IVSpirit Burn
Dealing significant spirit damage to an enemy within 5s causes an explosion dealing damage and a burn to that enemy. While burning, enemies take damage over time and receive reduced healing. The cooldown is per enemy, so each target can only be burned once per cooldown. Deals half-damage on non-heroes.
How Spirit Burn is performing now
Anti-sustain pressure
Dealing significant spirit damage to an enemy within 5s causes an explosion dealing damage and a burn to that enemy. While burning, enemies take damage over time and receive…
Spirit Burn functions as anti-sustain pressure within the Spirit shop. The strategic value is turning enemy sustain into a less reliable defensive plan. 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 Spirit Burn belongs in the build
- The opposing lineup depends on healing, regeneration, or repeated lifesteal to survive extended fights.
- Your team can keep pressure applied long enough for the anti-sustain effect to matter.
- The purchase solves a real matchup problem without delaying a more urgent defensive answer.
- The enemy has little meaningful sustain to reduce.
- Your team cannot consistently apply or maintain the item's pressure.
- Immediate durability or control would change the next fight more than anti-heal.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Spirit Burn 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 Spirit Burn yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
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COMPARE ITEM →How Spirit Burn has changed
- No longer hits enemies in a 12m radius, only affects primary target now
- Changed from the cooldown being on the item to being target based
- Removed half cooldown against NPC
- Explosion damage reduced from 110 to 50
- DPS Spirit scaling increased from 0.05 to 0.06
- Ability Range reduced from +8% to +6%
Spirit Burn 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