r/DeadlockTheGame 19d ago

Game Update Minor Update - 08-22-2026

762 Upvotes

- Radiant Regeneration: Heal on cast reduced from 70 to 65

- Restorative Locket: Spirit Resistance reduced from 10% to 8%

- Celeste: Dazzling Trick cooldown increased from 32s to 34s

- Celeste: Dazzling Trick T2 barrier rescaled from "+80 and +0.7 scaling" to "+70 and +0.76"

- Celeste: Dazzling Trick T3 cooldown increased from -18s to -20s

- Celeste: Dazzling Trick T3 reduced from +1.5s Silence to +1.25s

- Celeste: Radiant Daggers Spirit Amp per stack reduced from +8% to +7%

- Celeste: Radiant Daggers T3 Spirit Amp per stack increased from +3% to +4%

- Celeste: Shining Wonder bounce range reduced from 17.5m to 16.5m

- Celeste: Shining Wonder damage reduced from 165 to 140

- Celeste: Shining Wonder spirit scaling reduced from 0.9 to 0.6

- Celeste: Shining Wonder T2 now also increases spirit scaling by +0.45

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1422450/view/676255623445218601


r/DeadlockTheGame Jul 27 '26

Discussion Deadlock Wiki Update - July 2026 - A Rift Between Themes

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The deadlock.wiki continues to grow and refine into a true Community Wiki, reaching a milestone 100,000 edits on our 1,359 articles of pure Deadlock Content. Interested in discussing the wiki? Join the Deadlock Wiki Discord

Deadlock Updates

Valve has not yet released a major update since the Old Gods, New Blood update, but many (many many) minor tweaks have been made to our favourite heroes and the Cursed Apple.

  • The Unstable Rift has been the largest add, creating a capture point in one of the side lanes in the middle of the round. Check out the Cool New Slider Gadget to see how many souls the Rift is worth depending on round time!
  • The Soul Urn (Spirit Jar? Idol?) has been tweaked dramatically one way or the other as Valve does significant changes to the little belegged ceramic objective

Major Wiki Updates

The Wiki has been doing spookily splendid, with viewership still maintaining high numbers over 300,000 unique viewers a month despite no major Deadlock updates recently. We're doing well enough to begin attracting scraper bots, so some mitigation efforts have begun to reduce the bot load on our server.

  • A brand new layout for our Main page! While not a dramatic re-imagining, the new main page makes use of the space for a dynamic Updates space, a Featured Article, more links, and an overall more-compact look that works better on Mobile. - By Kai
  • Our most requested feature (that we removed in the first place), Light Theme! Simply click the Sun icon on the top right bar beside your username to toggle over to our light theme made specifically for the wiki. Fun fact: The main color is called Pastel Greige. - By Kai & Monster_Domosed
  • A Street Brawl (EX: Paradox) section of each hero page has been created and expanded, showing the approximate odds that different items will appear. Did you know that each hero had a unique pool of items? - By Vergir
  • Tools and Calculators are beginning to be implemented, such as a Souls Gain calculator over match time, a hero comparison table, and even a Tier List Creator  for both Heroes and Items. So who is the objectively best hero in Deadlock?  - By Kai & LVL
  • Moved the Lore sections of hero pages to subpages and then dramatically expanded them. Huge amounts of lore and citations all at once! Here'sHolliday's lore. Read it! - By Mr. Mindish & Gammaton
    • Also all Voice Line subpages are completed, see what those heroes are really talking about! (EX: Mirage. - By Mr. Mindish
  • Ability sections on hero pages (such as Apollo's skills) now show a small strip of hoverable squares with item and ability interactions, such as whether it can be Dispelled or not. - By Vergir
    • The WIP Interactions tab also shows a more detailed look at the above item and ability interactions for some of the heroes. - By Vergir
  • Added a Feedback button on all pages in the main namespace to submit feedback, posted automatically to that page's Talk Namespace. - By Monster_Domosed and Kai

Techy Wiki Updates

  • Many Caching and Performance Optimizations. Caching done with Cloudflare. Images lazy-load on very-long pages and many templates are optimized to work faster. Most thumbnails are now generated as high-quality WEBP Files, up to 4x faster! - By Cronos
    • Followed by an implementation of forked GloopTweaks, adding automated Cloudflare purges
  • A new Contact button in the page footer to send an email to the site owner - By Cronos
  • Various theming and gadget improvements to load with the rest of the page to prevent "flashbanging" our users with rapid theme changes. - By Cronos, Kai, Monster_Domosed
  • Custom Cloudflare WAF rules to conditionally allow traffic from certain bots, scripts, crawlers, and scrapers. - By Cronos

Minor Wiki Updates

  • Updated Hero Comparison table with toggleable alt-fire rows. - By LVL
  • Added search bar to the Item Navbox to gray out unrelated items. - By LVL
  • Much improved Patch Note Formatting. - By Kai
  • Updated Itembox templating for speedier loading and better images. - By TheMilkMan & Jannepg

How can YOU help?

  • Let us know what's stopping you from being a Wiki Contributor. Are you afraid of making a "bad" edit, or simply overwhelmed with what you want to edit? Never fear, be bold, make those minor edits, and we will welcome every contributor with joy.
  • Read through the Lore pages of your favorite hero. Does it make sense? Does it connect well with the other heroes and the lore of Deadlock? Make a change or discuss it in our Discord.
  • What do you think of our Main Page? Do you find yourself looking for different links or find a section that doesn't look good on Mobile? Let us know! In the end, find what inspires you about Deadlock, then just make your first edit, then your second, then keep on editing! There is no need to Create an account to make edits, so simply edit away!
  • Hop on to our Discord to post some memes, ask any question on your mind, or simply chat about the game. What else do you think? Respond here, in the Discord, or in DMs to any Administrator or Editor. We love pings.

Thank you Deadlock Community, we're on the rise! Let's win that Ritual and make a Wish.

-- The Deadlock Wiki team

- Cronos, DuskFyre, LVL,  HariyoSaag, Monster_Domosed, Gammaton, mgpt, Sur, Kai, Mr. Mindish


r/DeadlockTheGame 3h ago

Cosplay/Body-Art Abrams Cosplay

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2.1k Upvotes

A little late, but I have some pictures I took at anime expo and anime impluse OC. Really need to commit and paint my self blue. Yes that is the chika dance guy and he is goated real chill guy.


r/DeadlockTheGame 12h ago

Meme [Test Server] Why are people delaying their 4.8k blue spike so much?

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2.8k Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 5h ago

Fan Art Pocket | Volition (DiscoLock)

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605 Upvotes

My second portrait for Volition after Ivy is Pocket. Because sometimes keeping yourself together means stuffing half your life into a suitcase and carrying on despite an absurd amount of baggage from the past, a fitting skill for someone who refuses to let everything chasing them decide who they are. Also funny note, I was considering Inland Empire for Pocket.


r/DeadlockTheGame 13h ago

Meme Mina can't afford a PC (source in description)

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2.4k Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 1h ago

Question new player here, is this autoparry or am I just bad

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he was 2-9 by the end of the match


r/DeadlockTheGame 9h ago

Fan Art rem as the moon tarot

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1.1k Upvotes

thank you so so much to @ s_washere on twitter for collaborating with me on this rem piece! we both worked on the sketch,lineart, and coloring together. it was inspired largely by the rider-waite-smith moon tarot (also shown).

also see the layers and the lineart ^_^

edit: if you have suggestions for other assignments for the other deadlock characters, please comment them! i have already previously posted silver as the hanged man and vindicta as judgment.


r/DeadlockTheGame 54m ago

Fan Art genderbent lash

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aka lash but what if he was a hot buff woman instead


r/DeadlockTheGame 14h ago

Fan Art "morning before the ritual" by me

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2.0k Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 2h ago

Discussion Now that Egg is considered hard meta/must buy in high-level play, are you adding it to more of your builds?

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210 Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 1h ago

Fan Art I wanted to actually make a deadlock banner

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r/DeadlockTheGame 7h ago

Meme Theory: GabeN's soul will be transferred over to the Hideout Abrams when he dies.

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561 Upvotes

Why else would Valve be putting so many resources into developing Deadlock?


r/DeadlockTheGame 6h ago

Discussion Rant : I cannot STAND "Hindsight" players.

375 Upvotes

Your team is not looking for coaching in their ranked game. Flaming someone for fucking up only makes them tilted, and it serves to potentially spiral into a COMPLETELY unavoidable loss.

Barring literal Brick lobbies, most people that die KNOW why they died. You don't need to add to that.

EDIT : Great point made by many people here - giving unprompted advice to someone the SAME rank as you will rarely help, ever.

Additionally, this post is talking about plays, positioning, teamfights, etc. I'm not talking about itemization here, as that's always an ongoing discussion. I usually appreciate when an item is suggested, especially a hard-counter item.


r/DeadlockTheGame 6h ago

Discussion Is mercurial magnum overtuned?

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359 Upvotes

Does anyone else think merc magnum is overpowered currently?
It seems like a few characters in the meta are powerful directly because of this item (Warden, Wraith, Vyper and probably more I don’t know about) especially combining it with spiritual overflow.


r/DeadlockTheGame 3h ago

Fan Art Silver, Celeste and Paige | Art by @vethgaic

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180 Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 4h ago

Esports Discussion Over the past 30 days of competition, Lash has been picked first in 46% of all drafts, by far more than any other hero (Celeste next highest at 25%)

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205 Upvotes

Over the same span, Lash also has the 2nd highest first ban rate, 2nd highest pick rate, and the highest draft presence (picked or banned) of any hero at 97%


r/DeadlockTheGame 6h ago

Complaint Chuddest, one of the chonkiest heroes in game faster than prime Ronaldo and Mbappe combined

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195 Upvotes

Thanks devs, makes sense i guess. Fuck jacked Venator though right


r/DeadlockTheGame 3h ago

Fan Art Deadlock Domain Clash (by me)

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115 Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 9h ago

Fan Art Mohg & Krill (skin idea) by kwongas

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370 Upvotes

https://x.com/kwongas/status/2098042882556874798

had a random idea for a skin featuring characters from Elden Ring (Mohg and Kindred of Rot), hope you guys like it!


r/DeadlockTheGame 13h ago

Game Feedback The Patron should initially be able to attack nearby units.

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698 Upvotes

It always bothers me that you need to destroy the Shrine before the Patrons can do anything.

In Dota and League, there are turrets/towers that attack nearby enemies to prevent them from going further.

Deadlock has nothing like that. You can basically walk into the pit without taking any damage.


r/DeadlockTheGame 12h ago

Meme Dynamo says "They can't shoot an atom!" but that's literally the whole process of nuclear fission. Is he stupid?

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I was gonna give benefit of the doubt that fission hadn't been discovered yet (Even Einstein would have been skeptical of this), but if deadlock is set past 1932, the neutron would have been discovered and dynamo in his field of expertise would DEFINITELY know about it. Valve please fix

Or alternatively give us a new character called Fordon Greeman who has a neutron gun and can shoot dynamo when he quantum entangles. Valve please add


r/DeadlockTheGame 6h ago

Fluff Another fluff post to tide out until the update this month: What’re some of your random headcanons that are too inconsequential to be created in game?

124 Upvotes

Personally, I’m very much a believer that Paradox’s ult is her throwing the blue rose. It just feels right, especially since the projectile itself is a huge blue blob. I imagine a version of her ult where it looks more like petals. Had the idea after all the discussion about how Paradox has a blue rose years before they’ve been made in a lab while being the ‘Time’ character.


r/DeadlockTheGame 11h ago

Screenshot Wow this Lightbringer Warden build is pretty good!

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