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Internal namesCodenames used for this hero in the game files:
Synth; Fairfax
Pocket is a Hero in Deadlock. With a powerful shotgun and highly mobile abilities, they thrive in close encounters. Channelling their magic briefcase to Barrage groups of enemies with spiritual bursts, Pocket may use their sentient cloak to teleport beside their targets and unload their shotgun; disappearing inside their Enchanter's Satchel to avoid return fire. In larger groups, they can unleash an Affliction to slowly eat away at their health, setting their enemies up for a devastating attack.
The eldest heir to Fairfax Industries, Arin "Pocket" Fairfax has been in hiding for over 5 years after a failed assassination attempt. Fearing for their life and wishing to chart their own path, the newly nicknamed Pocket has been keeping their original identity secret while investigating who had tried to kill them.
Channel to start launching projectiles that deal spirit damage and apply slow around their impact point. Projectiles that hit a hero grant Pocket increased damage that stacks. Casting while airborne will cause Pocket to float.
Casting AirDash or Flying Cloaking will not cancel Barrage.
6%
Amp Per Stack
x0.465
32
Damage Per Projectile
30
Movement Slow
4Projectile Amount
1.5sSlow Duration
15sAmp Duration
1
16 Damage Per Projectile
2
-16s Cooldown
5
+4% Amp Per Stack and 3m Radius
Flying Cloak
5m
0
25s
Launch a sentient cloak that travels forward and damages enemies. You can press Ability 2 to teleport to its location.
x1.3
60
Damage
3.8sLifetime
1
70 Damage
2
+5 Weapon Damage for 6s
5
+1.6s Lifetime and -10s Cooldown.
Enchanter's Satchel
1.5s
12m
0
17s
Escape into your suitcase. When the duration ends, deal spirit damage to nearby enemies. Duration can be ended early by performing any action.
1.5s
Channel Duration
x1.1
65
Damage
0
Movement Slow
-0%
Fire Rate
0sDebuff Duration
1
-5s Cooldown
2
90 Damage
5
+1.5s Duration +4m Radius -40% Move Speed and Fire Rate for 4s
Affliction
9m
0
170s
Applies damage over time to enemies nearby.
Affliction's damage is non-lethal and does not apply item procs.
x0
0%
Current Health Damage
x0.21
32
Damage Per Second
10s
Debuff Duration
0%Healing Reduction
1
-35s Cooldown
2
+3s Duration and +4m Radius
5
Prevents all healing +13 DPS with increase Spirit scaling
Notes
If the debuff is currently active, applying it again refreshes the current duration & deals the current health damage.
Arin Fairfax, the eldest heir to Fairfax Industries, has been living in hiding for the past 5 years after being shot and left for dead on their 18th birthday. Arin doesn't know who is trying to keep them from taking control of their parent's company... but in the avarice fueled viper's nest that is Fairfax Industries it could be anyone.
Taking on the name "Pocket", Arin desperately wants to keep their true identity a secret… not only for their own protection; but because they want to forge their own identity separate from their parents.
Walter Fairfax statue
Lore
Pocket likely has at least one younger sibling, as their background calls them the "eldest heir" to Fairfax Industries.
It is implied that Pocket was betrothed to Mina, due to an arranged marriage.[9][10][11]
In The Binding of Oathkeeper, Pocket's father, Maximilian, asks Geist where Pocket is.[12] Pocket believes Maximilian was behind their attempted assassination,[13] and wants to keep their magic suitcase away from him.[14] Pocket also does not trust their mother.[15]
Pocket wants to take control of Fairfax Industries.[16]
Pocket expresses regret for killing most of their enemies and say they only chose violence as a last resort.[17][18]
A statue of Walter Fairfax, presumably an ancestor of Pocket, can be found in the garden behind the Baroness Hotel. Walter is depicted as an old man with frogs crawling over his legs. The statue also appears in Pocket's background in the hero select screen.
Character interactions
Despite Pocket's desire to hide their true identity, the other characters seem to be aware of their background and refer to them as an "upstart",[19] a "trust fund baby"[20] and a "spoiled brat".[21]
Calico was the assassin hired to kill Pocket, who survived because the bullet missed their heart.[22] Calico says she's "tying up loose ends" when she kills Pocket.[23][24]
Dynamo is Pocket's godfather. He recognizes Pocket and says he would have helped them if he knew they were alive.[25]
Lady Geist thinks Pocket seems familiar, but mistakes them for a street urchin. She thinks Pocket's jacket is stolen.[25]
Pocket was named Synth in Neon Prime. They were later renamed to Fairfax.
Pocket is voiced by Greg Chun, who also voices Shiv.[8]
A possible inspiration for Pocket's kit is the hero Puck from Dota 2. Besides having similar names, both Pocket and Puck have the abilities to send a slow moving projectile that damages enemies and that they can teleport to, deal AOE burst damage, and become invulnerable for a short time by going into hiding.
"Sulking in the Hideout" is displayed as one's status in the in-game Friends List when playing as Pocket in the Hideout.
Pocket's backstory and abilities have some similarities to the Biblical Plagues of Egypt: the death of the firstborn, the plague of frogs, and the pestilence (Affliction).
In Pocket's original model, their left hand had an eye tattoo on its back and a decayed skin tissue that glowed with the suitcase.
References
↑Pocket's backstory - "Arin Fairfax (...) has been living in hiding for the past 5 years after being shot and left for dead on their 18th birthday."
↑Mina's in-game voice line - "Stupid Arin with their stupid scarf and their stupid case and their stupid family!"
↑Amber Hand's in-game voice line (to Mina) - "Once you complete the ritual, Arin will realize their folly, and the other vampires, your worth."
↑Dynamo's in-game voice line - "They couldn't hide in that case forever!"
↑Vyper's in-game voice line - "Pocket spends five years in the gutter and all of a sudden wants to pretend like they're one of us? Heheh- Yeah."
↑Newscaster's in-game voice line (Winter skin unlocked) - "A street urchin in a Santa hat is making waves, as they spread holiday cheer throughout New York!"
Barrage
2s
4.5m
32s
spirit damage and apply 
slow around their impact point. Projectiles that hit a hero grant Pocket 
increased damage that stacks.
6%
x0.465
32
30
1.5s
Slow Duration
1
