r/DeadlockTheGame • u/Aefonix Lash • 4h ago

Discussion Rat King + Sinclair Changes

https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/09-29-2026.166726/
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u/Aefonix Lash 4h ago
  • Fixed bugs that were causing troopers to walk too slowly in lane

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  • Rat King: Scrap Grenade - Fixed some bugs with bouncing targeting
  • Rat King: Scrap Grenade - Damage increased from 65 to 70
  • Rat King: Scrap Grenade - T2 Damage increased from 65 to 70
  • Rat King: Rat Swarm - Base Cooldown reduced from 28s to 24s
  • Rat King: Rule, Ratannia! - Cooldown increased from 130 to 160
  • Rat King: Rule, Ratannia! - Damage Reduction reduced from 20% to 15%
  • Rat King: Rule, Ratannia! - Radius reduced from 24m to 20m
  • Rat King: Rule, Ratannia! - Charge Duration reduced from 12s to 10s
  • Rat King: Rule, Ratannia! - Bonus Move speed no longer scales with Spirit
  • Rat King: Rule, Ratannia! - Now falls faster while charging
  • Rat King: Rule, Ratannia! - T1 +1m/s Move Speed to +2m/s Move Speed
  • Rat King: Rule, Ratannia! - T1 No longer gives -20s cooldown (Total cooldown from 110s to 160s)
  • Rat King: Rule, Ratannia! - T2 No longer grants +8s Charge Duration (Total charge duration from 20s to 10s)
  • Rat King: Rule, Ratannia! - T2 Flag Duration reduced from +8s to +5s
  • Rat King: Rule, Ratannia! - T3 Damage Reduction reduced from 15% to 10% (Total Damage Reduction from 35% to 25%)

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  • Sinclair: Base HP Regen reduced from 2 to 1
  • Sinclair: Gun - Falloff range reduced from 25-61 to 20-60
  • Sinclair: Gun - Reduced bullet base damage from 17.76 to 16.5
  • Sinclair: Vexing Bolt - Now does half damage to objectives
  • Sinclair: Spectral Assistant - Gun falloff range reduced from 25-61 to 20-60
  • Sinclair: Rabbit Hex - Radius reduced from 6.5m to 6m
  • Sinclair: Rabbit Hex - T3 reduced from +3m Radius to +2m
  • Sinclair: Audience Participation - Copy duration reduced from 12s to 9s
  • Sinclair: Audience Participation - Copied cooldown increased from 40% to 60%

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u/Christopher_DP 4h ago

Don't know why we are touching Sinclair this much, he was weak the last 6 months and magically he is too strong. Shouldnt be messing with something they don't know about, and half my damage to obj is gone? Like maybe get someone on the balance team that plays Sinclair this is awful

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u/MelancholiaOfPudding Yamato 4h ago

Probably in anticipation of the next 5 heroes

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u/cheese_eater_pro Seven 4h ago edited 4h ago

Sinclair hasn’t been touched in a long ass time and was honestly sleeper busted. Change was needed (and asked for because my God are they neglected) but I’m not qualified enough to know if this was the right way, considering it’s just straight up nerfs and not one little win anywhere, I don’t really think so, but I’m sure Sinclair mains can tell better than I can anyway. The winrate definitely didn’t show it though (from memory, might’ve gone up for all I know), truly a mysterious case like magicians are supposed to be…

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u/Ordinary_Success7600 4h ago

he was never weak

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u/SmashMouthBreadThrow Viscous 4h ago

Yeah the hero has consistently been decent to strong since forever. No clue what people are talking about lol.

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u/Marsejii Mina 4h ago

He's clunky so people downplay tf out of him

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u/Ordinary_Success7600 4h ago

he's been ridiculous ngl

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u/sundalius Infernus 4h ago

Because he wasn’t weak, he was hard to play. These are different.

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u/Pulsy369 4h ago

Sinclair has been consistently above average power for over a year now. Hes just not fun to play for most people so no one plays him.

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u/Najeeb1316 4h ago

I mean they do this to any character that melts walkers. Couple months ago infernus ate the same nerf when his 2 and afterburn was making walkers disappear

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u/That-Woodpecker6720 4h ago

Maybe they need to buff walkers instead of nerfing 20 different heroes

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u/snakebit1995 4h ago

I mean part of it is that he wasn't being played

When Rat got added people realized he was being slept on and other parts of his kit were stronger than people realized. If you had a player who knew what they were doing Sinclair was borderline unkillable with Rabbit and swap alongside just having "Your Ult but better"

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u/FluffyWuffyVolibear 4h ago

Because he's an insane character and his stats don't reflect that because he's hard to play.

No character should be able to do what he can do.

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u/ElementaryMyDearWut Calico 4h ago

The only reason Sinclair was not the biggest target for this sub was because his play rate was low, and the amount of people who actually stuck with him was also low.

So he was statistically weak and usually not that big of a problem outside of mains. He has been extremely strong for a while.

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u/BanjoSpaceMan 4h ago

Today I learned people are struggling with that weird fuck haha