Deadlock Update for January 30, 2026

• Added hero banning to Standard Mode and Street Brawl.
• You can now select one hero in your roster screen, using middle click, to tell the matchmaker that you prefer to avoid that hero.
• When the game starts, it will tell you which heroes were banned.
• There are 2 total bans for now.
• This does not affect new heroes in the initial release window.
• Parties of 3+ players now need to have an additional hero in their roster, from 3 to 4.
• Fire Rate increases and reductions from most abilities and items are reduced globally by a small amount.
• Updated various on-bullet-hit resistance reduction debuffs to apply increased damage for subsequent hits rather than the initial hit.
• Added Dash Speed to the Vitality stat screen.

Items

• Kinetic Dash: Bonus ammo no longer scales with % increase.
• Intensifying Magazine: Time for Max Damage reduced from 3s to 2.5s.
• Slowing Bullets: No longer provides Fire Rate.
• Slowing Bullets: Now provides +15% Weapon Damage.
• Slowing Bullets: Dash Distance reduction increased from -20% to -25%.
• Slowing Bullets: Minor improvement in buildup rate.
• Hollow Point: Bullet Resist Reduction reduced from -12% to -9%.
• Alchemical Fire: Bullet Resist Reduction reduced from -8% to -7%.
• Alchemical Fire: Bullet Resist Reduction spirit scaling reduced from 0.07 to 0.055.
• Glass Cannon: Max Health penalty increased from -13% to -15%.
• Lucky Shot: Ammo reduced from +40% to +30%.
• Lucky Shot: Crit reduced from 110% to 100%.
• Capacitor: Debuff duration reduced from 4s to 3s.
• Capacitor: Cooldown reduced from 50s to 40s.
• Melee Lifesteal: Light Melee cooldown penalty reduced from 2x to 1.5x.
• Lifestrike: Light Melee cooldown penalty reduced from 2x to 1.5x.
• Extra Regen: Now provides +1 Out of Combat Regen.
• Healing Booster: Now provides +1 Out of Combat Regen.
• Healing Tempo: Now provides +4 Out of Combat Regen.
• Restorative Locket: Cooldown reduced from 30s to 20s.
• Restorative Locket: Spirit Resist changed from +6% to +8%.
• Restorative Locket: Changed to self-cast only.
• Restorative Locket: Now restores up to 3 stamina based on the percentage of stacks you have relative to the max.
• Fury Trance: Bullet Lifesteal reduced from 22% to 18%.
• Stamina Mastery: Air Dash distance reduced from 30% to 23%.
• Stamina Mastery: Stamina recovery reduced from 20% to 18%.
• Metal Skin: Cooldown increased from 20s to 24s.
• Bullet Resilience: Low HP threshold increased from 30% to 35% health.
• Spirit Resilience: Low HP threshold increased from 30% to 35% health.
• Debuff Remover: Renamed to Dispel Magic.
• Dispel Magic: No longer builds from Debuff Reducer.
• Dispel Magic: No longer grants +30% Debuff Resistance.
• Dispel Magic: Now grants +14% Spirit Resistance.
• Dispel Magic: No longer grants +100 HP.
• Dispel Magic: Move Speed bonus reduced from 2.25 to 2.
• Debuff Reducer: Debuff Resistance increased from 20% to 25%.
• Debuff Reducer: No longer grants +50 Health.
• Unstoppable: Bonus Health increased from +75 to +125.
• Unstoppable: Debuff Resistance increased from 20% to 25%.
• Spellbreaker: Now builds out of Debuff Reducer.
• Spellbreaker: Spirit Resistance reduced from 25% to 18%.
• Inhibitor: Weapon Damage increased from 15% to 22%.
• Inhibitor: Bonus Health increased from 125 to 150.
• Bullet Resist Shredder: Bullet Resistance increased from 7% to 8%.
• Bullet Resist Shredder: Bullet Resist Reduction reduced from -12% to -10%.
• Mystic Regeneration: Now provides +40 Health.
• Radiant Regeneration: Now provides +65 Health.
• Cold Front: Vertical hitbox increased from 2.5m to 3.5m.
• Cold Front: Spread duration increased from 0.5s to 0.6s.
• Arctic Blast: Vertical hitbox increased from 2.5m to 3.5m.
• Arctic Blast: Spread duration increased from 0.5s to 0.6s.
• Mystic Slow: Dash distance increased from -10% to -12%.
• Lightning Scroll: Dash distance increased from -10% to -12%.
• Quicksilver Reload: Bonus damage now has spirit scaling, 0.16.
• Mercurial Magnum: Bonus damage now has spirit scaling, 0.16.
• Silence Wave: Spirit damage scaling increased from 0.3 to 0.6.
• Rapid Recharge: Bonus Spirit Power for Charged Abilities reduced from +16 to +10.
• Rapid Recharge: Time between charges reduced from +50% to +30%.
• Rapid Recharge: Now reduces cooldown on charged abilities by 14%.
• Mystic Reverb" class="entity-reference-image"> Mystic Reverb: Spirit Lifesteal reduced from 15% to 10%.
• Mystic Reverb" class="entity-reference-image"> Mystic Reverb: Imbued ability now provides +30% Spirit Lifesteal for any damage it does, including the reverb.
• Echo Shard: Removed cast time.
• Spirit Burn: Burn DPS now scales with spirit power, 0.05.
• Curse: Renamed to Cursed Relic.
• Curse: No longer grants +15% Weapon Damage.
• Curse: While holding this item, you have a -8% Total Damage Penalty.

Heroes

• Abrams: Gun falloff range reduced from 20m-46m to 17m-40m.
• Abrams: Bullet damage growth reduced from +0.154 to +0.13.
• Abrams: Siphon Life T3 reduced from +31 DPS to +20 DPS and increased Spirit Scaling, +0.12.
• Abrams: Fixed Shoulder Charge T1 triggering from non-heroes.
• Abrams: Seismic Impact damage increased from 55 to 75.
• Abrams: Seismic Impact stun duration increased from 1.5s to 1.6s.
• Abrams: Improved collision consistency with Seismic Impact.
• Bebop: Exploding Uppercut T3 no longer grants +100% Ammo.
• Bebop: Exploding Uppercut T3 now also restores 20% of your Missing HP on enemy hero hit.
• Bebop: Fixed some bugs with Sticky Bomb tooltip.
• Bebop: Sticky Bomb stacks now diminish after 60 hits and 7 kills rather than 100/10.
• Bebop: Sticky Bomb now drops on the ground and continues counting down when dispelled.
• Bebop: Sticky Bomb can no longer be self-cast.
• Bebop: Sticky Bomb T2 increased from +70 Damage to +75.
• Billy: Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.18 to 0.165.
• Billy: Blasted Amp increased from 9% to 10%.
• Billy: Blasted Melee Bonus Health reduced from 80 to 70.
• Billy: Blasted Melee Bonus Health spirit scaling increased from 0.7 to 0.8.
• Billy: Chain Gang damage reduced from 150 to 120.
• Billy: Chain Gang now always goes on full cooldown after interruption.
• Drifter: Bloodscent Isolation Range reduced from 25m to 20m.
• Drifter: Stalker's Mark" class="entity-reference-image"> Stalker's Mark T3 now also increases duration by 2s.
• Drifter: Fixed Stalker's Mark" class="entity-reference-image"> Stalker's Mark not gaining charges from items after upgrading the T3.
• Drifter: Eternal Night cooldown reduced from 130s to 120s.
• Grey Talon: Rain of Arrows air speed increased from 3.8 to 4.1.
• Grey Talon: Spirit Snare lifetime increased from 20s to 22s.
• Grey Talon: Guided Owl cooldown reduced from 120s to 110s.
• Grey Talon: Guided Owl spirit power per kill increased from 8 to 10.
• Ivy: No longer has reduced melee damage.
• Ivy: Air Drop now has a very brief period where allies cannot cancel to prevent accidental cancels.
• Kelvin: Ice Path T2 increased from -15s Cooldown to -17s.
• Kelvin: Ice Path T3 max spirit increased from 75 to 90.
• Kelvin: Ice Path T3 duration increased from 8s to 9s.
• Kelvin: Frozen Shelter duration increased from 5s to 5.25s.
• Lash: Ground Strike rotation is restricted to 90 degrees rather than 360.
• Lash: Fixed bugs with Ground Strike where it would sometimes not do damage on ramps and special locations.
• Lash: Grapple T1 reduced from -19s Cooldown to -17s.
• Lash: Flog damage spirit scaling reduced from 1.1 to 0.85.
• Mina: Move speed reduced from 6.6 to 6.5.
• Mina: Stamina cooldown increased from 3.6s to 3.9s.
• Mina: Rake Heal spirit scaling reduced from 0.5 to 0.43.
• Mina: Love Bites bonus damage spirit power scaling reduced from 1.7 to 1.6.
• Mina: Love Bites T3 reduced from -2 Stamina to -1.
• Paige: Defend and Fight barrier reduced from 150 to 125.
• Paige: Captivating Read damage reduced from 120 to 90.
• Shiv: Serrated Knives impact damage spirit ratio reduced from 0.558 to 0.25.
• Victor: Aura of Suffering spirit scaling reduced from 0.23/1.15 to 0.18/0.92.
• Viscous: Spirit per boon increased from 1.1 to 1.3.
• Viscous: Bullet damage per boon reduced from +0.5 to +0.36.
• Viscous: The Cube T3 no longer removes ult debuffs.
• Viscous: Puddle Punch displacement duration reduced from 1s to 0.8s.
• Vyper: Lethal Venom Max Venom damage reduced from 165 to 140.
• Vyper: Lethal Venom Max Damage now happens at 30% HP instead of 25%.
• Vyper: Lethal Venom cooldown increased from 20s to 24s.
• Vyper: Lethal Venom T2 now also reduces cooldown by 8s.
• Vyper: Screwjab Dagger T3 increased from 40% Charge Cooldown to 55%.
• Vyper: Petrifying Bola damage increased from 45/165 to 50/180.
• Vindicta: Stake Tether Length no longer increases when Capture Radius increases.
• Vindicta: Assassinate now grants +5% Weapon Damage per kill rather than Bonus Souls.
• Vindicta: Assassinate T3 now provides an additional +4% Weapon Damage per kill, retroactive.
• Warden: Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.47 to 0.44.

Street Brawl

• Street Brawl now has custom balancing for heroes and items.
• These changes will be used on occasion as needed.
• Tooltips will now show a special mark, similar to Enhanced Items, where you can see what was changed on that ability.
• Selecting the Random Hero option now grants a bonus reroll for rounds 1 and 2.
• Troopers now have 20% Spirit Resist.
• During overtime, they have an additional 20% Spirit Resist.
• Legendary item drop rates increased very slightly.
• Ultimates initial cooldown increased by 5s.
• Trooper spawn rate changed from 20/20/20/15/15 to 18/18/15/15/15.
• Trooper overtime DPS bonus increased by 20%.
• Objective resist decay now peaks at 2.2 minutes rather than 2.5 minutes.
• Objective resist decay now goes to -60% instead of -50%.
• Removed the global 40% healing reduction.
• Prism Blast: DPS reduced from 300 to 270.
• Enhanced Unstable Concoction: Now increases Bonus Health, Weapon Damage, Spirit Power, and Stun Duration.
• Enhanced Unstable Concoction: No longer increases duration or cooldown.
• Brawl Specific Balance
• Bebop: Hyperbeam duration reduced from 11s to 7s.
• McGinnis: Mini Turret cooldown increased from 18s to 26s.
• McGinnis: Medicinal Specter regen reduced by 20%.
• Seven: Storm Cloud damage reduced by 25%.
• Dynamo: Rejuvenating Aurora T3 reduced from 2.5% to 2%.
• Dynamo: Singularity max HP damage reduced from 1.5% to 1%.
• Lash: Death Slam throw distance reduced by 30%.
• Lash: Ground Strike damage reduced by 10%.
• Warden: Last Stand healing reduced by 25%.
• Graves: Borrowed Decree duration reduced by 30%.
• Graves: Borrowed Decree ghoul damage reduced by 30%.
• Drifter: Bloodscent Isolation Range reduced from 20m to 10m.
• Holliday: Crackshot Spirit Scaling increased from 1.1 to 2.5.
• Holliday: Bounce Pad cooldown reduced by 20s.
• Mirage: Traveler cooldown reduced from 155s to 60s.
• Calico: Return to Shadows cooldown reduced from 90s to 60s.
• Alchemical Fire: Damage reduced by 30%.
• Curse: Duration reduced from 3.25s to 2.75s.