IMelee Lifesteal
Your next Melee attack heals you . This heal is 30% effective vs non-heroes. Cooldown is 1.5x as long for Light Melee hits.
How Melee Lifesteal is performing now
Ability cadence
Your next Melee attack heals you . This heal is 30% effective vs non-heroes. Cooldown is 1.5x as long for Light Melee hits.
Melee Lifesteal functions as ability cadence within the Vitality shop. The strategic value is changing how often—or for how long—a key ability can influence the fight. Because it is a early foundation item, the right comparison is the fight pattern it unlocks versus the other purchases that the same 800 souls could complete.
When Melee Lifesteal belongs in the build
- A specific ability is central to your initiation, damage, rescue, or escape pattern.
- The extra cast, charge, or duration produces more value than a flat-stat purchase at the same price.
- You can reliably survive long enough to use the improved cadence more than once.
- Your important ability is limited by positioning or target access rather than cooldown or duration.
- The affected cast does not scale meaningfully with the item's stated benefit.
- A direct damage or defensive breakpoint is more urgent than another ability cycle.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Melee Lifesteal is a early foundation item at 800 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 Melee Lifesteal yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
What else the same budget can buy
It occupies the same 800-soul price point. Extra Health is a vitality item in Deadlock.
COMPARE ITEM →Extra RegenIt occupies the same 800-soul price point. Extra Regen is a vitality item in Deadlock.
COMPARE ITEM →Extra StaminaIt occupies the same 800-soul price point. Extra Stamina is a vitality item in Deadlock.
COMPARE ITEM →Melee Lifesteal 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.
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