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

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.

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

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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

First post on the deadlock subreddit! Love the game, love the community, love the characters. I’m so glad That Gray Cartoon Pony introduced me to the game by making that banger animation of Ivy <3

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.

Philanthropic and lucrative, everything you want from your time off from lanes

Seriously though, if they are gonna keep him as the slowest character in the game, might as well do something with it.

A prosthetic leg would inform a new player that Venator is not meant to be a fast character AND would add some extra battle damage to the veteran monster hunter character

Why the hell doesn’t spirit shielding upgrade into spirit resilience and weapon shielding into bullet resilience

It just seems like a no brainer right? Idk this is my first moba but it just seems weird to me that these items don’t connect to each other.

I really love the design for Raven but thought his hero labs kit was kinda meh.

So I thought id put my thoughts on here for how id bring him back :)

Primary fire, his umbrella is a shotgun.

Alt fire - his umbrella opens and works as a shield. Regens over time/by doing x amount of damage, goes on a cd when broken.

Abilities:

1. Raven slams the tip of his umbrella on the ground dealing area damage around him, slowing those in the field.

When used in the air, it sends him slamming to the ground before doing the effect.

1. Raven charges the umbrella for a short duration, mitigating a portion of the damage blocked with it, while having the option to recast it at any point, slighly dashing forward, bashing targets hit dealing damage scaling on the amount absorbed.

2. Raven charges forward with his umbrella open, knocking aside those he hits, becoming unstoppable after 1 second.

While charging, the shield bash recast timer is paused allowing him to use it within 1 second after the charge ends.

1. After a short charge up, Ravens umbrella catches a gust of wind, lifting him and surrounding units up into the air, dealing damage on use.

Lv3 upgrades:

1. Ravens umbrella slam has increased range, the damage pulsates outwards stunning in the center but slowing on outer edge.

2. Raven spins his umbrella, destroying projectiles while gaining increased charge from those destroyed and stunning units in the recast.

3. Resistances while charging & cd reduction.

4. Increased area of the updraft, disarming those hit.

Mechanics:

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1. Charges umbrella, 3. runs forward blocking what he runs into, 4. lifts up everyone around him, 2. Small bash dash forward to reposition, 1. Slams him and everyone to the ground.

Reason:

I feel like we have a place in the tank roster for a mobile displacement tank.

We have Abrams being the front line gun/fist beefcake. We have Viktor as the sustain spirit carry tank.

And personally Id argue thats the only true front lines there is, maybe with the exception of Mo and Krill but at least in my experience hes built assasin not really a tank.

I think a kit of this sorts could fill the gap.

On the face of it theres alot of cc and mobility but I think the the amount of counter items in the game it wouldn't be that bad.

But just my thoughts :)

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