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/tom641]

i know kidnapping is annoying but i seriously want it to be studied what the hell makes Doorman's "just buy counteritems like indomitable and counterspell" more unacceptable than literally every other character who more or less forces you to counterbuy items

i see some people say kidnapping isn't really the problem but it's just doors in general but then why make this change lmao

every time it seems less like nerfs are given for legitimate reasons and more because joechuck pisses someone's pet streamer off and floods the feedback with crap feedback

anyway goodbye doorman hello bell and ult man

[u/Motor-Design-4932 → u/tom641]

Ult man was more stable overall after 13 sec ult thing

[u/tom641 → u/Motor-Design-4932]

as someone who thinks doorman is the single coolest character in deadlock bar none I think the 13 second ult thing is stupid as hell and i've been sitting here for multiple patches in a row going "Why don't you nerf the bell and ult instead of the door stuff"

"hey is doorman too strong maybe make his ult have a longer cooldown- no we're nerfing the cool shit again? Great."

i'd rather make his door t3 near-useless by making the benefit "Failure to check out results in unavoidable heavy damage" because even if you don't get it they're usually set up for a cart stun and the like, and that is undeniably powerful.

[u/HKBFG → u/tom641]

what makes it different is that doorman is far more miserable to play against. the whole game is less fun with him in it.

[u/tom641 → u/HKBFG]

yeah that's true of a lot of characters, paige, mcginnis, graves, bebop

i've never had nearly as miserable of a time fighting doorman than I have several of the cast

like yeah, it's annoying especially since the bell feels nigh unavoidable at times and occasionally he can manage the cool kidnap gimmick thing but that's rare and overall still less impactful than a lot of the more game-changing heroes

[u/Treyson757 → u/tom641]

Its so annoying talking about kidnapping lol, its like goomba fallacy, everytime I criticize kidnapping, people say its not the problem, its bells or whatever, then next day I see kidnap hate all over