Lifestrike

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Lifestrike
Cost		3,200
Tier		3
+16% Melee Damage
+125 Bonus Health
Passive			4s
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 1.5x as long for Light Melee hits.
-60% Move Speed Conditional 100 x1.5 Heal on Melee Hit 30 x0.5% Melee Hit Heal 2.5s Slow Duration
Upgrades From: Melee Lifesteal
Internal name: upgrade_boxing_glove

Lifestrike
Cost		3,200
Tier		3
Enhanced
+26% Melee Damage
+250 Bonus Health
Passive			1s
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 1.5x as long for Light Melee hits.
-60% Move Speed Conditional 100 x1.5 Heal on Melee Hit 30% x0.5 Melee Hit Heal 2.5s Slow Duration
Upgrades From: Melee Lifesteal
Internal name: upgrade_boxing_glove

Lifestrike is a Tier 3 Vitality Item that can be purchased from the Shop for  3,200. Its component, Melee Lifesteal, makes up  800 of the cost.

Affected Abilities

Some abilities scale with melee damage and are affected by Lifestrike's increase to Melee Damage. Abilities that deal Melee Damage will also trigger the lifesteal effect.

This is a dynamic list "melee". Edit contents · Edit notes.

Hero	Ability	Base Damage	Light Melee Scaling	Notes
Bebop	Exploding Uppercut	0.01	×1	—
	Grapple Arm	0	×0.7	—
Billy	Bashdown	0	×0.9	on T3 becomes ×0.5 Heavy Melee scaling.
Calico	Leaping Slash	10	×0.8	on T3 gets +60 base damage (total 70).
Drifter	Rend	0	×1.2	on T3 becomes ×0.55 Heavy Melee scaling.
Silver	Boot Kick	0	×0.9	—
Silver (Transformed)	Go For The Throat	0	×1.5	on T1 gets +30 base damage (total 30).
	Mauling Leap	0	×1.5	—
Viscous	Puddle Punch	20	×0.6	on T1 gets +20 base damage (total 40). on T3 becomes 40 base damage with ×0.6 Heavy Melee scaling. Can be parried.
Yamato	Flying Slash	0	×1	—

Update history

View the full update history: Lifestrike/Update history

Update	Changes
July 28, 2026	When hitting a trooper and a hero at the same time, it now always prioritizes healing off the hero (same change for Melee Lifesteal)
March 6, 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
January 30, 2026	Light Melee cooldown penalty reduced from 2x to 1.5x.

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 1600

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 6400

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