IIIToxic Bullets
Your bullets build up a Bleed on enemies, causing them to lose a percentage of their Max Health over time. Also applies Healing Reduction on the bleeding target.
How Toxic Bullets is performing now
Anti-sustain pressure
Your bullets build up a Bleed on enemies, causing them to lose a percentage of their Max Health over time. Also applies Healing Reduction on the bleeding target.
Toxic Bullets functions as anti-sustain pressure within the Weapon shop. The strategic value is turning enemy sustain into a less reliable defensive plan. 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 Toxic Bullets belongs in the build
- The opposing lineup depends on healing, regeneration, or repeated lifesteal to survive extended fights.
- Your team can keep pressure applied long enough for the anti-sustain effect to matter.
- The purchase solves a real matchup problem without delaying a more urgent defensive answer.
- The enemy has little meaningful sustain to reduce.
- Your team cannot consistently apply or maintain the item's pressure.
- Immediate durability or control would change the next fight more than anti-heal.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Toxic 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 Toxic Bullets yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
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- Bleed damage increased from 1.7% to 1.9%
- No longer builds up from melee attacks
Toxic 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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