Deadlock patch notes May 22, 2026

Infernal Resilience

• T1 changed +1.5 Health Regen +200 Max Health
• T2 changed 200 Max Health +18% Melee Lifesteal (40% effective vs non-heroes)

Seismic Impact

• T2 increased +0.7s Stun Duration +0.8s
• T3 Unstoppable duration increased 5s 6s

Base stats

• Improved the hero's hitboxes (easier to hit)
• Base regen reduced 2 1

Riposte

• No longer automatically dashes. It now grants you a sub ability immediately to target the hero you want to jump to for a brief duration (can target the enemy before the parry to buffer it). Cast range is 25m.
• No longer triggers on damage auras (things like Flame Dash)
• No longer triggers off of objective damage

Flawless Advance

• Hitbox reduced by 10%

Base stats

• Bullet damage per boon reduced 0.139 0.115

Exploding Uppercut

• T2 weapon damage reduced +40% +30%

Sticky Bomb

• T2 increased +75 Damage +85

Base stats

• Health per boon increased +48 +59
• Bullet damage per boon reduced 0.165 0.142

Rising Ram

• Cooldown increased 30s 32s
• T2 increased +0.3s Duration +0.4s
• T3 increased -10s Cooldown -13s

• Gloom Bomb T2 changed +75 Damage to Barriers -5% Melee Resist for 5s Per Bomb (stacks)

Base stats

• Improved the hero's hitboxes (easier to hit)
• Stamina cooldown increased 4.5s 5s

Radiant Daggers

• T2 changed -18s Cooldown and +70 Damage -22s Cooldown and +80 Damage

Shining Wonder

• T2 increased +50 Damage +70

Rend

• T3 no longer increases scaling by 0.4
• T3 now also deals Heavy Melee Damage (0.55 scale)

Kinetic Pulse

• T2 reduced -18% Bullet Resistance -15%
• Spirit scaling reduced 1.65 1.55

Quantum Entanglement

• T3 changed from dispelling non-ult debuffs to reducing the duration of non-ult debuffs by 50%

Base stats

• Sprint speed increased 1.6 2.2
• Updated dash ranges for Deadheads to be calculated from the center of Graves when they are following her
• Fixed Fire Rate buffs for Deadheads not being applied to their next attack, but only on subsequent attacks
• Fixed Deadheads being unable to dash through veils
• Fixed Deadheads being unable to dash to targets at the very end of your attack range when they are in follow mode
• Fixed Deadhead's damage taken from bullets being unaffected by fall-off
• Added 0.1s buffer duration for Deadheads losing line-of-sight before they stop following an enemy
• Fixed Deadheads becoming inactive if Graves dies while they are following her
• Increased speed & acceleration of Deadheads only when they are following Graves - doesn't affect in-combat
• Fixed certain projectiles (i.e Gray Talon's Bird) colliding with Deadheads
• Update Grave's melee to also set the dash target for Deadheads
• Bullet damage and growth reduced by -10%

Grasping Hands

• Now spawns a ghoul in the base ability (T3 still increases it by 1)

Jar of Dead

• Spirit scaling reduced 0.35 0.31 (they are better at dealing damage now)

Base stats

• Rain of Arrow stamina distance changed from being -9% to +25%

Rain of Arrows

• Cooldown reduced 30s 22s
• Cast delay reduced 0.5s 0.2s
• Duration reduced 7s 4s
• Moving ability in air improved
• Weapon Damage bonus reduced +4 +3
• T1 changed -14s Cooldown +3 Weapon Damage and +30% Slow for 1.5s
• T2 changed +5 Weapon Damage and +40% Slow for 1.5s -13s Cooldown (Total CD from 16s to 9s)

Fixation

• T3 increased +0.12 +0.14

• Base bullet damage increased 18.8 19.7
• Health regen increased 1 2

Base stats

• Bullet size increased 3 4

Concussive Combustion

• T3 increased +0.75s Stun Duration +0.9s

Base stats

• When interrupted on Ice Path, it no longer creates an ice path below him and instead lets him fall to the ground

Frost Grenade

• Damage spirit scaling reduced 0.7 0.6

Arctic Beam

• DPS spirit scaling reduced 0.5 0.38

Base stats

• Bullet damage per boon reduced 0.341 0.31

Ground Strike

• Damage per meter spirit scaling increased 0.0372 0.04

Grapple

• T2 bonus damage no longer stacks with itself, but instead refreshes the duration
• T3 now also grants +1 Charge

Base stats

• Bullet damage per boon increased 0.17 0.18
• Fixed Heavy Barrage not triggering Diviner's Kevlar

Medicinal Specter

• Radius increased 5.5m 6m

Base stats

• Innate -8% Debuff Resist
• Fixed Rake sometimes not working with high ping

Love Bites

• T3 increased -4s Cooldown -5s
• No longer applies the flat on hit damage to abilities (was doing 20% of its value on Nox Nostra)

Nox Nostra

• T3 reduced 1% Current HP 0.5%

• Updated Djinn's Mark visuals

Base stats

• Getting hit with a melee no longer knocks you up when you are burrowed

Sand Blast

• T3 increased +1s Duration +1.5s

Bookwyrm

• T2 improved -8s Cooldown -12s

Rallying Charge

• T3 increased +135 Damage +160
• Now has half cooldown if it hits no allies or enemies

Time Wall

• T1 duration increased +2.5s +3.5s
• T3 increased +1 Charge +2
• T3 Charge Delay reduced 4s 2s

Kinetic Carbine

• T3 increased +50% Max Damage Scaling +55%

Paradoxical Swap

• Damage increased 125 150

Flying Cloak

• T2 weapon damage duration reduced 8s 6s

Affliction

• Cooldown increased 140s 150s

Base stats

• Reduced lockout period after ejecting from Tag Along 1s 0.3s

Pillow Toss

• Charge time reduced 9s 8s
• T3 increased +90 +100 Damage

Tag Along

• Burst heal now also applies to secondary allies that you jump to
• Lingering heal duration reduced 3s 2s (values rebalanced to be the same overall heal just faster)
• T2 Barrier and Item Duration/Range effectiveness increased 25% 35%
• T3 now also increases Missing Health Heal 0.03 0.05 and Regen Per Second from 0.66 to 1.0
• Can now be cast through veils
• Time to fly to your ally is now 50% faster
• Heal duration is now displayed on the hud as well as the healthbar icon
• Fixed specific abilities/items that could kill Rem while he's napping
• Now allows friendly auras to affect Rem
• Eject is no longer affected by debuff resistance and now launches upwards slightly more to prevent hitting the ground
• Eject no longer briefly restricts movement abilities and input

Naptime

• Now provides +30% damage reduction in the base ability (T3 still adds +50%)

• Bullet damage growth reduced 0.374 0.337
• Crit reduction increased 35% 55%

Slice and Dice

• T2 reduced -8% Spirit Resist -6%

Bloodletting

• Deferred Damage Cleared reduced 40% 35%
• T3 increased +45% Deferred Damage Cleared +50%

Killing Blow

• Cooldown increased 105s 125s
• Full rage damage bonus reduced 14% 12%
• T2 increased from +8% Full Rage Damage Bonus to +10%
• T2 now also reduces cooldown by -30s

Base stats

• Bullet Cycle Time reduced 0.9s 0.85s (overall DPS adjusted to remain the same)

Entangling Bola

• No longer prevents you from jumping and mantling
• T2 changed +0.75s Duration -5s Cooldown
• T3 changed -5s Cooldown and Ricochet to 2 additional targets +0.75s Duration and Ricochet to 2 additional targets

Lycan Curse

• Fire Rate reduced 80% 65%
• Fire Rate spirit scaling increased 0.25 0.45

Base stats

• Doorways close sub ability now starts on cooldown for 8s
• Fixed recent bug causing Luggage Cart not being dispelled

Call Bell

• Radius reduced 6m 5.5m
• T3 radius increased +4m +4.5m
• Explosion damage spirit scaling reduced 1.4 1.3
• Inaccuracy debuff no longer diminishes 100% 0% over 1 second (the rest of the debuff is 4s)
• Inaccuracy debuff reduced -100% -40% (lasts the full duration)

Doorway

• Is no longer unsilenceable

Base stats

• Health increased from 790+43/boon to 830+48/boon

Hex-Lined Snap Trap

• T3 increased from +25% Damage Against Revealed Targets to +30%
• T3 now also grants +1 Charge

Base stats

• Bullet damage reduced from 13+0.3135 to 12+0.26

Jumpstart

• T3 spirit scaling increased +0.6 +0.9

Aura of Suffering

• Now does 50% damage to objectives

Puddle Punch

• T1 now also increases damage by +20
• T2 no longer increases damage by +30
• T2 now also grants +40% Lifesteal (1/4th against non-heroes)

Screwjab Dagger

• T2 bullet resist per stack -5% -6%
• T3 now also increases max stacks by 2

Base stats

• Bullet damage per boon reduced 0.38 0.34

Willpower

• T3 debuff resistance now retroactively applies to existing debuffs when cast

Binding Word

• T2 no longer increases cast range by +12m

Base stats

• Fixed Crimson Slash not being able to hit anything if the player is aimed too high or low

Power Slash

• Post cast time reduced 0.4s 0.2s
• Spirit scaling increased 1.86s 2.1

Flying Slash

• Range increased 25m 30m
• T2 no longer grants +20m Cast Range
• T3 now also grants +15m Cast Range
• T3 increased +1 Charge +2

Shadow Transformation

• T1 increased +5 Weapon Damage +7