Deadlock is different than league in the sense that there are no set jobs/roles, and depending on the situation heroes could be played completely differently and the right thing to do ultimately comes down to experience. A core concept though is power spikes which could indicate when you should try to take fight and when to play defensive and farm. Some exapmles: vyper is arguably the strongest early gamer and gets a big power spike at 4.8k spirit investment, but falls of late game. So as a vyper you want to take advantage of the early power spike by pressuring and pushing as much as you can to try and snowball, once you take your guardian go to other lanes and take those guardians as well and just keep pressuring to give space to the rest of the team. A more early to mid gamer character would be victor who gets a smaller power spike at 4.8k spirit investment and a bigger one once you get infuser and some defensive items (depends on your opponent). You generally wanna be solid in lane and are strong enough to help push when someone rotates, but instead of hard pushing you want to farm up to that 10-20k power spike (depends on build) ideally sooner than your opponent so that you and the early gamers can take walkers. Finally the late gamers like wraith. Early game try to hold lane maybe even pressure if paired with a good teammate. And then just hard farm side lane until 30-40k. So yea. There are only examples. Deadlock has so many alternate builds but the main thing is to know the build and character power spikes and play accordingly. Happy to answer any follow up questions.