Siphon Bullets
vitality · Tier 4 · 6,400 souls passive VerifiedWhat it does
Your bullets temporarily steal maximum health from the target and add it to yours; the target gets it back when the debuff expires.
Numbers: 2.5% max HP stolen per bullet, 17s steal duration, 1.2s cooldown; +15% Weapon Damage, +10% Bullet Resist
Buy it when
Buy on sustained gun carries fighting big-health frontliners — it shrinks them and grows you at the same time.
Skip it when
The steal is temporary, so it does not help in short skirmishes.
Gotchas
The mechanics people most often get wrong about this item.
- Stolen health decays exponentially with successive applications because it scales off the enemy's reduced max HP
Problems it answers
- Unkillable frontline — “I cannot kill their tank.”
- Sustained gun damage — “Their gun grinds me down in a long fight.”
Heroes that make this worth a slot
Heroes whose kit creates the problems Siphon Bullets answers. This is derived from kit properties, not from measured build results.