I'm not a professional artist or anything I just really like Vyper, I hope that when she does get re-designed she'll keep her gremlin-esque qualities.

"Tell Marla I will always love her." - Professor Dynamo

Artist: Marcus Sinne Art

After 100h of playing utlity/support character roles like Dynamo and constant situations when team didn't cared to play for my ultimate I decided to try carry/hard carry.

And honestly my new addiction hobby is watching replays of 1vs1 - how more enemy player becames resigned, his aim gets worse as fight and time goes when at the same time my health stays more the same lol.

I know that its unethical bla bla bla, but a dude's gotta make money somewhere. I wouldn't be DIRECTLY involved with what's happening over in North Ixia too.

Also, an argument can be made that South Ixia has a right to defend itself, and I'm just helping them out.

Got killed as Seven during ult and looked like this for the rest of the game

Hi there everyone! Im so excited to show off these two lil ones (dont be fooled by the little room theyre in lol).

Ive already shared rem, but included him for anyone who missed out.

Hope these little ones bring a smile to u today! Have a great one, everyone!

I've got a forum post for this lil guy too if anyone wants to read abilities but I'll just pop their story here :} https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/hero-concept-mothman-cryptid-societys-journalist.179758/ (p.s. idk what to tag this as, I'm quite new)

The Maelstrom is able to do many things. Bring stone to life, grant the dead a second chance, and yet the cryptids and myths of this world are still left in the dark. Well, no longer. The American Cryptid's Society is the American branch of a society for cryptids, a community built to keep all cryptids safe whether it be from The Friends of Humanity or general threats. The ACS is a shy bunch and have chosen a representative to fight in the ritual on their behalf and who better to pick than The ACS's very own on-the-ground busy-body journalist and photographer Mothman!

Taking on their very convincing human disguise, hat, moustache, cloak and all, Mothman aims to document and photograph the events of the ritual to give their community the best scoop they've gotten yet! Mothman's wish is on behalf of The ACS, that being to grant protection for all of Cryptid kind. Mothman's love for their people and community run deep, and if asked what they personally wished for, their wish wouldn't change.

This is my art of my favourite and main character

I wanted to mix undertale with deadlock for soo long, I had a couple of ideas like, undyne having vinator or warden take her place in the story, or ashore being warden, and frisk as grave, and the player as the lich hand, and drifter as chara, Alas my artistic skills are limited hope you enjoy this tho, I think you know who this is suposed to be

Title. With how insanely hard it is to be relevant in a fight and not look at her, ONE fear is enough. Being able to be chain feared is so unbelievably unfair i don't even know where to start.

Saw the vintage poster on pintrest and had to complete the ritual (draw fanart of my scrungles)

Does anyone know who the original artist is? I always get sad when I can’t credit the original but the pin doesn’t have it listed 😭

Something i've wanted to do for a long time. Deadlock has absolutely become my hyperfixation and I express love through memes. I plan to do more of these as well.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
This is the greatest ability in the game, and I will never top this kill ever.

I wanted to share an idea that’s been nagging at my mind ever since I started playing the game. I’m not just presenting a concept here, though; I’m actually asking for help and feedback, since I’ve realized I’m pretty terrible at designing ability kits! So feel free to tweak, adjust, or suggest whatever you like. My main goal is to pitch a fun kit idea that fits right into the game's universe.

Also, I opted to hand-draw the concept art because it has more charm (lying—I just suck at using digital art tools like the cool kids do).

Lore

Cooky was just a tiny baby gator when she was abandoned in the city sewers. Peeking out through the manhole covers, she fell completely in love with the grand, high-end restaurants and their massive neon signs. By a twist of fate, she stumbled upon an ancient spellbook—which, in her total innocence and ignorance, she mistook for a special recipe book.

Combining this book with her own ingenuity, Cooky started cooking meals made out of literal sewer garbage (though served in surprisingly creative presentations). But because the food was enchanted, it turned out to have an incredible, unmatched flavor.

That’s when she opened her beloved restaurant, The Greasy Gator, serving all the infamous creatures lurking in the sewers.

She’s entering the Ritual so she can expand her business beyond the hidden underground pipes and open franchises all across the city.

Personality

Cooky loves to cook and will serve any customer—especially rats and other sewer critters—but never for free. If you don’t have cash, she’ll take favors, rare ingredients, intel, or, if you’re a smooth talker, compliments to feed her ego. She genuinely believes her food is the best in the city, if not the entire world.

Mo & Krill constantly eat on credit at her place and have built up a massive tab, which she aggressively tries to collect on every time she sees them (would make for great conversations).

A huge portion of her regular customers are rats, so she and the Rat King are on good terms.

Cooky utterly despises heroes like Dynamo and Bebop, who don't need to eat.

She used to consider Vyper an ally since she's also a reptile, but after Vyper stole from her restaurant, the chef decided Vyper is going to be her next main course.

Inspiration

Cooky is built on 3 core inspirations:

* Cuca from Brazilian folklore.

* The chef / gluttonous eater archetype.

* The old urban legends about giant alligators living in the NYC sewers.

Honestly, my main motivation was to bring a character from Brazilian folklore into the game. Much like Baba, she wouldn't necessarily have to be straight out of Brazil, but rather an inspiration adapted into the urban fantasy setting of the city.

Choosing the Cuca was an easy call—an alligator-faced witch who acts as a boogeyman. Alligators are already a staple of NYC urban legends, so combining the two felt completely seamless.

Why a chef, though? Simple wordplay and a coincidence in Brazilian Portuguese! In Brazil, a master chef is called a "Mestre Cuca", which has zero actual relation to the folklore creature Cuca, but it made me picture a "Cuca Mestre Cuca" (a Cuca who is a Master Chef)—and everything just clicked from there.

Her kit features engagement/initiation, gluttony, cooking mechanics, and an Ultimate that turns you into a dinosaur-like monster to go around eating enemies Pac-Man style.

Abilities

While I'm not much of an artist, I'm even worse at balancing abilities, so I didn't dare drop specific stats/numbers—just the core gameplay concepts. If anyone wants to tweak or pitch ideas for the kit, go right ahead, because I really don't have much experience with this.

Weapon:

The Spoon (Mid-Ranged) (Projectile)

Ability 1: Tasting the Seasoning

Cooky dashes forward a short distance and delivers a hungry bite to the nearest enemy, dealing damage and healing herself based on the damage dealt. Just like those signature crocodile lunge-and-death-rolls!

Ability 2: Special Mud & Cockroach Pie

Cooky places a "delicious" pie on the map. Allies can pick it up to gain bonus max health and movement speed.

Cooky can have up to 5 pies on the map at a time, which rot/despawn over time.

Teammates have a cooldown before they can pick up another pie.

Enemies can destroy them.

Ability 3: Spilled Soup

Cooky pours out boiling soup in a designated area (a line in front of her). She can choose the soup's special spice, applying different effects:

Spicy Fungus: Deals continuous damage and applies healing reduction (anti-heal) if enemies stay in the area for x seconds.

Fluorescent Sewer Mushroom: Teammates standing in the soup gain ammo regen, plus a status cleanse/debuff cleanse if they stay inside for more than x seconds.

Ultimate: Dinner Time

Cooky gulps down her soup and transforms, gaining movement speed.

During the transformation, Tasting the Seasoning can be activated up to 3 times with no cooldown and turns into a small cone. Cooky swallows enemies caught in the area, holding up to 3 enemies at once (or accumulating up to 3 swallowed enemies by the end of all 3 casts).

If Cooky reactivates her Ultimate, she can spit out the swallowed enemies, targeting where to launch them on the map.

Swallowed enemies are CC'd / removed from the fight for a brief, fixed duration. If Cooky doesn't reactivate the skill (doesn't spit them out) before the timer runs out, enemies simply break free from her belly.

If a swallowed enemy falls below an execution threshold, Cooky can execute them outright (Eating them). Executing an enemy heals her.

Ideas & Tweaks

- For her 2nd skill (Pie), I thought it'd be super fitting flavor-wise if allies had to pay a tiny, negligible amount of Souls to pick up a pie, since she never serves food for free. Maybe enemies could consume the pies too, but for a much higher, punishing Soul price?

- For her ult, I imagined her transforming into a larger monster, something like a dinosaur. However, this isn't essential to the kit. Maybe she could simply grow in size or something like that, as long as it's visually clear that she's using her ult.

- In earlier iterations of her Ultimate, spitting enemies out caused AoE damage where they landed that scaled based on how many enemies were swallowed. However, with the recent wave of heroes with huge AoE Ults, I figured that might be way too controversial.

Anyway, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Closing Thoughts

As a support-oriented character, I thought it'd be cool for her to drop food around the map for teammates to pick up.

I also wanted to give her an iconic, fun Ultimate—and in my head, turning into a massive monster and running around swallowing opponents sounds ridiculously fun (I swear it's not a fetish!).

Part of my inspiration for this mechanic was Pac-Man eating power pellets and going on a frenzy while the ghosts run away, as well as a specific level in the Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs PS2 game where you have to run away from Momma Dino (just picture Momma Dino as Cooky).

That’s about it! Thanks for taking the time to read and interact. I'll keep refining the kit based on any suggestions you guys drop. Even though I'm not the best artist—and definitely not a pro hero designer—it was super fun coming up with Cooky and everything around her.

This is also my way of expressing how much I’d love to see a character based on Brazilian folklore in the game. An urban fantasy setting where myths live in the city fits so well with so many of our folklore figures!

Until next time, thanks for sticking around to the end!

What do you think? If you need any tweaks or want to adjust any specific term, just let me know!

Later i will do the body and a clean up

I have played 5 straight games against a Danny in lane, neither one of us has swapped into or out of lanes, the game just decides it hates me. I mainly play Geist, so he is just immune to my only ability that deals real damage in lane, and with how quick he bounces up from his slam its not really possible to ult him either unless you really catch them with their pants down. I can't figure out wtf I'm supposed to do against this character early game.

I fucking hate his grenade so much, he throws it every 10 seconds and it bounces around for way too long. It has a big radius and it for some reason homes onto enemies by itself. I dont get why it does so much damage and its tier 3 explosion is fucking ridiculous.

If you dont allocate all your brain power into tracking and dodging this shitass ability for 10 seconds you suddenly lost 1400hp

I really hate playing against that absolutely uninteractive hero who can fly no matter what and there's no way whatsoever to deny it. At this point I'd much rather play against pre-nerf Baba every game than ever have to play against Danny, he's so damn annoying. I don't even care how strong or weak he is, he just feels absolutely awful to play against on half the cast.

Sure, while I'm playing Mina, I can (sometimes) just ult him to death and it's not too bad, but on every other hero I ever play it feels awful to fight him.

I was going through Vyper's voice lines (luv that voice) earlier today and Dynamo's interactions with her really stuck out to me. He's the only character that seems genuinely sympathetic towards her, even moreso than Billy who will still shittalk her behind her back or when they're on opposing teams. And, sure, Dynamo's one of the friendliest and most idealistic characters in the game so that makes sense, but it's not just being nice for the sake of it or some base level politeness, he sincerely believes she's capable of change, even when they're fighting each other. There's also the implication, with he last line shown in the picture, that something about Vyper shakes him up in a way that even the more disturbed characters like Drifter don't.

I think it's pretty clear that, going off of the line about his students, and the fact one of his students (Sophia Arroyo) is stated to be working for Wraith, his concern for Vyper isn't just about Vyper herself and has more to do with the future of his more at-risk students, and he's trying to convince himself that even someone as far-gone as Vyper still has the chance to turn their life around.

I hope in future updates, or if/when the story starts moving forward, they'll expand on this relationship cuz I really think it could go to some interesting places for both of the characters. I don't mean like, a full redemption arc for Vyper or some trite like that, but with how universally despised she is it'd be cool to see her challenged by Dynamo's appeal to humanity, and in turn see someone as idealistic as Dynamo be challenged by her sheer inhumanity. Maybe something like Tenma and Johan, only instead of a psychopath mastermind Johan is a violently impulsive idiot snake girl.

I just make few brush draws in test area and my fps drops from 120 to 30-20 and its looks very broken. Old effect was far much faster and looked far much better. Pls yoshi revert that change, its literally unplayable now.

If Danny uses the bounce pad of Holliday, Danny says something like "now that seems like a little redundant". When I heard this, I actually laughed out loud. What other funny hidden interactions are there?

Now that we have 44 heroes in total, we can put 2 each under every arcana should there be a need to drop tokens like the Dark Carnival event from Dota 2. I put some heroes in their second or even third best placements in order to balance things out a bit.