Deadlock resist shred items
Strips enemy resistances. Shred subtracts from the total rather than multiplying into it, which is why it scales where a fourth damage item does not.
15 items on patch 09-16-2026. Pick a tier, then an item, for what it does and when to buy it.
Weapon
7 items1,600 souls each
Spirit Shredder Bullets Spirit Shredder Bullets +8s Debuff Duration +10% Spirit Lifesteal Strong evidence Your bullets reduce the target's Spirit Resist, softening them up for your team's ability damage.
Buy when: Buy when your team's damage is mostly abilities and the enemy is stacking Spirit Resist.
Weakening Headshot Weakening Headshot -12% Bullet Resist +12s Debuff Duration +60 Bonus Health Documented Headshots strip Bullet Resist from the target, so your whole team's gun damage lands harder on that enemy.
Buy when: Buy into tanky enemies when your team is gun-heavy and you can land headshots.
-12% Bullet Resist for 12s (value changed from -13% in Sep 2026); +60 Bonus Health
3,200 souls each
Alchemical Fire Alchemical Fire +30s Cooldown +5s Duration +0.2s Cast Delay +10 Spirit Power Strong evidence Throws a flask that creates a burning area dealing damage over time and reducing enemy Bullet Resist inside it.
Buy when: Buy for zone denial and faster objective damage, or to punish enemies who must hold a choke.
Hunter's Aura Hunter's Aura +100 Bonus Health -10% Bullet Resist +15% Fire Rate Strong evidence Aura that reduces the Bullet Resist of nearby enemies, boosting your whole team's gun damage.
Buy when: Buy on a gun-heavy team fighting durable enemies at close quarters.
Spirit Rend Spirit Rend +2s Max Frequency +75 Bonus Health +4 Max Stacks +10% Spirit Lifesteal -7% Spirit Resist +8s Debuff Duration Strong evidence Bullets strip Spirit Resist from the target, amplifying your team's ability damage on that enemy.
Buy when: Buy when enemies stack Spirit Resist and your team's damage is ability-based.
6,400 souls each
Armor Piercing Rounds Armor Piercing Rounds +60% Bullet Velocity +55% Proc Chance +8% Weapon Damage Documented Your bullets have a large chance to become unavoidable — piercing enemies and ignoring their Bullet Resist entirely.
Buy when: The definitive answer to enemies stacking Bullet Resist, barriers or bullet-evasion effects.
55% proc chance; +60% Bullet Velocity, +8% Weapon Damage
Watch out: Procced bullets bypass bullet evasion and damage barriers, and are not stopped by Plated Armor
Crippling Headshot Crippling Headshot +125 Bonus Health -16% Bullet Resist -16% Spirit Resist -35% Healing Reduction -35% Healing Reduction +12s Debuff Duration Documented A headshot debuffs the target hard: both resistances drop and their healing is cut for a long window. It is simultaneously an armour-shred, an anti-heal and a focus-fire tool.
Buy when: Buy when one durable, self-healing enemy is the focus of every fight and you can land headshots.
On headshot: approx -17% Bullet Resist, -17% Spirit Resist, -35% Healing Reduction for 12s; +125 Bonus Health
Watch out: The triggering headshot itself is dealt before the resist reduction applies
Spirit
8 items800 souls each
Spirit Strike Spirit Strike +8s Cooldown +6s Duration Strong evidence Melee attacks deal bonus Spirit Damage and debuff the target's Spirit Resist.
Buy when: Buy on heroes who mix melee into their rotation.
1,600 souls each
Bullet Resist Shredder Bullet Resist Shredder +8s Duration -10% Bullet Resist +9% Weapon Damage +9% Bullet Resist Strong evidence Your Spirit Damage strips Bullet Resist from the target, so your team's guns hit harder on anyone you have touched.
Buy when: Buy on a caster playing with gun carries against durable enemies.
Mystic Vulnerability Mystic Vulnerability +7s Duration +8% Spirit Resist Documented Dealing Spirit Damage strips Spirit Resist from the target, amplifying every subsequent ability your team lands.
Buy when: Buy on an ability-heavy team facing enemies who stack Spirit Resist.
+8% Spirit Resist; applies -8% Spirit Resist to the target for 7s
Watch out: Does not stack; repeated spirit damage only refreshes the debuff
Spirit Sap Spirit Sap +18s Cooldown +12s Duration +0.1s Cast Delay -9% Spirit Resist +50 Bonus Health -30 Spirit Power Documented Targets an enemy to strip both their Spirit Resist and their Spirit Power — it weakens an enemy caster while making them easier to burst.
Buy when: Buy against an enemy spellcaster: it lowers their damage and raises yours against them at the same time.
-9% Spirit Resist and -30 Spirit Power for 12s, 40m cast range, 18s cooldown; +50 Bonus Health
3,200 souls each
Disarming Hex Disarming Hex +16s Cooldown +4.25s Duration +0.1s Cast Delay +75 Bonus Health -13% Bullet Resist Documented A point-and-click Disarm that stops the target using their weapon at all, and lowers their Bullet Resist while it runs.
Buy when: The dedicated answer to a gun carry: it simply turns their weapon off for four seconds during their damage window.
Disarm for 4.25s, -13% Bullet Resist, 32m cast range, 16s cooldown; +75 Bonus Health, +0.75m Sprint Speed
Watch out: Affects abilities that modify primary fire, but not weapon-damage abilities that work independently of primary fire
Tankbuster Tankbuster +14s Cooldown +7.5% Current Health Damage +40 Damage +14s Charge-Up Time +50 Bonus Health Documented Charges over time so that your next large ability deals extra damage scaling off the target's current health — and that bonus ignores spirit resistance.
Buy when: Buy when an enemy tank's health pool is the reason your abilities feel useless.
Charges over 14s; abilities dealing more than 165 damage add 40 flat spirit damage plus 7.5% of the target's current health, ignoring Spirit Resist; +50 Bonus Health
Watch out: Only triggers on spirit damage above the 165 threshold against enemy heroes
6,400 souls each
Escalating Exposure Escalating Exposure +12s Duration +0.7s Max Frequency +4.5% Spirit Amp per Stack +17% Spirit Resist +12 Max Stacks Documented Your Spirit Damage stacks an amplifier on the target so each subsequent ability hits harder, and it also strips their Spirit Resist.
Buy when: Buy on high-frequency Spirit Damage heroes to melt durable targets over a sustained fight.
+17% Spirit Resist; -8% enemy Spirit Resist on spirit damage; +4.5% Spirit Amp per stack, up to 12 stacks, 12s duration, 0.7s internal cooldown
Watch out: The amplified damage is a separate instance applied after the original spirit damage
Focus Lens Focus Lens +45s Cooldown +4.5s Duration +0.1s Cast Delay +35% Damage On Expire +10% Fire Rate -9% Spirit Resist -30 Spirit Power +12s Resist Reduction Duration Documented Silences a single enemy at range and banks a share of all damage dealt to them during the Silence, dumping it on them when the Silence ends. It is the hardest single-target lockout in the game.
Buy when: Buy to delete one enemy caster from the fight entirely — it stops every ability and item they have for four and a half seconds.
4.5s Silence, 30% of damage dealt applied on expiry, -9% Spirit Resist, 20m cast range, 45s cooldown; +10% Fire Rate
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