The magnificent nerfs

19th Jan 2025

Patch Source
A beautiful in-game screenshot of Deadlock
General Updates
  • All heroes base gun damage and growth reduced by 10% (numbers listed above are before this global reduction)

Item UpdatesWeapon Items
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Nerf

Effectiveness vs non-heroes changed from -40% to -50%. Weapon Damage in radius reduced from +50% to +40%.

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Change

Bullet Resist Reduction reduced from -9% to -8%. Fire Rate Slow increased from -9% to -10%.

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Nerf

Weapon Damage reduced from 30% to 20%. Movespeed penalty increased from -0.5 to -1.

Vitality Items
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Nerf

Fire Rate reduced from 5% to 4%

Hero Updates
BebopBebop

Hook

1
Nerf

Reduced from 30% more weapon damage to 25%

Exploding Uppercut

33
Nerf

Reduced from +60% weapon damage to +50%

Sticky Bomb

Nerf

Damage reduced from 120 to 110

Sticky Bomb

33
Nerf

Reduced from +80 Damage to +75

CalicoCalico

Base Attack

Buff

Bullet Damage increased from 2 to 2.2

Leaping Slash

Buff

Leaping Slash radius increased from 4m to 4.5m

Leaping Slash

33
Buff

Leaping Slash T2 damage increased from +50 to +75

Ava

Buff

Ava now destroys breakables it runs through

Ava

33
Buff

Ava T2 increased from 25% movespeed to 35%

HollidayHolliday

Base Attack

Buff

Bullet damage growth increased from 1.5 to 1.7

Powder Keg

33
Nerf

Reduced from 140 to 120

Crackshot

Buff

Now triggers on units. Uses half cooldown when triggered this way.

Buff

Spirit scaling increased from 1 to 1.2

Nerf

Damage reduced from 75 to 60

Bugfix

Fixed Crackshot applying Slowing Hex's anti-teleport debuff

Crackshot

33
Buff

Increased from 75 to 85

Crackshot

555
Buff

Now also has -2s on creeps

Spirit Lasso

33
Buff

Duration increased from +0.5 to +0.75

Bounce Pad

Bugfix

Fixed height on damage from Bounce Pad sometimes causing it not to hurt heroes on your lasso

KelvinKelvin

Base Health

Buff

Health increased from 600 to 650

MirageMirage

Fire Beetles

Buff

Max Health Steal spirit scaling increased from 0.9 to 1.4

Nerf

Max Health Steal reduced from 75 to 50

ShivShiv

Base Attack

Nerf

Bullet Damage reduced from 5.7 to 5.5

Slice and Dice

Buff

Spirit scaling increased from 1.3 to 1.55

Nerf

Damage reduced from 110 to 100

Slice and Dice

33
Nerf

Reduced from +70 to +60

Bloodletting

Nerf

Deferred damage duration reduced from 13s to 12s

Nerf

Cooldown increased from 50s to 60s

The Magnificent SinclairThe Magnificent Sinclair

Rabbit Hex

Nerf

Movespeed increased from 25% to 35%

Nerf

Can no longer be applied to Unstoppable

Nerf

Now triggers Reactive Barrier

Bugfix

Fixed Debuff Reducer not working on Rabbit

Other

Nerf

Teleporting now drops the Urn

Vexing Bolt

Nerf

Base damage reduced from 120 to 110

Spectral Assistant

Nerf

Base cooldown increased from 30s to 40s

Nerf

Base duration decreased from 8s to 6s

VindictaVindicta

Base Sprint

Nerf

Movespeed reduced from 9 to 8

Base Attack

Nerf

Bullet Velocity reduced from 810 to 740

VyperVyper

Base Attack

Nerf

Bullet Damage decreased from 9 to 7

Base Sprint

Nerf

Move Speed reduced from 7.3 to 7.0

Lethal Venom

Nerf

Max Damage reduced from 200 to 180

Slither

555
Nerf

Spirit and bullet resist while sliding reduced from +30% to +25%

WraithWraith

Card Trick

Nerf

Spirit scaling reduced from 1.1 to 0.9

Nerf

Cooldown increased from 0.65 to 0.75

Nerf

Summon rate from non-heroes reduced from 0.35 to 0.25

Telekinesis

Buff

Silence and disarm duration increased from 2.5s to 3s

Buff

Cast delay reduced from 0.4s to 0.3s

Buff

Up/down motion now lasts 0.25s longer and moves a little bit higher

YamatoYamato

Base Attack

Nerf

Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.27 to 0.24