Pain Battery
Pain Battery is Victor's first ability in Deadlock (slot 1), an active ability with a 2 second cooldown. Taking any damage passively charges up your Pain Battery. Once full, activating the ability fires multiple shocking bolts, dealing spirit damage once per target. Its tooltip lists 100 Damage (+1.6 x Spirit).
Open the most-bought Victor build
The 4 items bought most in each phase of 137,104 Victor matches, October 30 to November 1, 2026, measured by deadlock-api.com.
Pain Battery in matches
Victor players unlocked Pain Battery first in 95.0% of matches (130,967 of 137,836), second in 3.6% of matches (4,992 of 137,836) and third in 1.3% of matches (1,750 of 137,836), in all-rank matches from October 30 to November 1, 2026, from patch 6833's release day.
Measured from matches at all ranks from October 30 to November 1, 2026, starting on the day patch 6833 was released (October 30, 2026), by deadlock-api.com. These are match results, not numbers from the game files, and not a recommendation. Each share is the Victor matches in which Pain Battery was the first, second, third or fourth ability unlocked, out of every Victor match counted; a step under 500 matches is not listed.
Match data: deadlock-api.com. deadlock-api.com is not endorsed by Valve and does not reflect the views or opinions of Valve or anyone officially involved in producing or managing Valve properties. How a share is computed: methodology.
Pain Battery stats
Pain Battery
- Cooldown 2s
- Range 28m
Taking any damage passively charges up your Pain Battery.
Once full, activating the ability fires multiple shocking bolts, dealing spirit damage once per target.
Upgrades
| Tier | Bonuses | In game |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | -32% Move Speed +2s Slow Duration | On Hit: Apply 32% Slow for 2s |
| 2 | +50 Damage | |
| 3 | +15% Missing Health as Healing +0.6 Damage Spirit scaling | On Hero Hit: Heal for 15% of your missing health and increased Spirit scaling |
Each tier is bought with ability points; how many points a tier costs is not in the game files this site reads, so it is not shown. Learning the ability takes 1 ability unlock.
Pain Battery change history
| Patch | Change | State |
|---|---|---|
| November 5, 2026build 6860from build 6701 | No player-facing change in 43 builds (September 25 to November 5, 2026). | Unchanged |
| September 17, 2026build 6698 | Pain Battery's tier 1 upgrade changed from -40% Move Speed and +2s Slow Duration to -32% Move Speed and +2s Slow Duration. | Changed |
| August 22, 2026build 6684from build 6642 | No player-facing change in 11 builds (July 28 to August 22, 2026). | Unchanged |
| July 25, 2026build 6640 | First recorded in Deadlock. | Baseline |
Pain Battery FAQ
What does Pain Battery do?
Taking any damage passively charges up your Pain Battery. Once full, activating the ability fires multiple shocking bolts, dealing spirit damage once per target. Its tooltip lists 100 Damage (+1.6 x Spirit).
What is Pain Battery's cooldown in Deadlock?
Pain Battery has a 2 second cooldown.
How does Pain Battery scale with spirit power?
Damage starts at 100 and gains 1.6 per point of Spirit, the coefficient the game file writes on the value. The tier 3 upgrade adds 0.6 to the Damage scaling.
What do Pain Battery's upgrades do?
Tier 1: On Hit: Apply 32% Slow for 2s. Tier 2: +50 Damage. Tier 3: On Hero Hit: Heal for 15% of your missing health and increased Spirit scaling.
Was Pain Battery changed in the latest patch?
No. Pain Battery is unchanged in the latest build of Deadlock on file (the November 5, 2026 patch, build 6860). It last changed in the September 17, 2026 patch.