Deadlock Gameplay Update patch notes (Apr 30, 2026)

Every change in Deadlock's Gameplay Update of Apr 30, 2026: 25 heroes changed (13 buffed, 10 nerfed), 35 items (10 buffed, 17 nerfed) and 25 general changes, with before and after numbers. Official patch notes on Steam.

General changes

Boons

• Change: Base health per boon reduced by 7
• Change: Souls required for boons after 13.2k/15k/17k/+2k per boon to 13.2k/14.5k/+1.5k per boon (ends at 40k instead of 49k)

Investment

• Change: Vitality Investment bonus increased from 8/10/13/17/34/39/44/48/52/56% to 9/12/15/20/38/42/46/50/56/62%
• Change: Weapon Investments bonus rescaled from 7/9/13/20/49/60/80/95/115/135% to 9/12/15/18/46/55/70/85/100/115%

Guardians

• Change: Guardians, Base Guardians and Shrines now have 10% Bullet Resistance

Walkers

• Change: Walkers Bullet Resistance increased from 15% to 25%

Troopers

• Change: Medic Trooper missing health percent heal reduced from 14% to 12%
• Change: Medic Trooper fixed regen growth per minute reduced from 3 to 2

Movement

• Change: Getting knocked off bounce pads now sends you downwards quickly rather than continuing the trajectory towards the bounce pad destination

Hero balance

• Fix: Fixed Alt Fire scaling for Yamato and Viscous not working recently
• Change: Reduced bullet damage growth by 10% for the following heroes: Bebop, Pocket, Vyper
• Change: Reduced bullet damage growth by 5% for the following heroes: Victor
• Change: Increased bullet damage growth by 10% for the following heroes: Mo & Krill, Apollo

Other items

• Change: Lifesteal Adjustments:
• Change: Unstable Concoction reduces the players respawn time by 50%
• Change: Seraphim Wings damage reduced while in air reduced from 60% to 40%
• Change: Mystic Expansion Radius bonus reduced from +20% to +16%
• Change: Greater Expansion Radius bonus reduced from +30% to +25%
• Change: Spirit Shredder Bullets: Lifesteal reduced from 12% to 10%

Enhanced items

• Fix: Fixed Enhanced Weighted Shots not maintaining the benefits from Enhanced Slowing Bullets
• Change: Enhanced Escalating Exposure: Max Stacks from +8 to +6
• Change: Enhanced Escalating Exposure: Amp per stack from +2 to +1.5
• Change: Enhanced Escalating Exposure: Base shred from +8 to +10 (matching enhanced mystic invul)

New items

• Added: Added a new T4 Vitality item, Indomitable. Upgrades from Reactive Barrier. Causes the next Stun, Chain, Immobilize, Sleep, or Silence from players to be automatically removed. When this happens, you gain a barrier and all your ability cooldowns are reduced by 20%. Cooldown: 55s. Innate: +8% Bullet Resistance and +8% Spirit Resistance.

Street Brawl

• Change: The following abilities have -15% radius in Street Brawl: Bookwyrm, Flame Dash, Essence Bomb, Entangling Thorns, Lightning Ball, Pulse Grenade, Frost Grenade

Hero changes

Abrams (Nerfed)

• Nerf: Siphon Life: Heal reduced from 80/40% to 70/35%
• Fix: Fixed speed coming out of canceling Shoulder Charge being too high when hitting a hero

Apollo (Nerfed)

• Nerf: Disengaging Sigil: Base damage reduced from 100 to 85

Billy (Buffed)

• Added: Rising Ram: T3 now also reduces cooldown by 10s

Celeste (Buffed)

• Buff: Bullet cycle time reduced from 0.65 to 0.58
• Buff: Shining Wonder: Radius increased from 14m to 15.5m
• Buff: Shining Wonder: Damage increased from 120 to 135

Drifter (Buffed)

• Added: Rend: T3 now also increases melee scaling (1.2 to 1.6)
• Buff: Bloodscent: T3 increased from +10% Amplified Damage to +12%

Dynamo (Nerfed)

• Nerf: Kinetic Pulse: Spirit scaling reduced from 1.8 to 1.65
• Nerf: Quantum Entanglement: Cooldown increased from 19s to 20s

Haze (Buffed)

• Buff: Restored being able to slide while using Bullet Dance
• Buff: Bullet Dance: Range increased from 15m to 16m
• Buff: Bullet Dance: Now has 30% evasion in the base ability
• Change: Bullet Dance: T2 changed from "+10% Fire Rate and -45s Cooldown" to "+10% Fire Rate and +3m Move Speed"
• Change: Bullet Dance: T3 changed from "+60% Evasion and +4m Move Speed" to "+40% Evasion and -75s Cooldown"

Holliday (Buffed)

• Fix: Fixed Rising Ram interrupting Lasso
• Buff: Spirit Lasso: T1 increased from +68 Damage to +80
• Buff: Spirit Lasso: T3 increased from -30s Cooldown to -50s

Infernus (Nerfed)

• Nerf: Flame Dash: DPS spirit scaling reduced from 1.0 to 0.7
• Nerf: Flame Dash: DPS now does half damage to objective

Lady Geist (Buffed)

• Buff: Life Drain: Heal reduced from 80% to 75%

McGinnis (Buffed)

• Change: Mini Turrets bounty from 80 + 2/minute to 40 + 4/minute
• Fix: Fixed Mini Turrets being locked on objectives when they were invulnerable
• Buff: Medicinal Specter: Duration increased from 6s to 6.5s

Mina (Nerfed)

• Nerf: Nox Nostra: DPS reduced by 6%

Mirage (Nerfed)

• Nerf: Base health regen reduced from 2 to 1.5
• Nerf: Fire Scarabs: Duration reduced from 8s to 7s

Mo & Krill (Buffed)

• Buff: Burrow: Move speed increased from +4 to +5

Paige (Buffed)

• Buff: Stamina increased from 2 to 3
• Nerf: Dash speed reduced to slow bucket
• Buff: Plot Armor: Cooldown reduced from 30s to 28s
• Buff: Bookwyrm: Recharge timer reduced from 8s to 7s

Paradox (Buffed)

• Buff: Kinetic Carbine: Cooldown reduced from 30s to 28s
• Buff: Time Wall: T2 weapon damage increased from +30% to +35%
• Added: Kinetic Carbine: Now provides +20% Air Dash Distance when charged

Pocket (Buffed)

• Buff: Enchanter's Satchel: Spirit scaling increased from 0.9 to 1.1
• Buff: Affliction: Cooldown reduced from 150s to 140s

Rem (Buffed)

• Fix: Fixed a bug with Naptime that allowed you to attack while casting it
• Buff: Pillow Toss: Recharge timer reduced from 10s to 9s

Shiv (Nerfed)

• Nerf: Alt fire knockback reduced by 10%
• Nerf: Serrated Knives: Spirit scaling reduced from 0.15 to 0.13
• Nerf: Serrated Knives: T3 spirit scaling reduced from +0.1 to +0.09

Silver (Nerfed)

• Fix: Fixed Tail Whack applying -12% Bullet Resist for the Disarm duration
• Nerf: Slam Fire: Current Health As Damage reduced from 4% to 3%

The Doorman (Fix only)

• Fix: Fixed a bug that could allow you to bring the Urn through a doorway

Venator (Nerfed)

• Nerf: Gutshot: Damage scaling reduced from 0.8 to 0.7
• Nerf: Gutshot: Wall hit damage scaling reduced from 0.9 to 0.8

Victor (Buffed)

• Buff: Aura of Suffering: T2 increased from +28 Max DPS to +34
• Buff: Shocking Reanimation: T3 increased from -100s Cooldown to -130s

Viscous (Fix only)

• Fix: Goo Ball: Lockout period from being affected again reduced from 1.35 to 1.2 (a previous bug with increased debuff resistance for subsequent CC not working correctly on this ability was fixed recently)
• Fix: Fixed various locations where Splatter didn't bounce properly

Vyper (Nerfed)

• Nerf: Lethal Venom: Cooldown increased from 24s to 28s
• Buff: Lethal Venom: T2 increased from -8s Cooldown to -12s
• Nerf: Lethal Venom: Cast range reduced from 15m to 10m and now scales with boons (0.2)
• Fix: Fixed Armor Piercing Rounds doing damage through Petrify

Item changes

Active Reload (Mixed, Gun tier 2)

• Buff: Fire Rate increased from +22% to +25%
• Nerf: Lifesteal reduced from 18% to 14%

Alchemical Fire (Buffed, Gun tier 3)

• Buff: Spirit Power increased from +8 to +10

Arctic Blast (Buffed, Spirit tier 4)

• Buff: Damage Height increased from 3.5m to 5m

Blood Tribute (Nerfed, Gun tier 3)

• Added: Now has an innate 8% Debuff Resistance
• Nerf: Active Debuff Resist reduced from 40% to 35%

Bullet Lifesteal (Nerfed, Vitality tier 2)

• Nerf: Lifesteal reduced from 16% to 13%

Bullet Resilience (Buffed, Vitality tier 3)

• Added: Now grants +3 Out of Combat Regen

Cold Front (Buffed, Spirit tier 2)

• Buff: Damage Height increased from 3.5m to 5m

Colossus (Mixed, Vitality tier 4)

• Removed: No longer grants +300 Bonus Health
• Buff: Base Health increased from +15% to +25%

Counterspell (Nerfed, Vitality tier 3)

• Nerf: Cooldown increased from 20s to 23s
• Nerf: Bonus health reduced from +75 to +50

Dispel Magic (Nerfed, Vitality tier 3)

• Nerf: Spirit Resistance reduced from 16% to 10%

Frenzy (Reworked, Gun tier 4)

• Removed: No longer grants +20% Spirit Resistance when below 50% Health
• Removed: No longer grants +15% Base Spirit Resistance
• Removed: No longer grants +0.75m Base Move Speed
• Added: Now grants +160 Health
• Buff: Base Fire Rate increased from 10% to 15%
• Buff: Low HP Move Speed increased from 2.5 to 4
• Nerf: Low HP now grants +30% Debuff Resistance (when Low HP procs, any existing debuffs are reduced by 30% duration)
• Buff: Low HP Fire Rate increased from +25% to +40%
• Change: Low HP bonus is now given for a duration and has a cooldown, whenever you are below the 50% threshold. Lasts 10s and has an 16s Cooldown.

Fury Trance (Nerfed, Vitality tier 3)

• Nerf: Lifesteal reduced from 18% to 14%

Heroic Aura (Buffed, Gun tier 3)

• Buff: Cooldown reduced from 25s to 22s
• Buff: Bullet Resistance aura increased from 15% to 17%

Infuser (Nerfed, Vitality tier 4)

• Nerf: Lifesteal reduced from 16% to 13%
• Nerf: Active Lifesteal reduced from 80% to 70%

Inhibitor (Nerfed, Vitality tier 4)

• Nerf: Weapon Damage reduced from 25% to 10%

Leech (Mixed, Vitality tier 4)

• Buff: Bonus Health increased from 120 to 160 (the sum of the two components)
• Nerf: Lifesteal reduced from 30% to 25%

Mystic Reverb (Nerfed, Spirit tier 4)

• Nerf: Lifesteal reduced from 10% to 8%
• Nerf: Imbued Lifesteal reduced from 27% to 22%

Opening Rounds (Nerfed, Gun tier 2)

• Nerf: Weapon Damage reduced from +45% to +30%
• Change: Now upgrades from High-Velocity Rounds (includes it's stats)
• Nerf: Spirit Power reduced from +10 to +7

Reactive Barrier (Nerfed, Vitality tier 2)

• Removed: No longer restores 1 stamina on trigger
• Removed: No longer grants +6% Spirit Resist
• Buff: Now triggers off of Silence (same trigger set as Indomitable)
• Nerf: Cooldown increased from 40s to 55s
• Nerf: Barrier spirit scaling reduced from 2.1 to 1.8

Rescue Beam (Buffed, Vitality tier 3)

• Buff: Cast range increased from 32m to 35m

Restorative Locket (Mixed, Vitality tier 2)

• Buff: Max Stacks increased from 20 to 25 (max stamina restore happens at 25 stacks now)
• Nerf: Heal per stack reduced from 20 to 16

Return Fire (Buffed, Vitality tier 2)

• Buff: Bullet Resistance increased from 8% to 10%
• Buff: Bullet Damage Returned increased from 60% to 65%

Scourge (Mixed, Spirit tier 4)

• Removed: No longer grants -4% Cooldown Reduction
• Added: Now grants +15% Debuff Resistance

Shadow Weave (Nerfed, Gun tier 3)

• Nerf: Moved from T4 to T3
• Nerf: Out of Combat Regen reduced from 10 to 5
• Nerf: Duration reduced from 18s to 10s
• Nerf: Ambush duration reduced from 8s to 5s
• Nerf: Cooldown increased from 32s to 45s
• Buff: Spot Radius increased from 18m to 20m
• Nerf: Ambush Spirit Power reduced from 35 to 20
• Nerf: Ambush Fire Rate reduced from 32% to 20%
• Nerf: Ambush Melee damage reduced from 25% to 20%

Spirit Burn (Buffed, Spirit tier 4)

• Buff: DPS Spirit scaling increased from 0.05 to 0.06

Spirit Lifesteal (Nerfed, Vitality tier 2)

• Nerf: Lifesteal reduced from 16% to 13%

Spirit Rend (Nerfed, Gun tier 3)

• Nerf: Lifesteal reduced from 12% to 10%

Spirit Resilience (Buffed, Vitality tier 3)

• Added: Now grants +3 Out of Combat Regen

Spirit Snatch (Buffed, Spirit tier 3)

• Buff: Spirit Power Steal increased from 15 to 20

Spiritual Overflow (Reworked, Gun tier 4)

• Removed: No longer grants +15% Spirit Lifesteal as base stat
• Added: Now provides +15% Ability Duration
• Removed: Activated buff no longer provides +20% Ability Duration
• Added: Activated buff now provides +20% Spirit Lifesteal
• Nerf: Lifesteal reduced from 20% to 16% (part of a global adjustment on top of the prior rework to the item)

Split Shot (Nerfed, Gun tier 2)

• Nerf: Max Stacks reduced from 6 to 5
• Nerf: Weapon Damage per stack reduced from 10% to 8%
• Nerf: Cooldown increased from 24s to 27s

Suppressor (Mixed, Spirit tier 2)

• Removed: No longer grants +50 Bonus Health
• Added: Now grants +8% Bullet Resistance

Trophy Collector (Nerfed, Vitality tier 2)

• Nerf: Moved from T3 Item to T2
• Nerf: Souls per stack reduced from 25 to 18
• Nerf: Out of Combat regen reduced from 4 to 2
• Nerf: Ability Range reduced from +1% Per Stack to +0.75%
• Removed: No longer gives +20 Health per stack

Vampiric Burst (Nerfed, Vitality tier 4)

• Nerf: Lifesteal reduced from 16% to 13%
• Nerf: Lifesteal reduced from 80% to 70%

Veil Walker (Nerfed, Vitality tier 3)

• Change: Now upgrades from Sprint Boots (includes it's stats)
• Nerf: Bonus Health Reduced from +175 to +125

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