Ballistic Enchantment
Imbue an ability with increased range. Dealing damage with that ability grants you increased weapon damage per unique hero hit. Has reduced effect on non-heroes.
Imbue — attach it to one of your abilities to empower it.
Ballistic Enchantment is a Tier 3 weapon item that imbues one of your abilities: it widens that ability's range, and every unique enemy hero it damages loads a stack of bonus weapon damage onto you for a short window. It's a hybrid power spike for gun-first heroes with a multi-hit ability — open a fight by tagging the enemy team, then unload an empowered clip. The effect is reduced on non-heroes, so it's a teamfight and dueling buy, not a farming tool.
When to buy
Buy it on gun-first heroes who also have an ability that can reliably tag enemy heroes — ideally a wide skillshot or AoE so you can stack several heroes at once. The range bump makes that ability easier to land from a safer distance, and the weapon-damage stacks reward you for shooting right after, so it slots into mid-game gun builds on the likes of Viscous, Mina or Holliday. Skip it if your hero leans pure spirit and barely fires, or if your only damaging ability is a single-target poke you can't keep landing — the whole payoff lives in your gun. Because it imbues from a weapon slot (unusual for an imbue), it's also a clean way for a weapon carry to get imbue value without dipping into the spirit tree.
How to use it
Treat it as a combo, not a passive: lead with the imbued ability across as many heroes as you can, then immediately swap to your gun while the stacks are live — the bonus burns down on a timer, so the empowered clip is what converts it into kills. Imbue your widest or lowest-cooldown damaging ability rather than your hardest-hitting one; you want hero hits and uptime, not raw spell damage. In a teamfight, sweeping that ability over a clumped enemy team front-loads multiple stacks at once for a far bigger gun spike than you'd ever get in a 1v1. Don't count on it while farming — the reduced effect on non-heroes means lane creeps and jungle barely charge it.
Which ability should I imbue with Ballistic Enchantment?
Pick the ability you can most reliably land on enemy heroes — usually a wide skillshot or AoE on a short cooldown — not your highest-damage spell. The item pays you in weapon damage per unique hero hit, so multi-hit reach and uptime matter far more than how hard the ability itself hits, and the extra range helps you connect with it.
Is Ballistic Enchantment worth it on a spirit caster?
Not really. The whole payoff is bonus weapon damage, so if you barely shoot it does almost nothing for you. It's built for gun-first hybrids who open with an ability and then kill with bullets; pure casters get more from spirit items that amp their abilities directly.
Best with Paige
~57.5%
Ballistic Enchantment3200
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Raw dataproperties, shop fields & API
identity
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- upgrade_bulletshredimbue
- slug
- ballistic-enchantment
- token
- upgrade_bulletshredimbue
- kind
- upgrade
- updatedAt
- 2026-06-06T16:23:38.392Z
shop
- category
- weapon
- tier
- 3
- cost
- 3200
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- —
- filters
- EShopFilterWeaponDamage
- componentIds
- upgrade_magic_reach
- upgradeIds
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properties (6)
| label | key | value |
|---|---|---|
| Duration | AbilityDuration | 14s |
| Non Hero Stack Limit | NonHeroStackLimit | 8 |
| Spirit radius | TechRadiusMultiplier | 22% |
| Spirit range | TechRangeMultiplier | 22% |
| Weapon Power Per Stack | WeaponPowerPerStack | 20 |
| Weapon Power Per Stack Non Hero | WeaponPowerPerStackNonHero | 5 |
Upgrades
| lvl | AP | upgrades |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Weapon Power Per Stack +15, Spirit range +15, Spirit radius +15 |