47.1% | ~19:32 | Paradox build → |
 Solomon | 76% of games | 47.7% | ~22:42 | Solomon build → |
 Lady Geist | 71% of games | 54.0% | ~18:09 | Lady Geist build → |
The heroes whose players buy Tankbuster most often, with the win rate in those games.
Builds from
Tankbuster in the patch notes
Every patch →16 September 20261 change
- Current Health Bonus damage reduced from 8% to 7.5%
28 July 20261 change
- No longer procs off of items
6 March 20261 change
- Current Health Bonus Damage increased from 7.5% to 8%
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.