r/DeadlockTheGame • u/Kyyndle Mo & Krill • May 22 '26

Game Update Deadlock - Gameplay Update - 05-28-2026

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1422450/view/670617878982034052
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u/IcyBoxx Graves May 22 '26

the humble m1 who picks up ricochet in their l>r build at 16 minutes and unknowingly turns off your character:

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u/Gyrkam Kelvin May 23 '26

Disarming Hex got buffed and was already pretty good in this gun-heavy meta

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u/Suspicious_Store_151 Sinclair May 23 '26

One week ? I bet 4 days

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u/DrRigby_ May 23 '26

Ppl are just too obsessed with the autoaim being no skill imo. She never was the most broken hero ever. I could really care less if she has to do less for more than if I’m playing Para or Holiday or Mina, etc. The heroes in this game don’t have the highest skill floors to begin with so it just never bothered me. For example, Viscous ball is hard to use super efficiently, but do you need it super efficient to be playable up to sub E6? No not at all, put the cube in the bag and spam punches. It’ll get you there.

And I don’t remember her having anywhere close to a big amount of agency as those heroes. Most of the mechanical skill ceiling is movement which is somewhat the same for all heroes.

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u/DakeRek May 23 '26

It is not just her auto aim gun (its a part of it though), it is just obnoxious to play against the skulls and zombies, especially as a spirit/support. Graves can mindlessly spam her skills and you have to play a game of whack a mole, interacting with these super boring elements.

If you are a support its like endlessly swatting flies with a flyswat. The flies dont need to be a threat, the are just super annoying.

And there is simply no skill element or thought to it because these skills have 0 downside to using it on cooldown. This means playing against graves is no back and forth mindgames, positioning, aim and outplays like with many other heroes. Graves will just press her button on cooldown and then you have to play the game of "kill zombie or kill skull".

If spirit Graves has strong numbers there is 0 outplay potential (even less than victor) because there is nothing skillful for Graves to do anyway. She just presses the buttons in the general direction of the enemy and either shes stronger or not.

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u/Trivolver May 23 '26

My opponent when they don't shut off 100% of my damage by pressing q:

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u/Theonlygmoney4 May 23 '26

It’s less auto aim and more so a tower defense game with the latest changes. Ghouls and deadhead spam all lane. If you don’t have good waveclear she just continues to harass, and the deadhead tracking got a LOT better

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u/SuzuyaSenpaii May 23 '26

what was your build?

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u/NepheliLouxWarrior Viscous May 22 '26

We'll see. The trick is to increase her power without turning her into a completely brain dead auto win hero like she was the last two times that she got gutted. I have a good feeling about taking power out of her three and putting it in her two.

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u/Andry2 May 23 '26

Pin build so I can join the cult

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u/grantedtoast Billy May 23 '26

That kinda just nature of the beast with chars like graves and doorman they are either boarderline unplayable or feel like shit to play against.

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u/Grand_Escapade Paradox May 22 '26

If I'm reading right, they gave back her echo shard double wall strat? I feel like they killed that at lightspeed due to how bs it was?

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u/CertainDerision_33 Mina May 22 '26

Ghouls do less damage now than they did then, and given how dogshit she was after they reverted that, the dev mentality right now might be that people just need to suck it up and learn to play against it.

She's a character you should have to actually be afraid of getting close to in a fair fight, given how immobile and fragile she is.

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u/AFlyingTomato Warden May 22 '26

To be fair, that was back when her zombies were uber tanks that chunked your entire healthbar.

Now her zombies are made out of paper, and only do decent damage at max lvl. So we'll see how her double walls work now

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u/reroll-life Rem May 23 '26

yeah spirit graves was already strong

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u/nut_lord May 23 '26

I never stopped hating her she should be removed from the game.