IVCrushing Fists
Your melee damage will restore ammo and apply a stacking bullet resist debuff on enemies. Heavy melee applies 2 stacks. If the target reaches max stacks, they will be stunned .
How Crushing Fists is performing now
Control and disruption
Your melee damage will restore ammo and apply a stacking bullet resist debuff on enemies. Heavy melee applies 2 stacks. If the target reaches max stacks, they will be stunned .
Crushing Fists functions as control and disruption within the Weapon shop. The strategic value is creating a punishable window by restricting an opponent's available responses. Because it is a late-build investment, the right comparison is the fight pattern it unlocks versus the other purchases that the same 6,400 souls could complete.
When Crushing Fists belongs in the build
- One enemy repeatedly escapes or takes over fights when left free to act.
- Your team can follow the disruption with focused damage or another layer of control.
- The target's defensive timing is predictable enough to justify a dedicated answer.
- The enemy can cheaply cleanse, block, or wait out the effect.
- Your lineup already has enough reliable control and needs damage or survivability instead.
- You cannot safely reach or select the target the item is meant to disrupt.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Crushing Fists is a late-build investment at 6,400 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 Crushing Fists yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
What else the same budget can buy
It occupies the same 6,400-soul price point. Your Bullets have a chance to become unavoidable, piercing through enemies and ignoring their Bullet Resistance .
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COMPARE ITEM →How Crushing Fists has changed
- Max stacks stun duration increased from 0.5s to 0.75s
- Bullet Resist reduction increased from -4% to -5% per stack
- Cooldown reduced from 7s to 5s
- Melee damage increased from 20% to 22%
- Heavy Melee Bonus damage now works with heavy melee abilities
Crushing Fists 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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