IIIGreater Expansion
Increases the range and effect radius of your abilities and items.
How Greater Expansion is performing now
Precision weapon pressure
Increases the range and effect radius of your abilities and items.
Greater Expansion functions as precision weapon pressure within the Spirit 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 Greater Expansion 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
Greater Expansion 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 Greater Expansion yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
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- Ability Range reduced from 35% to 30%
Greater Expansion strategy, mistakes, and counterplay
Reviewed for the current high-volume item set. Live popularity and hero-fit evidence remain in the Item Pulse above.
Greater Expansion is a full-build commitment to reach and area control. It rewards heroes whose zones, catches, or team utility become categorically harder to avoid at a larger radius.
Upgrading because the visual area looks impressive when the original cast already covers its intended target. Size without additional connections is cosmetic value.
Approach from multiple angles, avoid stacking, and force the expanded ability before committing. Long cooldowns still create an entry window after the larger cast is spent.
Start with Mystic Expansion on the key ability and promote the purchase only after the added coverage repeatedly changes fights or objective control.
Superior Duration keeps zones active longer, and Superior Cooldown creates them more often. Greater Expansion is the choice when footprint and reach are the limiting factors.
Greater Expansion 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