IVLucky Shot
Your bullets have a chance to be empowered, causing them to deal bonus weapon damage on hit. Bonus damage cannot Crit.
How Lucky Shot is performing now
General weapon scaling
Your bullets have a chance to be empowered, causing them to deal bonus weapon damage on hit. Bonus damage cannot Crit.
Lucky Shot functions as general weapon scaling within the Weapon shop. The strategic value is converting reliable weapon contact into a stronger damage breakpoint. 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 Lucky Shot belongs in the build
- Weapon damage is a primary part of your contribution rather than incidental chip damage.
- You can maintain line of sight and safely take enough shots to use the investment.
- The purchase arrives before the enemy's next defensive breakpoint.
- Abilities, utility, or survival determine your fights more than weapon contact.
- Enemy positioning denies sustained line of sight.
- A matchup-specific counter item would prevent more damage than another offensive purchase creates.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Lucky Shot 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 Lucky Shot 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 .
COMPARE ITEM →CapacitorIt occupies the same 6,400-soul price point. Launch a projectile that deals damage , applies a strong slow that recovers over time, prevents Stamina usage and Silences…
COMPARE ITEM →Crippling HeadshotIt occupies the same 6,400-soul price point. Landing a Headshot will reduce their Bullet and Spirit Resist and applies Healing Reduction .
COMPARE ITEM →How Lucky Shot has changed
- Damage reduced from 125% to 110%
Lucky 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