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- Soul Orbs no longer have special duplication rules before 8 minutes. Soul splitting rules are now the same before 8 minutes as afterwards. Adjusted trooper economy to compensate. There is also no longer a bounty bump that occurs at 8 minutes.<br />
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- Wave interval increased from 25s to 30s (bounty values adjusted by the same ratio)<br />
- Guardians attack range reduced from 38.1m to 35m<br />
- Guardians melee attempt range reduced from 6.1m to 5m<br />
- Guardians melee damage range reduced from...<br />
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04-17-2025 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">- Added an option to allow canceling abilities with the ability key to the main options page.<br />
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- Soul orb spawn delay range increased from 0.2-0.7 to 0.4-0.7<br />
- Soul orb size increased by 10%<br />
- Soul orb lag compensation buffer increased from 120ms to 140ms<br />
- Fixed issues with denying melee soul orbs<br />
- Fixed various other timing related bugs with Soul orbs<br />
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- Fixed shotguns doing too much damage to Guardians<br />
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- Removed the outer lanes teleporters<br />
- Sprint increased by +0.5 for all heroes<br />
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04-04-2025 Update

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03-19-2025 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">- Neutral bounty increased by 5%<br />
- Sinner&#039;s Sacrifice initial spawn time reduced from 10 min to 8 min (respawn rate is still 5 min)<br />
- Fixed a bug with Neutral bounty later in the game being reduced by more than the initial intended -15% (this fix was released yesterday)<br />
- Restorative Locket: No longer grants +10% Spirit Resist<br />
- Divine Barrier: Shields reduced from 260 to 230</div>

03-16-2025 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">- Increased horizontal soul orb movement a bit<br />
- Soul Orb spawn delay increased a bit and added some variability<br />
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- Neutrals soul values reduced by 15%  (including Sinner&#039;s Sacrifice)<br />
- Sinner&#039;s Sacrifice spawn/respawn time increased from 8/4 minutes to 10/5<br />
- Mid Neutral Camp respawn time increased from 5 minutes to 6 minutes<br />
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- Golden Statue Buffs adjustments<br />
     - Level 1 Ammo reduced from 4% to 3%<br />
     - Level 2 Ammo reduced from 6% to 5%<br />
     - Level 3 Ammo reduced from 8% to 7%<br />
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03-13-2025 Update

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02-25-2025 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">- Calico: Leaping Slash T2 damage decreased from +75 to +60<br />
- Calico: Return to Shadows cooldown increased from 90s to 100s<br />
- Calico: Return to Shadows speed reduced from +50% to +30%<br />
- Calico: Return to Shadows T2 now also grants +20% speed<br />
- Holliday: Powder Keg cooldown between charges increased from 2s to 3.5s<br />
- Holliday: Bounce Pad T2 damage reduced from +100 to +80<br />
- Sinclair: Bullet Damage reduced by 15%<br />
- Sinclair: Bullet velocity increased from 86 to 340<br />
- Sinclair: Spectral...<br />
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02-11-2025 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">- Abrams: Infernal Resilience increased from 11% to 12%<br />
- Bebop: Uppercut air control lockout period reduced from 0.5s to 0.3s<br />
- Dynamo: Kinetic Pulse damage spirit scaling increased from 1.4 to 1.8<br />
- Dynamo: Kinetic Pulse T3 now also adds +1 Charge<br />
- Calico: Gloom Bombs now has updated impact SFX<br />
- Calico: Gloom Bombs now has an arming effect for when they are about to detonate<br />
- Calico: Leaping Slash only heals when hitting heroes<br />
- Calico: Leaping Slash fixed VFX to match the damage area...<br />
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01-27-2025 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">- Bebop: Hook T1 reduced from 30% more weapon damage to 25%<br />
- Bebop: Exploding Uppercut T2 reduced from +60% weapon damage to +50%<br />
- Bebop: Sticky Bomb damage reduced from 120 to 110<br />
- Bebop: Sticky Bomb T2 reduced from +80 Damage to +75<br />
- Calico: Bullet Damage increased from 2 to 2.2<br />
- Calico: Leaping Slash Radius increased from 4m to 4.5m<br />
- Calico: Leaping Slash T2 damage increased from +50 to +75<br />
- Calico: Ava now destroys breakables it runs through<br />
- Calico: Ava T2 increased from 25%...<br />
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01-19-2025 Update

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- Added Holliday<br />
- Added Vyper<br />
- Added Calico<br />
- Added The Magnificent Sinclair</div>

01-17-2025 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">- Alchemical Fire: Effectiveness reduction (40%) vs buildings/midboss now affects the Weapon Damage bonus too (instead of just DPS)<br />
- Berserker: Weapon Damage per Stack reduced from 6% to 5%<br />
- Berserker: Bullet Resistance reduced from 9% to 8%<br />
- Frenzy: Weapon Damage per Stack reduced from 8% to 7%<br />
- Frenzy: Bullet Resistance reduced from 10% to 8%<br />
- Frenzy: Fire Rate reduced from 40% to 35%<br />
- Frenzy: Low Health Bullet Resistance reduced from 55% to 50%<br />
- Restorative Shot: Cooldown increased...<br />
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01-12-2025 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">- Rapid Recharge: Charge Time reduced from -60% to -45%<br />
- Rapid Recharge: Weapon Power increased from 12% to 18%<br />
- Yamato: Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.35 to 0.33<br />
- Yamato: Shadow Transformation cooldown increased from 85s to 100s<br />
- Mirage: Fire Scarabs base damage reduced from 90 to 75<br />
- Infernus: Flame Dash cooldown increased from 35s to 38s<br />
- Infernus: Flame Dash spirit scaling increased from 0.7 to 0.8<br />
- Infernus: Flame Dash T2 reduced from +45 to +40<br />
- Infernus: Flame Dash T3...<br />
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12-31-2024 Update

<div class="bbWrapper"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">- Fixed some cases where slows could cause your speed to fall below the 2 m/s minimum<br />
- Fixed slow percentage calculations being based off of assuming min speed is 0 rather than 2 (in effect this reduces how strong slows are)<br />
- T4 items cost reduced from 6.2k to 6k<br />
- Shield duration to not take damage before regenerating increased from 18s to 30s<br />
- Fixed Ethereal Shift not canceling abilities like Flight<br />
- Fixed various bugs with Arcane Surge<br />
- Tick gold increased from 2/1% to 2.5/1.5%<br />
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12-21-2024 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">Season&#039;s Greetings! Today&#039;s winter-themed visual update will be our last patch for the year, but we&#039;ll continue to ship bug fixes and any urgent balance adjustments as needed throughout the break. Thanks to everyone for all the useful feedback that you&#039;ve given us this year, we&#039;re looking forward to sharing more of what&#039;s to come for Deadlock in 2025. For now, we hope that everyone has a magical season full of joy, souls, and surprises...</div>

12-17-2024 Update

<div class="bbWrapper"><b>[ General Changes ]</b><br />
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- Added a new hero, Raven, to Hero Labs<br />
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- Added park theming to purple lane<br />
- Added park backdrop to park side of map<br />
- Updated tree models to new visual style and added player collision to canopies<br />
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- For each player on the main leaderboard, you can see their top 3 heroes as well as their overall skill rating<br />
- Moved the post-game survey to the final score screen<br />
- Added text box field to the post-game survey<br />
- Muting a player now also silences map drawing...<br />
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12-06-2024 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">- Guardians now deal 25% more damage to troopers<br />
- Guardians now take 25% more damage from troopers/players<br />
- Range to be considered for souls reduced by 5m (The way it works now is there are two independent search ranges that gather nearby allied heroes to consider, the first is 50m from the orb itself, and the second is 35m from the hero that killed the trooper. The change reduces it by 5m on both. )<br />
- Respawn time at 40 minutes moved to 35 minutes</div>

11-29-2024 Update

<div class="bbWrapper"><b>[ Matchmaking Rework ]</b><br />
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- This update includes a new version of the matchmaker. The matchmaking pools are no longer split between normal and ranked, there is only one primary matchmaking mode and there are no limited hours.<br />
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- Badges will update immediately whenever you gain or lose enough MMR to change badges. You no longer have to wait a week or play a certain game count. There will sometimes be monthly global maintenance updates where we readjust the global curve based on the...<br />
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11-21-2024 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">- Troopers now do 20% more damage to each other<br />
- Soul Sharing ratios post-lane reduced from 100/75/50/35/28/22% to 100/70/45/33/25/20% (for 1/2/3/4/5/6 players)<br />
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- First Urn is now always neutral regardless of NW lead<br />
- Guardian resistance changed from -35% at 8 minutes to -50% at 10 minutes<br />
- Heavy Melee canceling can no longer be done with some abilities (only items atm)<br />
- Team vs Team NW comeback formula toned down<br />
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- Haze: Bullet Dance bonus bullet damage increased from +2 to +5<br />
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11-13-2024 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">- Soul Sharing ratios post-lane reduced from 100/100/66/50/40/33% to 100/75/50/35/28/22% (for 1/2/3/4/5/6 players)<br />
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- Yamato: Shadow Transformation Bullet and Spirit Resist reduced from 60% to 50%<br />
- Yamato: Shadow Transformation Heal reduced from 30% to 25%<br />
- Yamato: Shadow Transformation duration reduced from 6s to 5.5s<br />
- Paradox: Paradoxical Swap time increased by 0.1s (to help with camera)</div>

11-10-2024 Update

<div class="bbWrapper">[ General Changes ]<br />
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- Added Trapper to Hero Labs<br />
- Added support for Hero Labs in Private Lobbies, Private Bot Games and Sandbox that can be used at any time<br />
- Various adjustments to Experimental Heroes are listed in the in-game notes for Hero Labs<br />
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- Added Quickbuy - You can now right-click items in the shop to add them to your Quickbuy queue. When you return to the shop, you will automatically purchase the items you can afford in your set order. An indicator on the hud will light up when...<br />
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11-07-2024 Update

With this Dynamo Guide, pass enemies through the event horizon so you can spaghettify their plans and end the game with ease.

Deadlock Dynamo build guide

Subject your enemies to freezing cold temperatures and discover the true meaning of “snowballing” with this Kelvin Guide.

Deadlock Kelvin build guide

The best Mo & Krill guide on how to snowball a lead and tunnel your way into the enemy's base to take the game.

Deadlock Mo and Krill build guide

Laning is one of the most important aspects of Deadlock, and can easily decide which team comes out on top, and which one loses.

Deadlock laning

The best playstyle and skill path for Bebop so you can hook unsuspecting opponents and eliminate them with ease.

Deadlock Bebop build guide

How to construct the best Deadlock Wraith build, and how to turn Wraith into the ultimate Tommy Gun Assassin.

Deadlock Wraith build guide

The skill path and items for the best Deadlock Infernus build, so you can run down your enemies and burn everything in your wake.

Deadlock Infernus build guide

As you reach accumulated Soul thresholds, your hero will level up and earn talent points, and unlock additional skills. Full breakdown.

Deadlock levels

Why are so many colorful characters fighting to defeat a mechanical Patron hovering over this fantastical New York City? Deadlock lore explored.

Deadlock lore

Use Deadlock teleporters to rapidly traverse the map, relocate your team, and take your enemies by surprise. 

Hero	Tier	Winrate	Pickrate
Seven	S	55.47%	73.18%
Lash	S	52.30%	79.55%
Abrams	S	52.20%	51.18%
Mo & Krill	A	51.70%	53.11%
Ivy	A	51.44%	34.65%
Calico	A	51.39%	53.08%
Warden	A	50.95%	45.54%
Wraith	A	50.78%	46.74%
Vyper	A	50.54%	28.75%
Lady Geist	B	50.32%	45.82%
Grey Talon	B	49.86%	57.35%
Vindicta	B	49.81%	44.12%
Dynamo	B	49.76%	48.00%
Paradox	B	49.68%	41.22%
Bebop	B	49.54%	75.58%
Mirage	B	49.52%	36.20%
Haze	B	48.85%	75.92%
Yamato	B	48.64%	32.22%
Pocket	B	48.53%	27.65%
Infernus	C	47.88%	63.73%
Kelvin	C	47.07%	28.96%
The Magnificent Sinclair	C	46.99%	18.55%
Holliday	C	46.86%	28.77%
Shiv	C	46.58%	47.27%
Viscous	C	46.58%	36.26%
McGinnis	C	46.17%	26.61%

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