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VITALITY ITEM

Trophy Collector

Whenever you score an assist or kill , gain extra sprint , ability range and passive soul generation . This effect stacks and persists through death.

LOCK LAB ITEM PULSE

How Trophy Collector is performing now

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CURRENT ITEM DOSSIER

Mobility and positioning

Whenever you score an assist or kill , gain extra sprint , ability range and passive soul generation . This effect stacks and persists through death.

Trophy Collector functions as mobility and positioning within the Vitality shop. The strategic value is improving access, escape, or the ability to preserve a favorable firing angle. 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.

VITALITYSHOP CATEGORY
IIITEM TIER
1,600SOUL COST
LOCK LAB ANALYSIS

When Trophy Collector belongs in the build

BUY WHEN
  • Positioning is the main reason your damage or utility is not reaching the right target.
  • The extra movement enables a repeatable engage, rotation, chase, or disengage pattern.
  • You can convert the mobility into objective pressure rather than only correcting late positioning.
SKIP WHEN
  • Hard control or burst damage prevents movement from solving the actual problem.
  • Your hero already reaches fights reliably and needs stronger conversion after arriving.
  • The item would be used as an emergency escape instead of supporting a deliberate game plan.
DATA-BACKED BUILD CONTEXT

Timing, movement, and hero fit

Trophy Collector is a transitional purchase at 1,600 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 Trophy Collector yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.

NEARBY SHOP ALTERNATIVES

What else the same budget can buy

RECENT NAMED CHANGES

How Trophy Collector has changed

  • Souls per stack reduced from 25 to 18
  • Out of Combat regen reduced from 4 to 2
  • Ability Range reduced from +1% Per Stack to +0.75%
  • No longer gives +20 Health per stack
  • Souls per minute increased from 22 to 25
HAND-WRITTEN LOCK LAB FIELD NOTES

Trophy Collector strategy, mistakes, and counterplay

Reviewed for the current high-volume item set. Live popularity and hero-fit evidence remain in the Item Pulse above.

EDITORIAL REVIEW · August 16, 2026
HERO & ABILITY INTERACTION

Trophy Collector converts participation in kills and assists into persistent map and economy momentum. It favors heroes that can join fights reliably and survive long enough to keep converting the accumulated utility.

COMMON MISTAKE

Buying after falling behind and assuming the stacks will repair the game. A snowball item is weakest when the team cannot reliably finish kills or contest the map.

HOW OPPONENTS ANSWER

Deny low-risk assists, trade objectives instead of feeding scattered fights, and punish the buyer before stacks accumulate. Controlled games reduce its compounding value.

PRACTICAL BUILD EXAMPLE

Purchase before a period of active rotations, then use the extra sprint and range to reach the next fight rather than farming passively after the investment.

COMPARE BEFORE BUYING

Sprint Boots gives dependable movement immediately; Trophy Collector offers a higher ceiling tied to successful participation. Choose reliability when the game is even or losing.

Trophy Collector 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.

No hero-specific build link has a reliable current sample yet.
DATA & SOURCING

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.

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