5Haunting Shot
Your next bullet applies a powerful debuff reducing the enemy's damage output, healing and movement speed. It also deals bonus spirit damage based on the targets current Health. The bullet is larger and penetrates through targets.
How Haunting Shot is performing now
Mobility and positioning
Your next bullet applies a powerful debuff reducing the enemy's damage output, healing and movement speed. It also deals bonus spirit damage based on the targets current Health.…
Haunting Shot 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 legendary, match-defining investment, the right comparison is the fight pattern it unlocks versus the other purchases that the same 9,999 souls could complete.
When Haunting Shot 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
Haunting Shot is a legendary, match-defining investment at 9,999 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 Haunting Shot yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
What else the same budget can buy
It occupies the same 9,999-soul price point. You have infinite ammo.
COMPARE ITEM →Runed GauntletsIt occupies the same 9,999-soul price point. Everytime you land a heavy melee, your existing cooldowns get reduced.
COMPARE ITEM →Armor Piercing Rounds6,400 souls makes it the earlier, lower-commitment comparison. Your Bullets have a chance to become unavoidable, piercing through enemies and ignoring their Bullet Resistance .
COMPARE ITEM →Haunting Shot 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