Mystic · Projectile
Violet Build & Counters
Updated ·Refreshed daily from public match data·Methodology
Tier
Win rate
Games
173K
28% pick
How to play Violet right now
- Core items: Extra Charge, Rapid Recharge, Improved Spirit, Extra Spirit
- Max first: Still Life
- Hardest lanes: Rat King, Graves, Paige
- Best teammates: Graves, Seven, Paige
New hero — Violet entered matches on October 16, 2026. Numbers below cover the first days only and will move quickly while players learn Violet; the page refreshes daily.
Last 7 days, all ranks
Violet stats
Win rate
49.3%
#20 of 43
Pick rate
27.8%
of matches
Ban share
0.0%
of ranked bans
K / D / A
6.7 / 7.0 / 13.8
KDA 2.90
Souls
40K
per game
Hero damage
35K
per game
Win rate, last 4 days
October 16, 2026 → October 19, 2026 · low 47.2% · high 50.9%
Compare Violet with another hero in the hero comparison tool.
Ranked matches, last 7 days
Violet by rank
Initiate – Acolyte
10K games
Sentinel – Ritualist
10K games
Emissary – Phantom
11K games
Ascendant – Eternus
2.4K games
See every hero for your bracket on the Deadlock tier list.
Items by game phase · last 7 days
Violet build
Buy rate = share of Violet games where the item was bought; grouped by average purchase time. Late items always show higher win rates because they are bought in longer, often winning games — compare items within the same phase.
Recommended build — buy in this order
The 12 items most Violet players buy, sorted by when they are usually bought.
High-rank build — Phantom and above
What Violet players in Phantom+ ranked lobbies buy (6.5K games, last 30 days), in buying order.
Laning 0–10 min
Extra ChargeCore800 souls · bought 7 min95%49.4% win
Extra SpiritCore800 souls · bought 5 min86%49.5% win
Mystic RegenerationCore800 souls · bought 6 min85%49.5% win
Extra RegenCore800 souls · bought 4 min71%49.2% win
High-Velocity Rounds800 souls · bought 5 min33%48.8% win
Restorative Shot800 souls · bought 4 min12%48.7% win
Mid game 10–20 min
Rapid RechargeCore3,200 souls · bought 19 min90%49.8% win
Improved SpiritCore1,600 souls · bought 16 min87%49.9% win
Radiant RegenerationCore3,200 souls · bought 14 min85%49.7% win
Healing BoosterCore1,600 souls · bought 12 min69%49.5% win
Mystic Burst800 souls · bought 14 min47%50.0% win
Mystic Shot1,600 souls · bought 13 min42%50.5% win
Spirit Shielding1,600 souls · bought 15 min41%49.7% win
Grit800 souls · bought 10 min41%49.5% win
Late game 20+ min
TankbusterCore3,200 souls · bought 24 min65%50.6% win
Boundless SpiritCore6,400 souls · bought 29 min63%53.8% win
Superior Cooldown3,200 souls · bought 26 min53%52.3% win
Stamina Mastery3,200 souls · bought 23 min41%51.0% win
Mystic Vulnerability1,600 souls · bought 25 min32%53.8% win
Compress Cooldown1,600 souls · bought 21 min32%51.9% win
Escalating Exposure6,400 souls · bought 34 min30%58.0% win
Torment Pulse3,200 souls · bought 22 min29%52.2% win
Situational picks that win
Bought in under 20% of games, but with the highest win rates when they are.
Indomitable6,400 souls · bought 37 min9%54.8% win
Superior Duration3,200 souls · bought 22 min14%51.3% win
Guardian Ward1,600 souls · bought 16 min9%51.1% win
Greater Expansion3,200 souls · bought 27 min18%50.6% win
Duration Extender1,600 souls · bought 15 min13%50.1% win
Healbane1,600 souls · bought 18 min16%49.1% win
Most played ability upgrade paths
Violet skill order
 Living Ink | 1 | 2 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Flow State | · | · | · | · | 5 | · | · | · | 9 | 10 | · | · |
 Still Life | · | · | 3 | 4 | · | 6 | · | · | · | · | · | 12 |
 Abstract Landscape | · | · | · | · | · | · | 7 | 8 | · | · | 11 | · |
| Living Ink | · | · | 3 | 4 | · | · | · | · | · | · | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flow State | · | · | · | · | 5 | · | · | · | 9 | 10 | · | · |
| Still Life | 1 | 2 | · | · | · | 6 | · | 8 | · | · | · | · |
| Abstract Landscape | · | · | · | · | · | · | 7 | · | · | · | · | · |
| Living Ink | · | · | 3 | · | · | 6 | · | 8 | · | · | · | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flow State | · | · | · | 4 | · | · | · | · | 9 | 10 | · | · |
| Still Life | 1 | 2 | · | · | 5 | · | · | · | · | · | 11 | · |
| Abstract Landscape | · | · | · | · | · | · | 7 | · | · | · | · | · |
Violet abilities
1Living Ink22s cooldown
Passive: Casting any other ability refreshes the cooldown of Flow State.
- 1 AP-4s Cooldown 15m Max Draw Distance
- 2 APOn Empower: Gain +10% Fire Rate for 10s, stacking 5 times
- 5 AP+1s Cooldown Reduction Per Hit Improve scaling
2Flow State23s cooldown
Drag a brush that continues to travel forward, leaving a trail that grants bonus slide distance for allies and a fading slow and spirit damage to enemies it passes through, increased the further it travels. Re-activate the ability to flick the brush forward, ending the ability early but dealing spirit damage in a larger area.
- 1 APOn Slide: +150% Stamina Regeneration
- 2 AP-6s Cooldown +8m Flick Range +4s Trail Duration
- 5 APOn Slide: Gain Damage Amp over time, up to 20% for 6s
3Still Life35s cooldown
Choose a hero to be your subject, dealing spirit damage over time as long as you are looking at them. If the sketch is completed they take additional spirit damage, suffer from stun, and drop a sketch that can be picked up. For each collected sketch, you permanently gain stats based on the hero.
- 1 APOn Cast: Gain 15 Health Regen for 4s, refreshed on pickup
- 2 APWhile Drawing: Subjects deal -35% Damage
- 5 AP+20% Move Speed -11s Cooldown +0.35s Stun Duration
4Abstract LandscapeUltimate165s cooldown
Create a circular display of ink that blocks vision and grants allies Spirit. Enemies inside are revealed, and leaving causes them to take spirit damage and suffer from Silence and slow, destroying the ink in the process.
- 1 AP-20s Cooldown
- 2 APOn Buff: +25% Spirit Lifesteal +15 Spirit Power
- 5 AP+1.25s Silence Duration +4s Ability Duration Ink is no longer destroyed
Same-lane win rate · last 7 days
How to counter Violet
Violet has the hardest time in lane against Rat King, Graves, Paige. Items that work best into Violet: Return Fire, Metal Skin, Express Shot.
Hardest lanes for Violet
Violet wins lane vs
Best teammates
Last 30 days · win-rate gain over other items in the same games
Best items against Violet
Return Fire1,600 souls · 14K games+1.950.9% win
Metal Skin3,200 souls · 28K games+1.542.5% win
Express Shot3,200 souls · 91K games+1.348.7% win
Tesla Bullets3,200 souls · 76K games+1.254.0% win
Cultist Sacrifice3,200 souls · 97K games+1.252.3% win
Escalating Resilience3,200 souls · 44K games+1.254.1% winCompared with the other items bought into Violet, these ones lift their owner's win rate the most — good picks when you are laning against or chasing Violet.
Most-played in-game builds · last 7 days
Popular Violet builds
Community builds from the in-game build browser, ranked by how many games used them. Search the build ID in-game (Hero Builds → search) to import it.
Paint them Red! [Made w/ Lockbuilds]50.1%4.1K games
EarlyGame
Extra RegenExtra SpiritMystic RegenerationMystic BurstExtra ChargeRapid RechargeMystic ShotRadiant RegenerationHealing BoosterSpirit Shielding
Core.
Stamina MasteryTorment PulseImproved SpiritTankbusterSuperior CooldownBoundless SpiritEscalating Exposure
Counterspell
Spirit Resilience
Toxic Bullets
Plated Armor
Ethereal Shift
Refresher
Cursed Relic
Focus Lens
Burst Fire
Headhunter
Glass Cannon
Siphon Bullets
Lucky Shot
SilencerFULL SPIRIT Violet build50.4%3.5K games
Mystic Expansion
Spirit Shredder
Enduring Speedtwitch.tv/oses49.3%3.3K games
/build
Extra Spirit
Rusted BarrelGritRadiant RegenerationSpirit Shielding
Weapon Shielding
Reactive BarrierExtra Charge
Rapid Recharge
Swift StrikerImproved Spirit
Heroic AuraBoundless SpiritTankbuster
Spirit Burn
Diviner's KevlarEscalating ExposureSuperior Cooldown
Transcendent Cooldown
Inhibitor
Unstoppable
Healing Tempo
Cheat Death
Disarming Hex
Decay
Slowing Hex
Spirit Sap
ScourgeThe Violet build that was promised 3000 years ago.50.6%2.9K games
EarlyGame
Extra SpiritGritExtra ChargeMystic RegenerationRadiant RegenerationMystic ShotGuardian WardExtra RegenHealing BoosterReactive Barrier
Early gun options
Restorative ShotHigh-Velocity Rounds
Opening RoundsSwift Striker
other optionals
Spirit Shielding
Enchanter's EmblemHealbaneWeapon Shielding
Spirit Lifesteal
Debuff ReducerMystic Vulnerability
Cold Front
Mid Game (core)
Rapid RechargeTorment Pulse
Dispel MagicMystic BurstTankbusterBoundless Spirit
Divine Barrier
Mercurial Magnum
Bullet ResilienceLateGame
Arctic BlastEscalating Exposure
Spiritual Overflow
InfuserDiviner's Kevlar
Mystic ReverbIndomitableTranscendent Cooldown
late greens fn.
SpellbreakerMetro Hypercarry Violet (twitch.tv/metro)49.7%1.4K games
Kinetic Dash
Witchmail
SpellslingerTRUE VIOLET BUILD46.4%1.4K games
buy if poke
BUY A GREEN ATLEAST 3200+
/mid
Improved SpiritOpening Rounds
Surge of PowerSpirit LifestealSuperior CooldownBoundless SpiritGreater Expansion
Spirit Rend
counters
Knockdown
Silence Wave
Crippling HeadshotAbout Violet
Base stats (level 1)
- Health
- 710
- Health regen
- 2/s
- Move speed
- 6.9 m/s
- Sprint speed
- 2.5 m/s
- Stamina
- 3
- Light melee
- 50
- Heavy melee
- 116
Violet lore
Violet immigrated to The Cursed Apple when she was 12, and while there was a certain amount of culture shock to adapting to New York, she quickly fell in love with the vibrance of the city. Dedicating herself to the pursuit of the arts, Violet's passion lead her to successes far beyond most of her peers.First, a full ride to art school.Then in her junior year, inclusion in MOMA'S prestigious celebration of student artists: "The Upstart Gallery".By any measure she's doing phenomenal for her age, however Violet has not been able shake her existential dread of dying a failure. She knows that commercial success as a fine artist isn't about being good enough. It's not even about being great. It's about being seen by the right person at the right time. And so she has set her sights on The Ritual... not to embellish on her own talent, but just to have a chance to show the world what she can do.
Official in-game biography.
Violet FAQ
Is Violet good in Deadlock right now?＋
Average — fine in the right hands. Violet is B tier (#20 of 43) with a 49.3% win rate over 173K games in the last 7 days. Violet wins 49.3% of 173K games, 0.6 pts above the median hero. Strongest in Initiate – Acolyte lobbies (47.9%), weakest in Ascendant – Eternus (42.1%). Struggles into Rat King in lane (42%).
What is the best Violet build?＋
Most Violet players buy Extra Charge, Rapid Recharge, Improved Spirit, Extra Spirit — the four items bought most often. Start with Extra Charge, Extra Spirit, Mystic Regeneration in lane, then Rapid Recharge, Improved Spirit, Radiant Regeneration by mid game.
Who counters Violet?＋
In lane, Violet has the lowest win rate against Rat King (41.6%), Graves (42.9%), Paige (43.4%). Violet does best against Warden (54.6%), Mirage (54.6%), Rem (54.5%).
How do you counter Violet?＋
Pick a hero that wins the lane into Violet — Rat King, Graves, Paige do best this week — and build Return Fire or Metal Skin, which win more often than other items when Violet is on the enemy team.
What should I max first on Violet?＋
The most common skill order puts points into Still Life first; it wins 47.1% of 7.8K games. Full order is in the skill order table above.
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