IIIBallistic Enchantment
Imbue an ability with increased range . Dealing damage with that ability grants you increased weapon damage per unique hero hit . Has reduced effect on non-heroes.
How Ballistic Enchantment is performing now
Precision weapon pressure
Imbue an ability with increased range . Dealing damage with that ability grants you increased weapon damage per unique hero hit . Has reduced effect on non-heroes.
Ballistic Enchantment functions as precision weapon pressure within the Weapon shop. The strategic value is rewarding a specific engagement distance or consistent precision with weapon damage. Because it is a core mid-to-late purchase, the right comparison is the fight pattern it unlocks versus the other purchases that the same 3,200 souls could complete.
When Ballistic Enchantment belongs in the build
- You can repeatedly fight at the distance or accuracy condition named by the item.
- Your positioning gives you enough uninterrupted shots to realize the conditional value.
- The enemy composition allows deliberate target selection instead of constant emergency repositioning.
- The fight rarely happens inside the item's preferred range or accuracy condition.
- You need reliability more than a conditional weapon multiplier.
- Enemy pressure prevents you from holding the angle required to trigger the item's value.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Ballistic Enchantment is a core mid-to-late purchase at 3,200 souls. Judge it against the next fight and the purchases it delays, not only against its isolated tooltip value.
Lock Lab has not received a reliable current sample for Ballistic Enchantment yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
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COMPARE ITEM →How Ballistic Enchantment has changed
- Weapon damage per stack increased from 18% to 20%
- Range reduced from 30% to 25%
- Non-hero weapon damage increased from 4% to 5%
- Ability Range reduced from 25% to 20%
Ballistic Enchantment in Deadlock builds
Item strength depends on hero kit, purchase timing, lobby rank, and the current patch. Use the hero pages below to compare this item against complete build paths instead of treating a single item as universally optimal.
Transparent reference, original analysis
Live performance and purchase timing come from community-indexed match records. Lock Lab's rates, comparison windows, confidence labels, and hero-affinity analysis are original calculations—not official Valve recommendations.
VIEW ANALYTICS SOURCE ↗Current-patch all-ranks sample · refreshed automatically