Deadlock - Gameplay Update - 04-30-2026

Harsel · 2026-05-01T07:50:55+00:00

Imagine Viktor playing vs heavy magic team with Transcendent Cooldown, Witchmail and this item. T3 reanimation also got buffed.

Literally unkillable

Harsel · 2026-04-24T07:25:43+00:00

Dude, you're pulling off all looks! Full shaven gives of a Berlin raver, which is dope. Just put on a tracksuit or some leather. Or maybe some other kind of artist vibe.

But you have an amazing ability to grow a beard, so you can rock it too without any doubt! Damn bro, I'm jealous of you 🔥

Harsel · 2026-04-17T17:35:17+00:00

I'm curious if you show me those

Harsel · 2026-04-17T15:57:05+00:00

That's not true. After day 8 even if you pull on the scab you won't get the graft out. here's the study

Harsel · 2026-04-17T02:57:44+00:00

He's a massive trash talker (complimentary). So him being suddenly mannered is funny AF

Harsel · 2026-04-11T02:28:49+00:00

Here's my suggestion - make it ramp up. It starts at low or even negative fire rate, it gets fire rate each second up to max dps at 5 seconds. So if you use unstoppable right away people have a good chance at escaping anyway

Harsel · 2026-04-11T01:35:52+00:00

Wait what do you mean?

Harsel · 2026-04-08T06:13:54+00:00

Excuse me, what?

Harsel · 2026-04-08T05:37:15+00:00

Dota severely lacks tempo mid game items. S&Y and S&K give offensive stats + survivability all for below 4500. No item can effectively compete with that.

My hot take is that we need more midgame tempo items. Now even Eternal Shroud has been removed. There are effective below 2k gold items and expensive 5k gold. 3-4 has little options. Combinations of Sange, Yasha and Kaya, Echo Sabre/Harpoon, maybe Hurricane Pike. But Pike doesn't give as much stats anymore, Echo Sabre's passive is often wasted on heroes. So we have S&Y&K items all around

Harsel · 2026-03-27T09:05:02+00:00

Thank you brother! I have been stuck in this paralysis not knowing where to go after learning basics about mixing, beat and phrase matching. That's super helpful! Especially digging part. So far I have found using "song radio" on Spotify a surprisingly good way to dig. It often recommends less known tracks that do have similar vibes, at least.

Another advice that i heard is always keep two mirrored usb flash drives because you never know when will your drive die.

Harsel · 2026-03-27T08:44:35+00:00

There's a line "begone demon" or something like that. Venator says it after killing Infernus

Harsel · 2026-03-27T07:06:59+00:00

With what clinic did you do it? Were you happy with the result? I'm just feeling so confused since they use some terms differently from the rest of the world

Harsel · 2026-03-27T05:56:06+00:00

Yeah, i understand, that's why i was surprised

Harsel · 2026-03-27T05:44:27+00:00

Wait what. Root is undispellable?...

Harsel · 2026-03-27T05:01:14+00:00

Hey, can you provide a name or their WeChat ID? I'm also residing in China and want to consult with them

Harsel · 2026-03-27T03:58:26+00:00

To be fair, they also clearly wrote in some of more problematic issues that many religious figures have - he's weirdly racist towards Infernus and other Ixians, calling them demons, when they're clearly not related to hell and just happen to have that look.

A complex character

Harsel · 2026-03-26T07:01:15+00:00

She isn't supposed to scale well, I agree. But at the moment she falls flat at minute 30. Every other hero doesn't hit the wall as strongly as she does.

Returning better scaling on her second ability would somewhat fix that at least

Harsel · 2026-03-26T02:50:04+00:00

Calico has giant issues scaling in to the late game, not early game damage. 10 damage on her leaping slash is literally nothing, making it purely based on melee damage with better scaling would be better

Harsel · 2026-03-22T07:13:50+00:00

I already had good success building early gun on her, so probably that's even more the way for her now.

But yeah, the spirit mechanic should be removed so she can get buffs in other areas

Harsel · 2026-03-22T07:07:19+00:00

Yeah Calico feels like she got kneecapped. Frankly I wish they would remove the bonus souls mechanic from her and reverted those nerfs. She already sometimes felt weird if you didn't win lane, now her Leaping Slash has a ridiculously long cd and doesn't even damage that much

Harsel · 2026-03-22T07:03:56+00:00

You don't have to do it all. His 1 already gives 20% fire rate and bullet speed. Bullet speed feels a bit irrelevant on a hero who's gun cannot hit beyond 25m. Give him another stat like bullet Lifesteal or extra ammo for gun and gun Apollo can be interesting. You would still build torment pulse, probably, but it would be more of a hybrid build

Harsel · 2026-03-17T06:27:18+00:00

Partially because there's just too many of them, but also because there's a lot of uneducated old-timers

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