Decay
active Documented When to buy Decay Decay +30s Cooldown +12s Duration +0.1s Cast Delay +8 Spirit Power -55% Incoming Healing +65 Bonus Health
Buy when an enemy is healing through your damage and you want a point-and-click answer that does not rely on landing bullets.
When to skip Decay
The damage itself is minimal — buy it for the healing cut, not the damage.
Gotchas
The mechanics people most often get wrong about this item.
- Healing reduction raised -45% -> -50% on 6 Mar 2026
- Damage is non-lethal and does not apply item procs, though it does trigger
Spirit Burn Spirit Burn +6% Ability Range +6% Radius +500 Damage Threshold +50 Explosion Damage +8s Debuff Duration -70% Incoming Healing +20s Immunity Duration - This item was NOT renamed from Withering Whip — Withering Whip became
Rusted Barrel Rusted Barrel +16s Cooldown +5s Duration +0.1s Cast Delay +32% Fire Rate +60 Bonus Health -8% Bullet Resist - Healing reduction raised -50% -> -55% on 30 Oct 2026
Problems it answers
- Healing and lifesteal — “They keep healing back everything I do to them.”
- Unkillable frontline — “I cannot kill their tank.”
Heroes that make this worth a slot
Heroes whose kit creates the problems Decay answers. This is derived from kit properties, not from measured build results.