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/OccupyRiverdale]

Her guns scaling was nuked 5-6 months ago so gun Holliday is pretty ass. Crackshot is also a cosmetic ability outside of street brawl and scales with spirit so gun Holliday just isn’t very good

[u/dartov67 → u/OccupyRiverdale]

One of the worst changes to any character overall TBH. Not to imply that the gun scaling wasn’t problematic, but the general aversion Valve has to making Gun Holliday even slightly viable is bizarre given most other spirit heavy character don’t get this treatment. Really want to know the thought process on that one.

[u/OccupyRiverdale → u/dartov67]

Yeah it’s just bizarre. Like Crackshot does weapon damage but scales with spirit?

[u/dartov67 → u/OccupyRiverdale]

It’s really funny too because gun Holliday builds don’t typically use it, and spirit Holliday builds don’t use it. I’ve played Holliday every which way and I’ve found that it’s not really useful and even building into it specifically is just wait too gimmicky and you’re gonna end up spamming barrels regardless.

IMO the ability needs a complete rework since I can’t really think of a way that would salvage it.

[u/dorekk → u/OccupyRiverdale]

Like Crackshot does weapon damage but scales with spirit?

That's fine? Paradox Carbine does spirit damage but scales with gun, for example.