Oof, this Deadlock patch certainly packs a bit of a punch to the gut, and will definitely make games last a lot longer than they used to! As of January 19, 2025, ALL Deadlock heroes are getting a base gun damage and growth reduction of 10%, and that’s AFTER the following changes introduced in the latest patch:
- Bebop
- Hook T1 reduced from 30% more weapon damage to 25%.
- Exploding Uppercut T2 reduced from +60% weapon damage to +50%.
- Sticky Bomb damage reduced from 120 to 110.
- Sticky Bomb T2 reduced from +80 Damage to +75.
- Calico
- Bullet Damage increased from 2 to 2.2.
- Leaping Slash Radius increased from 4m to 4.5m.
- Leaping Slash T2 damage increased from +50 to +75.
- Ava now destroys breakables it runs through.
- Ava T2 increased from 25% movespeed to 35%.
- Holliday
- Bullet damage growth increased from 1.5 to 1.7.
- Powder Keg T2 reduced from 140 to 120.
- Crackshot now triggers on units and uses half cooldown when triggered this way.
- Crackshot damage reduced from 75 to 60.
- Crackshot spirit scaling increased from 1 to 1.2.
- Crackshot T2 increased from 75 to 85.
- Crackshot T3 now also has -2s on creeps.
- Fixed Crackshot applying Slowing Hex‘s anti-teleport debuff.
- Spirit Lasso T2 duration increased from +0.5 to +0.75.
- Fixed height on damage from Bounce Pad sometimes causing it to not hurt heroes on your lasso.
- Kelvin
- Health increased from 600 to 650.
- Mirage
- Fire Scarabs Max Health Steal reduced from 75 to 50.
- Fire Scarabs Max Health Steal spirit scaling increased from 0.9 to 1.4.
- Shiv
- Bullet Damage reduced from 5.7 to 5.5.
- Slice and Dice damage reduced from 110 to 100.
- Slice and Dice T2 reduced from +70 to +60.
- Slice and Dice spirit scaling increased from 1.3 to 1.55.
- Bloodletting deferred damage duration reduced from 13s to 12s.
- Bloodletting cooldown increased from 50s to 60s.
- The Magnificent Sinclair
- Rabbit Hex movespeed increased from 25% to 35%.
- Rabbit Hex can no longer be applied to Unstoppable.
- Rabbit Hex now triggers Reactive Barrier.
- Fixed Debuff Reducer not working on Rabbit.
- Teleporting now drops the Urn.
- Vexing Bolt base damage reduced from 120 to 110.
- Spectral Assistant base cooldown increased from 30s to 40s.
- Spectral Assistant base duration decreased from 8s to 6s.
- Vindicta
- Movespeed reduced from 9 to 8.
- Bullet Velocity reduced from 810 to 740.
- Vyper
- Bullet Damage decreased from 9 to 7.
- Move Speed reduced from 7.3 to 7.0.
- Lethal Venom Max Damage reduced from 200 to 180.
- Slither T3 spirit and bullet resist while sliding reduced from +30% to +25%.
- Wraith
- Card Trick spirit scaling reduced from 1.1 to 0.9.
- Card Trick cooldown increased from 0.65 to 0.75.
- Card Trick summon rate from non-heroes reduced from 0.35 to 0.25.
- Telekinesis silence and disarm duration increased from 2.5s to 3s.
- Telekinesis cast delay reduced from 0.4s to 0.3s.
- Telekinesis up/down motion now lasts 0.25s longer and moves a little bit higher.
- Yamato
- Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.27 to 0.24.
- Extra Stamina
- Fire Rate reduced from 5% to 4%.
- Alchemical Fire
- Reduced from -40% Effectiveness vs non-heroes to -50%.
- Weapon Damage in radius reduced from +50% to +40%.
- Hunter’s Aura
- Bullet Resist Reduction reduced from -9% to -8%.
- Fire Rate Slow increased from -9% to -10%.
- Sharpshooter
- Weapon Damage reduced from 30% to 20%.
- Movespeed penalty increased from -0.5 to -1.
It’s not too surprising to see that Calico, Holliday, The Magnificient Sinclair, and Vyper all featured heavily in this update following their Friday January 17, 2025 debut to the main branch of Deadlock, but the other major nerfs, particularly the 10% base weapon damage reduction and growth seem pretty significant. It’s very likely that hero winrates are about to swing massively, and we could even see S tier heroes knocked down a peg or two as a result.
Vyper, however, seems to be doing very well for herself, having soared to the top of the winrate charts in her first few days on the Deadlock leaderboards.
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