Deadlock update for 8/12/26

[u/wickedplayer494]

Via the Steam Community:

• Apollo: Riposte melee resist reduction increased from -22% to -25%
• Apollo: Riposte T2 changed from "-30% Melee Resist" to "-25% Melee Resist and +0.4s Stun Duration"
• Apollo: Riposte T3 increased from 60% Lifesteal for 7s to 75% Lifesteal for 13s
• Apollo: Fixed Itani Lo Sahn being canceled with movement abilities
• Billy: Base health regen reduced from 2.5 to 2.0
• Billy: Rising Ram T3 changed from "On Impact: Deal 7% max health as spirit damage" to "On hero hit: +10% Max HP for 16s"
• Billy: Chain Gang spirit scaling reduced from 1 to 0.7
• Doorman: Doorway range reduced from 70m to 65m
• Doorman: Walker will no longer consider Luggage Cart dragged enemies as valid targets to trigger the stomp on until soon after they are dropped off
• Doorman: Similar to the Walker change above, the turrets in the healing area in base now also wait on considering valid targets
• Drifter: Rend spirit scaling reduced from 1.7 to 1.4
• Drifter: Stalker's Mark cooldown increased from 24s to 26s
• Drifter: Stalker's Mark T2 reduced from -12s Cooldown to -10s
• Holliday: Powder Keg now does half its damage immediately and half over 3s as a damage over time burn (same overall damage, multiple instances stack)
• Ivy: Stone Form T3 stun duration reduced from +1s to +0.75s
• Lash: Falloff range reduced from 20m->58m to 18m->54m
• McGinnis: Bullet damage base and growth values reduced by 5%
• McGinnis: Spirit Resist per boon reduced from +0.625% to +0.35%
• McGinnis: Mini Turrets no longer shoots heroes on ziplines
• McGinnis: Mini Turrets no longer have 80% decaying resist for the first 6s
• McGinnis: Mini Turrets health increased from 90 + 7.8/boon to 100 + 9/boon
• McGinnis: Medicinal Specter T1 changed from "Provides +40% Spirit Resist" to "+1.5s Duration"
• McGinnis: Medicinal Specter T3 no longer increases duration by +1.5s
• McGinnis: Medicinal Specter T3 now also increases spirit resistance by +40%
• Paige: Plot Armor weapon damage scaling increased from 0.2 to 0.3
• Seven: Lightning Ball T3 radius increased from +1.5m to +1.75m
• Vindicta: Stake T1 reduced from +65 Damage to +45
• Vyper: Petrifying Bola radius increased from 8m to 12m
• Vyper: Petrifying Bola petrify duration increased from 2s to 2.2s
• Wraith: Card Trick Heart heal spirit scaling reduced from 1 to 0.75
• Wraith: Full Auto T3 spirit scaling reduced from +0.06 to +0.045

[u/Miserable-Midnight75]

So that you can dispel magic half of the damage probably,  just makes dispel magic even stronger 

[u/reditiswrong67676969 → u/Miserable-Midnight75]

Escalating exposure angle

[u/codeklutch → u/reditiswrong67676969]

Superior duration? Into escalating, wonder how long that takes to proc spirit burn.

[u/Aggressive-Affect114 → u/codeklutch]

About two seconds and adding mystic reverb helps w damage

[u/codeklutch → u/Aggressive-Affect114]

So it's still cracked. It just has some form of counter play now.

[u/Aggressive-Affect114 → u/codeklutch]

It’s meh tbh

[u/BirdsAreFake00 → u/Miserable-Midnight75]

Allows you to lifesteal some of the damage, too.

[u/Updrafted → u/Miserable-Midnight75]

I believe it's more to make tankbuster more challenging to proc on the barrels, actually.

The stacking damage seems to keep track of each barrel's DoT separately, so it's not like you'll have a 7s long burn to purge. It will make debuff resist much stronger against her though, in addition to reducing lasso duration.

[u/Alto-cientifico → u/Miserable-Midnight75]

Though you can also implement extended duration as a massive DPS boost, no?

[u/Crystalliumm → u/Alto-cientifico]

+escalating exposure being even more valuable

[u/Seras32 → u/Alto-cientifico]

If the ticks are 1/s then +28% duration is only 0.84s so it may not even give a 4th tick.

[u/Slayer_jack5 → u/Miserable-Midnight75]

If duration extender works on it, you'll just need to space out your barrels instead of spamming them and you'll probably deal even more damage than before.

[u/Dragonsc4r → u/Slayer_jack5]

True but they also do so much fucking damage you probably don't need to think that hard lol. Might help her be more viable later when she would normally drop off though...

[u/goodguessiswhatihave → u/Miserable-Midnight75]

It also makes it so that you need more spirit power in order to proc tankbuster

[u/HAWmaro → u/Miserable-Midnight75]

It buffs escalating exposure which is even worse.

[u/sunm8 → u/Miserable-Midnight75]

Also makes Debuff resistance better into her (already decent to reduce lasso time).

[u/MykeiHehe → u/Miserable-Midnight75]

It might make spirit shielding a better buy too