Pure Damage - Deadlock Guru

Pure Damage is a damage type from Abilities and Items that isn’t considered Spirit, Weapon, or Melee Damage, and thus cannot be mitigated by Damage Resistance or Barriers.

Overview

Pure Damage appears as white numbers, and a grey bar in the damage report tab.

Some items can function similarly to Pure Damage by bypassing mitigation of their damage type.

Some abilities or items show as Pure Damage (white numbers), however they are a post damage mitigation damage amp, therefore the damage is already reduced once.

Only effects that make the player Invincible can block Pure Damage.

List of Pure Damage Abilities

Hero	Ability	Notes
Billy	Blasted	Post-mitigation damage amp
Grey Talon	Guided Owl	T3 execute only (below health threshold)
Lady Geist	Soul Exchange
Shiv	Killing Blow	Execute only (below health threshold)
Venator	Consecrating Grenade	Burn damage only
Venator	Gutshot	T3 upgrade
Venator	Ira Domini	While Blessed only
Victor	Jumpstart
Victor	Aura of Suffering	Self Damage only

List of Pure Damage Items

Name	Cost	Category	Notes
Blood Tribute	3,200	Weapon	Self Damage part
Siphon Bullets	6,400	Vitality
Focus Lens	6,400	Spirit	Post-mitigation damage amp

Armor Piercing Rounds and Tankbuster don’t deal Pure Damage (white numbers), but their damage bypasses Weapon and Spirit Resistances, respectively.

Notes

Pure Damage does not trigger Mystic Reverb. If an ability has bonus Pure Damage like the blessed stakes of Venator‘s Ira Domini, it will not be used to calculate the damage of the reverb.
Pure Damage was added in the Six New Heroes update. Before this, the abilities and items listed dealt Spirit Damage instead.
- Their behavior was similar, bypassing resistances, however some interactions were different, for example Lady Geist‘s Soul Exchange worked with Mystic Reverb.