5Shadow Strike
Go Invisible on Stamina use with no detection range. Doing a melee attack while invisible will cause you to steal bullet and spirit resistance from them and deal damage over time .
How Shadow Strike is performing now
Mobility and positioning
Go Invisible on Stamina use with no detection range. Doing a melee attack while invisible will cause you to steal bullet and spirit resistance from them and deal damage over time .
Shadow Strike functions as mobility and positioning within the Vitality shop. The strategic value is improving access, escape, or the ability to preserve a favorable firing angle. Because it is a legendary, match-defining investment, the right comparison is the fight pattern it unlocks versus the other purchases that the same 9,999 souls could complete.
When Shadow Strike belongs in the build
- Positioning is the main reason your damage or utility is not reaching the right target.
- The extra movement enables a repeatable engage, rotation, chase, or disengage pattern.
- You can convert the mobility into objective pressure rather than only correcting late positioning.
- Hard control or burst damage prevents movement from solving the actual problem.
- Your hero already reaches fights reliably and needs stronger conversion after arriving.
- The item would be used as an emergency escape instead of supporting a deliberate game plan.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Shadow Strike is a legendary, match-defining investment at 9,999 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 Shadow Strike yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
What else the same budget can buy
It occupies the same 9,999-soul price point. Applies an extremely powerful cleanse that replenishes your allies globally.
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COMPARE ITEM →How Shadow Strike has changed
- Stamina increased from +2 to +3
- Now grants +350 Health
- DPS increased from 75 to 125
- DPS spirit scaling increased from 0.2 to 0.4
- Invis duration increased from 2.5s to 3s
Shadow Strike 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