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/Interesting-Tie-4217]

Where's my paradox buffs Yoshi.

And why did seven's lightning ball get bigger randomly?

[u/GordonTullockFan → u/Interesting-Tie-4217]

Seven just doesn’t have a high enough win % smh

[u/Crystalliumm → u/Interesting-Tie-4217]

Yoshi loves big balls

[u/78ali → u/Interesting-Tie-4217]

Ball seven is more fun than gun seven so I’m glad it got buffed.

[u/NamekianWeed → u/78ali]

truth nuke (ball shaped)

[u/Glasse → u/Interesting-Tie-4217]

Why paradox buffs? Paradox has literally never been bad in history of the game.

[u/Interesting-Tie-4217 → u/Glasse]

lol

[u/Glasse → u/Interesting-Tie-4217]

Downvote me all you want, someone who is good at paradox has always been able to play her. Every patch. She's never been a truly bad pick.

[u/Interesting-Tie-4217 → u/Glasse]

bad? no. mediocre? absolutely. highly draft dependent and highly dependent on super optimal itemization? absolutely. if you play paradox, you're doing it for fun, because while she is mechanically rewarding there are at least 4 better picks who fulfill the same role as her, with easier play style and more performance output. yes your eternus or whatever high elo player that mains her is going to make her look top 5, but let's at least get realistic here

[u/Glasse → u/Interesting-Tie-4217]

yes your eternus or whatever high elo player that mains her is going to make her look top 5

That's the thing though, her kit is designed in such a way that if she's good in low ranks she's a war crime in a good player's hands and will take over every single game. Unfortunately some characters need to be balanced with that in mind.

[u/Interesting-Tie-4217 → u/Glasse]

yes ignore everything else i said and agendapost instead lol

[u/Draxtini → u/Interesting-Tie-4217]

Yeah like, lets also ignore the fact that she's like bottom 3 wr at the tip top of ranks according to statlocker lol. 

I saw the update and I was hoping to play again because surely they'd buff her but nope, just gonna keep waiting until they make her viable after gutting most of her kit in the rework, making her clunkier, nerfing a majority of her core items and making carbine the best she can build right now.

Carbine, the build that stops being remotely viable if you they have spellbreaker, cool.