Deadlock Rat King: All Abilities, Upgrades and Full Hero Overview
SEO Summary: Rat King is now playable in Deadlock, bringing Scrap Grenade, Rat Swarm, Royal Pestments and Rule, Rattania! to the battlefield. Here is a full breakdown of his abilities, stats, Spirit scaling and upgrades.
Rat King is now available in Deadlock
Out of the sewers and into the streets, the rightful King of the Rats has finally arrived in Deadlock.
Rat King is built around constant pressure, swarming enemies with rats, disrupting fights with repeated explosions and protecting himself with a barrier while leading his team into battle.
His kit includes Scrap Grenade, Rat Swarm, Royal Pestments and his ultimate, Rule, Rattania!
Valve describes him as a ruler whose loyal subjects overwhelm enemies while he leads the charge from the front.
“Oh the rats are taking over, baby!”
Rat King is available to play now.
Scrap Grenade
Rat King throws a grenade made of scrap that detonates multiple times, dealing Bullet Damage and applying a movement slow.
The grenade can also be hit with a melee attack to knock it away.
Base stats:
- Detonation Damage: 65
- Scaling: 0.6
- Movement Speed Slow: -20%
- Slow Spirit Scaling: 0.08
- Detonations: 3
- Detonation Radius: 8m
- Slow Duration: 4s
- Cooldown: 26s
Upgrades:
T1: -8s Cooldown
T2: +65 Detonation Damage
T3: Adds an additional, larger final detonation
Rat Swarm
Rat King summons a swarm of rats that leap onto enemies.
Each bite deals Spirit Damage and reduces the target's Bullet Resist. The more rats attached to the same enemy, the faster they attack.
Multiple rats can attach to one target at the same time.
Enemies can remove a rat early by performing either a ground dash or an air dash.
Base stats:
- Damage per Bite: 8
- Spirit Scaling: 0.08
- Bullet Resist per Bite: -1%
- Bite Interval: 1s
- Effect Duration: 4s
- Maximum Attached Rats: 5
- Cooldown: 28s
- Range: 50m
- Additional range value: 10m
- Base duration value: 6s
Upgrades:
T1: +1 Charge
T2: Increased Swarm Size and +4s Debuff Duration
T3: +8 Damage and an additional -1% Bullet Resist per Bite
Royal Pestments
Rat King equips makeshift royal armor and gains a barrier based on his maximum health.
While the barrier is active, incoming bullets have a chance to be deflected back toward the attacker.
The barrier does not benefit from resistances.
Base stats:
- Barrier: 15% of Max Health
- Bullet Return Chance: 15%
- Spirit Scaling: 0.1
- Duration: 6s
- Cooldown: 22s
Upgrades:
T1: +4s Duration
T2: -8s Cooldown and +15% Bullet Return Chance
T3: Limits individual instances of incoming damage to a maximum of 250 and grants an additional +10% Max Health as Barrier
Rule, Rattania!
Rat King charges up and summons the banner of Rattania.
All nearby allies gain increased movement speed, immunity to slows and reduced incoming damage while they remain close to the banner.
The banner grants:
- +3 m/s Movement Speed
- Movement Speed Spirit Scaling: 0.05
- 20% Damage Reduction
- 24m Radius
- 12s Flag Duration
- 130s Cooldown
When Rat King slams the banner into the ground, the sewers beneath it violently erupt.
Enemies caught in the area take Bullet Damage, are knocked into the air and slowed.
Rats also pour out of the sewers and apply Rat Swarm to enemies hit by the eruption.
The impact deals:
- 200 Damage
- Damage Scaling: 1.2
- -40% Movement Speed
- 24m Radius
Upgrades:
T1: -20s Cooldown and +1 m/s Movement Speed
T2: +8s Charge Duration, +8s Flag Duration and +8m Radius
T3: +150 Damage and +15% Damage Reduction
Rat King's playstyle
Rat King's abilities revolve around staying in the middle of fights and overwhelming enemies with several layers of pressure.
Scrap Grenade gives him repeated area damage and a slow, while Rat Swarm can continuously pressure individual targets and reduce their Bullet Resist.
Royal Pestments gives him extra durability and a chance to return incoming bullets, allowing him to survive longer while pushing forward.
Finally, Rule, Rattania! combines team utility with a large area attack, granting nearby allies movement speed, slow immunity and damage reduction while also damaging, knocking up and slowing enemies.
The ultimate can additionally spread Rat Swarm to enemies caught in its area, tying the rest of Rat King's kit together.
Rat King release and next Deadlock hero
Rat King is already available to play in Deadlock.
Valve also confirmed that voting will continue, with the next hero scheduled to join the game on Tuesday at 2 PM PDT.
