11-21-2025 Update
- - Superior Cooldown: Cooldown Reduction reduced from +25% to +20%
Deadlock / Balance intelligence
Deadlock Superior Cooldown
Item performance and patch changes. Expensive does not automatically mean overpowered.
Observed win rate
52.22%
Wins ÷ purchase observations
Purchase observations
8,817,348
API matches field
Players in sample
1,277,657
API players field
Average buy time
25.4m
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
Superior Cooldown 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.
11-07-2024 Update
- - Superior Cooldown: Now grants +15% Ammo.
- - Improved Burst: Now triggers on your base damage, rather than how much the target receives.
- - Improved Burst: Max HP damage reduced from 9% to 8%.