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Deadlock has 49 Spirit items as of Oct 26, 2026: 8 at Tier 1 (800 souls), 12 at Tier 2 (1,600), 13 at Tier 3 (3,200) and 16 at Tier 4 (6,400). Extra Spirit is the most bought item in the game, in 52.6% of hero-matches from Oct 15 to Oct 26, 2026.
Deadlock has 49 Spirit items as of Oct 26, 2026: 8 in Tier 1 at 800 souls, 12 in Tier 2 at 1,600, 13 in Tier 3 at 3,200 and 16 in Tier 4 at 6,400, as the game files list them. Spirit items power a hero's abilities: Spirit Power, cooldown reduction, range, duration and charges, plus active spells such as Knockdown, Cursed Relic, Echo Shard and Refresher. They are the most bought category in the game: Extra Spirit and Improved Spirit appear in about half of all hero-matches. Spending souls on them raises your Spirit investment bonus (see Items and Shop). Deadlock is an invite-only playtest, so every number here is dated.
Quick facts
| Spirit items | 49 (8 / 12 / 13 / 16 by tier) |
| Actives | 18, among them Knockdown, Silence Wave, Cursed Relic, Echo Shard, Ethereal Shift and Refresher |
| Investment bonus | +38 Spirit Power at 4,800 souls spent, +100 at 28,800 |
| Most bought | Extra Spirit, 52.6% of hero-matches |
| Newest item | Golden Goose Egg, added Mar 6, 2026 |
| Latest change | Radiant Regeneration, Oct 14, 2026 |
Source: game files via deadlock-api, read Oct 26, 2026; Valve, May 22, 2026; deadlock-api's measured item stats, Oct 15 to Oct 26, 2026; Valve, Mar 6, 2026; Valve, Oct 14, 2026.
Tier 1 Spirit items (800 souls)
Tier 1 Spirit items are the starts of the big spirit chains: Extra Spirit, Extra Charge, Mystic Burst and Mystic Expansion each build into a core Tier 3 or Tier 4 item.
| Item | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Extra Charge | 800 | +1 charge on charged abilities and +7 Spirit Power for them |
| Extra Spirit | 800 | +10 Spirit Power |
| Golden Goose Egg (active) | 800 | Gain souls while alive (80 per minute since Sep 16, 2026) at -15% damage; hatch to cash them in with a permanent buff per 80 souls (added Mar 6, 2026) |
| Mystic Burst | 800 | Charges over 14s; an ability hit over 80 damage deals +40 spirit damage |
| Mystic Expansion | 800 | Imbue an ability for +20% range and radius |
| Mystic Regeneration | 800 | Spirit damage to heroes gives 4 health per second for 7s, stacking across heroes; +50 health |
| Rusted Barrel (active) | 800 | Cut an enemy's fire rate by 32% and bullet resist by 8% for 5s, 16s cooldown |
| Spirit Strike | 800 | A melee on a hero deals +40 spirit damage and -6% spirit resist for 6s, 8s cooldown |
Source: the game files, read Oct 26, 2026; Golden Goose Egg from Valve's Mar 6, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026 notes.
Tier 2 Spirit items (1,600 souls)
Tier 2 holds the imbue items that shape a single ability (Compress Cooldown, Duration Extender, Quicksilver Reload) and the first debuffs: slows, resist shred and fire rate reduction.
| Item | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Arcane Surge | 1,600 | Builds from Extra Stamina; after a dash-jump, the next ability within 7s gets +12% range, +15% duration and +20 Spirit Power |
| Bullet Resist Shredder | 1,600 | Spirit damage cuts enemy bullet resist by 10% for 8s; +9% weapon damage, +9% bullet resist |
| Cold Front (active) | 1,600 | Ice blast to 10 m, 95 spirit damage and a 48% slow, 25s cooldown |
| Compress Cooldown | 1,600 | Imbue an ability with -18% cooldown |
| Duration Extender | 1,600 | Imbue an ability with +22% duration |
| Improved Spirit | 1,600 | Builds from Extra Spirit; +18 Spirit Power, +1 m sprint, +75 health |
| Mystic Slow | 1,600 | Spirit damage slows the target 24% and -10% dash distance for 2s |
| Mystic Vulnerability | 1,600 | Spirit damage cuts the target's spirit resist by 8% for 7s; +8% spirit resist |
| Quicksilver Reload | 1,600 | The imbued ability charges over 18s; using it deals +44 spirit damage, reloads your weapon and gives +10% fire rate |
| Slowing Hex (active) | 1,600 | Slow an enemy 16%, silence their movement abilities and items and raise their gravity for 3.5s, 29s cooldown (from 27s, Sep 16, 2026) |
| Spirit Sap (active) | 1,600 | An enemy loses 9% spirit resist and 30 Spirit Power for 12s, 18s cooldown |
| Suppressor | 1,600 | Spirit damage cuts enemy fire rate by 28% for 4.5s; +6 Spirit Power, +8% bullet resist |
Source: the game files, read Oct 26, 2026; Slowing Hex from Valve's Sep 16, 2026 notes.
Tier 3 Spirit items (3,200 souls)
Tier 3 is the core of most spirit builds: Superior Cooldown, Tankbuster and Greater Expansion are all among the most bought items, and Knockdown and Silence Wave are the main crowd-control buys.
| Item | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Decay (active) | 3,200 | Damage over time of 1.95% current health per second for 12s (non-lethal) and -50% incoming healing, 30s cooldown |
| Disarming Hex (active) | 3,200 | Builds from Rusted Barrel; disarm an enemy for 4.25s and -13% bullet resist, 16s cooldown |
| Greater Expansion | 3,200 | Builds from Mystic Expansion; +30% ability and item range and radius, +10% spirit resist |
| Knockdown (active) | 3,200 | A 0.5s stun after a 2s delay, longer on airborne targets, 35s cooldown, 45 m range |
| Radiant Regeneration | 3,200 | Builds from Mystic Regeneration; casting an ability heals 65 and gives +1.75 m move speed for 3s, 6s cooldown |
| Rapid Recharge | 3,200 | Builds from Extra Charge; +2 charges, 30% faster recharge, -14% cooldown and +14 Spirit Power for charged abilities |
| Silence Wave (active) | 3,200 | An expanding wave that silences enemies for 3s and deals 75 damage, 42s cooldown |
| Spirit Snatch | 3,200 | Builds from Spirit Strike; a melee on a hero deals +50 spirit damage and steals 12% spirit resist and 28 Spirit Power for 10s |
| Superior Cooldown | 3,200 | Builds from Compress Cooldown; -20% ability cooldown, +4 out-of-combat regen |
| Superior Duration | 3,200 | Builds from Duration Extender; +28% ability and item duration, +8% bullet resist |
| Surge of Power | 3,200 | Builds from Extra Spirit; imbue an ability with Spirit Power; casting it gives +1.75 m move speed for 8s |
| Tankbuster | 3,200 | Builds from Mystic Burst; an ability hit over 165 damage deals +40 plus 7.5% of current health, ignoring spirit resist |
| Torment Pulse | 3,200 | Every 1.4s, 25 spirit damage to the two closest enemies within 9 m; +18% melee resist, +100 health |
Source: the game files, read Oct 26, 2026; Decay and Tankbuster from Valve's Sep 16, 2026 notes; Radiant Regeneration from Valve's Oct 14, 2026 notes; Silence Wave from Valve's developer Yoshi's Apr 10, 2026 notes.
Tier 4 Spirit items (6,400 souls)
Tier 4 Spirit items are the late-game finishers and the strongest single-target answers: Cursed Relic, Focus Lens and Ethereal Shift.
| Item | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Arctic Blast (active) | 6,400 | Builds from Cold Front; ice blast to 16 m dealing 175, freezing for 1s, then a 48% slow for 4s, 24s cooldown |
| Boundless Spirit | 6,400 | Builds from Improved Spirit; +30 Spirit Power and +15% Spirit Power |
| Cursed Relic (active) | 6,400 | Curse an enemy for 3.25s (interrupt, silence, disarm, no items, removes non-ultimate buffs) with a -25% damage output debuff for that time, 55s cooldown |
| Echo Shard (active) | 6,400 | Reset the imbued non-ultimate ability's cooldown; its cooldown is 30s plus that ability's (since Jul 28, 2026) |
| Escalating Exposure | 6,400 | Builds from Mystic Vulnerability; spirit damage stacks +4.5% spirit amp on the target (max 12) and -8% spirit resist |
| Ethereal Shift (active) | 6,400 | Invulnerable in a void for 4s, then +30% spirit resist, +20 Spirit Power and +3 m move speed for 5s, 37s cooldown |
| Focus Lens (active) | 6,400 | Builds from Spirit Sap; silence an enemy for 4.5s, then 35% of damage dealt lands again (from 30%, Sep 16, 2026), 45s cooldown, 25 m range |
| Lightning Scroll | 6,400 | Builds from Mystic Slow; ultimate damage stuns for 0.75s and deals 150 spirit damage after 3s |
| Magic Carpet (active) | 6,400 | Fly for 12s, immune to slows, 32s cooldown; +125 health |
| Mercurial Magnum | 6,400 | Builds from Quicksilver Reload; after the imbued ability, bullets deal bonus spirit damage until you reload; +22% fire rate |
| Mystic Reverb | 6,400 | An ability hit of 100+ echoes 50% of it in a 16 m area after 3s with a 32% slow, 6.25s cooldown |
| Refresher (active) | 6,400 | Reset all ability cooldowns and charges, 300s cooldown |
| Scourge (active) | 6,400 | Give an ally +40% spirit resist and an aura dealing 2.3% of enemy max health per second within 10 m for 10s, 35s cooldown |
| Spirit Burn | 6,400 | 500 spirit damage to one enemy within 5s triggers an explosion and a burn with -70% healing for 8s |
| Transcendent Cooldown | 6,400 | Builds from Superior Cooldown; -25% ability and item cooldowns |
| Vortex Web (active) | 6,400 | Builds from Slowing Hex; a grenade that pulls enemies within 12 m together and hexes them, 42s cooldown |
Source: the game files, read Oct 26, 2026; Echo Shard and Cursed Relic from Valve's Jul 28, 2026 notes; Focus Lens from Valve's Sep 16, 2026 notes.
Most bought Spirit items
Spirit items are the most bought in Deadlock: from Oct 15 to Oct 26, 2026, deadlock-api's measured item stats put Extra Spirit in 52.6% of hero-matches (bought on average at 7.0 minutes), Improved Spirit in 50.7% (13.4 minutes) and Superior Cooldown in 39.7% (24.9 minutes). Then came Mystic Expansion (37.3%), Boundless Spirit (34.9%, at 29.2 minutes), Tankbuster (33.9%), Mystic Burst (33.7%), Extra Charge (33.2%) and Compress Cooldown (32.9%).
Many gun heroes buy Spirit items too, which is part of why these numbers are so high. Mobalytics' Carry Haze build (Oct 22, 2026) opens on Extra Spirit for "magazine and Sleep Dagger damage", and deadlock-api measured Extra Spirit in 72% of Haze games over the same days.
Among commonly bought Tier 4 items, Escalating Exposure and Spirit Burn had the highest measured win rates when bought, 56.6% each, then Boundless Spirit (53.6%) and Transcendent Cooldown (53.3%), by deadlock-api's measurement of Oct 15 to Oct 26, 2026. They are bought around 30 minutes, so the numbers partly reflect teams already ahead. Over Oct 12 to Oct 26, 2026, Scourge reached 58.5% while Disarming Hex (41.5%) and Rusted Barrel (44.7%) were the lowest of items bought over 200,000 times, in the same stats.
Core Spirit items outlets recommend
Spirit builds follow a few chains that guides keep naming. Mobalytics' Deadman Danny build (Oct 21, 2026) takes Extra Spirit, Mystic Burst and Mystic Expansion early, Tankbuster, Superior Cooldown, Greater Expansion and Boundless Spirit in the middle game, and Transcendent Cooldown and Spirit Burn late, the same items that top the buy rates. Its Graves build (Oct 13, 2026) imbues Duration Extender and Compress Cooldown on Borrowed Decree and adds Transcendent Cooldown "after all four actives".
Echo Shard is the item Esports.gg named in July 2026 when it called the meta "Spirit- and Echo Shard-building heroes". Mobalytics' Bomb Bebop build (Oct 13, 2026) rushes it for two Sticky Bombs per hook. Since Jul 28, 2026 its cooldown is 30s plus that of the ability it resets.
Several Spirit actives are counters first: Knockdown for fliers and channeled ultimates, Cursed Relic and Focus Lens to catch one hero, Silence Wave for groups, Decay for anti-heal. Counter Items lists them by threat, and Builds and Itemization covers spirit builds against gun builds.
Recent Spirit item changes
Spirit items changed in each recent patch; the latest are below, newest first.
- Oct 14, 2026: Valve cut Radiant Regeneration's spirit scaling from 0.04 to 0.035.
- Sep 16, 2026: Valve cut Decay's damage by 25% and raised its duration by 20%, cut Tankbuster's bonus from 8% to 7.5% of current health, raised Slowing Hex's cooldown from 27s to 29s, raised Focus Lens' damage from 30% to 35% and its range from 20 m to 25 m, and cut Golden Goose Egg from 90 to 80 souls per minute.
- Jul 28, 2026: Valve replaced Cursed Relic's innate -14% damage penalty with a -25% damage output debuff lasting the curse's 3.25s, and changed Echo Shard's cooldown from 35s to 30s plus the imbued ability's.
- Mar 6, 2026: Valve added Golden Goose Egg.
- Jan 30, 2026: Valve's developer Yoshi renamed Curse to Cursed Relic.
Frequently asked questions
How many Spirit items are in Deadlock? Deadlock has 49 Spirit items as of Oct 26, 2026, by the game files: 8 at Tier 1, 12 at Tier 2, 13 at Tier 3 and 16 at Tier 4. Eighteen of them are actives.
What is the best Spirit item in Deadlock? Deadlock has no single best Spirit item, but Extra Spirit was the most bought item in the game from Oct 15 to Oct 26, 2026, in 52.6% of hero-matches, as deadlock-api measured. Improved Spirit (50.7%) and Superior Cooldown (39.7%) came next.
What should I buy first for a spirit build in Deadlock? Deadlock spirit builds usually start with Extra Spirit, Mystic Burst, Mystic Expansion or Extra Charge, each 800 souls, which build into Boundless Spirit, Tankbuster, Greater Expansion and Rapid Recharge. Extra Spirit was bought on average at 7.0 minutes in deadlock-api's measurement of Oct 15 to Oct 26, 2026.
What does Echo Shard do in Deadlock? Echo Shard is a Tier 4 Spirit active in Deadlock that resets the cooldown of the non-ultimate ability it is imbued on. Its own cooldown is 30s plus that ability's cooldown since Valve's Jul 28, 2026 update.
What happened to Curse in Deadlock? Deadlock's Curse was renamed Cursed Relic on Jan 30, 2026. It curses one enemy for 3.25s, silencing, disarming and blocking their items, by the game files.
How much Spirit Power does Spirit investment give in Deadlock? Spending souls on Deadlock's Spirit items gives +7 Spirit Power at 800 souls, +38 at 4,800 and +100 at 28,800, by Valve's May 22, 2026 table. The bonus counts all souls spent on Spirit items.
Sources
- Items (upgrades), deadlock-api's copy of the game files, read Oct 26, 2026
- Item stats since Oct 15, 2026, since Oct 12, 2026 and for Haze, deadlock-api (measured), read Oct 26, 2026
- 01-30-2026 Update, Valve (Yoshi) on the Deadlock forums, Jan 30, 2026
- 04-10-2026 Update, Valve (Yoshi) on the Deadlock forums, Apr 10, 2026
- Gameplay Update - 03-06-2026, Valve, Mar 6, 2026
- Gameplay Update - 05-22-2026, Valve, May 22, 2026
- Minor Update - 07-28-2026, Valve, Jul 28, 2026
- Minor Update - 09-16-2026, Valve, Sep 16, 2026
- Minor Update - 10-14-2026, Valve, Oct 15, 2026
- Deadman Danny by sharky, Mobalytics (sharky), Oct 21, 2026
- Graves by Hydration, Mobalytics (Hydration), Oct 13, 2026
- Bomb Bebop by Suzu, Mobalytics (Suzu), Oct 13, 2026
- Carry Haze by rina, Mobalytics (rina), Oct 22, 2026
- Deadlock Hero Tier List: Best Characters Ranked (July 2026), Esports.gg (XC Enriquez), Jul 25, 2026
- The Only Beginner’s Guide You Need for Deadlock (Updated), Metro Deadlock, Oct 1, 2026 (video)
- You're Building Wrong: Every COUNTER Item EXPLAINED - Deadlock Guide, Ansonex, Mar 25, 2026 (video)
- Counterbuying SIMPLIFIED for New Players | Deadlock Guide, Ghoul, Oct 20, 2026 (video)
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The Only Beginner’s Guide You Need for Deadlock (Updated)
Metro Deadlock
You're Building Wrong: Every COUNTER Item EXPLAINED - Deadlock Guide
Ansonex
- Tier 2 holds the imbue items that shape a single ability (Compress Cooldown, Duration Extender, Quicksilver Reload)…
- Tier 3 is the core of most spirit builds: Superior Cooldown, Tankbuster and Greater Expansion are all among the most…
- Tier 4 Spirit items are the late-game finishers and the strongest single-target answers: Cursed Relic, Focus Lens and…
Counterbuying SIMPLIFIED for New Players | Deadlock Guide
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Game ModesDeadlock has three matchmaking modes on Oct 26, 2026 (Standard, Ranked and the 4v4 Street Brawl) plus bot matches, Custom Matches, Explore NYC, the Sandbox and the Hideout for practice. Hero Labs, an experimental mode for unfinished heroes, has been paused since Aug 2025.
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Mid-Boss and RejuvenatorDeadlock's Mid-Boss sits in the Pit at the center of the map from the first second of a match, with 13,000 base health; the team that kills it gets 3,000 souls, 2 permanent buffs each and a Rejuvenator crystal whose buff lasts 3 minutes, and it respawns 7 minutes later.
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Movement and CombatDeadlock heroes move with stamina-based dashes and air jumps, free slides, wall jumps, mantles and out-of-combat sprint, and fight with guns, abilities, light and heavy melee and a parry that stuns an attacking meleer. Most heroes have 3 stamina, a ground dash covers 10 meters and a dash jump 19, and headshots deal 1.65 times damage (Valve's notes and the game files, as of Oct 26, 2026).
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Counter ItemsDeadlock's counter items answer specific threats: Healbane, Toxic Bullets, Decay, Inhibitor, Crippling Headshot and Spirit Burn cut enemy healing; Dispel Magic, Divine Barrier, Unstoppable and Indomitable answer stuns and debuffs; Knockdown, Silencer, Cursed Relic and Disarming Hex shut heroes down.
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Builds and ItemizationA Deadlock build is the order of items a hero buys with souls: gun builds stack Weapon items, spirit builds stack Spirit items, and every hero adds Vitality. Investment bonuses jump once 4,800 souls are spent in a category, and builds change to counter the enemy team.
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Vitality ItemsDeadlock has 54 Vitality items as of Oct 26, 2026: 8 at Tier 1 (800 souls), 15 at Tier 2 (1,600), 14 at Tier 3 (3,200) and 17 at Tier 4 (6,400). Extra Regen is the most bought, in 36.1% of hero-matches from Oct 15 to Oct 26, 2026.
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Weapon ItemsDeadlock has 53 Weapon items as of Oct 26, 2026: 7 at Tier 1 (800 souls), 16 at Tier 2 (1,600), 19 at Tier 3 (3,200) and 11 at Tier 4 (6,400). High-Velocity Rounds is the most bought, in 27.7% of hero-matches from Oct 15 to Oct 26, 2026.