#Deadlock
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I can't help but feel like that's a statement only a non fighting game player would say
but I haven't hit it on reaction, and I've not hit it consistently.
dauntless, you put it on top of your mental stack
you see a guy dash up in laning stage to your creep with 1 hit point
what's he gonna do
I've only hit it on prediction >.>
hear the sound behind you to your right, react immediately.
yeah
not 'oh I see it coming, I know it's here'
How do you normally parry
on the ground
I parried like 5 times in laning yesterday and won the game off of it
it was wild they kept trying me
though I'm doing airdash parry normally now.
I generally don't reaction airdash parry directly into someone to punish them for even thinking about heavy melee in my vicinity though
dauntless, like, I'm not gonna airdash parry while cooking biryani like if i get into a deadlock stack i load a set of expectations and reflexes into my brain I dunno what to say
What is airdash parry i am very new to deadlock?
I'm not sure what this 'full reaction' thing even means
I play pocket I spend half my game in the air, you gotta learn how to move aren't parrying while doing that
Queue me being a fool trying to parry abrhams shoulder check.
But then me being some sort of creature by dodging a Billy heavy melee with Drifter's 2 after baiting him around a corner
Another thing that I think is cool is that you can win games off of improving small skills too and if that's execution that's fun.
Like idk
it's like 3 buttons it's easier than dash jumping
Oh to like get in front of something and block it?
yeah
Taking away fun is not fun to me
It's like IAD in strive
Baiken can do it
I genuinely took more time picking up the dash jump timing
c.f.
and yeah I am a strive player
I just mean like, entirely in reaction. idk how else to put it.
we've been doing instant air dashes for years
not as a read, not with preparation time
dauntless this is like, this is a fighting game thing
it's so weird that you're just not believing me
we even have a name for it
I react to DI in SF all the time too
.>
before deadlock even?
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I'm aware fighting games exist! I more mean like, this i guess idk.
It's a practice thing.
Like a vindicta with her ult who is a counter strike or siege player should be able to kill you from across the map if you're low.
It's just a bo--.....
Does....does Vindicta ult get Headshot bonus too? 
dauntless, that was me pointing out that like. in literally every game context you go in and you load some reflexes
youll really need to clarify what do you mean by "on reaction"
like
how short of a timeframe do you want?
if I've done it successfully it can't be so bad :v)
'hear the noise, do it in response to the noise in the proper direction which results in a guaranteed parry even if they're faking it out'
yeah the hitbox is huge
yeah thats super doable
you can miss and still get it by accident
If they fake it out that's a great play on their part too
the sorta stuff which obliterates anyone from holding q
if you find jumping hard, try grounded dash cancel parry
that's dash -> tap crouch -> parry
.>
Like a very common thing is your friend gets parried in lane, and you see them about to get heavy meleed, and you jump parry in front of them
again, 3 buttons
Ye it's doable
Don't even need to play actual fighting games. Play For Honor enough and you can do it
yeah this
if you do it right, they don't get to fake it out.
idk
no? they do?
like they can flick their direction at the last moment
that's how you fake a heavy melee
no, they don't, because if you do it right your hitbox is inside their hitbox!
I'm torn because I find Riven's whole deal kind of pointless but IAD parry is totally a thing
they start the heavy melee, you react, they flick away
this is so semantic
They just have to know how to flick.
And tbh I know some people can't flick but it's another skill.
I think Dauntless is talking about if you IAD parry into them they can't flick because you're too close at any aim angle
yes
??? why would you even want to do that?
Tho combos are reactions are not the same skill but it's still like, execution is fun
not just iad parry, IAD parry into the opponent
because it guarantees a successful parry
Because it stuns them and you get to blow them up?
Wait am I getting pranked by AI search? Is the deadlock parry window really .75 seconds long?
also because when you do it everyone shouts out YOOOOOO
are we talking about laning?
it's egregarious
Iāll bear that in mind
'hear sound -> execute thing' was the original context
it's sort of gotten out of hand now >.>
... yeah. which you can do
The convo started cause someone was saying that Riven is jank because of her combos, and I said that Combos are really fun and can be included
without dashing into somebody's hitbox
i do it blind and around corners
This originally came up in the context of execution barriers comparable to LoL I think
And that devolved into an execution thing
So itās been in the abstract
I was mostly just... curious if people were successfully doing the thing I have down as 'execution heavy with deadlocks mental stack' and the answer is sort of
the answer is 'yes, but without the directional component' I think? idk.
I'm real good at dashing to the slight wrong angle and accomplishing nothing
no, we dash into the creep
But I do try for it
or dash into our friend who's gonna get heavy melee-ed
that's sensible.
that's the usual use case
like as a rule they're not gonna walk up to me and heavy melee... me?
that's just kinda dumb?
some people do!
they're gonna first abrams wall slam me or go for a creep
okay, well, at my mmr they don't
but yes, it is kinda dumb.
and if someone abrams wall slams your friend
you can airdash into both of them and parry
and yeah
i've done that
What can you parry
any heavy melee
ok im making an OC and this is what i have for the first ability. does it make sense, and is it distinct enough from celeste's 2
melees by default
and Puddle Punch
abrams will heavy melee after a wall slam every time
including ability heavy melees
Ahh
its mostly been destroyed by the work of Harrison armory?
I thought you can't parry Bashdown
the only ability you can parry is puddle punch
nooo
whether or not something is parriable is handled on an individual case basis.
melee attacks in general? but not melee spells (except puddle)
There's a like....lot of people that do.
I get them in my matches.
But I admit MMR ranks are weird, cause I'm Oracle I and people were trying to mash parry out of my Silver 2 when I'm by myself.
And I really don't believe I'm even above Seeker
yeah, it's just melee & puddle i think
*not until he gets the stun time AP upgrade on it because that makes the stun long enough you can't be parried by your victim, something irrelevant out of laning but extremely relevant in laning
You can parry those???
I made a Viscous rage quit the other day cause I countered the puddle punch with Silver 2, it is very silly
yeah
it's literally only puddle punch
it's essentially a remote heavy melee using his hand
Wack, does it stun him too
it was patched in a long while ago and now exists as The exception
it's very interesting in that way
no stun
no, it doesn't. but good question
but it does inflict rebuttal damage
yeah
that's very funny
which is excellent tech if you're laning against him and Like That
i hope someone has killed viscous with that.
I have haha
melee goopert is current tech now also so there's that
amazing
its hilarious
Okay so buy rebuttal against Viscous is what Iām hearing
are you Like That
does it give you the Rebuttal heal too?
believe so
Puddle Punch is reactable because they decided it should be the loudest noise in the world
I think it just generically Procs Rebuttal
i have to rein in my impulse to reference sex with a man when thresh asked about "like that"
Actually I can react to that, I can still pick up counterhit 2LP combos on Ed
no i unfortunately have never parried puddle punch in my life
so the full package including the damage amp for you afterwards(?)
i have tried many times
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going for it and they miss the damn punch
truee
yesterday night with alt and gran I was up against visc and it turns out 100ms lag is juuuust enough to totally brick my ability to do so
RIGHT THERE
I was visibly blue before being launched through the air multiple times
ONE TWO THREE
my alt girlfriend
nowadays whenever I parry puddle punch viscous fucking misses me or i was parrying based on sound and they hit my homie. its really piss me off
some of my favorite interactions ingame are 'everyone misses their ability and just kind of back off firing guns'
Rip, I actually forgot people havent played a fighting game like on 200+ ping before
good job nobody
look we're not tight enough terms for me to raw invoke her first name
That's gotta be rough in deadlock if you're going for parries and haven't
my ass is not getting into a Social Bartimaeus situation
Heavy Melee should knock down airborn targets
Scariest fighting game experience of my life was fighting Korean Chipp across the pacific
if they're high enough it should apply a full Knockdown-style stun equivalent
warmup is important
380 milliseconds of ocean
i mean i clutch karma ult E when playing on chinese LoL server before, at around 190ms Ping
I would love that but Idk if it's healthy lol
the airborne heavy melee legitimately happened on DFN
fighting chipp with that microwave install
last night
Heavy melee should set up into a 12 hit juggle that ends in CA
hitting airborn people with heavy melee hard
waoo
Wait do people not do that already?
billy just dropped down and heavy meleed a warden player running away
and then just backed off
I just do it as Drifter when I have lifestrike
Real talk I'm so so happy deadlock has a melee rps system it truly elevates the game for me in a way no other hero shooter can compare
Like damn
I'm never going back
I legit hopped off and checked the ping on wolfram alpha I was gobsmacked
It's so fucking good actually
imagine getting clubbed over the skull with a baseball bat and having the "mustve been the wind" reaction I nearly cried laughing
it's a funny system even if i think it's optimal to just not melee
that's the biggest motivator for me to keep tabs on deadlock
dracula flow
ping so high i have to triangulate their position
Yeah let's do some for honor in the middle of doing parkour in the middle of doing dota in the middle of doing quake
ok not the biggest, the biggest was rebuttal
Ping so high it ruptures eardrums, jit
YANAGI
im going to try a bot match with trophy hunter seven
there needs to be a mod where when you land a parry
i doubt deadlock will have a kishin drive moves equivalent
it immediately cues up AAAAALRIGHTY THEN CHATROOM
i think the BIG BALLS SEVEN build will be fun
I want more shooter stuff
Pick up Mystic Slow and Ballistic Enchant
I want insane recoil
reversing a last hit scenario cause they go for light melee and you read them feels like ripping someone's soul out of their spine
My biggest issue with deadlock melee is that the window to light melee actually feels so tight to me
you THOUGHT
Youāre saying this like Yanagi isnt universal in Deadlock
Itās only a matter of time til we get a Time Killer in this game
Whenever I get heavy by mistake and get parried I feel like a dang fool
hey whose M1 is closest to a semiauto rifle in deadlock right now?
Seven
Seven or weirdly Silver
That's really surprising to me huh
ok yeah silver makes sense
Good luck getting that timing down
mostly in per-hit damage and fire rate
It might just be the side button I use is sticky, IDK
Semiauto as in burst fire or semiauto as in repeater
Silver then yeah
I don't know anyone else who's struggled with it but I can see it
Like I usually get light, but sometimes
What's your melee button?
silver
despite repeated cleanings my tab key is fiddly and using an ability when going to try to upgrade is aaaAAAA
Wait do you use f
M4 I think? It's a thumb button on my mouse
Burst is not semiauto wut 
i do love me some paradox burst fire but still my preference is with garand-style bam bam bam
Aha no yeah check the button
i will
(all guns in deadlock continuously fire if you hold down lmb)
silver's is slow and chunky though
Yeah, Silver or Doormanās rinkadink ass pistol
It might also just be a me issue with how I hold the mouse
i cant stop hearing im lowkey evil whenever i pklay hidden king now
man that key pistol took some getting used to
Honestly? I expected Vindicta's gun to be like this and then it's not
the key pistol goes CLONK itās wild
Headshotting with Doorman is like
i am still not used to bullet drop at that rate on a pistol
I mean all the singlefire guns are actually just slow automatics, but yeah
I need some cursed bullets
is this too close to celeste's 2
dicta is so funny cause her sniper rifle just has a mode switch for fuller auto
right, missed this but also yes, Vindicta's ult does 20% more damage on headshot
this 1800s ghost tryin some newfound technology and liking it quite much
I just kinda assumed headshots largely don't matter outside of M1
they implemented anti-quickscoping measures for vindicta
Reverb did I catch you bodyshotting with a sniper
Probably not cause I think the iconic part of that is silence on break
IT'S SO CRINGE
š©
it iiiisss
makes sense
oh fuck this
Return of TF2 Snoipa
oh that's awful
Look it's because almost every shooterism is different in deadlock. I just have bad cognitive dissonance because it makes me assume it'll follow moba principals.
you just gotta spawn in a viscous and have him puddle punch
im maining this

oh! does Billy's Bashdown 3 break Borrowed Decree?
lmao yeah they definitely need to give like a roof pass, that's evil
BRUH
ward spot tombstone returns
no i hope this stays in
this is peak dota
i have 0 idea how she got it there
Did people not assume this?
Cliff tombstones
im going to get the lash 2 item
That you can only reach with movement items
I think you can get up there from the midboss rope huts
It might take 2 stam though
Heck if you could body shove things you could do the same with doorman's doors
But afaik you can't
Also I need a better name than "midboss rope hut"
It does! new counterpick
Billy is in fact good at smashing tombstones
if going surge of power on bepop would yu imbue 1 or 2?
2, definitely
i gotta try that
Forgot to say
I havent played Holiday
She seems cool
I don't like her rope ability tho
I want more gun
I need to play Ven
....does Ven ult work on headshots?
Err
Does it get boosted on headshots?
dynamo and sinclair on the enemy team xd
dynamo ult into rabbit is ouch
and also a celeste
bunnies aren't his ult but i assume they can?
They cannot iirc
The weapon damage does afaik
Would be so easy to trap people
TIL
they are pretty sizable bunnies to be fair
This entire time
Looks like it does
I could have been properly shooting people in the face š
I love Valve for including things like 5 bonus Vampire Damage
I mean I am surprised the assumption was that headshots donāt do more damage
I mean I knew they did for the m1 but like
Abilities I was always like, "meh"
Like Silver wolfmode m1, does that do headshot damage?
Isnāt it just weapon damage which does headshots?
Also funny take trying to look this up
incredible
how do you headshot with an aoe ability
Im a headshot monster I enjoy hitting headshots more than it detracts from others fun keep em in
Aim at their head idk 
Carefully
Give Yamato Rightclicks Headshot
cyan ditch marathon. play deadlock
Like uhh
it would be good and fun for laning
Further followup question: even if Werewolf Silver doesn't deal headshot damage, can it headshot?
I believe I've figured out that Paige, despite not dealing bonus headshot damage regularly, can proc headshot items, so there is a distinction (unlike Graves, who can't).
No
I might play both
The game I am actually ditching is AC shadows since I need to remove its huge ass install footprint to fit deadlock
how many gigibi
130
god
In its defense it is an absolutely huge game
Is it good? I might pick it up on sale
with those gigabi you can put so many cats in your base
I played probably 60% of the gameās content and there were like 1.5 provinces I never got to
Like this is me being lazy with headshots for example
Yeah itās solid
I know its a bit of a false equivalency but I played Animal Well for 8 hours and its 30mb
Best AC game in a while
thats less than 4mb per hour
That is good go know
I will def pick it up on sale
Prob not soon cause uhh
Marathon
Itās good but I do have my criticism of it
Biggest thing is the mountain of vendor trash rng loot you get
the Nioh Problem..
Lemme guess, not even good loot goblin mechanics?
No thereās fun stuff to loot
there are no items that give cast speed in deadlock atm right?
Itās just that thereās cool stuff to get (gold rarity) and on the way to that you get like a dozen lower rarity trash items
Ahh
deadlock lore knowers: who would be an appropriate character for my florist OC to owe a massive debt to and be involved in a money laundering operation as a result
Wraith is kind of the Debts Gal
got into organized crime to appease her gambling addiction more than wanting to do crimes
yeah anything mob related wraith is your gal
also if want to see Midboss just fucking vanish
Celeste Urb run
I liked the story that mnk is fighting in the ritual cus they owe Wraith 50 bucks even though I dont believe thats true
it's totally canon unless i have been truly fooled
source?
Oh sorry
yeah that sounds like fanon but its very good fanon nonetheless
also abrams owes mnk 50 bucks
so by extension abrams is fighting cus they lost to krill at poker
wonder how magic hit the economy
Thats almost a thousand dollars
the games timeline as it relates to our world is not clear I dont know if we can make that leap
I'd Do Alchemy Over A Band and other death grips song titles
I know Billy is a time traveler but he's from the 1970s and Yamato is from the 2070s
Even talking about a thousand dollars is worth being like 'for real, we're summoning god right now' tbf
All these characters are so charming orz
deadlock is a blorbopilled scrunglomaxxing creachurcel
ok mystic reverb yamato is sooo sick
getting a full HP bar fack from the /sheath my blade and then you explode Reverb hit is so potent
I cast Gravesn't
It is today
Billyās a time traveller?
I wonder how the votes are doing
Does anyone know when Apollo update happens time wise
in one hour
Could be wrong
Apollo has been out for 5 months
Really strong is fine, how do I fight x is fine, It's the venting with no goal esp about team and balance, and complaints about the game in general that are an issue
It's just as much about the attitude and direction as anything
Guys Rat King is so fucking overpowered i swear to god
I do kinda wonder what Iām supposed to do about Celeste
https://tracklock.gg/players/103590781
55.6% winrate this is fucked
I guess just donāt get hit by her skill shots?
Donāt Stand in the Red Circle ahh character
Firmly grasp child.
I think splitting for ult and dragging it into waves is important
Okay okay
So itās just like
Donāt group up and get punished by the lady that punishes you for grouping up
She is pretty fragile if you can get on her and like stay on she dies fast
'group up' with range extender being sort of in the lane or fight in general
yeah
The problem is she can punish you for being alone
Given how at a baseline deadlock is likely to frustrate people, I actually wouldn't blame the decision to actually enforce a no rule about complaining about chars
i feel like people just aren't used to playing around lich ult
Because she can just jump you
and with her 2 maxed she doesn't even need you to be grouped
since it can bounce on her as well if her shield is up
Lich ult feels different when you're not watching from a skybox, imo
Hey Yall, how do you deal with a Victor who is like 10-20k above you besides like, running away?
yep
I am not used to playing around Lich ult, that is true
Nah you got it
Go farm
Warp Stone has felt great for it though
Buy anti heal
Just donāt be in that situation
if it lands on you you can dart it away
Get strong, buy Healbane, then you can settle the matter
yeah there are definitely differences between how effectively the same ability plays out in a top-down view vs a third person shooter
do the same w/ doorman doors
Like it's clear yall are getting frustrated (sometimes more than the people complaining) about the people complaining and might just be better to stop it holistically but Idk
like raven for instance (hero labs character), huge complaints came in for his ult which was effectively medusas ult (if your character is facing her you get a stacking debuff that eventually turns you to stone and some other stuff yadda yadda)
I think potentially debuff remover might be quite important later against Celeste for the escalating exposure stacks
I get the idea of the ult its like an ffxiv raid boss mechanic run away with the orb so it doesnt kill everyone but but it feels a little more complicated from a fps perspective
raven had one that would i think slow fire rate and eventually curse you if you looked at him?
I do try not to most of the time, I just don't feel like I'm contributing if I just run away from him I guess.
so both basically had an ult that was "don't look at me"
I think it's quite hard but people will learn it
so you know just turn around
Might be a team game thing too since I mostly solo queue and can't control people not running at Victor too
thing is in dota, even if you were facing the other way you could still see what the hell was going on
I am mostly just being silly I donāt know deadlock well enough to give real advice I just know that itās very hard to fight people with sizable leads in mobas
Yeah
Yeh, gotta fight the urge and remember dead is worse cause then you're def not helping
Like I've had to stop myself
in deadlock? you can't face him, you can't see the teamfight, you have absolutely no clue what is happening
so they scrapped him
Cause in other games I'm like
I do think the big problem with Celeste is she demands a very specific distance where you have to be grouped but around the entire lane
Yeah against some fat characters just gotta avoid them and play the map
and chucked him into the pit alongside slork
"Yeah we can go into this 2v2"
And āenemy with carry potential gets bigā is just almost always gonna be a struggle session to not lose until the global wealth level erases their lead
If Victor is swole as fuck the best thing you can do is just go stab his teammates tbh
But this game has reignited a lot of my smite brain and going, "we totally could do this 2v2 and win, but does my teammate believe that?"
To kill the king, bring down his horse
The comeback mechanics are strong so if you can avoid them in time you will catch up
The universal advice is to get as much money as youāre allowed and bleed out slowly as a team
Funke put it well when he said your aim when behind is to find stability
Yeah, huge victor seems to be the biggest culprit in my games ATM. I want to find productive ways to stop him or try and minimize his impact. I guess running away is more convenient and just wait it out
I can see this but like how do I fight x char is useful stuff
Do your chores, get the ball rolling on money, buy survival and counter build the worst offenders
Running away from his speed-boosted debuff cleansing self orz
I know there was a bit about complaining earlier, not trying to road rage post too just trying to understand what I did wrong in the moment haha
Run the damn urn
It's more we want to avoid venting basically
Yeh I getcha
If you lose lane, get paid and start undermining their lead
I mean I have an alternative approach I recommend too, and that's like try the char and see what causes you problems
It's why I'm trying to be more proactive at saying certain stuff and prevent a thread highjack but a smaller thing
Like uhh
#1276682303384457256 message
Cause I was talking about feeling like clutch plays were missing and how I havent quite had any yet 
I just canāt give very good advice because while Iām a long time moba player Iām very much getting my footing in deadlock lol
Easiest character for clutch plays is dynamo
LET ME OUT
If that's your jam
LET ME OUT OF THIS DAMN SINGULARITY
Problem I'm running into is I miss dota-isms cause I played thousands of hours of smite and hundreds in league and deadlock is more dota-y than the other mobas
Are there any particular āplay this if youāre newā characters or do I just pick by who looks cool and learn the rest?
hmmm i want landing on a flower with the leap ability to do something extra but idk what
just a joke because his theme is anachronistic to the rest of the setting
Ye, I actually was thinking Paradox might be able to do some stuff with the wall/ult
Some are easier than others but tbh just pick who is cool
id advise going into sandbox mode and trying everyone's buttons
Cool
Paradox def can clutch things out
if youre a headshot fiend I recommend warden
Way back when I was learning LoL I just picked Kayle cause she looked sort of cool and learned from that haha
he's straightforward and his headshots are JUICY
i think there are far worse ways to start out in any game tbh
jump into what you find interesting for even the smallest reasons
and drive like you stole it
My first char in League was Kindred
if you crash you crash
Warden needs a new model though
Yeah I think the hard part for me will be learning the team comps
Yeah
Give that man a Fullmetal Alchemist coat RIGHT NOW
Like there are dota heroes id recc against starting with, but I think deadlock is a bit easier or more flexable that way
i'm still lost in an impossible world of myriad flavours (items)
It also looks like thereās a lot of lane swaps and zipline riding?
Iām not sure
Yeah the uhh, rotation movement guide thingy
Do you have it?
I don't think deadlock has nearly the intricate team comps and positions of dota it's a lot more chill
my brain is just woefully bad at keeping track of what items even exist, nevermind what are useful, and that really hamstrings me
At least so far
Yeah that stuff takes a while
This is what your build screen is for tbh
its why i chafed a lot with LoL and DOTA and loved HoTS
Hard to build team comps when you cant decide who is on your team
the card game player: i dont have any problem remembering six hundred thousand pointless little objects
it is a game still being developed and more importantly, discovered by the players
dota is ancient by game standards
This is probably gonna bug me I love picking for team comp haha
the playerbase has had a lot of time figuring stuff out
Efficient Zipline oriented lane rotations for a solid foundation. Thanks Valve.
A video on the config: https://youtu.be/g4Q8iXwXQEk
My movement config for practicing: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10ttgbKUqfBVMKuMJibGJvK4VDeGCrnIL?usp=drive_link
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Free Down...
If you ^^prio the character you want youāll be alright
well that gets you your guy but that does not guarantee you avoid four carries and then a sinclair comps
leif is good
For the movement stuff
Yeah it's new and I think it's just as a game a bit less specific than dota in this way
honestly even that isn't as helpful as i'd like, but that is fully a "skill issue" on my part because what happens is i go "ah yes, build" and then get to shop and go oh god oh fuck and click things without understanding anyway
I can't remember if this is the goto one that Winged always posts 
which is more the problem
god what a shitshow of a lane lol
still won game 
i'm not actually learning anything
just make sure you're watching the latest videos
because i am in fight or flight mode
our plans extend for centuries
when are they adding creep stacking and pulling
i need my skill expression
Wait where is this at? In match history?
so i'm trying to actually memorize some things and when it's good
#1 thing to remember is that youāre building towards the $4800 power spike
i didn't mentally train myself to count the passing of every minute for no reason
It's just different skills really
the venator had a like
15k soul lead 15 minutes into the game
and he pissed it all away
many such cases
But also
This is probably my ennui filled jungle soul but I just wanna see winscreens give me instrumental characters haha
oh yeah that did fuck me up originally also, as another skill issue
You can queue the items you need while youāre on the zip
If you count minutes steal all their sinners on spawn as rem
i was reading the item pages like. top bottom, left right. so i abslutely 100% was missing out on like, the tier 2 items
lmao
(This is also not really true I just donāt mind metaslaving)
rem is actually so good for this
Yes
maximum Easy-to-Win rating goes to Geist imo
like i do it when i can on other characters
I donāt know why but Vendator mains somehow always go super ahead early mid
manga instructions for gamers incoming
but DAMN
But then die off at like late
"damn why is this so expensive" <-- can't read
sinners cost a shit ton of health

one billion gun damage on a bulky caster
so being able to yoink it for, basically free is huge
im always so stressed on rem
cause i steal like 4 sinners and suddenly im just the littlest creature carrying a 1.2k bag
Im 100% serious if you have that skill terrorize people as rem
1000%
They get counter built and donāt buy Resistance Shredder or anything
well also he's a pure m1 in a game with plated armor
metal skin hurts him
yeah
disarm sucks
just a lot of options to stare blankly at him
It doesnāt help that if Venator gets ahead heās only ahead until the enemy team buys the Venator Pls Go items
i think he's still solid
he firmly has an expiry date on his scaling
I mean haze also does
for similar reasons
but I still like haze
pure damage is never going to be not good
and that execute? heavenly
bye bye ulting mina
2x headshot
I think my graves build is designed to murderize victors
it's so funny that the exec threshold is like. 8%
welcome back ancient apparition
Is it weird that Celeste doesnāt get owned as hard as other pure one damage type carries
like are you really execing them
Because part of my core is lots of antiheals
8% exec threshold
sixteen gorillian damage
the most potent anti spirit stuff like spellbreaker is pretty bad against her
i'm glad i'm not the only one to have chuckled at that tbh
can plated armor block the execute pf ven ult. Could be funny
she has a gorillion ways to pop the metaphorical linkens
I love how Celeste can drop like, 600000 3s per second
we don't have a BKB equiv the way we do in metal skin/plated either
Tbh the execute is just to make sure that Ira Domini works on the bastards what hover at 10% HP all game but can never fully die no
i feel like her numbers are a bit overtuned but that's it
they'll fix her numbers
she plays at really awkward ranges to huck silence wave
Wait Iām a little confused by damage types
there is ornj and purmpl
Spirit damage is basically AP? Pure is Iām guessing True
yup
yeah pure is true
yeah
Gun, spirit and true
Orange damage is AD I imagine
pure is 
Do Toxic Bullets deal Pure Damage
Ok nvm I think that was easier than I thought
There really isn't a good item for anti-dots huh
yeh toxic is spirit
Wow, being a bullet carry kinda sucks
ehh
it has side benefits like killing obj
From what I gather Celeste is a combination of new character reaction and her basic abilities being cranqued
And yet it's extremely popular, what's up with that?
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Yeah what Thresh said
sage jam doing deadlock content
yeah definitely
I guess if they built metal skin thatās 6400 souls down the drain to make your life ultimately not that much harder
metal skin is 3.2k
It is the most complicated game I know yes.
This includes Tarkov
Oh, well still
and it does make your life pretty hard
metal skin having that short a cooldown is so rough
what if they buy it twice
I forgot Sajam looked like Mr Beast
but also having to build it is like 'ok fine' so on both ends it's an investment
Like is there much you can do once the Metal Skin is in play other than get unstoppable bullets
it feels awful and it can stop your momentum early if you get jumpscared but there's counter counter play and you can usually tempo them out if you're truly rolling
curse is the big one
they metal skin and curse strips them
useful to punish supreme overconfidence
Kill their teammates and just ignore them. Shoot them anyways and deal non weap damage.
I can sometimes 1v1 people as haze even if they use metal skin
curse is goated
ah, curse is the dispel now.
I saw it was gone from capacitator, good to know it still exists.
also yes fixation stacks still go through metal skin
Like with McGunnis I donāt actually care, if the enemy team all get Metal Skin I did my job and I go eat their Walkers when theyāre not looking
so you do get some incidental spirit damage through metal skin
also metal skin is 5 seconds
150
just
for a full thing
If you're haze you can sleep dagger for 5
it's not like you get mo and krill ulted when they press their z key
it's not so notable in a teamfight cause yeah you can generally find one
sometimes it's like 7.5 seconds
but uh
in any kind of non-6v6 situation it can really quickly become "they can damage you, you can't touch them"
take a deep breath, you'll be ok.
and you just die
this too shall pass
But from my perspective I am not in it as McGinnis to kill people
Iām here to create a gap between their soul count and ours
Yeh I try to bait it out and then re-engage when it's on cd
If they spend money on countering my damage I am winning
Metal Skin in warden jail and just shooting him in the face
yeah it does slow them down pretty heavily when its up
I did that to a silver but then she morbed and killed me.
Was very close to killing silver too 
If I see another Metal Skin werewolf though Iām going back to Doorman
These mutts need to go back in their kennels
more than anything else doorman has a button that says "go away"
Multiple, the cart and the cube dimension
which is the single most useful thing against a silver if you can't outright nuke her
Survive the Baroness and win a free 4v1
oh I legit just meant cart but yeah sticking most of the duration of her DI in the hotel is pretty hot
Your money back if we donāt fucking kill you upon arrival
cart just shoving her back twenty meters can sometimes be enough
Range extender on cart still surprises me with how much it'll do
Iāve accidentally killed a teammate by sending orb Viscous cross-lane
/GETAWAY and 5 seconds later donk
that's hilarious actually
wii sports voice NICE THROW!
SPARE.
Now I need to go bowling with an ally Viscous
viscous would love bowling
Invite Rem
The Torment Orb..
Go my child, kill them all
The Deadlock Bowling Club
Rem also talks to Graves about Bowling
Foreshadowing for Pinhead the Bowlmaster
Doorman would go bowling on his āday offā to see what sport mortals take part in
Apollo in 7 minutes.
Apollo sweep
the furtive Apollo, so easily forgotten
I hope he won this time around
āI donāt expect anything from you, Lady Geistā is one of the harshest burns yet tbh
Apollo Rat king soon
Post kit when he drops I wanna see and Iām not home
RATS RATS RATS š š š
He's da big rat who makes all the rules
IM DA KING OF DA RATS, BABEY
HiIiiiIiiiii it's ME!
theyre still cowards for un-naming his ult rat-a-tat
Real
vyper stole his shir
shit
check her character tags
I know it. but league are eternal cowarzs
every league assassin is deeply frustrating to play against so im glad that currently deadlock has like. 2, 3 characters dedicated to Extreme Super Burst
yeah, yeah
im lowkey evil
yeah yeah
im the hidden king
(There are Federal agents outside my house)
duh duh, duh duh
haha starduster you are completing the ritual
Can you parry siliver's 2???
No
Icon i think
Icon
Eskay has been playing this game fiendishly since Mina came out I'm p sure
and so that may be how it gestated into the ecosystem
APOLLO KIT
GIMME
Apollo in game now
what do you mean "timing his strikes perfectly" yoshi.
He out
yoshi does he have a fucking electric yoshi.
wyat the fuck
what street brawl does to an mf's vote count
Exactly 600 people had the foresight to only vote for the eventual winner each round
damn
The highest margin being only 11% is wild
pls link the article
is this fucking real???
no thankfully. Apollo isnt actually being added
@ivory reef he has parry+
@quaint kernel just frame timing
OH NO HES COOL
what his primary fire like
god I love memes
testing it right now
he has a REKKA?
WHY IS HIS HEAVY MELEE A KICKKKKKK
OMG HE HAS JUDGEMENT CUT
oh no hes kind of sick
his 1 is a bit weird i think
same range as drifter right
and the attacks look like drifter but I think itsj ust visual?
sword longer than hand
lol his intro line mentions voters coming to their senses
swords and claws reach farther than succ beam
we were joking
Oh boy
but he kidna does
im in school now š
I do love that this means they didn't spend any joke votes on Apollo at the end.
and everytime you use 3 you can also dash forward or backward before
Cause I reallt doubt Valve is gonna goober it like Riot
Incredibly focused
However
I am very displeased that he's not a char I vibe with in any other way
But
Ymmv
Can't win em all
ok so and his 3 is kinda like yamato 1 but with hitting it on the beat
lmao
Oh if I could walk off my job to come play him
you can use the 3 also in air and hover before using it
but 3 seems sick
3 damage instances
with 3 dashes
and you can dash before the dmg comes and then once the dmg comes
What can I say, people wanted to vote for him over Slork 
Next time tho
Slork
ups i just dashed out of the train?
i see he went to the twink school on how to reload your weapon
Thats funny
Makes me happier about not vibing with him aesthetically
Cause I'd rather actually like the char who gets Vergil memes
ok you can delay the ul cast but i dont think you can cancel once acivated
He seems like a Silence Wave'd kind of gentleman
does he grab a new one thru a portal to ixia?
you can fly
What is his auto-attack and reload?
he shoots sword slashes
limited range but its not too short
reload he throws his sword into a different dimension then resummons it
Yo cool
his level 1 seems cracked with 3
this is max range
its very drifter ye
ah drifter is 22/27 apparently so very close but not exactly the same
i cant wait to brawl level 1 and then triple stab
oh i should check if spirit snatch works on his 3
Oh he's a gilgamesh
Or reaper but swords
doesnt seem to
does his sword deal extra on melee hit?
this guy rules unfortunately
His first line upon coming to him in the safehouse is "It looks like the voters have finally come to their sensees"
Deadlock ad
hmm I think build wise I will try him like yamato
you can riposte the tower beam lol
The just frame is very very very generous
walker stomp too
lash v apollo arrogance battle
He reminds me of ror2 merc the 3 dashes the flurry cut the laser slash primary
can he parry ults?
Makes sense, the rhythym minigame in DotA was pretty generous too.
counterspell is gonna be insane on him
lol
lol
appollo 3 hurts a lot!
fuuuuck hes so fun
the ult is crazy
does he straight up just sandevistan enemies
his 3 is so cary ingame wtf
yo udash and it also haas pretty decent range
and u use it 3 tiems
very high mobility it sounds
@bleak thicket I'm coming back from the dentist. Is Apollo my style?
i think so yeah
be very careful, apollo 2 can get you stuck in walls
Thanks jenjen
as mentioned he has parry+
dont ask how i know
schmovement, timing mechanics, fancy parry
the level 0 counterspell is so funny
and za worldo
I know for sure I'm gonna shoot him with one bullet right as he parries and get my lane duo killed
Fun conversation follow-up here for you guys
About fighting game reactions
As a community we generally consider 0.3 seconds the boundary of reaction
And heavy melee is 1.25 seconds

