IIISilence Wave
Launch an expanding projectile which Silences enemies for a short duration and deals impact damage. Silence does not interrupt channeling abilities.
How Silence Wave is performing now
Control and disruption
Launch an expanding projectile which Silences enemies for a short duration and deals impact damage. Silence does not interrupt channeling abilities.
Silence Wave functions as control and disruption within the Spirit shop. The strategic value is creating a punishable window by restricting an opponent's available responses. 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 Silence Wave belongs in the build
- One enemy repeatedly escapes or takes over fights when left free to act.
- Your team can follow the disruption with focused damage or another layer of control.
- The target's defensive timing is predictable enough to justify a dedicated answer.
- The enemy can cheaply cleanse, block, or wait out the effect.
- Your lineup already has enough reliable control and needs damage or survivability instead.
- You cannot safely reach or select the target the item is meant to disrupt.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Silence Wave 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 Silence Wave yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
What else the same budget can buy
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COMPARE ITEM →How Silence Wave has changed
- Damage spirit scaling increased from 0.6 to 1.0
- Cooldown reduced from 35s to 30s
- No longer upgrades from Spirit Sap
- No longer reduces Spirit Resistance or Spirit Power
- Now deals 100 Impact Damage (0.3 spirit power growth)
Silence Wave 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