Street Brawl

Overview

Update history

Music

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Only those who keep their wits about them will survive.

— Seven

Street Brawl is a fast-paced, 4v4, combat-focused game mode in Deadlock, offering a short game format designed for quick sessions. Street Brawl removes the standard soul economy entirely, placing players in a best-of-five series of skirmishes with the ability to obtain a fixed amount of items each round.

Before each round, players will be presented with three sets of three items to choose from. Players can choose to reroll one set of items each round. Players who queued for Street Brawl with the random hero option will be given an additional reroll for the first three rounds. Street Brawl has exclusive legendary items not available in standard matches. Additionally, both normal and legendary items can appear as "enhanced" versions, with improved numerical stats. If a player is presented with an item that normally builds into an item they have already chosen, they will be given another item of a lower tier as a bonus.

Having access to the same number of items reduces the likelihood of one particular player snowballing ahead of others, and players do not need to make decisions about what objectives to focus on. Each round, all abilities start ready to use, except for ultimate abilities, which start on a heavily reduced cooldown.

Street Brawl matches do not affect the player's matchmaking rating in standard mode.

Street Brawl was added in the Old Gods, New Blood update.

Overview

• Team Size: 4v4
• Format: Best-of-Five (First team to win 3 rounds wins the match). The team who takes down the Guardian wins the round. Once a team wins 2 rounds, the enemy Guardian is removed and their final objective is to take down a Walker.
• Round Duration: 3 minutes. After this, the round goes into Overtime. If the round reaches 4.5 minutes, "Urgent" Overtime begins.
• Ability Points: Every player receives 6 ability points in rounds 1 and 2, 5 points in rounds 3 & 4, and 10 points in round 5.
• Boons: Players start with 10 boons in the first round. The number of boons received increases to 19, 25, 30 and finally 34 in the following rounds.
• Base Respawn Times: 25 seconds in rounds 1 & 2, and 30 seconds in rounds 3-5.
• Draft Time: Players have 50 seconds to draft items each round.

Legendary Items

There are 17 Legendary items exclusive to this mode.

Weapon

• Haunting Shot: Your next bullet deals additional Spirit Damage based on the enemy's current Health. This bullet is larger and pierces through enemies, applying a debuff which reduces the enemy's healing, movement speed, and damage outputs.

• Infinite Rounds: Your bullets have a chance to become unavoidable, piercing through enemies and ignoring their Bullet Resistance. You have infinite Ammo.

• Runed Gauntlets: Your next Melee pierces through parry. Landing a heavy melee reduces your existing Cooldowns.

Vitality

• Celestial Blessing: On use, applies a cleansing effect to your whole team, replenishing their health and stamina while increasing their movement speed.

• Cloak of Opportunity: Occasionally block the next debuff that would apply movement lock, stunned, immobilized, chained, or slept to you, instead granting a temporary barrier and movement speed, as well as a temporary Unstoppable effect.

• Electric Slippers: While sliding, evade bullets and gain increased fire rate while dealing periodic Spirit Damage to nearby enemies.

• Eternal Gift: Every 2 seconds, provides a random permanent stat buff to your hero, while also occasionally dramatically reducing your next respawn timer.

• Nullification Burst: On use, removes any positive buffs on nearby enemies while blocking them from using any stamina or healing for a short duration.

• Seraphim Wings: Massively reduces your gravity, granting you large amounts of damage amplification and damage reduction while airborne. Also passively grants improved air control and allows for an additional air dash or air jump before landing.

• Shadow Strike: Any stamina use causes you to become temporarily invisible. Dealing damage with a melee attack while invisible applies periodic spirit damage while stealing bullet and spirit resistances.

Spirit

• Frostbite Charm - Imbue an ability to grant it cooldown reduction and spirit power. When the imbued ability damages a target, it freezes them, dealing bonus spirit damage.

• Mystic Conduit - Passively provides a significant increase to ability range and cooldown reduction for self and nearby allies. Dealing high damage to an enemy Hero within a short period of time heals you and nearby allies.

• Mystical Piano - On use, strikes the target area after a short delay with a large piano, stunning and reducing the stamina of any enemies hit. For a short duration after the stun, enemies are dazed.

• Omnicharge Signet - Imbue an active non-ultimate ability to grant it charges. Already charge-based abilities gain even more charges.

• Prism Blast - On use, become untargetable and invincible for a short duration while damaging lasers rotate around you.

• Shrink Ray - On use, significantly reduces self or target ally hero's model size for a duration while granting significantly increased movement speed.

• Unstable Concoction - On use, grants massively increased movement speed, health, spirit power, and weapon damage for a short duration before you explode, instantly dying but also dealing large area damage based on your max health and stunning enemies.

Game Mode-Specific Differences

Street Brawl-specific balance changes are marked in the ability/item description in Street Brawl with a yellow circle icon.

Heroes

All hero abilities have their range and radius reduced by 10%.

Some heroes have additional changes to their individual abilities. More info can be found on respective hero page:

• Bebop
• Calico
• Celeste
• Drifter
• Dynamo
• Graves
• Holliday
• Infernus
• Ivy
• Kelvin
• Lady Geist
• Lash
• McGinnis
• Mirage
• Paige
• Paradox
• Seven
• Victor
• Warden

Items

• Range and radius for all items is reduced by 10%
• Alchemical Fire: Damage reduced by 30%
• Cursed Relic: Duration reduced from 3.25s to 2.75s
• Golden Goose Egg: Disabled in this mode
• Mystic Expansion: Radius bonus reduced from +20% to +16%
• Greater Expansion: Radius bonus reduced from +30% to +25%

Structures

• Health Scaling: The defending Guardian or Walker's base health scales up each round:
  • Round 1: 1800
  • Round 2: 3200
  • Round 3: 4600
  • Round 4: 6000
  • Round 5: 7400
• Comeback Bonus: If a team is losing, their defending objective is granted bonus health. A losing team gets +1200 health added to their objective. If they are at match point, they get +2800 health.
• When the objective is a Walker, it gains an additional +4000 health.
• Structures have faster and increased resist decay over time.
• Guardians have Backdoor Protection.

NPCs

Neutrals do not spawn in Street Brawl.

Troopers spawn faster (every 18s in early rounds, 15s in later rounds) and spawn 5 seconds before the round officially begins. They have starting Spirit Resist and increased Spirit Resist during overtime, and deal more damage to structures.

Overtime Mechanics

If a round exceeds the standard time limit, it enters Overtime.

• Trooper Buffs: During Overtime, Troopers gain a health and damage multiplier that scales up each round:
  • Rounds 1, 2, and 3: Health x1.75, Damage x1.44
  • Round 4: Health x2, Damage x1.44
  • Round 5: Health x2.5, Damage x1.56
• Respawn Penalties: Player respawn times are increased:
  • Standard Overtime adds 25-30 seconds to the base respawn time.
  • Urgent Overtime adds 40-45 seconds to the base respawn time.

Other differences

Players cannot pause in Street Brawl.

Healing in base is twice as fast as standard play.

Ziplines have a modified cooldown on round start of 20 seconds.

There is no item limit. If a player gets more than 12 items, the lower tier items are no longer visible in the UI, but their effects are still active.

Item Draft

See "Item Draft" in individual Hero pages to see the chance of getting certain items for each hero.

While all heroes have a random chance to get any item, some items are weighted to be more likely to drop for specific heroes, and some counter items are more likely to drop when playing against specific heroes. Using a reroll will drop items of similar tier and rarity as the items in the current roll. Choosing the random hero option in character select allows the player to have an extra item reroll in the first 3 rounds. Item drops are mirrored between teams: if a player on one team is offered a rare, enhanced, or legendary item drop, a player on the enemy team will be offered an equivalent item drop.

Draft Tier Progression

Each round, players are presented with 3 sets of items to choose from. The available tiers scale up as the match progresses to ensure players get access to stronger items later in the game:

• Round 1: Tiers 1, 2, and 3
• Round 2: Tiers 2 and 3
• Round 3: Tiers 2, 3, and 4
• Round 4: Tiers 3 and 4
• Round 5: Tier 4 (with a chance for Tier 5 Legendary)

Counter Items

These items are more likely to drop for a player in Street Brawl when playing against their corresponding hero.

Hero	Items
McGinnis	Healbane
Seven	Knockdown
Vindicta	Knockdown

Strategy

Since Troopers don't drop Souls in Street Brawl, players are less encouraged to hit them. However, pushing waves is still valuable to gain healing from Banner Troopers and pressure the enemy's objectives.

Update history

View the full update history: Street Brawl/Update history

Update	Changes
June 30, 2026	No longer locks you out of getting off the zipline in the first few seconds Increased item randomness a bit Fixed Enhanced Sharpshooter and Enhanced Spiritual Overflow not maintaining the bonuses from their enhanced components
June 11, 2026	All ability and item range/radius values are reduced by 10%
May 22, 2026	Fixed the following Enhanced Items not maintaining their stats from components: Opening Rounds, Tankbuster, Kinetic Dash, Radiant Regeneration, Burst Fire, Veil Walker, Arcane Surge, Fury Trance, Leech

Trivia

• If a player doesn't pick any item in the starting phase, the item select screen stays open during the match until an item is selected.
• Enhanced items can be acquired for testing with the command citadel_item_purchases_force_enhanced true with cheats enabled.
• Voice lines from the Patron's announcers imply that, unlike the Ritual, Street Brawl matches are played out multiple times.
• Legendary items are labeled "Tier 5" and worth  9,999.