IIISpirit Snatch
When you perform a Light or Heavy Melee attack against a hero, the attack deals extra spirit damage and steals Spirit Resist and Spirit Power . Effects are reduced by 30% for Light Melee hits.
How Spirit Snatch is performing now
Durability and resistance
When you perform a Light or Heavy Melee attack against a hero, the attack deals extra spirit damage and steals Spirit Resist and Spirit Power . Effects are reduced by 30% for…
Spirit Snatch functions as durability and resistance within the Spirit shop. The strategic value is surviving a defined damage pattern or control window long enough to keep contributing. 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 Spirit Snatch belongs in the build
- Spirit Snatch's protection matches the damage or control that is deciding fights.
- Living through the first enemy commitment lets your kit deliver a second meaningful action.
- Your team needs you to hold space rather than trade your life for a single cast.
- The enemy threat profile does not match the protection described by the item.
- Poor positioning, not insufficient durability, is causing most deaths.
- More health would only delay a loss without creating damage, control, or an escape opportunity.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Spirit Snatch 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 Spirit Snatch yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
What else the same budget can buy
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COMPARE ITEM →How Spirit Snatch has changed
- Bonus damage spirit scaling increased from 0.744 to 0.84
- Spirit Power Steal increased from 20 to 28
- Spirit Power Steal increased from 15 to 20
- Instead of increasing CD to 2x on light melee hit, the effects of Spirit Snatch are reduced to 70% effectiveness (Damage, Spirit Power, Spirit Resist)
Spirit Snatch 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