Opening Rounds
Your attacks have additional Weapon Damage against enemies above 50% health.
Passive — works automatically once bought.
Opening Rounds bolts extra Weapon Damage onto every shot you land on enemies above half health, so your opening burst hits hardest. It's a cheap, popular laning buy for any hero that wins fights with bullets: brutal for poke and trades, but it goes quiet once a target drops below 50%.
When to buy
This is an early-game weapon item — most bullet-reliant heroes grab it in the laning phase or shortly after. The conditional damage only fires while the enemy is above half health, which is exactly the window you fight in during lane: you poke them off creeps, win trades, and force them to back. It builds from High-Velocity Rounds, so the bullet velocity also helps you actually land those shots at range. Skip it on heroes who do their damage with abilities rather than their gun.
How it works
The bonus is front-loaded by design: it's strongest on the first chunk of a target's HP and turns off below 50%, so it does nothing to help you finish kills. Lead with it — open the trade or the fight while they're full, then let your team or your closers do the rest. As enemies pick up health pools and lifesteal in the mid game, you'll often roll the damage forward into a stronger weapon item rather than keep it as your finishing tool.
Is Opening Rounds worth it?
For a gun-focused hero, yes — it's one of the cheapest ways to win lane and trades, which is why it's such a common early buy. It loses value as fights drag past the halfway mark, so treat it as a laning and opening-burst tool rather than a late-game carry item.
Does Opening Rounds help finish low enemies?
No. The extra damage only applies above 50% health, so the bonus is gone exactly when a target is low. Pair it with other weapon or spirit items if you need reliable kill secure.
Best with Drifter
~57.3%
Opening Rounds1600
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
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- slug
- opening-rounds
- token
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- kind
- upgrade
- updatedAt
- 2026-06-06T16:23:38.392Z
shop
- category
- weapon
- tier
- 2
- cost
- 1600
- groupLabel
- Bullet Velocity
- filters
- EShopFilterMagicDamage, EShopFilterDurability
- componentIds
- upgrade_high_velocity_mag
- upgradeIds
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properties (5)
| label | key | value |
|---|---|---|
| Weapon Damage | BaseAttackDamagePercent | 8% |
| Spirit Power | TechPower | 4 |
| Base Attack Damage Percent Bonus | BaseAttackDamagePercentBonus | 30% |
| Bullet Velocity | BonusBulletSpeedPercent | 60% |
| Enemy Life Threshold | EnemyLifeThreshold | 50 |
Upgrades
| lvl | AP | upgrades |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Base Attack Damage Percent Bonus +25, Spirit Power +18, Bullet Velocity +45, Weapon Damage +15 |