Witchmail, vitality item

Vitality item · tier 4 · 6,400 souls · passive

Witchmail stats, win rate and best heroes

Taking heavy hits of spirit damage from an enemy reduces a random ability cooldown.

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Win rate

56.2%

15 of 44 at tier 4

Against its tier

+1.2

points; tier avg 54.9%

Bought by

5.9%

of players

Bought at

~33:53

average

Cost

6,400

souls

Bought in

953.3k

player games, 7 days

The read on Witchmail

Witchmail is a tier 4 vitality item costing 6,400 souls. About 1 player in 17 bought it in the last 7 days, and they won 56.2% of those games: 15th of 44 tier 4 items, where the average is 54.9%.

It's usually bought around 34 minutes. Players who bought it before 27 minutes won 59.5%; those who bought it from 40 minutes on won 52.3%.

Celeste (41% of games), Bebop (23% of games) and Mo & Krill (19% of games) buy it most often.

What Witchmail does

Stats

Spirit Resist
+22%
Spirit Power
+14

Stats

Taking heavy hits of spirit damage from an enemy reduces a random ability cooldown.

Cooldown Reduction per Hit
4s
Cooldown
1s
Damage Threshold
75

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

Win rate by the minute it's bought

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Each point is every player who bought Witchmail 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 Witchmail

HeroBuys it inWonBought atBuilds
Celeste41% of games53.5%~28:23Celeste build →
Bebop23% of games54.8%~32:24Bebop build →
Mo & Krill19% of games56.7%~33:29Mo & Krill build →
Rat King18% of games57.2%~34:22Rat King build →
Yamato14% of games56.1%~35:33Yamato build →
Abrams14% of games60.0%~34:02Abrams build →
Shiv13% of games54.1%~35:36Shiv build →
Warden13% of games58.1%~33:19Warden build →
Apollo10% of games56.7%~35:21Apollo build →
Viscous8% of games55.6%~37:58Viscous build →

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

Witchmail in the patch notes

Every patch →
  1. 22 May 20261 change

    • Spirit Resist increased from 20% to 22%

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.