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{{Infobox hero
| key = hero_lash
| voice_actor = Andrew Bowen<ref>2025-10-21 - [https://www.instagram.com/p/DQGM9xmDuCc/ Andrew Bowen] on [https://www.instagram.com/ Instagram] (Deadlock listed among his roles)</ref>
| release_date = April 24, 2024
| pronouns = He/Him/The Lash
}}{{Quotation
| 2 = When I come for you, you're gonna know it. There's just not a damn thing that you can do about it.
| 4 = Lash_select_01.mp3
}}
Jacob '''Lash''' is an asshole, and a [[Hero]] in ''[[Deadlock]]''. Lash is a brutal bruiser who eagerly initiates fights and chases down fleeing opponents. He leaps into combat with his Grappling hook, Flogging his foes with a life-stealing whip and stomping the ground with a Ground Strike that damages multiple targets. If the enemy team groups up, Lash can pick them all up at once and Death Slam them into the ground.

A champion of the [[Bear Pit]], an underground fight club, The Lash has built a reputation as a tough and unsavoury character.

== Weapon ==

{{WeaponCard|key=hero_lash}}

== Abilities ==

{{AbilitySection
| hero_name   = Lash
| ability_num = 1
| notes       =
* Ground Strike hits in a 120 degree wedge in front of Lash. 
* Ground Strike rotation is restricted to 90 degrees from the direction Lash was looking when the ability was cast.
* If Lash collides with a flying enemy while doing a mid-air Ground Strike, he will drag them to the ground. This will proc the passive effect of {{ItemIcon|Reactive Barrier}} and {{ItemIcon|Indomitable}}.
* Ground Strike can be used while on the [[Zipline]]. 
* Damage growth after 25m is instead {{DataProp|Ground Strike|StompDamagePerMeterSecondary.Value}} {{ss|{{DataProp|Ground Strike|StompDamagePerMeterSecondary.Scale.Value}}|12px}} per meter.
* At Tier 3, Ground Strike gets a bonus {{ss|0.03255|12px}} damage per meter up to 25m, and {{ss|{{DataProp|Ground Strike|StompDamagePerMeterSecondary.Scale.Value}}|12px}} above 25m.
}}

{{AbilitySection
| hero_name   = Lash
| ability_num = 2
| notes       =
* Additional uses of Grapple with the T2 upgrade will refresh the duration of the Bonus Weapon Damage buff.
* Grapple can target all other heroes and any [[Unit]].
}}

{{AbilitySection
| hero_name   = Lash
| ability_num = 3
}}

{{AbilitySection
| hero_name   = Lash
| ability_num = 4
| notes       =
* Death Slam has a {{DataProp|Death Slam|LosingLockGraceTime}}s grace time before losing focus on incomplete connections.
* The landing zone impact radius is {{DataProp|Death Slam|ImpactRadius}}m and can be increased with [[Ability Range]] upgrades.
* Death Slam cannot connect to enemies behind a [[Cosmic Veil]], even from the visible side.
}}

== Street Brawl ==
=== Item Draft ===
{{HeroStreetBrawlItems|Lash}}

== Backstory ==
{{Fates_Tale|lash}}

== Update history ==
{{Update history}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Lash card.png|Lash portrait
File:Lash MM.png|Lash icon
File:Lash Render.png|Lash in-game render
File:Lash select background.png|Lash select background
File:Lash Reference Sheet.png|Lash reference sheet
File:Lash name.svg|Lash name typography
File:Lash brazilian.svg|Lash's Brazilian typography
File:Lash french.svg|Lash's French typography
File:Lash polish.svg|Lash's Polish typography
File:Lash russian.svg|Lash's Russian typography
File:Lash schinese.svg|Lash's Simplified Chinese typography
File:Lash spanish.svg|Lash's typography for Spanish and Spanish-Latin America
File:Lash turkish.svg|Lash's Turkish typography
File:Lash ukrainian.svg|Lash's Ukrainian typography
File:Lash Weapon.png|Lash weapon - The Tale of the Tape
File:Lash card old.png|Previous Lash portrait
File:Lash icon old.png|Previous Lash icon
File:Lash Render old.png|Previous Lash model
File:Lash winter.png|Lash 2024 [[Seasonal events#Winter|Winter skin]]
File:Lash temp MM.png|Temporary Lash icon [[Update:September 12, 2024|(2024-09-12 update)]]
File:Lash Neon Prime.png|[[Neon Prime]] Lash
File:Lash Gloat.png|Gloat portrait for Lash.
File:Lash Critical.png|Critical health portrait for Lash.
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
* Jacob Lash is an asshole.
** This was the tagline for ''Deadlock'' in [https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/641297020996289523 Steam Replay 2024].
* Lash’s parry animation was changed after streamer JoeyCheerio shared feedback during a livestream that was being watched by Valve Senior Animator [[Jamaal Bradley]]. He suggested the move should feel more like a heavy, belly-first chest smash, similar to King K. Rool in Super Smash Bros Ultimate. The updated animation was introduced in a later patch, with Bradley stating "we appreciate our players".<ref name="CheerioParry">{{YouTubeCite|v-2-x78d5pA|I'm the reason Valve changed Lash's Parry}}</ref>
* Lash's name was localized in the Brazilian Portuguese localization as '''"Chico T.",''' a pun on the word "chicote" ("whip").
* Lash's voice line that he "used to do an uppercut" seems to be a reference to a datamined unused ability of his, named "Shoryuken" in reference to ''[[wikipedia:Street_Fighter|Street Fighter]]''.
* "Thinking About Lash in the Hideout" is displayed as one's status in the in-game Friends List when playing as Lash in the [[Hideout]].
* Lash's killstreak voice line ''"Winning's my business and business is good"'' is a possible reference to the Megadeth song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-4WeOqSXSc ''Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!''].
* Lash's Ground Strike upgrade voice line ''"They're about to learn that their arms are too short to box with god"'' is a possible reference to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRWG0mg3tHE a quote] by pro wrestler [[wikipedia:CM_Punk|CM Punk]] to The Rock in ''WWE''. The phrase was popularized by the 1976 Broadway musical ''[[wikipedia:Your_Arms_Too_Short_to_Box_with_God|Your Arms Too Short to Box with God]].''

== See also ==

* [[Bear Pit|The Bear Pit]]

== References ==
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