Siphon Bullets
passive Documented When to buy Siphon Bullets Siphon Bullets +15% Weapon Damage +10% Bullet Resist +9999 Max Stacks +17s Steal Duration +1.2s Max Frequency +2.5% Hero Lifesteal
Buy on sustained gun carries fighting big-health frontliners — it shrinks them and grows you at the same time.
When to skip Siphon Bullets
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.