Minor Update - 07-28-2026
- - Scourge: No longer grants +17% Debuff Resist innate bonus
- - Scourge: Active now grants +20% Debuff Resist (retroactive on application)
- - Scourge: Max Health per second reduced from 2.5% to 2.3%
Deadlock / Balance intelligence
Deadlock Scourge
Item performance and patch changes. Expensive does not automatically mean overpowered.
Observed win rate
58.00%
Wins ÷ purchase observations
Purchase observations
791,231
API matches field
Players in sample
296,782
API players field
Average buy time
33.8m
Minutes into a match
Sample: 2026-09-17 through 2026-10-16 UTC · Normal mode, ranked + unranked, all ranks. Retrieved . Deadlock API. Observed matches only; not the entire player population. Refreshes hourly; upstream item statistics may be cached for six hours.
Item statistics are observational. Winning players buy different items, and later purchases select for longer matches. Do not interpret purchase win rate as the causal effect of buying this item.
The paper trail
Scourge patch history
Every explicitly attributed change found in the 26 available archive entries. This is the available archive, not a claim of complete lifetime coverage. Linked-only announcements may omit change text.
Minor Update - 07-09-2026
- - Scourge: Max Health Per Second reduced from 2.6% to 2.5%
Minor Update - 06-30-2026
- - Scourge: Max Health DPS reduced from 3.5% to 2.6%
- - Scourge: Max Health DPS now scales with spirit power (0.0055)
Gameplay Update - 05-22-2026
- - Scourge: Debuff resist increased from 15% to 17%
Gameplay Update - 04-30-2026
- - Scourge: No longer grants -4% Cooldown Reduction
- - Scourge: Now grants +15% Debuff Resistance
11-21-2025 Update
- - Scourge: Cooldown Reduction reduced from +6% to +4%
- - Golden Statue: Cooldown Reduction reduced from 0.75/1.0/1.5% to 0.5/0.75/1%
- - Scourge: Max Health damage per second increased from 3.25% to 3.5%
- - Scourge: Cooldown reduced from 38s to 35s
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