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Mechanics in Deadlock are the details, particulars, and mechanisms by which a player interacts with the game. This includes the objectives, controls, timing, map, and priorities to consider while playing in order to achieve victory.

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I got enough of these for everyone!

— Bebop

Mechanics are generally broken into three categories:

Unit mechanics: The statistics, controls, and statuses of the units of Deadlock, including the player's Hero, the marching Troopers, and lane Structures.
Gameplay mechanics: The mechanics of interacting with the game, how the player gains Souls, victory/defeat conditions, damage, healing, and death.
Map mechanics: The locations and entities of the game map and how they interact with players.

Overview

The overall objective of Deadlock is to destroy the enemy team's Patron. This is done over the course of the game, where two teams battle across three lanes, navigating the map using movement tools such as fans, ropes, and Ziplines. Each lane contains a Guardian and a Walker that a team will need to destroy to progress and destroy the Patron.

Teams battle AI controlled Troopers, that release Souls when killed. Souls are used to Level-up and buy items.

Gameplay Mechanics

Stats

Main article: Stats

Stats are the attributes that define a hero's strengths and weaknesses, and can be improved by leveling up and using abilities and items.

See Hero Comparison Table for a list of every hero's base stats and scaling.

Offense and Defense

Weapon Attacks

Every Hero has a weapon that fires a ranged projectile that allows them to engage in ranged combat to deal damage to other Heroes and units.

Melee Attacks: Main article: Melee Attack

Every Hero may also perform a melee attack (Default key: Q) to strike at point-blank range. Players can perform either a light or heavy melee attack. Light melee attacks are fast but deal low damage, heavy melee attacks take longer to charge, but have greater damage and range.

Parry

Parries (Default key: F) are a defensive move available to every Hero, letting them block a melee hit from an enemy. On a successful parry, the enemy is stunned and takes 20% more damage from all sources for 2.75s. The parry goes on cooldown once it's used, but is instantly refunded on a successful parry against another Hero or a Guardian. Troopers can also be parried, but doing so does not refund the cooldown.

Crouch

Crouching (Default key: Ctrl) can help avoid enemy fire by making the player smaller and able to hide behind objects.

Hero Abilities

Every Hero has 4 unique abilities, which they can unlock for use by spending ability unlocks . Abilities provide tools for Heroes to enhance their playstyle in several different ways, such as dealing damage, empowering themselves or allied Heroes, weakening enemies, or assisting in traversal.

Movement

Main article: Movement
Double jump

Heroes can perform a double jump by jumping (Default key: Space) while in mid air, which cost 1 Stamina. By default, Heroes can perform a single double jump in the air.

Dash and Air Dash

Pressing the dash button (Default key: Shift) performs a quick evasive maneuver, which costs 1 Stamina. It can be used to evade enemy attacks, escape fights, or chase enemies.
Pressing dash while in the air performs an air dash which works exactly like a regular dash, except it has less slowdown at the end of the dash. Without items, Heroes can perform a single air dash while in the air.
Most Heroes have unique dash speeds, this can be viewed in their Vitality stats.

Dash Jump

A Dash jump is a fast long jump, which can be performed during a dash and costs 1 Stamina, for a total of 2 including the Stamina spent dashing.
The timing of a dash jump is visualized by the Stamina bar turning blue while dashing. While the Stamina bar is blue, the player can press jump to successfully dash jump.
If players miss the timing of a dash jump by pressing Space too early or too late, the Hero will continue to dash and players will not be able to attempt the dash jump again until the initial dash is completed.

Slide

Heroes can slide by holding crouch while moving faster than 9.6m/s (such as with high move/sprint speed, after dashes, etc) or while going down slopes, preserving momentum and giving infinite ammo for the duration of the slide. This can improve overall DPS by increasing the time before needing to reload when fighting around stairs or slopes, such as the ones seen in every lane next to the Guardian.

Down Dash

Heroes can quickly dash downwards while in mid air by pressing the crouch button twice, spending 0.5 Stamina.

Wall Jump

Heroes can perform a wall jump by jumping in mid air next to a wall while inputting the direction away from the wall. The first wall jump costs no Stamina, while subsequent wall jumps cost 0.5 Stamina.

Wall Slide

Heroes can slide along walls while in the air, slowing their descent and limiting their max falling speed to -600 u/s.

Mantle

Heroes can mantle, i.e. climb up obstacles. To mantle, the player must hold the forward key and look in the direction they wish to mantle in while jumping.

Mantle Glide

Heroes can perform a mantle glide by holding the crouch button during a mantle. This will add a speed boost upon the mantle finishing.

General Strategy

Main article: Strategy
Laning

Laning is the process of fighting in the lane, collecting Souls from Troopers, and pushing the lane to the enemy Patron.
There are 3 lanes: York (Yellow), Broadway (Blue), and Park (Green; also referred to as Greenwich). Any part of a lane controlled by the opposing team will be red on the Minimap.
The laning phase refers to the early game where players organize in lanes to gain strength (see: "Strategy").

Ganking

Ganking is the act of moving from one lane to another to help kill vulnerable enemy Heroes.

Farming

Farming is the process of focusing on gaining souls and buffs to increase your Hero's strength and buy more items. Farming typically consists of killing Denizen camps and destroying breakables such as Crates, Golden Statues, and Sinner's Sacrifice machines.

Items

Main article: Items

All Items give passive bonuses and some of them have an Active ability that Hero can use on command. Items can be purchased from the The Curiosity Shop for Souls.

Comeback Mechanics

Main article: Souls

When a team is behind on Souls, there are some mechanics that come into play to allow the losing team to catch up.

Killing an enemy hero will award more souls if that hero is stronger than the killer team's average networth, regardless of which team is leading in souls.
The losing team gains up to 26% more souls from Troopers, Denizens, Sinner's Sacrifices and Objectives, based on how behind they are (peaks at 20% max net worth difference). The first 3k in net worth difference is ignored.

The Soul Urn spawn location is in the side lanes on the mid point of the map if teams are even, but located on the losing team's side if they have significantly less total souls (15% difference for the first 12 minute urn, 10% or more difference for every urn after).
The Soul Urn will give additional souls to a team that is behind.

Pausing

Each player may pause the game once per match. Each team is limited to three pauses per match, meaning that after three different players on the same team have used their pause, that team can no longer pause the game. This allows for a maximum of six pauses per match.

When a pause is called, all in-game action stops. The game timer, player movement, abilities, projectiles, and all other gameplay elements are frozen until game resumes.

The player who called the pause may end it at any time. Otherwise, the pause becomes available for anyone to end after 30 seconds. There is no maximum pause duration.

Players are able to move their camera while the game is paused. Any camera movement made during the pause is not retained and will reset to its original position when the game resumes.

Pausing is not allowed in Street Brawl.

Map Mechanics

Main article: The Cursed Apple

The map is where all of the fighting in Deadlock takes place. Known as "The Cursed Apple" and based on Midtown and Lower Manhattan in New York City, the map contains all of the unique features of Deadlock's gameplay.

Minimap

Main article: Minimap

The Minimap provides players with a view of the battle at large, providing live information regarding relevant match information.

The Minimap provides specific information of the location of Camps, friendly and enemy Troopers, Shops, Buffs, and enemy Heroes (under certain conditions).
The Minimap should be checked often to give players insight on the status of their own team, lane status, enemy positions, and camp locations.

Structures and Units

Unit/Structure	Image	Description
Troopers		Troopers are the main force of each Patron, sent down the map's Lanes to attack the opposing Patron. These small warriors will march in squads of 4 to attack all enemies nearby, including Guardians, Heroes, and the enemy Troopers. For much of the game, destroying Troopers (and their Soul orbs) is the primary way for players to gain more Souls. In addition, players may Deny enemy teams by stealing the Souls from killed troopers.
Guardian		The first objective of the lane is the Guardian, who has a laser attack, a melee attack, and a slam attack. The slam attack does AoE damage to enemies near the Guardian.
Walker		The second objective of the lane is the Walker who has a laser attack, a Volcano Salvo, and a slam. Your team will gain an Extra Slot per enemy Walker destroyed.
Base Guardians		The Third objective of the lane is two Guardians outside the enemy base. When both of these enemy Guardians fall in a lane, the zipline for allies in that lane becomes significantly faster.
Shrine		The fourth objective is the Shrines. They have no attacks. There are two shrines, one on each side of the base. They both need to be destroyed in order to weaken the Patron, allowing you to kill it and win the game.
Patron		The fifth and final objective is the Patron, which ends the game. It has two modes, normal and weakened. You can not damage a Patron in its normal state, it must be exposed by killing both Shrines in the base. Once the Patron has been brought to 50% HP, it will become invulnerable, transform and move into their team's Pit. If the weakened Patron is not currently under attack, it will passively regenerate its health. When the Patron moves into phase two, any Death Timers on the defending team will be shortened by up to 20s to a minimum of 10s, allowing for a final defense.
Denizen		Denizens exist in the "Jungle" of the map. These Camps are located across the map and are denoted by cyan triangle icons. The number of lines beneath the icon indicates the difficulty of the camp: zero lines for easy camps, one line for medium camps, and two lines for hard camps. They are worth a small to medium amount of Souls if destroyed and respawn soon after.
Mid-Boss		The Mid-Boss is located in the center of the map and is a durable threat that typically requires multiple team members to co-ordinate and defeat. When the mid boss dies it drops the Rejuvenator. Charged melee attacks will collect it. Securing the Rejuvenator awards your team with the Rejuvenation Credit that buffs you and your team along with your Troopers.

Interactive Objects

Object	Image	Description
Soul Urn		After 12 minutes of game time, the Soul Urn will appear and be ready for capture. The capturing team will receive a large bounty of Souls and a few minor stat buffs. The Urn respawns every 6 minutes, and its capture location is either under the mid bridge on green or under the mid bridge on yellow.
Breakables		Breakables are found all around the map in the form of a crate or a golden statue. Break them for a minor but permanent power-up or a small amount of Souls.
Sinner's Sacrifice		Sinner's Sacrifice is a vending machine that provides Heroes with Souls in exchange for health if punched.
Ziplines		The Transit Lines (aka Hyperlines, or Ziplines) are the primary method of long-distance transportation in Deadlock. The Transit Lines are located throughout the Map, starting from each team's base, running down the three different lanes. Each team has their own Transit Lines system. The availability of the Transit Line depends on how far a team's Troopers has pushed down the lane.
Teleporter		2 pairs of Teleporters which can be used to quickly traverse the map horizontally .
Ropes		Ropes can be used to quickly ascend to midlevels or rooftops.

Temporary Buffs

Main article: Powerups

Temporary buffs spawn on the bridges overlooking the Soul Urn locations and begin at the 5 minute mark and then every 5 minutes thereafter. Each buff lasts for 160 seconds after being destroyed with a Heavy Melee Attack. The strength of each buff progressively increases from the 5 minute mark to the 40 minute mark.

There are four types of buffs:

Casting Buff: Grants temporary cooldown reduction and spirit power.
- Starts at +15 Spirit Power and +12% Cooldown Reduction
- Ends at +40 Spirit Power and +25% Cooldown Reduction
- Duration: 160s
Gun Buff: Grants temporary magazine size and fire rate.
- Starts at +12% Fire Rate and +20% Ammo
- Ends at +35% Fire Rate and +60% Ammo
- Duration: 160s
Movement Buff: Grants temporary extra stamina and sprint speed.
- Starts at +1 Stamina, +1.5m/s Sprint Speed, +20% Stamina Regeneration Rate, and +40% Zipline Boost
- Ends at +4 Stamina, +4m/s Sprint Speed, +50% Stamina Regeneration Rate, and +80% Zipline Boost
- Duration: 160s
Survival Buff: Grants temporary health and health regen.
- Starts at +200 Bonus Health and +0.5% Max Health Regen
- Ends at +700 Bonus Health and +1.5% Max Health Regen
- Duration: 160s