IISplit Shot
Make your weapon fire multishot . Hitting more than one Hero per attack will grant a stacking weapon damage bonus . Targets can only be hit once per multishot.
How Split Shot 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 Split Shot most often
- ADJ. WR
- 51.2%
- ITEM SHARE
- 52.1%
- ADJ. WR
- 47.9%
- ITEM SHARE
- 12.9%
- ADJ. WR
- 47.4%
- ITEM SHARE
- 8.4%
- ADJ. WR
- 54.4%
- ITEM SHARE
- 8.4%
- ADJ. WR
- 52.3%
- ITEM SHARE
- 2.9%
- ADJ. WR
- 47.1%
- ITEM SHARE
- 2.0%
- ADJ. WR
- 53.1%
- ITEM SHARE
- 0.7%
- ADJ. WR
- 52.5%
- ITEM SHARE
- 0.5%
General weapon scaling
Make your weapon fire multishot . Hitting more than one Hero per attack will grant a stacking weapon damage bonus . Targets can only be hit once per multishot.
Split Shot functions as general weapon scaling within the Weapon shop. The strategic value is converting reliable weapon contact into a stronger damage breakpoint. Because it is a transitional purchase, the right comparison is the fight pattern it unlocks versus the other purchases that the same 1,600 souls could complete.
When Split Shot belongs in the build
- Weapon damage is a primary part of your contribution rather than incidental chip damage.
- You can maintain line of sight and safely take enough shots to use the investment.
- The purchase arrives before the enemy's next defensive breakpoint.
- Abilities, utility, or survival determine your fights more than weapon contact.
- Enemy positioning denies sustained line of sight.
- A matchup-specific counter item would prevent more damage than another offensive purchase creates.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Across the current all-ranks sample, Split Shot is purchased at about 16:02, or 44% 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.
Split Shot is being purchased less often in the 7d change window (-2.3 points), while its observed win rate moved +0.4 points. The high confidence label reflects 24,535 purchases. These are descriptive results: build cost, game state, and hero selection can all move item win rate without the item causing the outcome.
Vyper, Graves, Paige currently produce the largest reliable Split Shot samples, accounting for 18,014 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
It occupies the same 1,600-soul price point. While reloading, pressing Reload during the highlighted portion will instantly finish your reload and grant you Fire Rate ,…
COMPARE ITEM →FleetfootIt occupies the same 1,600-soul price point. Fleetfoot is a weapon item in Deadlock.
COMPARE ITEM →Intensifying MagazineIt occupies the same 1,600-soul price point. Increases Weapon Damage as you continuously fire your weapon.
COMPARE ITEM →How Split Shot has changed
- Max Stacks reduced from 6 to 5
- Weapon Damage per stack reduced from 10% to 8%
- Cooldown increased from 24s to 27s
- Cooldown reduced from 32s to 24s
- Now supports custom count and angles per hero
- Enabled for Celeste (3 at 70 degrees)
- Cooldown increased from 14s to 32s
Split Shot 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