IIITesla Bullets
Your bullets have a chance to shock your target. The shock will jump to a nearby enemy.
How Tesla Bullets is performing now
Area and multi-target pressure
Your bullets have a chance to shock your target. The shock will jump to a nearby enemy.
Tesla Bullets functions as area and multi-target pressure within the Weapon shop. The strategic value is turning grouped enemies or crowded objectives into additional damage and pressure. 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 Tesla Bullets belongs in the build
- The opposing team repeatedly groups around objectives, corridors, or a frontline anchor.
- Your hero can safely keep the effect active across several targets.
- Wave clear or multi-target pressure will create useful map tempo in addition to team-fight damage.
- The enemy plays spread formations that deny reliable secondary targets.
- You need single-target finishing power against one priority threat.
- The area effect inflates damage without helping secure kills or objectives.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Tesla Bullets 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 Tesla Bullets yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
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COMPARE ITEM →How Tesla Bullets has changed
- Proc cooldown reduced from 0.25s to 0.2s
- Shock damage reduced from 40 to 33
- Shock damage spirit power growth increased from 0.14 to 0.19
Tesla 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.
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