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Deadlock Spirit Burn

Item performance and patch changes. Expensive does not automatically mean overpowered.

Observed win rate

56.40%

Wins ÷ purchase observations

Purchase observations

4,294,020

API matches field

Players in sample

860,937

API players field

Average buy time

32.7m

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

Spirit Burn 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 - 07-28-2026

  • - Spirit Burn: No longer hits enemies in a 12m radius, only affects primary target now
  • - Spirit Burn: Changed from the cooldown being on the item to being target based
  • - Spirit Burn: Removed half cooldown against NPC
  • - Spirit Burn: Explosion damage reduced from 110 to 50
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