IIIShadow Weave
Become Stealthed . Whenever you take damage while Stealthed you get briefly revealed.
How Shadow Weave is performing now
Weapon conversion
Become Stealthed . Whenever you take damage while Stealthed you get briefly revealed.
Shadow Weave functions as weapon conversion within the Weapon shop. The strategic value is turning dependable weapon contact into a more valuable firing window. Because it is a core mid-to-late purchase, the right comparison is the fight pattern it unlocks versus the other purchases that the same 3,200 souls could complete.
When Shadow Weave belongs in the build
- Weapon pressure is a dependable part of your current fight pattern.
- Shadow Weave's documented effect addresses the reason targets are surviving your firing window.
- The purchase lands before the enemy's next defensive breakpoint.
- Your weapon cannot stay on target long enough to use the investment.
- Your ability or defensive needs are more urgent.
- The effect does not match the range and rhythm of the fights you are actually taking.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Shadow Weave is a core mid-to-late purchase at 3,200 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 Shadow Weave yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
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COMPARE ITEM →How Shadow Weave has changed
- Duration increased from 10s to 13s
- Ambush Fire Rate increased from 20% to 25%
- Ambush Spirit Power increased from 20 to 25
- Ambush Melee Damage increased from 20% to 25%
- Moved from T4 to T3
- Out of Combat Regen reduced from 10 to 5
- Duration reduced from 18s to 10s
- Ambush duration reduced from 8s to 5s
Shadow Weave 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