What changed in Deadlock in 2026

Each Rank now has 6 Subranks, including new ranks such as Obscurus and Eternus.

Improvements made to the matchmaker for better team compositions and hero selection.

Players must have at least 60 wins in Standard Mode and 15 wins with a hero to queue for Ranked Mode.

New penalties for players who abandon games, including timeout and low priority games.

Players earn or lose Rank Points based on match outcomes, with specific thresholds for promotions.

Players can change their hero in a new pre-game phase to improve team composition.

Players will undergo a calibration phase of 8 games to determine their initial Rank.

Changes to leaderboard requirements, including increased game count for global and hero-specific leaderboards.

Standard Mode allows for unranked play without restrictions on party size or skill spread.

The number of heroes banned in Ranked games has increased from 2 to 3.

Players can now queue for competitive games in Ranked Mode, with higher stakes and skill-based matchmaking.

Immobilize duration reduced from 1.25s to 1s

Cooldown increased from -8s to -12s

Rift Troopers now have Melee Resistance (25%)

Stamina Recovery increased from +15% to +25%

Cooldown increased from 13s to 15s

Max Steal Targets increased from 3 to 4

Max Health Per Second reduced from 2.6% to 2.5%

Cooldown reduced from 80s to 60s

Reduced from -6% Spirit Resist to -4%

Bullet damage per boon reduced from +0.616 to +0.49

Sound distance increased for easier hearing of nearby Urn Runner

Spawn interval increased from every 0.3s to 0.5s

Reduced from +2% Bleed to +1.5%

Charge Delay increased from 3s to 4s

Cooldown increased from 20s to 25s

Cooldown reduced from 275s to 240s

Move speed bonus reduced from +3.5m to +2m

Heal spirit scaling increased from 0.1 to 0.16

Bloodscent T3 reduced from +12% to +11%

Spirit scaling reduced from 0.035 to 0.03

Sprinting bonus reduced from +2m to 0, trailing bonus reduced from +7m to +5m

Spirit scaling reduced from +0.17 to +0.13

Spirit scaling reduced from +0.09 to +0.07

Talking frequency increased from every 8s to every 6s

Max comeback count increased from 12 to 14

Rift Troopers now have Spirit Resist (30/35/40/45%)

Duration reduced from 11s to 10s

Spirit scaling reduced from +1 to +0.6

Damage Cleared reduced from 35% to 30%

Changed from '-15s Cooldown' to '-15s Cooldown and +25% Ghoul Speed'

Cooldown reduced from 3s to 2.75s

Cooldown reduced from -18s to -17s

Increased from -10s Cooldown to -15s

Spirit scaling reduced from 1.44 to 1.2

Cooldown reduced from -1s to -0.75s

Cooldown increased from -70s to -90s

Aura radius increased from 20m to 35m

Cooldown increased from 20s to 24s

Range reduced from 28m to 26m

Cooldown increased from -10s to -14s

Now builds up faster from neutral creeps

Health Threshold reduced from 20% to 18%

Damage Cleared increased from 35% to 40%

Bullet damage rescaled from 29.26 + 1.1/boon to 26 + 1.19

Warning time reduced from 25s to 20s

Changed from '+25% Ghoul Speed and +10s Duration' to '-0.3s Time to Spawn and +10s Duration'

Health Threshold increased from +8% to +10%

Now also applies 15 Fixation Stacks

Spirit scaling reduced from 1.2 to 1.05

Bounty split reduced from 40% to 30%

Crit scaling reduced from -25% to -30%

Spirit scaling reduced from +1.0 to +0.9

Shiv now has fixed pellet spread.

Shiv's Slice and Dice damage increased from 60 to 75.

Shiv's Killing Blow T3 reduced from +10% Enemy Health Threshold to +8%.

Shiv's Slice and Dice is back to doing spirit damage and reducing Spirit Resistance from enemies.

Shiv's Alt Fire ammo cost reduced from 5 to 4.

The team that secures the Unstable Rift now has a wave of 5 Rift Troopers sent down from the rift location.

Multiple character-specific changes including cooldown adjustments and damage scaling.

Street Brawl no longer locks you out of getting off the zipline in the first few seconds.

Unstable Rift comeback bonuses now scale linearly based on the amount of NW they are trailing.

Reworked Boon reward table with health per boon reduced by 5%.

Respawn ramp changed from 8-30s from 5-19m to 8-35s from 5-20m.

Mystic Shot cooldown increased from 8s to 9s.

Unstable Rift no longer requires an Urn delivery to trigger the start of the event. It now has a variable start time of +/- 1 minute.

Rejuv buff duration reduced from 4 minutes to 3.

Urn is deposited immediately at the drop off point with a bounty value.

Any players in the Unstable Rift Zone are now revealed on the minimap.

Dash Jump distance increased from 18m to 19m; vertical impulse increased from 400 to 425.

Urn is now louder when it talks and is easier to hear by nearby enemies.

Unstable Rift spawn interval increased from every 6 minutes to every 7 minutes.

Hovering an item in the shop now shows you a preview for your investment bars.

Urn running is now its own objective, spawns on either end of the map.

Scourge max health DPS reduced from 3.5% to 2.6%.

Unstable Rift bounty increased by 35% to account for the loss with no urn runner bounty.

Guardian bounty reduced from 1500 to 1250; Walker bounty reduced from 4000 to 3500.

Urn runner is no longer revealed and cannot be manually dropped.

First blood bounty reduced from 150 to 125; Base kill bounty reduced from 250 to 200.

Minimum unsecured souls allowed to drop reduced from 150 to 50 + 5/min.

Trooper bounty rescaled from 116 + 1.16/m to 100 + 2/m.

After 3 Minutes from spawn, the Urn will start walking very slowly towards the deposit location.

Toxic Bullets bleed damage increased from 1.7% to 1.9%.

Urn bounty value starts decaying after 45s from being picked up.

King of the Hill objective has been rethemed and renamed to 'Unstable Rift'.

Dash Jump input window increased from 0.2s to 0.25s duration.

All ultimate base and upgrade cooldowns nerfed by 15%.

Rift Troopers spawn with 100% extra health and damage, growing slightly per event.

Cursed Relic damage penalty increased from -10% to -14%.

Fixed Enhanced Sharpshooter and Enhanced Spiritual Overflow not maintaining the bonuses from their enhanced components.

Increased time allowed to run the urn before taking damage by 10s.

Urn runner now gets their normal 35% bonus bounty and stats immediately on initial deposit.

Progress radius is now fixed at 20m.

If Urn has been in progress for over 75s, it will give up and throw all the souls as orbs into the sky.

Trailing team sprint speed bonus increased from +4m to +5m.

Drop off location is now above the bridges on the side lanes, rather than below.

Urn overall bounty reduced by 20% (unreduced for trailing team).

Progress rate is fixed regardless of the number of allies in the area.

Both teams can progress at the same time, but the urn will only be fully claimed once there is only one team in the circle.

Progress duration for favored/neutral/unfavored is 6/12/18s.

Urn comeback resistance aura reduced from 60m to match the 20m progress radius.

Urn comeback resistance now grants +35% Debuff Resistance in addition to the 35% Bullet and Spirit Resistance.

Delivering the urn now starts a king of the hill style capture point.

Cast range reduced from 30m to 28m

Cooldown reduced from -5s to -8s

Heal increased from 30+0.75 to 35+1.0

Cooldown reduced from -130s to -120s

Dash Slow reduced from 30% to 18%

Damage per rocket reduced from +18 to +15

Cooldown reduced from -14s to -13s

Cooldown reduced from -10s to -12s

Reduced from 3% to 2.5%

Damage increased from 190 to 200

Spirit scaling reduced from 2.1 to 1.85

Damage reduced from 20 + 0.31/spirit to 17 + 0.27/spirit

Fire Rate reduced from 65% to 60%

Bounty increased from 25+1/min to 35+2/min

Damage reduced by 15%

DPS reduced from +18 to +14

Cooldown increased from 20s to 23s

Spirit scaling increased from 2.3 to 2.6

Reduced from 8% to 7%

Increased from +20% Fire Rate to +30%

Range reduced from 50m to 36m

Urn runner when behind now gains +35% Bullet and Spirit Resist for themselves only

Urn timer now gets frozen with Frozen Shelter

Urn drop off point is moved from the above bridge in the mid lane to under the bridge in the side lane

Urn runner no longer has sprint disabled and now has max sprint acceleration

Urn pickup spot is now where the old comeback drop off spots were for when your team is behind

Urn timer extension when contested increased from 1.25s to 3s

If the Urn held timer is over 45s, the next time it is dropped it will immediately run back home if there are no nearby enemies.

You are no longer prevented from picking up the urn for 12s after it is dropped after the previous 50s team held timer

The conditions for when the Urn decides to run back home have been reworked. The Urn will now stay in place on the ground as long as there are enemies in a 40m radius. If there are no enemies, then the Urn will wait up to 13s if there is a friendly player in a 40m radius.

Urn comeback bullet and spirit resist auras reduced from 50% to 35%

Parrying a trooper now stuns the trooper

Parrying a trooper no longer resets your parry cooldown (however it won't end your parry early like a hero hit does)

Various smaller urn holding timers and variables adjusted to account for the new location

Urn will now always add at least 2s to the team 30s held timer limit anytime it is picked up, even if it is instantly dropped

Urn runner for the team that is behind now gains an extra +4m Sprint

Fixed the trailing team Urn runner's extra sprint bonus not working properly

Urn runner now gains +2m Sprint, +1 Stamina, +10% Dash Distance and +15% Stamina Regen

Urn no longer provides the +35% Bullet and Spirit Resist aura for the behind team when it is being carried or dropped. The aura is now only active when it is being deposited.

Urn will do damage to the runner after a team has held it for 30s (was 50s before), however, this timer will freeze while there are enemies within a 40m radius of the urn runner.

Urn spawn time and interval changed from 10/15/20/25/etc to 12/18/24/30/etc

Urn deposit timers for favored/neutral/unfavored increased from 3/5/10s to 5/10/15s

Urn collision radius increased by 20%

Gloom Bombs projectile sticky radius increased and cast delay reduced.

Bullet damage reduced from 3.86+0.13/boon to 3.6+0.1/boon.

Shrines bounty increased from 0 to 2000.

Guardians bounty increased from 1000 to 1500.

Shrines no longer hit heroes under them.

Added neutral camps at Hidden King Park Walker and Archmother York Walker.

Spirit power increased from +8 to +10.

Now builds from Slowing Bullets and has new passive effects.

Cooldown reduced from 2.2s to 2s.

Walker armor decay rescaled from +75% -> -50% to +65% -> -65%.

Mid Boss base bounty increased from 2000 to 3000 and HP from 11900 to 13000.

Ava's melee attack delay and cooldown adjusted.

Cooldown reduced from 20s to 16s.

Health bonus and duration increased.

Base fire rate and spirit resist increased, conditional fire rate and spirit resist reduced.

Troopers gain 7 HP regen when out of combat.

Walkers health rescaled from 6800/9350/11900 to 6000/9000/12000.

Damage spirit scaling increased from 0.8 to 1.0.

Trooper wave interval increased from every 25s to every 20s starting at 35 minutes.

Current health bonus damage increased from 7.5% to 8%.

Fire rate increased from 18% to 20%.

Rejuv drop duration reduced from 7s to 6s.

Killing base guardians spawns a zipline boosted trooper wave.

Weapon damage increased from +6% to +8%.

Troopers now upgrade when either shrine dies instead of both.

Rejuv duration no longer refreshes when hitting a crystal later.

Walkers bounty increased from 3500 to 4000.

Mid Boss now has 35% debuff resistance.

Fall-off range increased from +4% to +8%.

Mid Boss global announcement health threshold reduced from 70% to 50%.

Minimap now indicates if the Urn is favored, neutral, or unfavored.

Fixed Riposte not leaving the ground when started on the ground.

Damage penalty increased from -8% to -10%.

You can now reload while already full when carrying this item.

Base Guardians bounty increased from 750 to 1000.

Backstabber is now called Stalker with new mechanics.

First shrine HP reduced from 8100 to 5000, second shrine HP increased to 10000.

Now grants +8% weapon damage and bullet velocity increased from +50% to +60%.

Now has a unit target option to vacuum enemies around that target.

Players can now jump while sliding.

Medic Troopers now gain 3% DPS per minute.

No longer has healing reduction, self-damage increased from 40 to 50.

Spirit lifesteal increased from 8% to 12%.

Bonus DPS for super troopers increased from +40% to +60%.

Siphon Life DPS and range reduced, lifesteal against heroes increased.

Dash jump grants a brief period of increased air control (30% for 0.25s).

Cooldown reduced from 32s to 24s.

Introducing Apollo, a new character with unique abilities including Flawless Advance, Riposte, and Itani Lo Sahn.

The rollout of the Old Gods, New Blood update is now complete with the release of Apollo.

Summary of the voting event with over 60 million votes and notable statistics.

Celeste performs with unique abilities including Light Eater, Dazzling Trick, and Radiant Daggers.

Venator joins the game with unique abilities including Consecrating Grenade, Hex-Lined Snap Trap, and Gutshot.

Silver, a bounty hunter with lycanthropic abilities, is now available to play.

The next hero will be released on February 5th at 2pm PST.

The third hero from the Old Gods, New Blood update will be released on February 2nd.

Graves can use Grasping Hands to immobilize enemies, Jar of Dead to collect and throw remains, and Borrowed Decree to summon the dead.

Graves, a new character, has been added to the game, featuring unique abilities related to death and power stealing.

Rem, an accidental stowaway from the world of dreams, joins the game with unique abilities.

Many quality-of-life improvements have been made.

Six new heroes have been added to the game.

Patrons and bases have undergone significant overhauls.

The HUD has been updated for improved user experience.

The postgame experience has been revamped to include an MVP screen.

A fast-paced game mode called 'Street Brawl' has been introduced.