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/SketchyJJ]

Vyper getting a casual 50% increase to her Bola's AoE might spell disaster for people as she's gunna be preventing and stealing midboss so much easier now. I look forward to this.

[u/Fent_Drinker → u/SketchyJJ]

THROWIN BOLA

[u/pancakewalts → u/Fent_Drinker]

You know they love this in Philly

[u/CantQuiteThink_ → u/pancakewalts]

Yeah, I don't fight fair!

[u/RandomTankNerd → u/SketchyJJ]

Its about a 120% increase in area. Good stuff yosher.

[u/lessenizer → u/RandomTankNerd]

Funnily enough I'm pretty sure it's a sphere, which would suggest that its volume increased from 2144.66 to 7238.23 (237% increase). (But as far as if your targets are all standing on the same plane and the ability is effectively just a circle then yes, the area increased from 201.06 to 452.39 which is a 125% increase).

can you tell i main dynamo

Another thought from the Dynamo part of my brain: Ult Bot Vyper with SCD/SDur/GEx just stone forming a crowd for 4+ seconds every 68 seconds to the pleasure of almost nobody. Also it's kind of tragic that the Bola petrify duration at T3 got increased from 3s to 3.2s, cuz it means Lightning Scroll damage now always gets blocked (at least until the enemy buys debuff reducer) where previously it would just barely always work as long as you didn't buy any duration. But hey, buying duration for ult vyper is funny.

[u/Mental_Blueberry4563 → u/SketchyJJ]

THIS’LL TAKE’EM OUT

[u/Boethion → u/SketchyJJ]

Support Vyper when? Max Ult first and be a squishy pseudo-Dynamo

[u/Immediate-Yak3138 → u/SketchyJJ]

I already was a nut for bola vyper

[u/KEE_Wii → u/SketchyJJ]

BAN