Gameplay Update - 05-22-2026
- - Spirit Shielding: No longer grants +1.75m Move Speed on activation
- - Spirit Shielding: Proc now also temporarily grants +18% Spirit Resistance (for the 8s duration)
Deadlock / Balance intelligence
Deadlock Spirit Shielding
Item performance and patch changes. Expensive does not automatically mean overpowered.
Observed win rate
49.60%
Wins ÷ purchase observations
Purchase observations
2,101,564
API matches field
Players in sample
595,423
API players field
Average buy time
16.4m
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 Shielding 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.
11-21-2025 Update
- - Spirit Shielding: Cooldown increased from 35s to 45s
- - Spirit Shielding: Damage threshold increased from 175 to 225
- - Spirit Shielding: Duration reduced from 8s to 7s