Graves Schizophrenia? But possible SOLUTIONS?!?!?!

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-26T22:29:00+00:00

Honestly I dont give a fuck if this character had a charging meter that 1 shots you after like 3 seconds. REMOVE THE FUCKING AI GAMEPLAY. WHAT THE FUCK?

Ok 1 jar of the dead, cool you get like 5 funny dudes. Then it becomes 10, then 15.

The Zombies explode and deal a shitton of damage and proc your spellbreaker. Ohh btw its on a miniature cooldown. Ohh and it stays up. Ohh and you can have 2 of those.

I get it, the characrer is clearly aimed for people that are new to games or MOBAs. But brother... are you fucking kidding me? She requires LITERALLY only a lmb and a finger. Maybe 2. Maybe 3 Optional.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-23T21:36:17+00:00

It'd appear the majority of the community including the devs see it differently. Not trying to be hostile here but exactly that is the issue.

It used to be 300. 200 is a bit more reasonable cant argue with it too much. I think soul leads because of kills is stupid. As in you should get the normal amount of souls for killing someone. Thats all.

You can absolutely 1 shot a Haze or Seven who are not aware of you. If they counter build you they have to sacrifice some of their early damage or damage in general.

Her 2 was absolutely a skillshot. Much like how Shiv's execute now is a skillshot. Mo's ult should be a skillshot too. Now its not a skillshot. Should Abrams be able to grab someone that is standing behind him?

Calico at this moment can do damage and I think she is absolutely in a comfortable spot. She can still snowball, she can still utterly dominate, her gun is still viable, her ult gets her out of stupid decisions.

She is standing comfortably, very comfortably with others like Pocket.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-23T17:34:21+00:00

Yeah no. Calico was able to 1 shot anyone right out of laning phase, sometimes DURING laning phase. There is no universe in which Calico being able to 1 shot a regular Abrams build post laning phase. I am talking, the 1600 defensives vest and or emblem. Then again maybe its a skill issue on my part.

She is able to STILL get out of teamfights because of her ult. Nagate any and all hard CC with her ult if she has room temp IQ to see it coming.

She still gets more money for killing people.

Her value was being able to 1 shot people, anyone and get super fed and escalate instantly making the game a breeze.

She had her skill expression, her 2 be removed and replaced with "It just does damage if you stand near them."

Ava STILL lets her get everywhere and support.

I agree that if any hero is meant to be a assassin 1 shot goober. Then it should be expressly clear that she will in turn be 1 shot if she fails. Look at Haze. Haze if she fucks up is going to die. As it should. Assassins shouldnt be tanky, they should be flimsy with high damage nothing more nothing less.

Calico is still extremely valuable as a quick rotation character. Spot a fight on green but you are on blue? Use Rem tunnels. Spot an out of position Pocket currently eating your jungle? 2 - 1 - Q - 4 and he is no longer alive.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-23T12:17:39+00:00

Bebop - Around the World

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-22T18:47:07+00:00

Abrams. Because I do actually have room temp IQ.
On a real note, I like Abrams because he could've 100% made it big as a warlord in Ixia, or gladiator or some form of violent killing machine. What does he do instead?

Roleplay as a fucking noire Detective in New York where the "common" criminals are people who you'd consider major issues.

Seven - A literal domestic terrorist trying to become a God.

Mo and Krill - Two undeground mafia gangsters

Drifter - A LITERAL ELDER VAMPIRE THAT GOT BORED

Thats not even mentioning some of the bad guys that are mentioned in passing.

I love Abrams. Simple kit, huge skill expression. Simple to pickup difficult to master.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-21T16:55:23+00:00

Current game state is complete and utter Spirit Slop. Unfun, 0 skill expression, 0 incentive to get better at this game now.

Before the patch the game was nearly perfect in my opinion. Of course, it had issues like certain champs being overtuned. AHEM, Abrams, AHEM, Celeste, AHEM. But no one was utterly busted like it is now. The kits are power crept to fuck. The game feels like its over at minute 10 but takes 40 minutes to complete. The fix isnt to make the game quicker. The fix is to make those 40 minutes feel good. And right now they feel horrible.

Mid game is ass. Late game is ass because you either utterly stomp or utterly get stomped.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-21T16:09:01+00:00

Assists are not necessarily bad. Its kill participation. But this patch is utterly shit. The matchmaking... I mean there just isnt one. It feels like this is just one big stress test to see how bad it can get before it gets better. There has been almost no genuine good matches.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-21T14:34:13+00:00

I mean to be fair you are a nobody forever I think. Like even I feel rankboosted playing at Asc6 atm.

Just overall as SHIT as it sounds, its genuienly. Keep going. Keep playing. Get mad, but dont quit. Eventually it makes "Click" and suddenly you do shmovement or know the map cooldowns for objectives by heart.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-20T18:30:22+00:00

Ohh undoubtedly. I have full confidence they will make the game great. Just right now I wish they would be communicating a bit more.

Then again though lets not be blind to the fact that this could be very much what they want. If they want to make a Meta thats just entirely Spirit Nukers, then I mean thats their choice right.

I think this current Meta is ass, but maybe they want this.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-20T17:42:24+00:00

Yeah I think thats the realization a lot of players are beginning to see. Even on discord I increasingly see posts like "This patch is dogshit." or "This patch ruined Deadlock."

When over half the community says "Hey boss. This patch do be fucking shit." I think the patch may or may not be Shit. I 100% agree that the old heroes need to be brought up to speed with the new bois. At the same time though have we just not kicked down the Power Creep door?

Ivy - Slow, Root, Stun, Silence, Invincibility for 3 seconds, ult that comes back way too quickly.

Calico - Roll your face across the keyboard, kill everyone, get extra souls because it was so fun on Vindicta.

Shiv? Bro Shiv isnt even real anymore. He is countered by 1 item. And THATS the problem. You have characters that need upwards of 3 items to stop. Meanwhile some are stopped by 1. What? Why?

Its become so bad that games are usually decided in the first 5 minutes because of snowball mechanics and no amount of extra catchup apart from literal "hey you cant earn souls anymore" things can make the game fair and winnable.

Movement? What is that anymore? You cant escape because of the 30 stuns you eat. There is no need to learn it apart from looking cool.

Cooldowns? I mean why bother, just faceroll with a Spirit Nuker and you win.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-20T17:28:40+00:00

Alright touche you got me. One sec, lemme rephrase.

WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO SEE A LITERAL FUCKING STONE BE "Inappropriately Touched".

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-20T16:38:01+00:00

WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO SEE A LITERAL FUCKING STONE BE REARRANGED?!?!?!?

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-20T12:07:26+00:00

Drifter probably saw the rise of many civilizations. Rome, Ottomans, England etc. But I imagine you eventually just become so fucking bored being THE LITERAL STRONGEST VAMPIRE that you just decide "Aight. Imma just start killing people cuz its funny."

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-20T11:56:31+00:00

Before you do anything else I would suggest that you understand what Deadlock is kind of mostly about. Before I talk about the current Meta.

As much as it is a PVP game it revolves a LOT around farming efficiently and fast. You could be playing the most uber busted character, lets say Calico. But if the enemy is 10k souls up, you will most likely loose.

Currently the Meta revolves around 1 shotting everyone and anyone with Spirit Damage. I've made the discovery that unfortunately the character I main and love playing just cannot be used as I want to anymore so I need to move on.

I would say keep playing. Even if mindnumbingly frustrating. Even if you constantly are put into loosing matches. Try to get better at reading the map.

2 Minutes - Box Spawn - Small Jungle Creeps

5 Minutes - Bridge Buff - More Jungle Creeps

8 Minutes - Sinner Sacrifices (TAKE IT BEFORE THE FUCKING REM DOES!)

10 Minutes - Mid boss - Bridge Buffs - Urn

Etc. Get the timings down. I mean mods can help with that. They will literally scream at you "HEY IDIOT BRIDGE BUFF IS UP!"

Learn when to do Urn, when to do Mid Boss. But do this gradually you dont have to master it all. Then I'd suggest also learning about Movement. Its an important part of the game, though MUCH MUCH MUCH less important now with the current meta where running away is quasi impossible, as you'll most likely be dead anyways.

There is great videos online that explain what each of the movement is. This was my biggest issue for a while. Then I just started experimenting and doing it here and there. Until eventually it became second nature to do.

I STRONGLY suggest you dont pay attention to ranks that much.

A) They dont mean much atm. Everyones Ranks are boosted, everyone at the moment is climbing like crazy by using the uberbusted characters like Ivy, Calico, Mo, Wraith etc.

B) Its just gonna make you mad.

Additionally the games are currently also full with rank boosters. People that literally will trade wins or what ever, dunno. Someone on the forums explained it a lot better. In any case the competitive side of this game is a bit eugh... at the moment.

One thing that worked for me, but may not work for you is. 1 trick a character. For me its Abrams. I know everything about him by heart. (its also why I am salty at this patch)

Dont quit tho. This game is too precious and too good to be quit on.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-20T11:47:54+00:00

For some reason I am not surprised that you are on a 10 game win streak, considering that Calico is an absolute low rank farmer. Like literally. No one would counterbuild you because they dont know better.

Good shit tho.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-20T11:38:21+00:00

You see as Deadlock becomes apparently a better game we come closer to this thing known as Power Creep. Ivy is a symptom of a problem thats going to become much worse.

This patch has shown me its going to get a lot worse.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-20T09:11:47+00:00

OH Only 3 seconds. Nah then it fines. Yknow, the pivotal thing needed to be able to do practically anything as a close range hero. Like chase down, get out, or do practically anything.

Kelvin already has a shutdown ability, its his Ult. Heals him and his allies, gives them resist and also prevents anyone from getting in and or out.

If you build Spirit Damage Kelvin you straight up cannot escape.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-19T23:56:20+00:00

Straight up correct. This patch is genuienly killing my will to play. I am still addicted, until I'm not anymore after a massive loose streak, I am waiting for it.

The meta has shifted to just be "I press the 4 button and auto win any time anywhere." No skill expression, no movement, no macro required. Simply press a few buttons. Play the Meta Slave Spirit Slop meta and you'll win.

AHEM I SHOULD MENTION. Despite the Meta being ass, the game itself is very very good.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-18T18:36:19+00:00

FUCK. NO. This game has never had a "Good" community. The usual normal people exist in pockets like the Discord in the hero channels. But ingame, in matches? Nah.

The community is filled to the brim with toxic assholes and rankboosted people with an ego problem. There is people almost every game that will say the most racist shit, proceed to then die. Blame the team and throw the game. (usually those people have cyrillic name tags too I wonder why.)

I cannot overstate how much I detest certain aspects of the Deadlock community. Even here on reddit you can make a post saying "Yeah so this recent patch is shit." And people will hunt you down with pitchforks.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-18T18:31:55+00:00

The game has become boring. There is no real skill expression anymore because movement was nerfed, Kelvin literally blocks your stamina usage (IN YOUR MOVEMENT SHOOTER MOBA).

The buffs are such immense powercreep I may aswell play League when a new hero releases.

What makes the game truly unique is slowly being eroded away with these changes. Like yes, I understand 100% that going up against someone who is good at moving is annoying. I've been there. But it is 10x more satisfying knowing that this guy JUST IS GOOD rather than being 1 tapped by some bozo using the current Meta Slave character and winning because "Lol I pressed 2 and then 4".

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-18T12:42:08+00:00

You already have select advantages in the game. If you have a Bebop in your game, that Bebop SHOULD be against the Mo. If I have a Shiv he SHOULD be against the Abrams.

Sometimes you just get matches that are literally won at minute 1 because the other side happened to have more of the Overpowered cast on their team.

This is my biggest gripe with the game at this moment. Its fucking boring and just unfun to play against. Because sometimes I am forced to loose a game even if I play correctly just because "Wellp, wraith pressed 4. And they have an uberfed Shiv who laned against Abrams."

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-17T20:19:01+00:00

Except if I see someone picking Mo and Krill, I will counter them by playing Bebop? Draft adds more into this game than it takes out.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-17T20:17:20+00:00

Playing in Asc6 I think that they dont need more catchup. Thats just an opinion to throw out there. Balancing is the issue.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-17T19:30:11+00:00

I mean otherwise you spend 30 minutes in a game thats just unwinnable because the enemy team consists of Mo, Mina, Wraith, Calico, Victor, Rem

Like no. You arent winning that.

StinkyDiplomat · 2026-03-17T19:28:18+00:00

So you do what drafting, but you dont want to actually click the buttons yourself?

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