IISlowing Bullets
Your bullets build up a Movement Slow on enemies.
How Slowing Bullets is performing now
Control and disruption
Your bullets build up a Movement Slow on enemies.
Slowing Bullets functions as control and disruption within the Weapon shop. The strategic value is creating a punishable window by restricting an opponent's available responses. Because it is a transitional purchase, the right comparison is the fight pattern it unlocks versus the other purchases that the same 1,600 souls could complete.
When Slowing Bullets 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
Slowing Bullets is a transitional purchase at 1,600 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 Slowing Bullets yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
What else the same budget can buy
It occupies the same 1,600-soul price point. While reloading, pressing Reload during the highlighted portion will instantly finish your reload and grant you Fire Rate ,…
COMPARE ITEM →FleetfootIt occupies the same 1,600-soul price point. Fleetfoot is a weapon item in Deadlock.
COMPARE ITEM →Intensifying MagazineIt occupies the same 1,600-soul price point. Increases Weapon Damage as you continuously fire your weapon.
COMPARE ITEM →How Slowing Bullets has changed
- No longer grants +15% Weapon Damage
- Dash Distance slow reduced from -25% to -22%
Slowing Bullets 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