IRebuttal
On a successful Parry against an enemy Hero, Heal yourself for the damage parried and returns that damage to the target, and temporarily gain increased damage.
How Rebuttal is performing now
Sustain and recovery
On a successful Parry against an enemy Hero, Heal yourself for the damage parried and returns that damage to the target, and temporarily gain increased damage.
Rebuttal 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 early foundation item, the right comparison is the fight pattern it unlocks versus the other purchases that the same 800 souls could complete.
When Rebuttal 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
Rebuttal is a early foundation item at 800 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 Rebuttal yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
What else the same budget can buy
It occupies the same 800-soul price point. Extra Health is a vitality item in Deadlock.
COMPARE ITEM →Extra RegenIt occupies the same 800-soul price point. Extra Regen is a vitality item in Deadlock.
COMPARE ITEM →Extra StaminaIt occupies the same 800-soul price point. Extra Stamina is a vitality item in Deadlock.
COMPARE ITEM →How Rebuttal has changed
- Parry cooldown reduced from -2s to -1.75s
Rebuttal 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