Point Blank
When in close range to your target, gain Weapon Damage and your bullets apply a Movement Slow.
Passive — works automatically once bought.
Point Blank is the Tier 3 upgrade of Close Quarters: stand in someone's face and you get a large weapon-damage spike, plus your bullets stick a movement slow on them. The slow is the whole point — it glues the target inside your close-range bubble so the damage bonus never drops, while the baked-in bonus health and melee resist let you win the trade you started. It's a build-around power buy for shotgun and SMG brawlers, and dead weight on anyone who fights from range.
When to buy
This is the mid-game weapon spike for close-range carries — heroes whose whole gameplan is shoving a gun into someone's chest: Abrams, Haze, Wraith, Bebop, McGinnis, Lash, Pocket, Vindicta when she's playing brawl. You usually buy Close Quarters early in lane and upgrade it here once you have the souls and the fights are starting to matter; 3200 is a real chunk, so slot it when you actually win games by getting on top of people. Skip it entirely on poke and range heroes like Grey Talon or Seven — the whole package is gated behind being in someone's face, so a kiter gets almost nothing and just paid 3200 for a stat they can't turn on.
Tricks & synergies
Play it as a one-way street: once you're on a target the slow keeps them in your close-range window, which keeps the damage bonus live, which lets you finish them — so dive in committed, don't poke-and-back. Keep the stream going to keep the slow refreshed, so it loves magazine and fire-rate items (Extended Magazine, Rapid Rounds) that stop you reloading mid-kill. The slow also sets up your team's heavy skillshots and your own follow-up, and the free melee resist plus bonus health pairs cleanly with heavy-melee and wall-pin patterns — Abrams charging someone into a wall, anyone running a punch build. It stacks naturally with the rest of the close-range kit: Berserker, Hollow Point and melee lifesteal all reward the same standing-on-top-of-them playstyle.
Is Point Blank worth it?
On a close-range brawler, yes — it's one of the biggest conditional weapon-damage spikes in the game and the bullet slow makes the condition self-sustaining. On range or poke heroes it's a wasted 3200 souls, since you can't keep the close-range trigger on.
Point Blank or just stay on Close Quarters?
Close Quarters is the cheap lane buy; upgrade to Point Blank once you have the souls and want a real damage spike, because it adds the movement slow, bonus health and melee resist on top of a bigger close-range bonus. If your build is going elsewhere, you can leave it at Close Quarters — but a dedicated brawler wants the full upgrade.
Best with Warden
~51.6%
Point Blank3200
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_close_quarter_combat
- slug
- point-blank
- token
- upgrade_close_quarter_combat
- kind
- upgrade
- updatedAt
- 2026-06-06T16:23:38.392Z
shop
- category
- weapon
- tier
- 3
- cost
- 3200
- groupLabel
- Weapon Range
- filters
- EShopFilterWeaponDamage, EShopFilterDurability, EShopFilterDisruption
- componentIds
- upgrade_close_range
- upgradeIds
- —
properties (6)
| label | key | value |
|---|---|---|
| Slow | SlowPercent | 25% |
| Slow duration | SlowDuration | 2% |
| Health | BonusHealth | 75 |
| Close Range Bonus Damage Range | CloseRangeBonusDamageRange | 15m |
| Close Range Bonus Weapon Power | CloseRangeBonusWeaponPower | 50 |
| Melee resist | MeleeResistPercent | 30% |
Upgrades
| lvl | AP | upgrades |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Close Range Bonus Weapon Power +30, Melee resist +30, Health +150, Slow +5 |