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Compare Abrams (Brawler) and Shiv (Brawler) in Deadlock — stats, weapon, abilities, and playstyle side by side.
Abrams is a Brawler hero with 800 base health and 51.429 weapon DPS. Shiv is a Brawler hero with 830 base health and 52.246weapon DPS. In a direct comparison, Shiv has the larger health pool, while Shiv brings more raw weapon damage per second.
Raw stats only tell part of the story — abilities, item builds, and player skill decide most matchups. Compare the ability lists below, then check each hero's full guide for builds and counters.
Based on real ranked matches from deadlock-api.com, Abrams currently has the higher win rate this week — 51.2% for Abrams vs 44.6% for Shiv. Abrams also sits in tier A in the live meta.
Live data from 966,279+ ranked matches · Source: deadlock-api.com · updated weekly
| Stat | Abrams | Shiv |
|---|---|---|
| Max Health | 800 | 830 |
| Move Speed | 6.4 | 6.5 |
| Stamina | 3 | 3 |
| Health Regen | 1.5 | 2 |
| Light Melee | 50 | 50 |
| Heavy Melee | 116 | 116 |
| Stat | Abrams | Shiv |
|---|---|---|
| DPS | 51.4 | 52.2 |
| Sustained DPS | 30.5 | 34.6 |
| Bullet Damage | 3.6 | 4.8 |
| Fire Rate (RPS) | 1.59 | 1.81 |
| Clip Size | 9 | 10 |
| Reload (s) | 0.4 | 2.8 |
| Bullet Speed | 609.6 | 609.6 |
| Can Crit | Yes | Yes |
Abrams is a close-range juggernaut who wins by walking into the enemy team and refusing to die. Siphon Life drains the enemies around him and heals him for a portion of the damage, so standing in the middle of a fight literally keeps him topped up. Shoulder Charge is his initiate — slam a target into a wall to stun them and pull them out of position. Infernal Resilience turns every hit he takes into stored regeneration, so the enemy's chip damage feeds him instead of killing him. Play him as the tip of the spear: start the fight, isolate one hero, and let his team clean up.
Strong vs: Abrams feasts on fragile backline heroes he can reach and pin down. Shoulder Charge pulls enemies in and a wall hit stuns them, which is exactly how he isolates a squishy carry from the rest of their team. Once he's on top of a target, Siphon Life keeps draining them while Case Closed finishes at point-blank. Enemies with no answer for being dragged into melee, like ranged damage dealers caught in bad positions, are his best prey.
Weak vs: Anything that keeps Abrams at arm's length or shuts down his engage gives him a hard time. His weapon falls off hard past 17m, so ranged heroes can whittle him down while he closes the distance. Shoulder Charge can be dispelled, and both it and Seismic Impact are disabled by Slowing Hex, so slows and dispels blunt his initiation. His engage cooldowns are long — 33s for Shoulder Charge and 215s for Seismic Impact — so baiting the charge and stepping away leaves him exposed. Infernal Resilience only stores healing over time; it doesn't stop a coordinated burst from killing him outright.
Shiv is a cutthroat monster hunter who plays as a hit-and-run assassin, flinging Serrated Knives to bleed enemies from range before dashing into close quarters on his own terms. He closes the gap with Slice and Dice, a forward dash that damages enemies along its path and stacks a spirit resist shred on everyone he clips. Constantly dealing damage fills his Rage meter, and at full Rage he becomes a one-man army with a damage bonus and upgraded versions of his abilities. Bloodletting lets him absorb a burst by deferring part of the incoming damage, then clear a portion of it when he activates the ability. He finishes weak targets with Killing Blow, a leap that executes anyone below the health threshold, and executing tops his Rage back up.
Strong vs: Shiv thrives against squishy, low-health heroes who die to his burst and can't escape his dash. He excels at running down out-of-position targets, since Slice and Dice closes distance and Killing Blow executes anyone trying to disengage below the threshold. Bleed pressure from Serrated Knives punishes heroes who try to heal through fights, because the damage keeps ticking. He also shines in sustained brawls where he can keep building Rage into full-Rage bonuses. Against heroes without reliable crowd control, his dives are hard to stop.
Weak vs: Shiv struggles against reliable crowd control and displacement, because his kit is built around dashing in and staying on top of a target. Movement silence is especially punishing — Slowing Hex removes his shotgun's knockback and disables Slice and Dice and Killing Blow. Heroes who burst him down before he fills Rage deny his full-Rage spike entirely. Anyone who can safely kite beyond his short dash range neuters his dive and forces him to waste cooldowns. Because Rage starts decaying after 12 seconds without dealing damage, opponents who disengage and stall him drain his momentum.
Shiv has the larger base health pool at 830, compared to 800 for Abrams.
Shiv has the higher weapon DPS at 52.246, versus 51.429 for Abrams.
Neither hero is strictly better — they fit different roles. Abrams is a Brawler and Shiv is a Brawler, so the right pick depends on your team composition, the enemy draft, and which playstyle you are comfortable with. Check the win rates on our tier list for the current patch.