IIISilence Wave
Launch an expanding projectile which Silences enemies for a short duration and deals impact damage. Silence does not interrupt channeling abilities.
How Silence Wave is performing now
Pick rate measures the share of ranked player-match records across every rank containing this item. Win rate is descriptive, not causal: expensive items and winning game states can inflate results. Lock Lab always shows the sample and adjusts hero-specific results against each hero's own all-ranks baseline. Read the full methodology →
Who builds Silence Wave most often
- ADJ. WR
- 47.0%
- ITEM SHARE
- 12.1%
- ADJ. WR
- 49.5%
- ITEM SHARE
- 12.0%
- ADJ. WR
- 48.2%
- ITEM SHARE
- 9.1%
- ADJ. WR
- 46.9%
- ITEM SHARE
- 6.5%
- ADJ. WR
- 44.2%
- ITEM SHARE
- 5.4%
- ADJ. WR
- 43.9%
- ITEM SHARE
- 5.3%
- ADJ. WR
- 46.0%
- ITEM SHARE
- 4.2%
- ADJ. WR
- 46.6%
- ITEM SHARE
- 2.7%
Control and disruption
Launch an expanding projectile which Silences enemies for a short duration and deals impact damage. Silence does not interrupt channeling abilities.
Silence Wave functions as control and disruption within the Spirit shop. The strategic value is creating a punishable window by restricting an opponent's available responses. 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 Silence Wave 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
Across the current all-ranks sample, Silence Wave is purchased at about 24:57, or 64% through the average recorded match. That places it in the middle of the observed build path. Compare that timing with the next objective and the defensive answers already visible in the lobby.
Silence Wave is being purchased less often in the 7d change window (-3.8 points), while its observed win rate moved -0.3 points. The high confidence label reflects 21,183 purchases. These are descriptive results: build cost, game state, and hero selection can all move item win rate without the item causing the outcome.
Rem, Haze, Calico currently produce the largest reliable Silence Wave samples, accounting for 7,048 recorded purchases among the three leaders. Treat that as evidence of common fit, then compare each hero's adjusted result and complete build path before copying the purchase.
What else the same budget can buy
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COMPARE ITEM →How Silence Wave has changed
- Damage spirit scaling increased from 0.6 to 1.0
- Cooldown reduced from 35s to 30s
- No longer upgrades from Spirit Sap
- No longer reduces Spirit Resistance or Spirit Power
- Now deals 100 Impact Damage (0.3 spirit power growth)
Silence Wave 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