What type of hero is Silver?

Silver is a brawler. Durable heroes who fight up close and soak damage for their team. Complexity: easy to learn.

What are Silver's abilities?

Slam Fire, Boot Kick and Entangling Bola, plus the ultimate Lycan Curse. Each one has three upgrades that cost 1, 2 and 5 ability points.

How much health does Silver have?

Silver starts with 830 health and gains 31 more with every boon (each level from 2 onward).

Is Silver good for beginners?

Silver is rated easy to learn. If you're new, Graves, Haze and Infernus are easier places to start.

What should I buy first on Silver?

Most Silver players open with Melee Lifesteal, Restorative Shot and Close Quarters. See the full Silver build for mid and late game items.

Brawler hero · Easy to learn

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Silver starts with 830 health and a gun that deals 42 damage per second. Their abilities are Slam Fire, Boot Kick and Entangling Bola, with Lycan Curse as the ultimate.

Silver build Compare Silver

Health: 830
Regen: 2.5/s
Move speed: 6.7m/s
Sprint: +2.5m/s
Stamina: 2
Gun DPS: 42

Win rate 45.8% Pick rate 29.7% 994k matches in the last 30 days Counters and synergy

The kit

Silver abilities

Ability 1

Slam Fire

Cooldown: 25s
Range: 1m
Duration: 5s

Instantly reload your gun. You gain Fire Rate and deal bonus Weapon Damage based on the target's health for a limited number of shots, but suffer from reduced accuracy.

Deals bonus Weapon Damage against troopers and neutrals.

Max Shots: 3
Fire Rate: +300%
Current Health as Damage: 2.5%
Weapon Accuracy: -30%
Weapon Damage vs. NPCs: +100%

I
+15% Weapon Damage
1 AP
II
-10s Cooldown
2 AP
III
If you hit all shots, deal +7% current health as damage
5 AP

Ability 2

Boot Kick

Cooldown: 21s
Range: 10.6m

Bonus Damage: 25 ×2
Mark Duration: 3s ×1

I
-6s Cooldown
1 AP
II
On Hero Hit: Restore 2 Stamina
2 AP
III
+80 Bonus Damage and kicked enemies deal -35% Damage for 5s
5 AP

Ability 3

Entangling Bola

Cooldown: 23s

Throw a bola, dealing Spirit Damage, applying Slow and preventing movement abilities or stamina.

Damage: 40 ×1.6
Move Speed: -16%
Debuff Duration: 1.5s
Gravity Scale: 100%

I
+20% Move Speed
1 AP
II
-8s Cooldown
2 AP
III
+0.75s Debuff Duration.
Bola ricochets to 2 additional targets
5 AP

Ultimate

Lycan Curse

Cooldown: 60s
Duration: 15s

Passive: Dealing damage generates bloodlust, increased at low health. At max bloodlust, you automatically cast Lycan Curse.

Active: Instantly transform, gaining increased Max Health, and stacking Fire Rate on enemy heroes, and replacing your abilities and weapon with their ferocious versions.

Bonus Health: +125 +15 per boon
Move Speed: +1.5 m
Fire Rate: +60% ×0.45 Spirit
Missing Health as Healing: 30%

I
+15% Bullet & Spirit Resistance
1 AP
II
+4 m/s Move Speed and 200 Bonus Health
2 AP
III
On Hero Kill: Refresh abilities and duration
5 AP

What players buy

Silver build

Full build

The items Silver players pick most often in the early game, and how often they buy each one.

I

Melee Lifesteal 800
Picked in 82% of games
I

Restorative Shot 800
Picked in 67% of games
I

Close Quarters 800
Picked in 59% of games
II

Stalker 1,600
Picked in 50% of games

From recent matches

Teammates and counters

All matchups

Silver wins 45.8% of 994k matches in the last 30 days. Here's who Silver does best with, the heroes Silver struggles against most, and the ones Silver beats most often.

Best with

Rat King 54.5% won together, 1.7 pts above expected

Seven 51.7% won together, 1.0 pts above expected

Paige 53.0% won together, 1.0 pts above expected

Counters Silver

Graves Silver wins 37.2%

Rat King Silver wins 39.3%

Paige Silver wins 39.5%

Silver counters

Shiv Silver wins 51.5%

Mirage Silver wins 51.4%

Pocket Silver wins 50.7%

From recent matches

Items Silver players buy

Full build

How often Silver players buy each item and how often they win with it, over 994k matches in the last 30 days. Expensive items bought late often show high win rates because the game was already going well.

Item	Bought in	Win rate	Usually bought at
Melee Lifesteal	90.7%	46.0%	4 min
Stalker	80.2%	46.6%	8 min
Close Quarters	76.4%	46.0%	7 min
Restorative Shot	71.6%	46.4%	3 min
Hunter's Aura	69.9%	47.8%	18 min
Lifestrike	64.5%	46.7%	17 min
Berserker	63.0%	49.1%	25 min
Weighted Shots	62.5%	47.5%	19 min
Slowing Bullets	60.5%	46.9%	13 min
Point Blank	51.0%	46.5%	21 min

Highest win rates (bought in 5% of matches or more)

Silencer 57.0% won · bought in 12.1%
Frenzy 55.8% won · bought in 28.6%
Phantom Strike 55.4% won · bought in 9.6%
Diviner's Kevlar 54.9% won · bought in 13.1%
Inhibitor 53.6% won · bought in 8.1%
Healing Tempo 53.4% won · bought in 12.4%

Gun

Weapon

DPS: 42; While firing
Sustained DPS: 29; Including reloads
Bullet damage: 5.1; × 7 pellets
Fire rate: 1.18/s
Magazine: 7; Empties in 5.95s
Reload: 2.6s; One bullet at a time

Damage over distance

Full damage to 17m Drops to 10% by 42m

Headshots deal ×1.65 damage. Bullets travel at 813 m/s.

Initiate to Eternus

Silver win rate by rank

How often Silver wins at each rank (by the average rank of the match) over the last 30 days. The middle line is 50%.

Initiate 47.0% · 9,042
Seeker 47.7% · 16k
Acolyte 46.8% · 14k
Sentinel 47.2% · 11k
Mystic 47.6% · 9,825
Ritualist 48.0% · 9,606
Emissary 48.6% · 9,907
Oracle 48.4% · 11k
Phantom 48.7% · 11k
Ascendant 47.5% · 3,827
Eternus 49.5% · 1,644

Every boon

Growth per level

Collecting souls levels you up. Each level from 2 onward is a boon, and every boon permanently adds:

Health: +31
Bullet damage: +0.12
Melee damage: +1.58
Spirit power: +1.1

Quick answers

Silver questions

What type of hero is Silver?: Silver is a brawler. Durable heroes who fight up close and soak damage for their team. Complexity: easy to learn.
What are Silver's abilities?: Slam Fire, Boot Kick and Entangling Bola, plus the ultimate Lycan Curse. Each one has three upgrades that cost 1, 2 and 5 ability points.
How much health does Silver have?: Silver starts with 830 health and gains 31 more with every boon (each level from 2 onward).
Is Silver good for beginners?: Silver is rated easy to learn. If you're new, Graves, Haze and Infernus are easier places to start.
What should I buy first on Silver?: Most Silver players open with Melee Lifesteal, Restorative Shot and Close Quarters. See the full Silver build for mid and late game items.

Case history

Silver lore

Lilah Silver is a mess. She drinks too much, she smokes too much, and the less is said about her personal life the better. But despite Silver's flaws she has managed to carve out a career as a successful bounty hunter, and while she would like to think that her successes are solely because she has incredible intuition, the fact that she's a werewolf doesn't hurt.