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Kelvin

~46.2% WR ~11.5% pick

Moderate Heavy Hitter ProtectorExplorerIce Cold

Timely heals and splitting a teamfight properly is the difference between an easy victory or a ruinous defeat. Gliding around slowing enemies gives Kelvin's team the maneuvering advantage to make this happen.

Signature abilities4

Frost Grenade →

Ice Path →

Arctic Beam →

Frozen Shelter ult at lvl 6

Ability 1

Frost Grenade

30s

Press

Throw a grenade that explodes in a cloud of freezing ice that Heals allies and applies Spirit Damage and move speed reduction to enemies.

Charges

Charge cooldown

0.1s

Cast delay

6.5m

Radius

1AP +60 Damage and +60 Heal Amount — Damage +30, Heal Amount +30

2AP 30s Cooldown and debuff now freezes Stamina Regen — Pause Stamina Regen +1, Cooldown -10s

5AP +6.5m Radius. Damage and Heal Spirit Scaling increased. — Radius +2m, Heal Amount +0.9, Damage +0.8

Ability 2

Ice Path

50s

Instant cast

Kelvin creates a floating trail of ice and snow that gives movement bonuses to him and his allies. Kelvin gains 60% slow resistance for the duration. Enemies can also walk on the floating trail. Press Roll / Crouch to travel up or down while in Ice Path.

0.2s

Cast delay

Duration

Move Speed Bonus

Sprint Speed Bonus

1AP +2m Move Speed and +0% Bullet Resist for Kelvin while on Ice Path — Move Speed Bonus +2m, Bullet Resist +35%

2AP Cooldown -25s

5AP +0% Spirit and +0 Spirit for Kelvin while on Ice Path — Bonus Spirit Pct +35, Spirit Power +20

Ability 3

Arctic Beam

28s

Instant cast

Shoot freezing cold energy out in front of you, damaging targets and progressively reducing their movement and fire rate the longer you sustain the beam on them. You have reduced move speed while using Arctic Beam. The beam may also claim Souls.

Duration

45↑0.38

DPS

20%

Max Slow Percent

20%

Max Fire Rate Slow Percent

1AP -20% to Fire Rate and Move Speed — Max Slow Percent +25%, Max Fire Rate Slow Percent +25%

2AP +45 DPS and increased Spirit Scaling — DPS +20, DPS +0.6

5AP 28s Cooldown and Fires 0 additional Arctic Beams within 0m of the last target hit. — Beam Split +10m, Beam Split +0.93, Beam Split Count +2, Cooldown -13s

Ability 4

Frozen Shelter

170s

Press

Target yourself or a Hero to freeze the air and create an impenetrable dome around them. While in the dome, allies gain rapid Regen and enemies are slowed. Objectives becomes Invulnerable and Frozen under Frozen Shelter

0.2s

Cast delay

Cast range

Duration

10m

Radius

1AP Cooldown -25s

2AP Duration +1.5s

5AP Purges non-ult debuffs for you and your allies. +90 Health Regen that now scales with Spirit — Health Regen +65, Health Regen +1, Purge On Cast +1

Guidehow to play

Kelvin is a spirit-scaling support bruiser who turns won fights into unloseable ones. Frost Grenade heals your team while Arctic Beam stacks a slow and fire-rate cut on the enemy frontline, and Frozen Shelter drops an impenetrable dome to peel a diving carry or trap an ulting enemy. Spirit Power feeds both his damage and his healing at once, so you snowball souls and out-sustain the other team. He's the most beginner-friendly hero in the roster — the kit is forgiving and the whole skill ceiling lives in Frozen Shelter timing.

Early game

Kelvin lanes to farm, not to brawl. Sit behind your troopers and prioritize last-hits and denies — the Heavy Hitter gun has ~7000 range, so it's a clean poke and safe last-hitter even under tower. Most players take Arctic Beam first: it claims souls, secures camps, and chips squishy laners while auto-slowing them. Don't dry-spam Frost Grenade for damage; save it to heal a trade or to lock a kill your duo can finish. You're an elite farmer who wins on souls, not early kills, so respect high-HP brawlers (Abrams, Silver, Rem) who out-trade your lane weight. First buys: Extra Charge for grenade uptime, Extra Spirit to feed beam and heals, plus sustain like Mystic Regeneration, Healing Rite or Spirit Lifesteal.

Mid game

Your spike is cooldown plus Frozen Shelter. By mid you one-shot neutral camps with a grenade and rotate fast on Ice Path, so group up and start fighting around objectives. Imbue Compress Cooldown onto your dome (or your grenade if you're playing heal-spam) so you have an answer for every skirmish — Superior Cooldown is the backbone of "a dome every fight." This is the urn and king-of-the-hill capture phase, and Kelvin loves it: stack AoE slows inside the circle and drop Frozen Shelter to hold the point while your team out-DPSes anyone who contests.

Late game

Kelvin becomes a full teamfight engine. Max Frozen Shelter gives a bigger heal-regen aura and a heavier enemy fire-rate slow; max Arctic Beam arcs to two extra targets within 10m for genuine AoE melt on a clumped team. Your closer is Refresher — two domes in a single fight breaks the enemy "just wait the bubble out" plan, which is the only way good players beat you. The #1 mistake at high MMR is turtling defensively in the dome; instead use it proactively to trap an ulting enemy away from their team or deny one specific burst. Boundless Spirit and Escalating Exposure carry your damage so the dome work also threatens kills.

Combos & tricks

Ice Path vertical tech: press jump or crouch on the path to climb or descend — reach high ground, vault a wall to gank, or peel a teammate over a gap. You keep slow-resistance while on it so you can't be kited off, but enemies can ride it too, so never lay it toward your own retreat. Beam into grenade: open Arctic Beam (the slow and fire-rate cut ramp the longer you hold), then drop Frost Grenade on the pinned target for burst damage and extra slow. Offensive Frozen Shelter hard-counters channeled ults — dome Seven, Haze or a Bebop bomb to trap them away from their team, or dome a low ally so they out-heal the burst inside. Pop a grenade inside your own dome to stack the burst heal with the dome's regen aura for absurd sustain. Echo Shard gives an on-demand second grenade or dome without waiting on Refresher.

Buildsbuy order matters

Laning1600

Spirit Lifesteal Enduring Spirit

Sustain plus grenade uptime so you never leave the lane. Extra Charge gives a second Frost Grenade for heal and slow, Extra Spirit feeds both beam damage and heal size, and the regen layers keep you topped through poke.

Mid game3200

Cooldown and the Frozen Shelter spike. Compress Cooldown imbues onto your dome (or grenade), Superior Cooldown gives the global CDR for a dome every fight, and Mystic Vulnerability amps targets your beam already sits on. Enchanter's Emblem is premium since you buff allies.

Late game6400

The teamfight engine. Boundless Spirit is the all-round spike, Escalating Exposure ramps fast off the beam's continuous spirit ticks, and Refresher is the closer for two domes per fight. Echo Shard and Superior Duration extend every cast.

Situational4000

Swap pieces in by matchup. Healbane shuts off enemy supports and lifesteal brawlers (Abrams, Infernus), Knockdown locks an ult-carry like Haze or Seven, and Ethereal Shift or Debuff Reducer bail you out when you're the focused frontline target.

Tips & tricks

→Arctic Beam claims souls, so use it as a safe last-hitter under tower while it slows the enemy laner for free.

→The beam's slow and fire-rate cut ramp the longer you hold it — keep it glued to one target before swapping.

→Use Frozen Shelter offensively: trapping an ulting Seven or Haze away from their team wins more fights than a defensive turtle.

→Never lay Ice Path toward your own escape route — enemies can ride it too.

→Popping Frost Grenade inside your own dome stacks its burst heal with the regen aura for huge drawn-out-fight sustain.

→If they buy Healbane or Toxic Bullets, lean spirit damage and play the dome for peel — your slows and invuln still work.

Common questions

Weapon or spirit Kelvin?

Spirit, almost always. The 05-22 patch nerfed his bullet growth and headshots, while Spirit Power scales his damage and his healing at the same time — that dual scaling is the whole reason to pick him. Treat the gun as harass and last-hitting only.

Max Arctic Beam or Frost Grenade first?

Both are valid. Beam-first gives more lane pressure, soul security and the two-target arc for teamfights — it's the common ladder pick. Grenade-first turns you into a heal-spam support hybrid and shines in coordinated or duo play.

Is Kelvin good for beginners?

Yes, he's the most forgiving hero in the game. The beam needs no precise aim, the kit is hard to throw with, and the only real skill gap between okay and great Kelvin is reading the right moment to drop Frozen Shelter.

They bought anti-heal — am I useless?

No. Healbane, Toxic Bullets and Decay tax your healing, but your beam damage, the AoE slows and the dome's invuln and peel all still function. Build spirit damage and use Frozen Shelter to control fights instead of turtling for heals.

Profilevs roster

Health 880

Regen 1/s

Move speed 6.7 m/s

Stamina 3

Burst DPS 70.9

Sustained 41.6

Range 58 m

Ammo 14

Primary weapon

Expedition's End

Heavy Hitter

70.9

DPS

18.6

Bullet damage

3.8rps

Fire rate

Ammo

2.6s

Reload

41.6

Sustained DPS

Shots to down

15.94s

Time to kill

Weak-spot shots

260

Clip damage

vs 780 HP · body · no resist

Damage falloff100% → 10%

0m20m57.5m177.8m

Melee 50Light 116Heavy

Matchups

Plays well into

Struggles into

LoreSkins →

A famed adventuring scientist, Kelvin made it his life's mission to explore and understand the unknowable. So naturally when rumors surfaced regarding an 8th astral gate hidden in the arctic, Kelvin couldn't build an expedition team fast enough. Assembling the brightest minds of his generation, Kelvin and his team set forth with much fanfare.

They never returned.

Win rate, skill order, builds and matchups are sample until the match API lands. Abilities, weapon math and the stat profile are real client data.

Update history43

Gameplay Update - 05-22-2026May 22, 2026

Frost Grenade damage spirit scaling reduced from 0.7 to 0.6
When interrupted on Ice Path, it no longer creates an ice path below him and instead lets him fall to the ground
Arctic Beam DPS spirit scaling reduced from 0.5 to 0.38

04-10-2026 UpdateApr 11, 2026

Frost Grenade healing spirit scaling reduced from 0.9 to 0.8
Frost Grenade T3 healing spirit scaling reduced from +1.0 to +0.9

03-25-2026 UpdateMar 26, 2026

Frost Grenade damage spirit scaling reduced from 0.8 to 0.7
Frost Grenade T3 damage spirit scaling reduced from 0.9 to 0.8

03-21-2026 UpdateMar 21, 2026

Frost Grenade radius increased from 6m to 6.5m
Frost Grenade damage spirit scaling reduced from 0.914 to 0.8
Frost Grenade T3 damage spirit scaling reduced from 1.0 to 0.9
Ice Path T2 increased from -20s Cooldown to -25s
Ice Path T3 now also grants +20 Spirit Power

Gameplay Update - 03-06-2026Mar 06, 2026

Frost Grenade now impacts on Ice Path
Frost Grenade radius reduced from 6.5m to 6m
Frost Grenade cooldown increased from 20s to 30s
Frost Grenade now comes with 2 charges
Frost Grenade now heals in the base ability (60 + 0.9 Spirit Scaling)

01-30-2026 UpdateJan 30, 2026

Ice Path T2 increased from -15s Cooldown to -17s
Ice Path T3 max spirit increased from 75 to 90
Ice Path T3 duration increased from 8s to 9s
Frozen Shelter duration increased from 5s to 5.25s

12-29-2025 UpdateDec 30, 2025

Frost Grenade T3 now also reduces stamina regen by -30%
Ice Path T3 Max Spirit Power increased from 55 to 75
Ice Path T3 Spirit Power linger duration increased from 6s to 8s

11-21-2025 UpdateNov 21, 2025

Bullet Velocity reduced from 254 to 160
Frost Grenade base damage reduced from 74 to 60
Frozen Shelter T2 changed from "-45s Cooldown" to "+1s Duration"
Frozen Shelter duration reduced from 5.5s to 5s

Raw data & APIopen JSON from the client

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