Vyper

Throws a dagger for Spirit Damage and a movement slow. Hitting the same target again stacks the effect — each additional dagger adds both damage and more slow, up to a cap, and the stacks persist for several seconds.

Purpose: Her setup and chase tool. Vyper stacks daggers onto one target to strip their movement, then commits her gun and Lethal Venom into a target that can no longer walk away.

Damage

50 base (about 0.8x spirit scaling) plus 25 per stack (about 0.4x scaling), up to 3 stacks base (T3 adds +2 max stacks)

Crowd control

-28% move slow on first hit, -12% more per stack, lasting 10s

Defensive

The slow is her only way to break a chase

How to play against it

• Break line of sight for 10s and every stack falls off, resetting her whole combo
• The dagger is a travelling projectile — strafing and using cover during her approach denies the stacks she needs
• Buy Bullet Resist deeper than she can shred (Metal Skin Metal Skin 3,200 souls Tier 3ArmorInstantCast +24s Cooldown +5s Duration +12% Bullet Resist -20% Dash Distance +20% Gravity Scale , Bullet Armor) so the T2 resist reduction does not open you up to The Rattler
• A Viscous Cube at T3 or a Debuff Remover strips the stacks outright, which is a full reset of her damage setup

Interactions

• 2 charges base (3 at T1) on a 4s charge delay, so she can land a full stack set quickly on a committed target
• T3 refunds 55% of the charge cooldown on hit, which makes daggers close to spammable against a target she is actually connecting with
• The bullet-resist shred at T2 means her daggers make her own gun hit meaningfully harder, not just slower targets
• Stacks decay after 10s, so a target who breaks line of sight for that long resets the whole setup

Injects a target with venom that detonates after a short delay. The damage scales with how much health the target is missing, from a small amount at full health up to a very large amount once they are badly hurt.

Purpose: Her finisher. Vyper applies it once the target is around half health so the delay elapses exactly as they try to disengage, converting an escape attempt into a kill.

Damage

20 minimum (about 0.65x spirit scaling) up to 140 maximum (about 2.79x spirit scaling), reaching maximum against targets at or below 30% health; T1 adds +31.5 max venom damage

How to play against it

• Break line of sight during the 3s delay and reposition so that when it detonates she cannot follow up with gun damage
• Heal BEFORE it resolves, not after — the damage keys off missing health at detonation, so topping up shrinks the hit; note this fails if she has T2's -40% anti-heal
• Do not rely on Petrify (yours or an ally Vyper's) to block it — Lethal Venom explicitly ignores Petrify's damage block
• A Viscous Cube's invulnerability does absorb the detonation, unlike Petrify
• It is a 10m cast range single-target ability; simply staying beyond 10m of her denies it entirely pre-T3

Interactions

• It ignores Petrify's damage block — meaning she can Petrifying Bola a target with Lethal Venom already ticking and the venom still resolves through the immunity. This is a key exception to remember when evaluating Petrify as a defensive tool
• The 3s venom buildup means damage resolves after a delay, so the 'safe' moment right after disengaging is exactly when it lands
• T2's -40% healing reduction plus the missing-health scaling means healing out of a Venom is unusually hard
• T3 lets her bullets also build up Lethal Venom, so sustained SMG fire alone applies it

A permanent passive that lengthens her slides, lets her slide uphill instead of stalling, and lets her turn much more sharply while sliding.

Purpose: It is her movement identity. Combined with her gun not consuming ammo while sliding, Slither lets her circle a target at speed, never reload, and enter and exit fights from angles that other heroes cannot take.

Mobility

+15% slide distance base, +20% more at T1; uphill sliding and faster slide turning; T2 adds +2 stamina (she has 4 base stamina)

Defensive

T3 grants a 180 barrier for 4s on slide, with an 8s internal cooldown before it can reapply

How to play against it

• Fight her on flat or enclosed ground — Slither's uphill sliding and long slides are worth far less where there is no slope and no room to build speed
• Root and immobilise effects (Warden's Binding Word, Venator's Hex-Lined Snap Trap, Vindicta's Stake) stop a slide dead and remove both her mobility and her infinite-ammo state
• The T3 barrier is only 180 for 4s on an 8s internal cooldown; burst through it rather than chipping at it
• Displacement (Venator's Gutshot Gutshot 10m Range23s Cooldown A point-blank shotgun burst within about 10m that shoves everyone hit backwards. Crowd Control knockback on everyone hit; Damage 60 base (about 0.7x weapon scaling) plus 30 bonus (about 0.8x scaling) when… Mobility none for Venator himself 1 +25 damage 2 -10s cooldown (23s base) and +0.4s stun duration 5 after a wall stun, Venator's next heavy melee becomes blessed , Viscous's Puddle Punch Puddle Punch 40m Range24s Cooldown Materialises a fist at a chosen point up to a long distance away, punching everyone in a small area upward. Crowd Control Knockup on everyone in the 4m radius plus a -24% movement slow for 3s Damage 20 damage base plus about 0.6x melee scaling; Mobility Grants Viscous and allies increased air control when caught in it 1 +1 charge and +20 damage 2 +1.5m radius and +60% lifesteal 5 -14s cooldown and deals Heavy Melee damage Knockup) cancels a slide and forces her to re-enter on foot

Interactions

• The interaction that matters: her weapon does not burn ammo during a slide, so a Vyper who chains slides has effectively unlimited sustained DPS
• Uphill sliding means terrain that stops other heroes' slides does not stop hers, which is why she is much stronger on sloped map geometry
• T3's 180 barrier on an 8s internal cooldown is her only defensive layer in the whole kit
• The T3 barrier duration was reduced from 5s to 4s in the 09-16-2026 patch

Throws an explosive bola. On detonation it damages and slows everyone in a wide area, while anyone struck directly instead takes much larger damage and is petrified — completely unable to act, though also immune to damage while petrified.

Purpose: Her teamfight tool and her lockdown. A direct hit removes the enemy's key hero from the fight for over two seconds; the area version slows and softens a group for her team to converge on.

Damage

50 Area Damage (about 0.74x spirit scaling); 180 on a direct petrify hit (about 2.05x spirit scaling), with T1 adding +49.5

Crowd control

2.2s petrify on a direct hit (T3 adds +1s, up to 3.2s); -40% movement slow for 1.5s in the area

Defensive

Petrifying an incoming diver removes them from the fight for over two seconds

How to play against it

• It is a thrown projectile with visible travel — sidestep the direct hit and you take only 50 damage and a 1.5s slow instead of 180 and a 2.2-3.2s petrify
• Spread out so a direct hit can only land on one person; pre-T3 the area component is a slow, not a disable
• If you are petrified you take no damage, so the correct use is to treat it as a forced defensive window — have your team disengage or reposition during it rather than trying to fight
• Unstoppable windows (Yamato's Shadow Transformation Shadow Transformation 5s Duration160s Cooldown Yamato transforms with an initial invincible window, refreshes her ability cooldowns, and for the duration casts them much faster while immune to negative status effects and heavily… Damage No direct damage; the power is in refreshed abilities cast 60% faster Mobility T2 adds +4 m/s move speed during the transformation, on top of her already… Defensive Initial invincibility during the 1.5s transformation channel, immunity to… 1 +7 weapon damage 2 +4 m/s move speed and -30s cooldown (160s base) 5 +3s duration (5s base up to 8s) and +30% bullet resist and +30% spirit resist status immunity) go through the petrify
• 115s cooldown post-09-16-2026 is long; force the objective in that window

Interactions

• Petrified targets block ALL damage, which cuts both ways: it is a hard disable but it also makes the target temporarily immune to her own team's burst. Petrifying someone mid-focus wastes allied damage
• Her own Lethal Venom is the exception — it explicitly ignores Petrify's damage block, so a Venom applied before the Bola still resolves
• T3 turning the area effect into a mass petrify converts her ultimate from a single pick into a full teamfight disable, at the cost of blanket-blocking her team's damage on everyone hit
• Cooldown was increased from 105s to 115s in the 09-16-2026 patch