Melee Lifesteal

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Melee Lifesteal
Cost		800
Tier		1
+12% Melee Damage
Passive			8s
Your next Melee attack heals you. This heal is 30% effective vs non-heroes. Cooldown is 1.5x as long for Light Melee hits.
100 Heal on Melee Hit
Upgrades To: Lifestrike
Internal name: upgrade_lifestrike_gauntlets

Melee Lifesteal
Cost		800
Tier		1
Enhanced
+24% Melee Damage
Passive			2s
Your next Melee attack heals you. This heal is 30% effective vs non-heroes. Cooldown is 1.5x as long for Light Melee hits.
100 Heal on Melee Hit
Upgrades To: Lifestrike
Internal name: upgrade_lifestrike_gauntlets

Melee Lifesteal is a Tier 1 Vitality Item that can be purchased from the Shop for  800.

It is a component of Lifestrike.

Affected Abilities

Some abilities scale with melee damage and are affected by Melee Lifesteal'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	—

Notes

• Striking multiple targets with one attack will not increase healing gained.

Update history

View the full update history: Melee Lifesteal/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
January 30, 2026	Light Melee cooldown penalty reduced from 2x to 1.5x.
July 4, 2025	Now has double cooldown when triggered via light melee.

Trivia

• Melee Lifesteal is one of several items to feature in promotional posters around the Map.

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  Poster for Melee Lifesteal

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