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VITALITY ITEM

Veil Walker

Walking through a cosmic veil grants you Stealth , Heal and increased Move Speed .

LOCK LAB ITEM PULSE

How Veil Walker is performing now

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CURRENT ITEM DOSSIER

Mobility and positioning

Walking through a cosmic veil grants you Stealth , Heal and increased Move Speed .

Veil Walker 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 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.

VITALITYSHOP CATEGORY
IIIITEM TIER
3,200SOUL COST
LOCK LAB ANALYSIS

When Veil Walker belongs in the build

BUY WHEN
  • 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.
SKIP WHEN
  • 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.
DATA-BACKED BUILD CONTEXT

Timing, movement, and hero fit

Veil Walker 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 Veil Walker yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.

NEARBY SHOP ALTERNATIVES

What else the same budget can buy

RECENT NAMED CHANGES

How Veil Walker has changed

  • Heal per boon increased from 6 to 8
  • Invisibility duration increased from 7s to 8s
  • Now upgrades from Sprint Boots (includes it's stats)
  • Bonus Health Reduced from +175 to +125

Veil Walker 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.

No hero-specific build link has a reliable current sample yet.
DATA & SOURCING

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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