Lash is a brutal bruiser of a Hero, eagerly initiating fights and chasing 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 an underground fighting arena, Lash has built a reputation as a tough and unsavoury character.
Stomp the ground beneath you, damaging enemies in front of you. If you perform Ground Strike while airborne, you quickly dive towards the ground. Damage grows slower after 25m.
x0.791
60
Stomp Damage
x0.04
5.5
Damage Per Meter
Displacement
0s
Duration
0%Enemy Move Speed
0sSlow Duration
1
-10s Cooldown
2
Struck enemies are knocked up and slowed by 50% for 3s
5
Damage Per Meter +110% and improved scaling
Grapple
30m
1
2s
35s
Pull yourself through the air toward a target. Using Grapple also resets your limit of air jumps and dashes.
20m
Jump Velocity
0Weapon Damage
0sBonus Duration
0%Fire Rate
1
-17s Cooldown
2
+20m Cast Range and gain +7 Weapon Damage for 10s
5
+1 Charges OnCast : +1 Stamina and +60% Air Control
Flog
20m
0
26s
Strike enemies in front of you with your whip, healing for a portion of the damage dealt.
x0.85
65
Damage
50%
Heal vs heroes
38º
Attack Angle
16%Heal vs non-heroes
0%Enemy Move Speed
0sDebuff Duration
0%Fire Rate
1
Apply -35% Move speed for 3s
2
Apply -30% Fire Rate -16s Cooldown
5
+80 Damage +40 Attack angle +20% Heal
Death Slam
2.3s
20m
0
170s
Focus on enemies to connect whips to them. After channeling, connected enemies are lifted and stunned then slammed into the ground. Your victims and any enemies in the landing zone will be damaged and slowed. Press Fire to throw connected enemies early. Enemies that are not in line of sight or go out of range during the latch time will not be grabbed.
Lash is a champion of the Bear Pit, an underground arena of blood sport where spectators gamble on matches. Bebop is another known pit fighter and Lash’s titular rival. Lash mocks Wraith for betting on Bebop, and Wraith teases Lash because he lost to Bebop "one time".[1][2] Wraith heard from Mendoza that Lash was going to "take a dive" in a fight. Instead, Lash won the fight, resulting in Wraith losing "a lot" of money.[3][4]
Lash is speculated to have a sailor background, given his anchor and the various ornaments that he wears. However, instead of a traditional nautical sailor, he more likely was an aeronaut, a sailor of the skies. Air travel is commonly done by airships that use zephyrs, or wind spirits, for air travel.[5] On Lash’s left arm, he adorns a ship’s anchor tattoo surrounded by a cloud-like emblem, or possibly a zephyr.[6] Additionally, Lash’s aptitude of air mobility and the ship’s horn sound on his ultimate ability “Death Slam” further imply an aeronaut background. Mo & Krill call Lash a “stevedore”,[7] a worker that unloads cargo from ships, suggesting that Lash could be a dockworker or a ship rigger that helps in the smuggling business.
Neon Prime
These story elements are considered non-canon in the current Deadlock universe. See also: Neon Prime lore
In Neon Prime, an earlier development version of Deadlock, Lash owned a dojo. He taunted Kali, a former Bear Pit competitor, for coming out of retirement only to go back to a 2 decade hiatus after losing to Bebop.[8] Lash also used to date the character Ballista, and wanted to get them back after a break-up.
Character interactions
Lash often references Bebop in his dialogue, hinting at a rivalry between the two.
Lash used to fight with uppercuts, but he stopped when Bebop started doing the move.
↑2024-09-02 - Kaori; Deadlock Discord - "In honor of lore channel being born here's lash giving wraith some words of widom"
↑2024-08-31 - Yoshi; Deadlock Discord - "a random lore thing is that airplanes aren't a thing in this world, they use airships instead powered by wind spirits (zephyrs)"
↑Lash's in-game voice line - "Not gonna dunk on you, Kali. You were a hell of a fighter before you retired. Lived in obscurity, came out of retirement in a desperate bid for relevancy, only to get injured by Bebop. Ouch! And put on a shelf for the better part of two decades. Uhf."
↑Lash's in-game voice line - "You know it's important to give back. That's why I'm taking three percent of my earnings a day and donating them to Lash Back. It's my charity dedicated to children who kinda suck."
↑Shopkeeper's in-game voice line - "Wow, if it isn't the poster boy for the Celtics!"
↑Lash's in-game voice line - "And this is why I never bothered with college!"