IIActive Reload
While reloading, pressing Reload during the highlighted portion will instantly finish your reload and grant you Fire Rate , Bullet Lifesteal and Move Speed .
How Active Reload is performing now
Mobility and positioning
While reloading, pressing Reload during the highlighted portion will instantly finish your reload and grant you Fire Rate , Bullet Lifesteal and Move Speed .
Active Reload functions as mobility and positioning within the Weapon shop. The strategic value is improving access, escape, or the ability to preserve a favorable firing angle. 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 Active Reload belongs in the build
- 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.
- 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.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Active Reload 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 Active Reload 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. 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 →Kinetic DashIt occupies the same 1,600-soul price point. When you Dash-Jump you gain Fire Rate and bonus Ammo until your next reload. Lasts up to 7s.
COMPARE ITEM →How Active Reload has changed
- Lifesteal increased from 14% to 16%
- Fire Rate increased from +22% to +25%
- Lifesteal reduced from 18% to 14%
- You can now reload while already full when carrying this item
Active Reload 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