ISpirit Strike
When you perform a Light or Heavy Melee attack against a hero, deal extra spirit damage with the attack and reduce the target's Spirit Resist . Cooldown is 2x longer for Light Melee hits.
How Spirit Strike is performing now
Ability cadence
When you perform a Light or Heavy Melee attack against a hero, deal extra spirit damage with the attack and reduce the target's Spirit Resist . Cooldown is 2x longer for Light…
Spirit Strike functions as ability cadence within the Spirit shop. The strategic value is changing how often—or for how long—a key ability can influence the fight. 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 Spirit Strike belongs in the build
- A specific ability is central to your initiation, damage, rescue, or escape pattern.
- The extra cast, charge, or duration produces more value than a flat-stat purchase at the same price.
- You can reliably survive long enough to use the improved cadence more than once.
- Your important ability is limited by positioning or target access rather than cooldown or duration.
- The affected cast does not scale meaningfully with the item's stated benefit.
- A direct damage or defensive breakpoint is more urgent than another ability cycle.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Spirit Strike 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 Spirit Strike 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 Charge is a spirit item in Deadlock.
COMPARE ITEM →Extra SpiritIt occupies the same 800-soul price point. Extra Spirit is a spirit item in Deadlock.
COMPARE ITEM →Golden Goose EggIt occupies the same 800-soul price point. Gain souls over time , as long as you are alive.
COMPARE ITEM →Spirit Strike 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