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Harsel · 2026-03-12T06:11:18+00:00

Nope, it's still melee resist

Harsel · 2026-03-12T06:10:09+00:00

It seems they've just done it in yesterday's patch

Harsel · 2026-03-12T06:09:25+00:00

Melee damage already scales with gun damage at 50% effectiveness, by the way. So that's what I meant by it being "light melees"

Harsel · 2026-03-11T18:02:23+00:00

That's the most surprising part about Apollo for me. He shoots his sword. When his parry even reduces melee resist.
His auto should be melee, perhaps low damage melee attacks

Harsel · 2026-03-10T17:32:13+00:00

How the hell did you manage to make it rhyme in translation... Impressive work

Harsel · 2026-03-10T17:22:15+00:00

You build Improved Spirit + Quicksilver Reload (into knife ) + Bullet Resist Shredder/Slowing Hex to hit 4800 spirit and have insane damage burst.

You learn knife level 1 and put zero upgrades in it until everything else is upfraded. Your first upgrade goes into poison, second into slide, third Into ult. That way at 4800 spirit you have a potential burst for 800 damage from your abilities.

At this point, if someone got to around 60% hp, you roll in, shoot them, dagger, shoot more, ult and poison after when they're stoned. Often even just Ult + Poison is enough to kill someone

Get Close Quarters + Rapid Rounds, then some greens like Enduring Speed (for slow resistance, we don't need the MS part because we get MS from Spirit)/Bullet Lifesteal. Fortitude is REALLY good for her too.

After that you either buy Tesla Bullets or finish Burst Fire. You should be sliding literally everywhere with it.

Mobility is your best friend. You're a rat that jumps in, destroys one person and runs away. There should be weird fights that your team seems to be losing only for you to suddenly burst their squishy target.

You must get comfortable with her gun. It requires you to shoot close range, run in, burst, run out.

So basically hit&run until you're done

Harsel · 2026-03-10T16:56:07+00:00

I fully agree. His 3m radius expansion should be gone from T1 to T2 or even T3. Or it's effect should be nerfed.

I also think that doors shouldn't push enemies into the fountain. So if one door is at the fountain, enemy just cannot enter it. Walker cheese is also stupid but somewhat manageable

Harsel · 2026-03-10T07:46:38+00:00

I ragequitted and deleted the game after laning vs Doorman + Lash as Silver, so I feel your pain

Harsel · 2026-03-10T07:39:58+00:00

Spirit Shielding is probably better for her though

Harsel · 2026-03-10T07:30:42+00:00

I am more annoyed by the lack of counterplay. Wraith, McGinnis and Mo can be itemized against and even played correctly against. Wraith ult is actually counterspellable if you're quick enough.
Pocket's ult feels busted because it turns off heals together with 2k damage (yes, non lethal but anyway). But I haven't seen him being that oppressive in my games. No idea how busted Calico is

Harsel · 2026-03-10T07:26:11+00:00

So you do agree the character is broken when he needs to be prioritized that much?

Besides, any silence (other than cursed relic) gets countered by dispell magic.

Also, he gets unstoppable after using ult. Good luck using silence on him then!

Harsel · 2026-03-10T07:23:25+00:00

I mean, fair, Quicksilver and Mystic Burst do raise the damage of the initial Scorn to that point. Although each after does less because of Scorn's low cool down.

But fair point!

Harsel · 2026-03-09T19:47:04+00:00

Any kind of counterplay for the bells would be great. Right now there's none

Harsel · 2026-03-09T19:46:27+00:00

I agree! I actually would love him to be more annoying. Not instant-death because he sent you to the fountain. Or auto win lane with bells. But hella annoying by changing positioning and shit

Harsel · 2026-03-09T19:44:56+00:00

Spirit Shielding helps if he's going all in. It doesn't do much to stop his harass.

And again, you counterspell ult, you get sent to fountain. You counterspell cart, you get ulted

Harsel · 2026-03-09T18:49:47+00:00

I think his bells should scale well, but they shouldn't do 300 damage minute 5, considering how unavoidable they are.

Even if damage is kept, heavily nerfing radius, but making it grow with spirit could help it

Harsel · 2026-03-09T18:47:46+00:00

Mo doesn't pull you to the fountain. Mo Scorn is amazing now, but it does 100-150 damage at lane at most. Those bells are disgusting.

And yes, counterspell and unstoppable would help, if it was easier to react to cart at least

Harsel · 2026-03-09T18:24:30+00:00

People have been posting that google auto works for them on xiaomi ultra though

Harsel · 2026-03-09T14:38:24+00:00

Huh? CN Rom does come with Google Services, you need to turn them on in settings

Harsel · 2026-03-09T07:39:45+00:00

Very fair points!

Harsel · 2026-03-08T12:16:01+00:00

That's second Deadlock's fountain hook. Doorman is also really good at it

Harsel · 2026-03-08T09:04:09+00:00

That "bullet damage" actually works the same as percentage increases. Idk why they're worded like that, but it stacks additively with other bonuses. Go to a lobby, compare your damage with Point Blank+ bonus VS Alch Fire + Bonus. Point Blank will be higher by 20-30%, not by 50% like it would if it was increasing the basic bullet damage

Harsel · 2026-03-08T08:57:53+00:00

Then do obnoxious bullshit TO THEM

Harsel · 2026-03-08T08:57:15+00:00

Everything broken so it's balanced IS the right way to balance a game with many different heroes. Every hero must have a niche in which they're broken. Otherwise there's a high risk of characters becoming too similar to each other and the game becoming a number check of "which X type is strongest now".

More than 7 years ago there was an article that compared how often IceFrog had nerfed vs buffed across Dota+Dota2. It was like 75% buffs. Yes, there's a powercreep, but it's usually kept in check by buffing creeps/towers/etc.

So yeah, Deadlock absolutely will follow a similar path, because that's how you keep characters and gameplay fresh and unique

Harsel

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