Lifestrike

Vitality ·Tier 3 · Passive

3200 4s

What it does

Your Melee Attack applies Movement Slow and heals you for a percentage of the Melee Damage dealt plus a fixed amount.

This heal is 40% effective vs non-heroes.
Cooldown is 1.5sx as long for Light Melee hits.

Innate

Passive 4s

Passive — works automatically once bought.

16%

Melee damage

125

Health

60%

Slow

100%

Lifesteal Heal

30%

Lifesteal Heal Percent

2.5%

Slow duration

When to buy & tricks

Lifestrike upgrades your melee into a self-heal and a movement slow, so heavy-melee bruisers like Abrams or Bebop can punch their way out of a brawl and stick to a fleeing hero. Slot it when you're playing in melee range and want the lifesteal plus the sticky slow to chase or peel.

Built by

Best with Paige ~53.7%

build share · win rate when built

Performance

~53.9% Win rate

43.1% Build rate

-3.8 vs last patch

29' avg buy

Win rate by rank

Ini

See

Alc

Arc

Rit

Ete

Cost & valueper 1000 souls

Builds on Melee Lifesteal 800 +2400

Health 125 39.1/1k

Lifesteal Heal 100% 31.3/1k

Lifesteal Heal Percent 30% 9.4/1k

Tier bonuses scale with souls spent in the tree →

Upgrade path

Upgrades from

Melee Lifesteal800

This item

Lifestrike3200

Spirit scaling

Cooldown4s

Related mechanics

Light & heavy melee Parry Shop tiers, investments & components Imbues Active vs passive items

Update history20

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

Heal on melee hit reduced from 160 to 100 + 1.5/boon
Heal on melee hit percentage reduced from 50% to 30% + 0.5%/boon

01-30-2026 UpdateJan 30, 2026

Light Melee cooldown penalty reduced from 2x to 1.5x

07-04-2025 UpdateJul 04, 2025

Now has double cooldown when triggered via light melee.

05-19-2025 UpdateMay 20, 2025

Heal reduced from 60% to 50%

11-21-2024 UpdateNov 21, 2024

Lifesteal reduced from 65% to 55%

Built-by, win rate, build rate and top hero are sample until the match API is wired in. Effect, cost, value and the build tree are real client data.

Raw dataproperties, shop fields & API

identity

id: upgrade_boxing_glove
slug: lifestrike
token: upgrade_boxing_glove
kind: upgrade
updatedAt: 2026-06-06T16:23:38.392Z

shop

category: vitality
tier: 3
cost: 3200
groupLabel: Melee
filters: EShopFilterDurability, EShopFilterMelee, EShopFilterHealing
componentIds: upgrade_lifestrike_gauntlets
upgradeIds: —

properties (9)

label	key	value
Cooldown	`AbilityCooldown`	4s
Slow	`SlowPercent`	60%
Slow duration	`SlowDuration`	2.5%
Health	`BonusHealth`	125
Lifesteal Heal	`LifestealHeal`	100%
Lifesteal Heal Percent	`LifestealHealPercent`	30%
Light Melee Cooldown Mult	`LightMeleeCooldownMult`	1.5s
Melee damage	`BonusMeleeDamagePercent`	16%
Non Hero Heal Pct	`NonHeroHealPct`	40

Upgrades

lvl	AP	upgrades
1	1	Melee damage +10, Health +125, Cooldown -3

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