
1600Souls
#29 of 53 Weapon items by win rateSlowing Bullets is a Deadlock tier 2 weapon item. At a 1600 souls cost, it sits in the lane snowball bracket of the shop. Slowing Bullets currently posts a 50.8% win rate in 2,541,103 matches, picked in 0.8% of games where it was an option. Across tracked matches this patch it ranks #29 of 53 weapon items by win rate. Your bullets build up a Movement Slow on enemies.
Win Rate
50.8%
Pick Rate
0.8%
Matches
2.5M
W / L
1.3M/1.3M
Unique Players
481.9K
When this item is typically bought during a match
Avg Buy
12:50 min
Game Progress
36%
Avg Sell
23:05 min
Held For
~10:15 min
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Slowing Bullets delivers 15% weapon damage, -25% dash distance, and 3.5s slow duration. These bonuses determine which heroes and builds below actually benefit from the slot, and why the win rates on certain heroes skew so far above or below the item's average.
Slowing Bullets performs strongest on Haze (54.7% WR across 114,783 games), Ivy (54.6% WR across 131,431 games), and Seven (54.1% WR across 11,515 games). These heroes convert the item's stat bonuses into real win rate gains, usually because their kit scales linearly with the stats the item provides. If you play one of these heroes, this item belongs in your core build.
In terms of raw pickup volume, Slowing Bullets shows up most on Silver (392,732 games), Drifter (343,733 games), and Venator (254,799 games). High pickup does not always mean high performance, so cross reference this list with the best heroes card above before blindly copying a build.
Slowing Bullets is a base tier purchase with no prerequisites, so you can buy it directly from the shop without stacking components first. Slowing Bullets upgrades into Weighted Shots, so picking it early sets up a direct path into a late game power spike instead of locking in a dead end purchase.
Slowing Bullets sits at a 50.8% win rate and has barely moved over the last few weeks, which means the item is at its steady state pick rate in the current patch.
Slowing Bullets performs roughly the same across every ranked bracket, so the build advice on this page holds from Initiate all the way up to Eternus.