Deadlock

[jovial yacht]

yeah but moments like aiming a shiv execution is getting really annoying when it freezes up

[agile void]

https://youtube.com/shorts/eAnSMMzDgsI

tier 3 item delivered to the church

[vast sandal]

u/DogOfWood

[vivid nimbus]

I learned that when Doorman was in closed testing, the hotel puzzle was indefinite and people would just hide in there and stall until their own teammates showed up

[agile void]

also wasnt the jump bit longer?

[vivid nimbus]

I dunno, I only heard about this recently

[agile void]

I imagine they might make it longer if they get aghahim in here

[somber creek]

If they do that then 3 stam needs to be the default

[late hare]

YEAHHHHHHH

silverbullet my beloved

awww can’t follow the link :(

[somber creek]

Tell a lash he did well but just complain that every single Doorman ult, literally 100% of them every time it was off cooldown, was used on me, and at the exact end of the round he tells me to go fuck myself

why this

[vast sandal]

Welcome to the Baroness.

[somber creek]

lash was on my team

Like genuinely I do expect if there is an enemy Doorman they will simply just ult me regardless of any tactical consideration

when I am Silver

[vast sandal]

yes

like personally yeah if I see an enemy team and there's Silver the only time I'm not gonna take her out of the fight specifically is if she's underfed and there's a scarier carry who's gonna do more work

Silver is like maximum teamfight threat level, she's gonna transform like 5 seconds into an actual fight and immediately become the biggest problem around

so like yeah if you're Silver and there's an enemy Doorman prepare to hold that shit every teamfight unless they drop the ball

ain't no way I'm letting a raging werewolf dismember my team

[lavish grove]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EyH9crFewo

[ivory reef]

https://fxbsky.app/profile/mixief.bsky.social/post/3mhhrjqwcqs2b

Mixief (@mixief.bsky.social)

5am vision-
︀︀#Deadlock #Moonshine

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FxBluesky · Mar 20, 2026, 5:22 AM

[vivid nimbus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok07mXVqZBU

This was crazy

[tidal elm]

by @koifoxes from the evil site

[late hare]

girls night (and Viscous)

[vivid nimbus]

Was the lich hand invited? Is the lich hand Graves's +1?

[tidal elm]

it's Oathkeeper's date

[lavish grove]

From @ xykykufupyldoys

[whole moon]

this is why i kept getting baroness'd in brawl as victor and had to hammer my 3 like my life depended on it. but taking a breather to hit jumpstart and do a jump was fun? the doorman did comm me for popping out really fast that was nice

[tidal elm]

I'm seeing a lot of Silence Wawe Silver and I gotta try that tech
Supposedly charges you're ult like crazy

[vast sandal]

yeah Victor is another priority target

realistically if you get very scary Doorman's gonna be looking to isolate you from their teammates

take it as a compliment, you're a big enough problem that their support ult has to go towards insulating their team from you every fight or they're gonna get folded like laundry

[warm sonnet]

The Lich is a woman, you fool!

[lavish grove]

I will say, unless you’re very low HP it’s generally better to keep aura up while running through the baroness

It keeps the damage ramped up for when you leave

While otherwise you have to start it all over again

[whole moon]

oooooh

i wasn't really sure, i just didn't want pain-sounds while im trying to platform

[lavish grove]

As a rule you never want to drop aura unless you have to

[lavish grove]

I mean that’s fair

Imo Victor’s pain sounds are soothing however

[vivid nimbus]

She is but she's also stinky

[cursive flicker]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/211303187632619521/1484698043503870183/ssstik.io_kozzer33_1773815781348.mp4?ex=69bf2c4d&is=69bddacd&hm=f90743c298cf37d07c255b542c3e3b3f36d8da5a3ebf94fc4eecb138858d71ea&

gooballllllllllll

https://tenor.com/view/deadlock-viscous-dance-gif-12244706807736717838

[glass flicker]

I need Celeste and also need to be her so bad dawg

[glass flicker]

Transition WILL save her 🙏 🙏 🙏

[glass flicker]

Personally I prefer “THEY DO LOTS OF THINGS” for Rem

[glass flicker]

(@iowkey_ioki)

Rem doesn’t know what six seven is but Graves and Apollo taught him and told him to say it to people

[vivid nimbus]

No one knows what 6 7 is, other people just taught them to say it

[glass flicker]

The Hidden King did it to annoy the Archmother

Seven: Why did Prisoner number Six fear me? An excellent question, Child. By all accounts she was a peerless infernalist, perhaps second only to myself in her lust for power. Bound in wards so tight she could hardly move.

Rem: Waow!

Seven: Indeed. She had inscribed the Little Key of Solomon upon her very heart, legions of demons bowed to her whims. And yet, she knew I was tethered to no such oaths. I had no masters, nor even need of servants. That is the mark of true power. And she feared it.

Rem: Oooohhhh. I thought it was because you eated a guy.

Seven: …

Seven: Who told you to do this?

Rem: Graves and Apollo! ```

[somber creek]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GXbw5WlpCM

[agile void]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1o1JducbSc

[agile void]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1rz3tnu/based_in_a_horror_story/

[vast sandal]

im cookin

[mint latch]

Hi cookin

[vast sandal]

lmao

[mint latch]

Yamato is doing pretty well for me

[vast sandal]

I had to do everything this match btw my team was not cooking shit

[mint latch]

Ouch

[vast sandal]

solo queue is ok but sometimes you get teammates who don't kill objectives, don't push, don't run urns and don't counterbuild

[terse aspen]

Hello, it's me, teammates

In my defense I have, like, less than 30 hours in the game

And I hope I am not at your rank

[vivid nimbus]

New patch

[finite patrol]

Alright <@&1277035919182008330> @merry verge @finite grotto @plain furnace @rocky cobalt @vast sandal @maiden ledge
We got deadlock weekly in an hour and 5 minutes if folks are around. I will be back a little later today probably after the eu folks are done playing but if yall are still going I'll join in.

[agile void]

https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/03-06-2026-update.114328/#post-226950

[maiden ledge]

oooh!

I'm actually making a little progress in moving up ranks. I'm green because I can be placed there!

[rocky cobalt]

One of the unfortunate occasions where I actually would like to deadlock but d&d has ended up on today

[final osprey]

Ability range DEAD? /sensationalism

[finite patrol]

big patch today too lol

[finite grotto]

oh dayum

[vivid nimbus]

Looks like still no changes for Bebop, Grey Talon, Holliday, Sinclair, Venator, and Vyper; conspiracy theories continue

[finite grotto]

yes

no yamato changes huehue+

[agile void]

"- Shiv: Bloodletting is now affected by healing modifiers"

IT DIDNT DO BEFORE?!

"- Victor: Now has 30% less effectiveness from lifesteal (Lifesteal Effectiveness stat added to Vitality tooltip)"

wait what?

[vivid nimbus]

Oh RIP Victor build theory

[finite grotto]

sheesh

[agile void]

MIRAGE HAS BASEKIT INHIBITOR?!

[lavish shale]

damn, Victor lifesteal nerf

kinda feel like that might encourage the 1 build over aura even more

also damn, they moved even more ult cooldown into the t3

[somber creek]

SILVER BUFFS!!!

[final osprey]

this is very interesting

[bleak thicket]

wait

is that broken with omnicharge pendant

in brawl

[vivid nimbus]

I think Silver isn't gonna be OP in pubs but she's gonna be pick-or-ban in comp

[maiden ledge]

oh my god i almost forgot--nevermind 😔

[final osprey]

Ghouls... Free Ghouls...

[final osprey]

She's already pick/ban in comp

[vivid nimbus]

Fair. I mean first round pick/ban

[bleak thicket]

• Seraphim Wings: In Air Damage Reduction increased from -40% to -60%
• Seraphim Wings: Additional air dash/jump increased from +1 to unlimited

i see

pain

[finite patrol]

????

hope you rolled knockdown losers

[maiden ledge]

??????? hope you have a seven losers

[vivid nimbus]

It looks like basically every legendary but prism got buffed

Yes including fucking piano

[maiden ledge]

😭

[vivid nimbus]

Okay, actual list of untouched legendaries: Haunted Shot, Eternal Gift, Frostbite Charm, Mystic Conduit, Omnicharge Signet, Prism Blast

[agile void]

honestly mirage might become the fireguy from dota

[finite patrol]

the who

[vivid nimbus]

Jakiro?

Nope googling "dota fire guy" failed me for that one

Ember Spirit?

[bleak thicket]

https://tenor.com/view/do-you-have-any-idea-how-little-that-narrows-it-down-that-narrows-it-down-clear-now-its-clear-now-i-understand-now-gif-21256627

[vivid nimbus]

Lina? Phoenix?

[agile void]

I think it this one?

I heard from some fire guy that apparently is always weird

either OP or unplayable, and barely sees play

he is always reworked or has his skills tweaked

[twilit roost]

Graves: Grasping Hands T3 changed from "+1s Immobilize and -12s Cooldown" to "+1s Immobilize and +2 Ghouls Summoned"

Like leaning into more of a summoner archetype for her

[vivid nimbus]

Also current known bugs from a stream: Midboss can't be killed. T3 denizens don't attack you

[agile void]

Im pretty sure that should have been caught up

uuuuh why would midboss become unkillable?

the spirit resist?

[finite patrol]

jakiro, lina, ember spirit, phoenix have all had their time in the sun and been great picks

[vivid nimbus]

Could be some other bugfix or tweak broke it, since they don't note bugfixes or code changes that shouldn't affect balance in patch notes

[twilit roost]

Mirage: Fire Scarabs now reduces enemy damage output by 20% (and +15% in T3)
Lost the damage amp but that hit to opponents damage seems well worth it?

[agile void]

thing is

he also lost djinn mark damage

and no compensation in the damage department

[vivid nimbus]

From the streamer checking it, looks like it doesn't wake up and (this part is usual) doesn't take damage while sleepy

[agile void]

ok I can maybe see that

[lavish grove]

VICTOR NOOOOOOOOO

[agile void]

they will probably do a hotfix

[lavish grove]

MY INFUSEEEEEEER

[agile void]

• Mirage: Dust Devil radius increased from 3.5m to 4m
• Mirage: Dust Devil T3 window to recast increased from 5s to 6s
• Mirage: Djinn's Mark spirit scaling reduced from 0.51 to 0.44
• Mirage: Djinn's Mark debuff visuals improved
• Mirage: Djinn's Mark T1 slow duration increased from 0.5s to 0.8s
• Mirage: Djinn's Mark T2 multiplier duration increased from 2.5s to 3s

[finite patrol]

urn really is the only objective in the game now

[vivid nimbus]

TBF, that shit was doing >2k damage

[twilit roost]

Mirage can also teleport to units now, so dont think you're safe just clearing a wave

[finite patrol]

well he could teleport anywhere in this patch already

[agile void]

but djinn mark scaling + losing the damage amp

[twilit roost]

Oh woops, still thought him teleporting to objectives was the recent change

[agile void]

I wont be surprised if now that only reaches like... what?

1500? 1600?

I feel he should have gotten some points back to his gun damage or growth

[vivid nimbus]

So... at 100 spirit, T3 Djinn's Mark went from 82 * 16 = 1312 down to 75 * 16 = 1200

[finite patrol]

his problem anyway is that fights are too fast so you arent getting to 5 stacks

[vivid nimbus]

At 200 spirit, it went from 133 * 16 = 2128 down to 119 * 16 = 1904

[vivid nimbus]

Sometimes you see longer more prolonged fights but that's fair he has an issue with it

[finite patrol]

of course, it was a generalization

if you spend 20 seconds fighting a mirage its probably not a fight you are winning

[vivid nimbus]

Perfectly applied, 5 stacks takes at least 10 seconds

[finite patrol]

which is how long mirage has been stunned for in this team fight

[agile void]

with cd reduction?

[vivid nimbus]

No CD reduction there, forgot it applied

So shave that down to like 6-8 s depending on build

[vast sandal]

hotfix just hit anyone know what it is

[vivid nimbus]

I mean probably fixing midboss and T3 camps

[rich grove]

...clinkz?

[hallow zenith]

Oh was midboss broken globally

[agile void]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1rzgmi0/how_infernus_who_knows_most_of_the_cast_would/

[somber creek]

I feel like Shiv is personable enough

[agile void]

I imagine he daps both mo and krill at the same time

[finite grotto]

viscous once more shot in the head

[final osprey]

Shiv is a nice bloke, outside of the untold horrors he's committed

[agile void]

tbh making the ball easier to control and the rapid fire punch

some number tweaking was bound to happen

[finite grotto]

hm

[glass flicker]

Victor nerfs 🙏

[finite grotto]

will not be making it to the eu time window today but the one after prob!

[vast sandal]

they wouldn't because Shiv and Infernus know each other from the Bad Old Days and are not friends in public anymore

[finite patrol]

<@&1277035919182008330> @merry verge @plain furnace @rocky cobalt @vast sandal @maiden ledge
Let's test out this new patch!
Party code: 98677
Voice channel: https://discord.com/channels/426286410496999425/1485029838279409840

Rare party code thats only numbers

[vast sandal]

waiting on food, I'll be there when it's sorted

[ivory reef]

hiii i'm pretty fucking dead after heading out on town. i cannot make it to deadlock. i sorry v_v

[rocky cobalt]

Damn, look at Ashley, going out and having a social life

That fuckass bird is taking our sinner's sacrifices as we speak and you're out partying...

[ivory reef]

[merry verge]

I am also out on the town and full of korean bbq hope folks have fun

Also these ability range nerfs are targetted Doorman hate, very unkind

[finite patrol]

We're done a match if people want to join in

[finite patrol]

<@&1277035919182008330> room for 2

[feral umbra]

Alas, I am out of state atm and can’t participate but good luck

[lavish grove]

From @ shorizyon
Eighty-Thousand Souls Divergent Carry Divine Frontliner
Victor

[agile void]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1rzs4hf/i_ulted_twice_as_silver_and_this_stupid_infernus/

[slender falcon]

Downloaded Deadlock today

It's pretty fun

[lavish grove]

Yoooooooo

[slender falcon]

I tried a bot match with my friends as silver

I plan to try plenty of characters

[warm sonnet]

It's good form imo

[maiden ledge]

p fun

[tidal elm]

They buffed the flame man
I will burn internally

At least calico got hit with a slight nerf

[finite patrol]

<@&1277035919182008330> Going for 1 more game

[glass flicker]

Goes insane

[agile rune]

haven't played new patch but it looks spooky

[finite patrol]

i am happy they nerfed the goo

[glass flicker]

Viscous’ punch was getting really annoying yea

A proper build around it would let that little fucker throw out so many punches

[cosmic cypress]

Tried deadlock today (just brawl so far)

It's fun

I played as viscous but I didn't know it received nerfs or anything

someone linked me viscous' voice lines where he is enthusiastic about being goo and I was like "This is my main now"

[glass flicker]

Viscous is a fun hero, they just had some stuff that if built a certain way became very annoying to play against

[agile rune]

puddle bud

[cosmic cypress]

I can definitely imagine that

[glass flicker]

(@Moodytanuki)

[finite patrol]

basically if you got really good the puddle punch could juggle the shit out of your enemies and also you could juggle yourself on your enemies with goo ball and either way youre permastunning them while killing them

it was oppressive, and he also has one of the best saves in the game in cube

i love the viscous character though

[cosmic cypress]

Yeahhhhh I can imagine that perfectly

I do have one non viscous question

There's like, no fucking tutorial for the Actual Game Mode

How do I learn this without getting flamed to fuck

[finite patrol]

i can teach you some stuff if you want

unfortunately the onboarding is almost nonexistant

There are some good beginner videos covering it as well

[glass flicker]

Bot games are usually the best start

Watching tutorials and playing with more experienced friends

Unfortunately the game is kind of hard to make a tutorial for

Especially given how builds are such a central mechanic, and there’s not really any way to teach someone how to make a universally good build when a lot of stuff revolves around countering what the enemy is running

[finite patrol]

bot games are not great if you dont have someone to run your through all the bull shit

im gonna make some dinner now but if you're around later or tomorrow @cosmic cypress I can run you through the city

[agile rune]

I'd recommend looking at the popular builds in the builds tab, or mobalytics recommends good beginner builds so you can search them in game

[finite patrol]

Here are some good "welcome to deadlock" videos:

https://youtu.be/EvxVSvzZcxA
https://youtu.be/sg4R3ZT_BWQ
https://youtu.be/BrcJ9h4mulc

[cosmic cypress]

These are great, thanks

[finite patrol]

Check out the pins in this channel as well

I highly recommend this for a curated list of good builds to follow for every hero. disregard the tier list it doesnt matter: https://deadlock-meta.vercel.app/

[ivory reef]

Suki! I'd love to teach

Poke me sometime this Sunday zzz

[vast sandal]

hmm

kind of think it would be funny if I drank the water with no ice and played Warden

[agile rune]

can I recommend Ryu, from streets?

[vast sandal]

yeah like Warden, from dead

[agile rune]

I can't wait till warden gets his model update

[late hare]

ain't he supposed to get a cape

[agile rune]

yes and also look less like a bobby

[finite patrol]

warden is really really fun to play

if you want the water with no ice experience I still recommend mirage

[late hare]

am i correct in understanding that "water with no ice" in this instance just means like

heroes that kinda lack sauce

[agile rune]

this is the patch mirage will be cracked, I swear I swear

[agile rune]

whitebread kinda fellas, ye

[late hare]

the milquiest toast

[mossy lance]

they're basically the heroes where you can either
a: happily tap 1, 2, 3 without much thought
b: ignore you have buttons to begin with

at least, thats the vibe i get

they're very mechanically simple

[agile rune]

cannot wait till there's a gun carry with only passives

[mossy lance]

including the 4

[vast sandal]

the original joke is about Ryu Streetfighter

who is literally the most baseline, solidly functional character in Street Fighter but pretty consistently is devoid of particular gimmicks

he's just really exceptionally good at hovering in the middle of the stage and making you hold stuff

[agile rune]

exactly, you see the vision

I'm not even kidding, really

[mossy lance]

it would be amusing in contrast to everything else in the game, that's for sure

[vast sandal]

there are passive ults in DotA so like

it's possible

[mossy lance]

i mean to be fair, technically there is one in deadlock

but thats very much a technicality

the kind of statement that is true if you squint and cock your head at 30 odd degrees

[agile rune]

victor?

[mossy lance]

oh no thats a second one

so thats victor and more dubiously silver

i totally forgot that victor is also passive

the most passive, in fact

considering silver's is only passive insofar as you dont hit a button to activate it

but everything thereafter is all buttons

[finite patrol]

bro I PROMISE

[agile rune]

trust me bro

the changes to the ult make it great for turning a team fight and split pushing, trust

[mossy lance]

i gotta play more tbh

i've been distracted with so much other stuff

[agile rune]

I haven't been able to play in a moment, my laptop decided it's just not gonna be able to play DL functionally

[finite patrol]

so warden is water with no ice because his skills are Good Spell 1-4 and he aesthetically has the doohicky and a cop getup. Flavourwise hes boring but he's very fun to play and his voice lines write themselves into your grey matter.

mirage is water with no ice because despite an interesting character design and backstory he is very uninteresting to play. dust devil is basically his only interesting spell. scarabs are still uninteresting to use. djinns mark is cool from a build craft pov but not fascinating to play. traveler is cool but its not really moment to moment engaging its a strategic spell.

[mossy lance]

i'm in the camp of "juggling other activities" and "i'm not about to torture myself with solo play"

i just can't do that no more

[finite patrol]

join us!

we play on Wednesdays and Saturdays currently

[mossy lance]

maybe if my sleep schedule stops exploding

[agile rune]

traveller is cool in that when it works you have these high impact surprise moments

[mild flume]

I think they mean clinkz

[agile rune]

in practise you could accomplish things that're similar by making mirage just really fucking fast

[vast sandal]

I actually played with a cracked Mirage today who was just relentlessly in the most annoying fucking place

all the time

it drove me insane

[vivid nimbus]

The mark also does have the interesting thing where you hold fire (to save ammo) or swap targets to optimize stacks

[vast sandal]

we won but that Mirage needs to go think about what he did

[agile rune]

and be proud of it

[finite patrol]

yeah thresh pointed that out

[finite patrol]

I do think this is more interesting to think about than to do

in practice you shoot youre gun

[agile rune]

djinn time

[finite patrol]

Wyoming real???

[agile rune]

we're making the purchase

[finite patrol]

godspeed

[rich grove]

I think this is really true in lane actually

in mid-late you just hold m1 but before you have duration extenders, I do actually try to conserve ammo

[finite patrol]

I agree. mirage is fun in lane.

[agile rune]

I'm interested to see the impact of the scarab changes

[rich grove]

sad as it is I am fine with him not instagibbing people

probably reasonable change

still sad

[errant sphinx]

I played like garbage this game but this moment made me wanna play more of this char

[rich grove]

ragebait: successful

[worldly dirge]

https://bsky.app/profile/plurgrave.com/post/3mgyh3geiyk2r

Tesh ▶ COMMS OPEN ! (@plurgrave.com)

VYPER'S NICE. WHY ARE YOU AFRAID OF HER #deadlock #vyper

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Bluesky · Mar 14, 2026, 3:05 AM

[tidal elm]

The chaotic version of be not afraid

[warm sonnet]

I gotta say

The way they've drawn Vyper has energy I love

[agile rune]

the selfie shaking video recording is on brand

[cosmic cypress]

I played a couple games of the actual mode

seems interesting, weird how you can't pick a lane

laning feels very familiar, like if Smite was an actual shooter

I can tell I'm gonna be an old man and hate all the movement tech

[vestal trench]

you can, kind of ? pick a lane but you have to ask to switch.

[agile void]

its more for the sake of streamlining the process

[astral lava]

once actual draft mode exists you will probably be able to swap

[agile void]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1s0qqyn/is_this_door_in_the_library_new/

doorman players do plays that make me feel that they want to do a hatecrime

[worldly dirge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1245526502901284935/1472737882312806460/Hidden_King.mp4?ex=69c12549&is=69bfd3c9&hm=733194becd909982e7f6fac31d52a7c32c9a2a1750be6f6ba7a59c1e0bafd5e5&

[arctic basin]

With the game being in alpha it seems likely that draft/ranked will give some semblance of that, with teams prioritizing late game champs getting left lane bc of the easy t1 monster camp, Vegas (the 3 sinners jungle), and bounce pad towards bridge buff all being right there

[cosmic cypress]

[arctic basin]

Decently accessible escapes too, with side shop having the tunnel that leads to the smoke gate behind the truck and the walker being right there

So people with massive line of sight abilities can't instagib someone escaping if they use the cover

[spring tundra]

Does anyone have a link to the details of the new patch that just dropped?

[finite patrol]

https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/03-21-2026-update.120256/

[merry verge]

Silver reset buffer, absolute blessing

[spring tundra]

Damn what’s with all the range decreases lately

[finite patrol]

range was getting a little ridiculous

[merry verge]

The groundcircles did start feeling a little egregious

But my doors..

[maiden ledge]

deadlock does feel like it turns into a Floor is Lava Game at a point

[finite patrol]

you dont need to be able to door from your base to midboss aim

[spring tundra]

Oh my god 85% lifesteal on infernus’s ult??

God damn

[finite patrol]

you dont need that

[maiden ledge]

he neeedss it

[maiden ledge]

????

why

maybe i should learn infernus

[spring tundra]

He’s weirdly lifesteal heavy

It’s not really part of his theme he just

Is

[vivid nimbus]

Even if it's a guaranteed heal to full (which it's not) it's a heal you only can use once per fight

[merry verge]

How's postnerf Victor? Killable without a crew of 6?

[finite patrol]

she/they*

[vivid nimbus]

The damage on it isn't even that high

[spring tundra]

You only need a crew of uhh

Uhhhh

4

To kill victor now

[merry verge]

Improvement

[spring tundra]

Tbh I still think he’s ridiculous

[maiden ledge]

oh i was referring to Doorman but yes she needs it toooo

[spring tundra]

His ult should not be able to have him ever come back at full lmao

• refresher + rejuv means you could have to fight the same tank 4 times

[vivid nimbus]

IME post-nerf Victor felt impossible to get back in the game after a bad lane

[spring tundra]

How do

So

[finite patrol]

and hes not a good laner

[merry verge]

Balancing a character around Bad Lane Unstoppable Late just feels tough

[rich grove]

so difficult they only do it in every single moba

[spring tundra]

I mean that’s never stopped every moba from having shitty character begore

Before

[merry verge]

Doing it with a Drain Tank i think is the hangup

Hypercarries still die

[spring tundra]

I’ll fully admit like

I’m just a baby

So any time a character is good against me I’m likely to think they’re strong for a while lmao

[vivid nimbus]

The issue with Victor is that unlike other lategame chars if he putters off to farm jungle he's spending health to damage creeps on top of taking damage from creeps. Likewise clearing lane waves

[spring tundra]

Mhm

[merry verge]

The issue with him is if you can't fully capitalize on that weak start he won the game

He's just a hard guy to balance

[vivid nimbus]

I've shut down a Victor who had a good lane, people need to build that antiheal

[merry verge]

I think a 30% nerf means just antiheal wasn't cutting it

[vivid nimbus]

It's fucking drastic IMO

Esp after they just nerfed his 1 and 2 healing

[merry verge]

That's why i asked how he was feeling! Cause he seems hard to balance!

But he was clearly wild before etc

[vivid nimbus]

FTR, my reactions to the Mar 10 nerfs were "yeah that's fair" but now it's like... oof

I'd rather they have nerfed his's 3's raw damage or something

[merry verge]

Putting Bell damage on t3 bums me right out tbh, his laning is gonna be so much less pokey

[somber creek]

Good imo

Doorman poke is a nightmare

[merry verge]

It's all he has early on

[vivid nimbus]

Meanwhile I played Spatter Viscous today and that shit was gross

[merry verge]

Unless you get absolutely clowned by a cart into tower

[slender falcon]

okay I have immense skill issue

how the fuck do I deal with Geist

[merry verge]

Stand farther away, generally

Cuts off half her kit

Also silence

[finite patrol]

you can counterspell her ult if you practice

[vivid nimbus]

TBF it was against an all-spirit team so spellbreaker+witchmail was doing work, but I jumped into a base defense and was spamming abilities and I took 29k damage and used ult twice

[rich grove]

buy antiheal item 1

[merry verge]

Witchmail has been feeling great on so many characters lately

[rich grove]

bring back spite and hatred

[slender falcon]

okay makes sense

I'm super new to this game so I'm at the very beginning of the learning curve

[spring tundra]

Also if you have the option stay at range

[vivid nimbus]

In the previous game I played with splatter Visc I was facetanking Graves zombies for the witchmail procs because I'd heal more off getting to use splatter again than the damage I took

[spring tundra]

A lot of her options are more potent close range, specifically her ult which she needs to really be in ur face for

[merry verge]

Every Geist wants to bait you around a corner into ult

They want it so bad

[slender falcon]

I've mainly been playing Silver but I did try some other options recently

[vivid nimbus]

Sometimes you just isolate her and kill her twice

[slender falcon]

mainly uhhh

[spring tundra]

Also one of my friends is a way higher rank than me and I’ve just had to accept recently

[slender falcon]

the......

I forget her name

[spring tundra]

That. I can’t play vindicta with them

[slender falcon]

turret lady

[merry verge]

Oh Geist kind of ruins Silvers whole deal

That's a toughie

[spring tundra]

I’m not good enough for high rank vind

[vivid nimbus]

Silence or curse or counterspell also work vs Geist

[spring tundra]

Yeah that’s a bad matchup tho

Much like victor v Geist i would just try not to engage that lmao

[vivid nimbus]

Counterspell needs to be predictive but many Geists will make it obvious

[slender falcon]

I queue up silver because she has a lever action shotgun, I can be more adaptable and play other characters

[rich grove]

yeah bring antiheal and don't focus her with wolf form if you can help it because she can leech so much off you you'll just end up killing yourself on her

[merry verge]

I also queue silver for this

[slender falcon]

tried McGinnis today and enjoyed playing her so

[spring tundra]

Is silver playable yet

[merry verge]

Yeye

She was always playable it was just way more annoying

[slender falcon]

I think so yeah

[spring tundra]

I know for a second there she was a bad character who turned into a bad character lmao

[merry verge]

Human Silver Is Good >:>

Get Express Shotted and die

[spring tundra]

Good recently or you’re of the opinion she’s been good the whole time

[slender falcon]

honest to fucking god I just play her like I'm playing battle engi in TF2 and it works well enough so

[merry verge]

Well when she couldn't last hit that was rough

But they also keep buffing her

[spring tundra]

Maybe I’ll try her again, I found it really difficult to get anything done as her when I tried before

[merry verge]

She isn't the easiest character despite internet claim

Lategame werewolf does maybe get simplified

Eat them eat them eat them

[slender falcon]

I should probably use something other than the default build

[mild flume]

I think silver is pretty solid atm some characters just take a bunch of games esp if the playstyle doesn't quite click

[earnest verge]

She was very solid early, just kinda technical, so at a lot of MMRs there's been a bit of an arms race between Silvers, people learning Silver counters, and actual patches

[rich grove]

you would also be surprised at how bad people are at landing human 1

[earnest verge]

ime it can go hilariously either way, if Silver is on top of you in wolf form and Geist's ult + burst doesn't outright kill her, she can just kill Geist a lot of the time

(Worst case scenario is Geist popping ult just before Silver transforms)

[mild flume]

playing around geist ult is a skill of its own really

[earnest verge]

it's tough and weirdly high pressure and you need to land all three shots for max reward yeah

And people love doing all they can to avoid getting shot

Very inconsiderate of them

The various slows Silver comes with and like to buy definitely help, and she definitely appreciates having some kind of hard lockdown in her team

[vivid nimbus]

I also heard people've discovered Silence Wave tech

Where the damage it does is a actually big help for charging ult

[rich grove]

normal item

[mild flume]

yeah silence wave is pretty popular on divey heroes

seeing it a bit in yamato stuff too

[merry verge]

I've gotten duration extender on Silv a few times to make Bola + Silence even more damning but honestly she gets a lot of mileage out of it across the board, the scaling buffs were for real

plus Forever Disarm

[spring tundra]

I’m getting better at economy btw if anyone is curious, I haven’t been bottom in souls for like

3 matches

[agile void]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1s0wdgs/fellow_golem_enjoyers_we_cannot_stand_by_as_bebop/

[undone galleon]

me when i wanna play-pretend at being racist

[somber creek]

Well victor is definitely undead

He is a reanimated corpse

[tidal elm]

doesn't get more undead then that

[terse aspen]

Yeah honestly this whole phenomenon is so strange

[undone galleon]

there is something deeply funny that vulgar opposition to ai dovetailed into making robot racism real

[finite patrol]

clanker is not a funny joke and its putting you in really bad company

[agile void]

I do think its funny but I also understand if people think that kind of word is going to derail into worse stuff

I dont know if in universe slurs count though, like calling the elites in Halo Split lips

[undone galleon]

i mean given that clanker is actively mobilized now against disabled ppl with prosthetics

[agile void]

Wow really?

[undone galleon]

see also 'tinskin' which is even more egregious

[agile void]

For example Clanker kinda came from Star wars

[terse aspen]

What it comes down to for me is that, while using a slur for an entirely fictional group is not as bad as using a real slur for a real group, it's still training yourself to get used to the idea of casually using slurs

[agile void]

the droids there are called that by the clones

[terse aspen]

It
w h a t

[undone galleon]

also like the amount of clanker stuff thats just making anti-miscegenation jokes

[finite patrol]

im aware of the origins of the term yes, but in addition to what karakk mentioned its also used by people who know its not socially acceptable to use slurs for real people but still want to get off on othering something. even if that something is fictional its still kind of gross there have to be better ways for you to enjoy yourself.

[undone galleon]

like i wasnt joking when i said its just ppl playing pretend at being racist

[finite patrol]

I was not aware of its ablist uses but that throughline is pretty damn clear now that you mention it

[undone galleon]

the core of the joke is 'what if i was racist'

[agile void]

yeah that was part of the reason why I never really say the word because of the connotations but I genuinely didntn knew that they were already using that word to be disrespectful to disabled/People that used prosthetics

I just saw that being said by someone with the vyper flair so I was like "eh, funny"

[finite patrol]

there was a great fanart comic of lash calling out holliday(?) for calling bebop a clanker

does anyone have it

[agile void]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1n9huld/lash_life_lessons/

[finite patrol]

bless

[agile void]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1s0fb2q/might_be_the_most_delusional_ship_yet_but_i_dont/

...uh

[undone galleon]

"delusional"
puts the two most goth characters together

[agile void]

Actually now I wonder how Graves would see Victor since his whole body is technically a disturbance of the death by every part of him not being his

[undone galleon]

have there been grave-victor convos yet

[agile void]

like, I can see the logic of Graves hating victor for not "giving up" and letting the body rest

but also victor has as main objective to find out whose his body part belonged to so that is technically appeasing or helping the death

[somber creek]

Theres no convos

Just kill lines

[agile void]

also only from graves, we dont know how victor sees graves

[slender falcon]

https://fxbsky.app/profile/impactzack.bsky.social/post/3mhdvwy3fes25

zckry (@impactzack.bsky.social)

Paige: HOOOOOH my God, Victor did anyone ever tell you that you look like a Greek god I wanna pull off your arms and suck on the fingers. Please don’t wear a shirt ever
︀︀
︀︀Victor: I am begging you to talk to me like im a person
︀︀
︀︀Drifter after cooking Rem in his apartment:

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[undone galleon]

implying drifter has an apartment

[agile void]

tbh he could have killed a hobo and steal the apartment for a bit

[somber creek]

It means in Rem's own apartment

[undone galleon]

implying rem has an apartment

[somber creek]

He canonically does!

[slender falcon]

Aren't hobos definitionally homeless

[undone galleon]

who gave the child a lease

[agile void]

listen, theres homeless shelters

[somber creek]

He lives in the sewers

[undone galleon]

homeless shelters r definitionally not apartments

[agile void]

ok fine, hobo room

[undone galleon]

ah right mo & krill

imagining rem getting priced out of the sewers

[somber creek]

No i mean he has a little house

[undone galleon]

i figured also aww

[agile void]

I just realized, since rem is here

this technically means the apartment is hazes house?

[lavish grove]

This art reminds me, is Victor actually the tallest character in the game because he feels like it sometimes

I know he isn’t the biggest, that’s between Krill and Abrams I think, but I think he might be the tallest so far

[somber creek]

Abrams

[lavish grove]

Yah I checked

It goes

1. Wolf form silver

2. Abrams

3. Victor

Surprisingly krill is shockingly short at only 5’8

I knew he was short in game but I assumed that was due to him constantly hunching over

But nah he’s just genuinely not very tall

[merry verge]

that mole is All Arms

[lavish grove]

Yah

Dude is built like a gorilla

All arms and body

No legs

[slender falcon]

Krill and Graves had me genuinely so fucking tilted last game I played

Wait no not Graves

Geist

Those two genuinely ruined my entire match

Alternatively I just played like shit

[lavish grove]

What happened?

[lavish grove]

Chat, did Maximilian’s genes even try with pocket?

[bleak thicket]

kid survived an assassination attempt
so clearly

the rest went into their hair

[lavish grove]

Pockets takes off their shirt and reveals that they’re secretly fucking yoked

[undone galleon]

pocket is just transgender

[undone galleon]

what progesterone does to a motherfucker

i do like how fairfax is visually just a bald+beard saxton hale

[lavish grove]

He’s honestly way bigger then I was expecting

Dude is huge

Anyone written a “pocket and Mina need to sneak into a fancy party and pretend to be a couple for it” fic yet?

[undone galleon]

thats their wedding i think

[lavish grove]

Shit true

[undone galleon]

now im on ao3 for this & this is just such egregious character assassination

[finite patrol]

no????

[bleak thicket]

mina ha, more like mina who

[lavish grove]

She explicitly did not want a normal life

That’s her main personality trait

[undone galleon]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81240351 anyways no guarantee of quality but

[lavish grove]

[undone galleon]

mina ha??

[lavish grove]

Yah

Her full name is Mina Ha

[bleak thicket]

ye

shes american korean

[lavish grove]

I think Ha is a reference to some vampire novel but I don’t remember which one

[bleak thicket]

yes its also a reference to mina harker

[finite patrol]

the vampire novel

[bleak thicket]

from the og dracula

[lavish grove]

Ah

Yah a pretty important one

[undone galleon]

i was doing a pun on 'ha?' since its a, idk what to call it 'interrogative noise' that ive observed among like east asian to southeast asian ppls

[lavish grove]

Ohhhh

[terse aspen]

I mean it's also not far off from saying "Mina huh?"

[undone galleon]

well yes but theres the added layer of mina being korean

[terse aspen]

True

[undone galleon]

its a joke that works better over audio lmao

[lavish grove]

Probably yah

[undone galleon]

i rly gotta make that batcase smutfic where its just them beating each other up while theyre both out farming

[vast sandal]

had a match against a self-admitted smurf carrying 4 Initiate players

[undone galleon]

howd it go

[vast sandal]

we got stomped

bc the smurf was coordinating all their friends

[lavish grove]

Yah that makes sense

Not much you can do against that unfortunately

[undone galleon]

fuckedup but that scans yea

[vast sandal]

rly wanted to tell them "ok then unplug lol"

"leave your friends to their fate"

[ivory reef]

They're missing some UI, down now you can request lane swaps by clicking on the letter right below someone's face on top during initial deployment and it'll teleport swap you two

It's normal for people to pause at game start to just swap around a bunch

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QTori 🍣 (@qtori.art)

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[bleak thicket]

disclaimer that the site has some nsfw stuff on it

[ivory reef]

https://shibe.ink/products/patrons-playmat

Oh thanks for the warning Jenny

The warning yes yes

.>

<.<

[vivid nimbus]

Important not to accidentally get some tasteful nude wall art

[ivory reef]

Oh yup

Literally just scrolling down

Yup

Thanks Jenny

[bleak thicket]

if you visit the home page its literally the third page of the auto scrolling banner at the top of the page

[vivid nimbus]

Wait some of this isn't very tasteful :v

[bleak thicket]

some of it is a bit more than tasteful yes

[ivory reef]

Your two pfps are making this very funny

[rich grove]

rem discovering what a naked person looks like in sex ed

[bleak thicket]

if they dont have clothes to borrow rem is not interested

[finite patrol]

as a dream creature rem probably sees naked people all the time

hes going to dream theater and all of a sudden the person on stage is naked

he thinks it means youre nervous

[cosmic cypress]

I will now play the lock of dead

I wonder if I should viscous again or try random stuff

[somber creek]

Random stuff divines fun new playstyles

[spring tundra]

For a bit I thought Mina was actually supposed to BE Mina harker and am disappointed she’s not tbh

[ivory reef]

I recommend experimenting a bit early on

[spring tundra]

Hey btw uh

[ivory reef]

Just get a feeling for everyone

[spring tundra]

Yall wanna hear something funny

[ivory reef]

Mina Ha is better

[spring tundra]

I put street brawl on random cause I was like

[finite patrol]

pick a few heroes you like the look of --> get used to the game --> give everyone a try or two

[spring tundra]

I feel like I understand everyone enough to like

Try them

Instantly got sinclaire

And lost

SO BADLY

[cosmic cypress]

but viscous cute

[spring tundra]

I CANNOT describe how unprepared for Sinclair I was

None of their abilities worked quite like I thought they did lmao

I have a new respect for them

[rich grove]

the sinclair experience in a shellnut

"surely this magic nuke isn't going to be the most inexplicably confusing thing in the world to aim"

ends the game with 200 player damage

[spring tundra]

LMAO

Yeah

Also the rabbit is

WAY harder to do to people

Than I thought

[vivid nimbus]

Also the game knowledge to use their ult effectively

[rich grove]

i mean rabbit is kinda whatever if you max AP that's the big thing

[spring tundra]

Yeah I’m gonna be honest

Like

I just copied dynamo

The whole fight

[rich grove]

the radius up at ap5 is enormous but up til that point good luck

[vivid nimbus]

Y'know what copying dynamo every time is solid

[rich grove]

yeah reasonable

could be a max ap ult rush situation

tbh

[agile void]

i wonder if I can find some meme

[rich grove]

because their ults are your ults you also kinda gotta build like dynamo

[late hare]

putting a pin in this

[rich grove]

so that means tilting more towards arcane surge, greater expansion, potentially spirit lifesteal and definitely a div kevlar situation

[vivid nimbus]

TBF it's not like Sinclair doesn't like greater expansion anyway

[rich grove]

it's like

ok

but if dynamo is in the lobby it suddenly shoots up the list

[spring tundra]

Oh that dynamo got refresh in SB so uh

I lost

[rich grove]

ball up top (dynamo is the ball)

[spring tundra]

Oh uh

I subbed to that one artist who does all the Celeste/silver art on Patreon

It’s uh….. it’s good

[rich grove]

lot of self reporting on main going on

[agile void]

I still need to do the model

That paige model

[spring tundra]

Thirl I am the queen of self reporting

I will self report all day

I love it

[vivid nimbus]

Me: "I wonder if 'thirl' has an existing definition... oh, heh"

[spring tundra]

Fear

[vivid nimbus]

(It's Middle English for "hole", especially a hole in the body)

[glass flicker]

Why the fuck Lex Luthor got a beard

[spring tundra]

Christ

[vivid nimbus]

Nostrils and stab wounds are both given as examples

[lavish grove]

because hes evil

[agile void]

you imply all bearded people are evil?

[glass flicker]

This is like biblically levels of wrong

[agile void]

what about mustaches?

[spring tundra]

Deadlock fans understand a character challenge level impossible

[glass flicker]

Pocket got the twink build lmao

I mean jealous tbh

[lavish grove]

Yes

[glass flicker]

But still

[lavish grove]

Half evil

Morally gray

[glass flicker]

Mina Ha, a very normal and well adjusted girl who likes fashion and being friends and her fiance Arin : )

[agile void]

so what is morally, a bald person?

[lavish grove]

Also evil

That’s why Maximilian Fairfax is so evil

He’s bald and has a beard

[agile void]

I do not understand your morality based on hair in the head of a person

[glass flicker]

Arin Fairfax, a normal person who likes their family and is excited to get married and inherit the family business and run it the same way their dad does: )

[lavish grove]

It came to me in a dream

[finite patrol]

guy who's only watched breaking bad:

[lavish grove]

I mean, as characters get more evil they do become bald

[spring tundra]

God

Did yall see they might be adding a new map objective

At some point

[lavish grove]

Yah

[undone galleon]

is it the egg or

[lavish grove]

It’d be nice

[rich grove]

im so fucking scared

[agile void]

there is voicelines

[lavish grove]

The game can use another one

[spring tundra]

It’s called the Replicator

[lavish grove]

No a map objective

[spring tundra]

According to leaks

[finite patrol]

people have been begging for it for months

[lavish grove]

It’s a point inbetween lanes for teams to fight over

[agile rune]

I will no longer be running urns as a rejection of the system

[glass flicker]

The Sopranos taught me an important lesson that Italians are bad

[lavish grove]

I will be hitting you with a wiffle bat as a rejection of your rejection

[agile void]

one of the ideas I saw spitballed is

[spring tundra]

There’s been some thoughts that it’ll add an NPC to your team since that was what vanguard was supposed to do

[glass flicker]

I yearn for the urn

[agile void]

Replicator drops Street brawl items

and It genuinely scares me that idea

because of haunted shot and infinite rounds

[lavish grove]

Runed Gauntlets Billy real…

[glass flicker]

Getting street brawl upgrades would be fucking insane

[agile rune]

It’s ok I already wasn’t running urns, that’s antithetical to drifting

[spring tundra]

There’s no way they’d ever even like

Add a chance

[agile void]

lash with seraphim wings

[spring tundra]

Of getting the busted street brawl items

In a full game

[undone galleon]

street brawl upgrades would be Fucked yea

[spring tundra]

IMO

like

[lavish grove]

Probably not no

[spring tundra]

No one is ever getting piano

[lavish grove]

Imagine eternal gift in a real game lol

You’d become unstoppable in 10 minutes

[spring tundra]

Electric slippers vyper in a real game

…. That’s a SB exclusive right

I’m not crazy

[lavish grove]

Yah

[spring tundra]

Okay lol

[agile void]

Honestly

the one I would accept

is unstable concoction

because it is very funny to become a live grenade

[lavish grove]

I don’t need people buying that in serious games tbh

[spring tundra]

apperantly live

*like

A bunch of new people are taking SB super serious rn

[lavish grove]

The last thing I want is my Rem to suddenly wanna commit suicide mid team fight

[spring tundra]

Is what I’ve been told

[agile void]

not his fault Chiaotzu is his hero

also I would see the grenade more on dynamo because of black hole

[spring tundra]

Something about some streamers getting super into street brawl recently or smth

Idk how reliable that info is tho

[late hare]

||~~hey so, for a friend - ~~||

dm it to me?

[slender falcon]

....may I perhaps request a little peak as well?

[spring tundra]

Ough

I’m trying to find their twitter hold on

[lavish grove]

I think I know the artist you’re talking about but can you send it to me too just in case?

[late hare]

lmao

[spring tundra]

@mixief1 on famous app x.com

[late hare]

bless

[lavish grove]

Ah okay it was who I was thinking of

[vivid nimbus]

Oh that was my second guess

(My first guess was @Eviiicka on twitter)

[late hare]

I think I have seen this before

[spring tundra]

Anyway their Patreon has a lot of pornography if that’s what you’re into

:3

I will not be sharing that here for obvious reasons

[vivid nimbus]

Mixief is also on bsky at https://bsky.app/profile/mixief.bsky.social (NSFW warning) , Eviiicka is not

Mixief (@mixief.bsky.social)

Dragon/Monster Artist!
[26] 🇵🇭 artist!
Concept/Comic Artist/MOONSHINE CONSUMER
<3 (Salmon) <3
Links!: https://www.patreon.com/MisoTavern

Bluesky

[late hare]

tempting. anyhow, need to write up some mock character interactions

had some ideas while driving earlier

[spring tundra]

Clearly I just need to write fanfic of Celeste banging every woman on the cast

That’ll really be my magnum opus

[lavish grove]

So true

[spring tundra]

I hope vindicta gets more character interactions

[glass flicker]

I need to be Celeste ong

[lavish grove]

Deadlock thought: Paige would absolutely fake a leg injury hoping Victor would bridal carry her to a bed only to be fireman carried

[spring tundra]

Hmmmm I could probably reskin Apollo into one of my OCs lmao

[glass flicker]

I don’t think I’ve ever read a more canon thing in my life

She would be kind of mad about it in the moment but then once he’s out of the room she immediately starts writing about it in her diary and gets a big ol nosebleed

[lavish grove]

Paige’s VA does a really good job with the “you look so sad” interaction btw

She sounds very sweet there

[glass flicker]

Paige is a sweetie she’s too pure for this ritual shit

Up there with the teenagers and literal toddler for “you should very much not be here”

[slender falcon]

Silver mentions having played piano as a child and possibly being quite good at it

That's neat.

I don't have anything interesting to say

I just like Silver a lot

[agile void]

then "Never put on a shirt"

[lavish grove]

Nah she’s as real as fuck for that

Victor should never put on a shirt

Tbh, people talk about Paige thirsting over Victor but like, half of the cast says something about him. He’s basically this

[cosmic cypress]

tried sinclair, did not enjoy, not sinclair's fault

[spring tundra]

Mood

Except it was sinclair’s fault for me

[mossy lance]

its kinda funny seeing he just seems so deadpan or confused in his reactions

and i don't blame him, honestly. it's not like any of it is actually him

being, quote, "the prettiest corpse on manhattan" isn't really a good thing necessarily lmao

[lavish grove]

He is an exceptionally pretty corpse though

[open nova]

Mina's reactions to him drive me insane

"I could redo your stiches if you want" is a level of intimacy unknown outside of robot girl romances

[late hare]

doorman sure is hard to play huh

[finite patrol]

aiming the bell requires being able to do complex geometric calculations on the fly

also door locations are a lot of memorization and they just changed

[undone galleon]

bisexual morpheus mina ha

[jovial yacht]

I heard its because its a play on the original story where in the book, frankenstien's monster was considered hidious to the people in the story

Hang on let me try to find the video, it was a really good one

https://youtu.be/kjXqoABQLtY?si=PayarJMwSGcmMMSI

[cosmic cypress]

Enjoyed playing Warden

Still losing damn near every game

But am not personally feeding

[somber creek]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTiebHDwYws

600 views but giving me the cursed knowledge that headshot booster and most on-hits bypass egg damage penalty

[magic summit]

That's why I run headhunter and mystic shot as Rem

They see my egg and that I'm a rem and don't expect me to gun them down

[spring tundra]

Character who is a time traveling MOBA player

This isn’t a good fit for the game I just had the idea

[vivid nimbus]

She wants to redo his stitches AND play dressup with him

[undone galleon]

transgenderizing victor

[vivid nimbus]

Well the voice lines are unspecific as to what clothes he'd be modelling

So sure

[finite grotto]

Venatore fucking RAN this game

[worldly dirge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHRTx5xIX30

[finite grotto]

68k damage in 25 minutes is so insane

[agile rune]

had the hidden king buff

[agile void]

cant believe he is lowkey evil

[open nova]

Gosh right that’s true

[magic summit]

I was hoping for Billy a melee/basedown focused build would work what with his upgrade changes and melee changes

Sadly after a number of games I think that is not the case

Think he's still significantly better suited to going ult/utility or gun focus

Weird interaction though: if you get melee charge then with max level bashdown if the melee charge bonus damage procs while you are blasted, you get the bonus health from two heavy melee hits

Gonna just not report that bug for the time being

[agile void]

https://youtu.be/A4foxBt4Po0

Dont you hate it when Paradox throws you 50 fucking bombs?

[gray otter]

im assuming everyone rushes the item that gives you unstoppable

ive messed around with 0 cooldowns in lobbies before and by far the most annoying thing you can do is spam CC

[vivid nimbus]

Item CDs are normal

[gray otter]

ah.

[vivid nimbus]

So unstop still only lasts a few seconds

[gray otter]

thats unfortunate.

presumably the best character is like... ivy

infinite invulnerability: pretty good

[vivid nimbus]

Victor

[gray otter]

really-- oh right

his fuckin ult

lmao

[finite patrol]

doorman can lock everyone up if he can get close enough

[vivid nimbus]

Though also GlutenSnake did ban 3 heroes, Kelvin (infinite dome means an infinite stall), McGinnis (too many entities) and Graves (too many entities)

[finite patrol]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1005257138748264458/1472750118871629945/RDT_20260216_022249.mp4?ex=69c2822e&is=69c130ae&hm=d1b4959dd4462da00e7494cb1ce25239ed8608cbfc22047c5162a1d28f4207f8&

[gray otter]

is there any way to bypass victor ult or does the game just end when he unlocks it

[somber creek]

Kill him twice

[gray otter]

no cooldowns

[somber creek]

Ohhhhh

[vivid nimbus]

Eternus got first picks, so they went for Victor and Ivy to deny them

[gray otter]

ah

pocket's probably also pretty stupid

and mina

[vivid nimbus]

Probably but no one picked them

[gray otter]

...does mirage proc his 3 every shot

[vivid nimbus]

Mina OTOH ||was picked by Eternus second game (mostly for the silence ult)||

[vivid nimbus]

Dunno, because he never left sandstorm XD

[gray otter]

AWESOME

[shifting_sand_land.mp3]

[vivid nimbus]

Probably would though

[gray otter]

who else would be ungodly annoying...

wow mirage probably is the best character besides victor

invuln + cc, teleport, absurd dps

oh dynamo is in a similar boat

[vivid nimbus]

Dynamo is annoying but if you just don't get near him and he's manageable

[gray otter]

bebop is somewhat hateful

but just damage probablt isnt enough

[vivid nimbus]

Also Bebop needs to either approach them or land hooks to get his damage off

[gray otter]

yeah

[vivid nimbus]

Remember you have Initiate rank players playing them

[gray otter]

lash is probably insanely annoying until someone buys knock down

[agile void]

carted carted carted carted carted

[hallow zenith]

Why???

[gray otter]

gray talon just farms until he gets bird, then sits in spawn and spams missiles

lol

[agile void]

because eternus are at a disadvantage regardless of how you put it

[hallow zenith]

Are they?

Wait what are the ranks?

[agile void]

THEY HAVE INFINITE ULTS

[gray otter]

yes, if the initiates get victor the game is unwinnable

[errant sphinx]

Is the answer not viper

[vital knoll]

If I'm playing Victor with infinite ultis, I'm rushing Escalating and just running down the game

[hallow zenith]

Ohhhhh wait okay no I misunderstood

It's Eternus vs Initiates(who have no cd)

[errant sphinx]

Viper seems pretty broken

[hallow zenith]

Not everyone

[gray otter]

viper is just damage and cc, right?

[errant sphinx]

U can just ult people indefinitely

[gray otter]

so can like

[errant sphinx]

And ult is a huge aoe ranged cc

[gray otter]

paige, rem, etc

doorman

[vivid nimbus]

The strongest spells for damage seemed to be ||Paradox time bomb, Viscous splatter, and Paige horses||

[gray otter]

||horsespam is disgusting yeah||

[errant sphinx]

Paige is pretty true yeah

[gray otter]

mnk is probably pretty funny

[errant sphinx]

Actually is lady Geist killable lol

[vital knoll]

Very

[gray otter]

yeah just cc her

[vivid nimbus]

We didn't see the initiates play MnK, but doesn't even need combo TBH. Just run it down with scorn

[gray otter]

so much cc + burrow

[lavish grove]

Any character with a big burst heal or shield ability is kinda crazy tbh

Warden would be another insane one

Just never ending shields

[errant sphinx]

Ok wait yamato would be pretty funny

Infinite unstoppable and infinite chase and infinite heal

[gray otter]

its not exactly infinite heal

its limited by the speed of the ability itself

which is less relevant when you have infinite unstoppable, to be sure

[vivid nimbus]

I think you'd get silence waved during flying slash and then focused down

[gray otter]

yeah

does unstoppable give silence immunity

[vivid nimbus]

Yeah, as long as the unstop lasts

[gray otter]

so just keep refreshing it

you're invuln during the startup anyway

[errant sphinx]

Yamato ult makes you immune to all negative debuffs

[vast sandal]

Is the Doorman cart glitch common knowledge yet

[gray otter]

it got fixed iirc

[vivid nimbus]

Oh I forgot that the ult unstop lasts longer than the channel, yeah

So the Initiate is just relying on mechanical ability to chain Yamato's skills together, and not get bursted down faster than she can heal

[gray otter]

yeah

[finite patrol]

cart glitch?

[vivid nimbus]

After the bugfix, unstoppable protects you from being picked up by cart, but does not stop the moving cart from hitting you again on the next physics frame

[gray otter]

oh my god

[magic summit]

Didn't that already get fixed

[gray otter]

so it just shreds you??

[vivid nimbus]

It's probably fixed by now

[vivid nimbus]

Exactamundo

[magic summit]

I wonder if that also fixed counterspelling or riposting cart just to get stunned by it when it hits a wall

[granite heath]

What does the newest Wraith cards change mean? The "being stacked in a deck" one.
I kind of have an intuition but I'm not certain, wondering if anyone who knows the mechanics a little deeper than me can explain.

[lavish shale]

Means there's a certain amount of each suit per cycle

So it's not fully random

[vivid nimbus]

The explanation I heard is that she now has a deck of 9 cards that card trick draws from (2 of each suit + 1 joker) and T3 adds a second joker. Once you draw all 9 (or 10) cards it shuffles a new set for you

[lavish shale]

Is my understanding of it

[vivid nimbus]

IDK if the new deck will account for cards currently in your hand or not

But either way it means no happenchance jackpots of drawing three jokers in a row

[granite heath]

Okay, that's kind of what I was guessing, just helps to see it written out like this. Thank you Tech and Allie!

[gray otter]

how do i get good at not dying in lane/teamfights

[warm sonnet]

What type of rifle does Vindicta use?

[vital knoll]

Lane is a lot about taking good trades, shoving wave into the enemy, and staying in cover

Teamfights idk I play Victor and just become unkillable and that's my solution

[vast sandal]

it's not a mosin-nagant but also it's absolutely a mosin-nagant

[warm sonnet]

As the good king jesus would have wanted 😌

[vivid nimbus]

I'd characterize it more like a 40s-era semi-auto rifle like the M1 Garand or Gewehr 43

[vast sandal]

like it clearly does not fire like a Mosin

but it is visually absolutely a Mosin

[warm sonnet]

Yeah I was about to say

[magic summit]

The most generalized rule of thumb i can give is burst damage is what governs who wins lane largely and in team fights check who has used an ult on both teams to know your relative strength

[vivid nimbus]

I don't really see it TBH, there's too few details in common

[vast sandal]

I mean it looks less like a Gewehr 43 or a M1 than it does look like a scoped nugget

[vivid nimbus]

You're right it doesn't look like those either, now that I do a visual comparison

[vast sandal]

also Vindicta's gun has no damn magazine

which is why I went "I mean I guess it has to be a bolt-action somehow"

[vivid nimbus]

But I think it looks even more like the Dreyse

[vast sandal]

Vindicta's most powerful magic is firing what appears to be a bolt-action rifle that fast

[warm sonnet]

Might be a Mauser 1980?
https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/CenturionAuctions/11/617211/H5403-L132692651.jpg

[mossy lance]

boltiest-action

[warm sonnet]

Well that's just what you can do when you're bare-foot

More digits out = faster action

[vast sandal]

ah yes

the fingies and toes technique

[short quiver]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1s1929q/how_i_feel_whenever_a_new_deadlock_review_video/

[vivid nimbus]

1980?

[agile void]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1s1f63v/a_story_in_3_acts/

[warm sonnet]

A turkish 1980 version of the Mauser Model 1889

From what I could find on a dinky google image search

[lavish grove]

I really gotta get better at movement

There’s no more frustrating feeling then getting in a 1v1 you’re winning

But losing out on a skill because I don’t know how to like, corner boost

[warm sonnet]

I can shmove with the alright of them, but I cannot keep my reticle on target for the life of me

[vivid nimbus]

https://deadlockdeathslam.com/tournaments/deathy-slam

So Deathy is doing a Sajam Slam style tourney for Deathlock

[still swan]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1s1nabn/sevens_va_has_come_public/

[vast sandal]

starting to feel like the "oh there's no toxicity in Deadlock everyone's very cool" thing is just not true

[terse aspen]

So far it seems like there's at least as much as in League

Modern League, not old League

[somber creek]

Oh people who say that are lying

Its quite average moba toxic

[magic summit]

I dont think ive seen anyone claim the game isn't toxic tbh

[merry verge]

I do see more nice people than other mobas but there's also toxicity

[severe loom]

I've heard it said only in relation to other games' levels of toxicity

[finite patrol]

I have had good experiences but my comparison points are 2006-2013 era xbox live
Early LoL until 2012 ish
Dota 2 from 2013-2017

[severe loom]

which, as deadlock has grown in popularity, has uh

brought those same people over

[finite patrol]

have still seen a fair amount of slurs and other aggro id prefer not to see

[vast sandal]

on the one hand I do see a lot more like

respectful, amicable folk

but also sometimes you get "shoulda paused before you got molested in lane" from the Abrams who is going 4/0/3 after begging a pause so someone on team can take a phone call

[finite patrol]

I definitely have better experiences when stacking 4+ people

[glass flicker]

Yeah, usually I only play if I have at least 2 friends in a vc

[terse aspen]

I don't think I would ever play if I waited until I had friends to play with

[glass flicker]

I’ve encountered like maybe 2 genuinely toxic people and then like 1 guy who was kind of passive aggressive sarcastic mean (and is why I will never play Wraith again lol)

[vast sandal]

playing carries is so damn stressful

[glass flicker]

I guess I’m just lucky to have friends that are usually online by the weekend