IIBattle Vest
While you are above 65% health , gain weapon damage and bonus fire rate .
How Battle Vest is performing now
Sustain and recovery
While you are above 65% health , gain weapon damage and bonus fire rate .
Battle Vest functions as sustain and recovery within the Vitality shop. The strategic value is extending effective health through healing, regeneration, or damage-based recovery. 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 Battle Vest belongs in the build
- Fights last long enough for repeated recovery to outperform a smaller one-time defensive effect.
- Your damage or support pattern can trigger the item's sustain consistently.
- The enemy has not already made healing reduction the defining feature of the matchup.
- You are dying inside a burst window before recovery can accumulate.
- Enemy anti-heal sharply reduces the value of the item's main contribution.
- Your build lacks the damage uptime or safe positioning required to sustain through combat.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Battle Vest 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 Battle Vest 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. Bullet Lifesteal is a vitality item in Deadlock.
COMPARE ITEM →Debuff ReducerIt occupies the same 1,600-soul price point. Reduces the duration of all negative effects applied to you.
COMPARE ITEM →Enchanter's EmblemIt occupies the same 1,600-soul price point. While you are above 65% health , gain bonus Spirit and Cooldown Reduction .
COMPARE ITEM →How Battle Vest has changed
- Weapon Damage increased from 15% to 18%
Battle Vest 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