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* T3 upgrade does not give any extra usages, but makes Consecrating Grenade be affected by [[Charges|Charge]]-related items (e.g. {{ItemIcon|Rapid Recharge}}).
* T3 upgrade does not give any extra usages, but makes Consecrating Grenade be affected by [[Charges|Charge]]-related items (e.g. {{ItemIcon|Rapid Recharge}}).
* [[Damage Reduction]] sources such as {{ItemIcon|Inhibitor}} and {{AbilityIcon|Fire Scarabs}} do not reduce the explosion damage. However, they do reduce the lingering [[Pure Damage]].
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* If airborne while casting, Gutshot will push Venator away from the direction the player is facing, both horizontally and vertically.
* If airborne while casting, Gutshot will push Venator away from the direction the player is facing, both horizontally and vertically.
* [[Damage Reduction]] sources such as {{ItemIcon|Inhibitor}} and {{AbilityIcon|Fire Scarabs}} do not reduce the base or wall stun damage. However, they do reduce the T3 Blessed Melee damage.
* T3 Blessed Melee notes:
* T3 Blessed Melee notes:
** It works like a blessed stake bonus, dealing bonus {{DataProp|Ira Domini|BonusDamage}} pure damage and executing enemies below {{DataProp|Ira Domini|ExecuteThreshold}}% health. {{AbilityIcon|Ira Domini}}'s T2 upgrade also boosts blessed melee damage.
** It works like a blessed stake bonus, dealing bonus {{DataProp|Ira Domini|BonusDamage}} pure damage and executing enemies below {{DataProp|Ira Domini|ExecuteThreshold}}% health. {{AbilityIcon|Ira Domini}}'s T2 upgrade also boosts blessed melee damage.
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* It deals 30% [[Headshot|critical headshot damage]].
* It deals 30% [[Headshot|critical headshot damage]].
* It deals +{{DataProp|Ira Domini|BonusAmpToVampire}} bonus damage to vampires ({{HeroIcon|Drifter}}, {{HeroIcon|Mina}}, and enemies with {{ItemIcon|Vampiric Burst}} active).
* It deals +{{DataProp|Ira Domini|BonusAmpToVampire}} bonus damage to vampires ({{HeroIcon|Drifter}}, {{HeroIcon|Mina}}, and enemies with {{ItemIcon|Vampiric Burst}} active).
* [[Damage Reduction]] sources such as {{ItemIcon|Inhibitor}} and {{AbilityIcon|Fire Scarabs}} do not reduce the base damage. However, they do reduce the bonus [[Pure Damage]].
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| text = Plated Armor has a chance to either block the on-hit effect or deflect Ira Domini's stakes, even if they are Blessed.
Venator is a Hero in Deadlock. He doesn't walk the righteous path, he blazes the trail so that others may do so safely. His biggest challenge is knowing which weapon to use first. Firing a Consecrating Grenade into the fray softens up his enemies and keeps them from restoring health, and his Hex-Lined Snap Trap scatters across the ground to lock them in place. A Gutshot from his shotgun will knock back enemies who get too close, and when the time is right, Ira Domini will rid the world of evil once and for all.
A relentless monster hunter, Father Quinn Rourke represents the righteous wrath and fury of the Venators of Saint Benedict. Sent by his superiors at the Vatican, the Venator has been designated a mission: to annihilate the evil stirring in New York.
If airborne while casting, Gutshot will push Venator away from the direction the player is facing, both horizontally and vertically.
Damage Reduction sources such as Inhibitor and Fire Scarabs do not reduce the base or wall stun damage. However, they do reduce the T3 Blessed Melee damage.
T3 Blessed Melee notes:
It works like a blessed stake bonus, dealing bonus 115 pure damage and executing enemies below 8% health. Ira Domini's T2 upgrade also boosts blessed melee damage.
Parrying the melee prevents the bonus damage and execution.
Enemies can disarm the trap by shooting at it. It is not affected by abilities, items or melee attacks.
When looking directly upwards, the trap will be thrown very far behind the player.
Ira Domini
Ira Domini
15s
0
160s
Load your crossbow with 3 stakes, dealing massively increased weapon damage.
The final stake is blessed, dealing bonus pure damage and executing low-health enemies.
x1.5
120
Damage
While Blessed:
x3
115
Bonus Damage
While Blessed:
8%
Execute Threshold
0%Move Speed
0sSlow Duration
1
While Active: Gain 1.2 m/s Move Speed
2
-15s Ability Cooldown and +65 Bonus Damage
5
All Stakes are Blessed
Interacts with Plated Armor. Click to reveal more info.
There's ~1s animation for changing weapons when Ira Domini starts and finishes. There's also ~0.8s animation for reloading stakes between each shot. Venator cannot shoot during these animations.
While Ira Domini is active Venator cannot use Consecrating Grenade but can use other abilities and items.
Low health execution checks whether the damage puts the target below the threshold, and if it does, then the ability deals additional pure damage equal to 8% of target's max health.
Plated Armor has a chance to either block the on-hit effect or deflect Ira Domini's stakes, even if they are Blessed.
Notes
There's ~1s animation for changing weapons when Ira Domini starts and finishes. There's also ~0.8s animation for reloading stakes between each shot. Venator cannot shoot during these animations.
While Ira Domini is active Venator cannot use Consecrating Grenade but can use other abilities and items.
Low health execution checks whether the damage puts the target below the threshold, and if it does, then the ability deals additional pure damage equal to 8% of target's max health.
In Street Brawl, every hero draws items from a shared pool, but some items are weighted to appear more often for a given hero and others less often. For each tier below, that tier's items are grouped by how likely they are to be offered to Venator: High, Average, or Low chance.
The Venators of St. Benedict are a Vatican-sanctioned order whose members are deployed to regions with a high concentration of supernatural predators. Few in number, their modus operandi is to observe, identify, and exterminate. They are methodical, they are precise, and once they identify a threat to the flock they are relentless.
But even amongst those who are called The Sword Of St. Benedict, one stands apart from the others. A man whose hardened heart has allowed him to pay terrible prices in the name of the greater good... and he has once again been dispatched to New York.
His ultimate ability, "Ira Domini", translates to "Wrath of the Lord" in Latin.
Venator's weapon is named after the Bible passage Jeremiah 51:20: "Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms".
Originally (before the July 28th update), Venator's weapon's fall-off range was 20m-51m, which also referenced this.
Venator's selection voice line "Ours is not to question what is necessary. Ours is to have the will to do whatever it takes" is likely a reference to Alfred Tennyson's poem The Charge of the Light Brigade: "Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die".
One of Venator's voice lines for upgrading Gutshot, "I long for the day when this will be a plowshare" references the phase "beating swords into plowshares" which comes from the Bible passage Isaiah 2:4.
Venator was one of the heroes in a private build who was accidently leaked on stream in May 2025.[1] A playable version of Venator was added to the files in the Shop Rework Update. A new Venator portrait was leaked in a work-in-progress hero select screen posted on 4chan in July 2025. On 20th January 2026, Venator was teased in the Hideout with a thurible on a bookshelf.
Before his release, Venator had voice lines calling him by his last name "Rourke", indicating it may have been his hero name at some point in development.[2][3]
The Doorman has voice lines calling Venator "Cain", indicating it may have been his first name before "Quinn".[4][5]
Venator originally had the Shopkeeper voice actor as a temp VO, who made self-aware jokes about his role. The female temp voice (currently on Boho) called him "the bodega guy".[6]
Prior to the Six New Heroes Update, Venator had an ability called "Potent Vapors", a channel which would heal Venator and grant him movement slow resist at the cost of him being unable to attack throughout its channel. This ability was replaced with Consecrating Grenade.
Additionally, prior to the Old Gods, New Blood update, Venator used to have an ability called "Penace and Retribution", a passive that would grant Venator stacking bullet and spirit resistances as he took sustained damage. This ability was replaced with Hex-Lined Snap Trap.
"Blessing Ammunition in the Hideout" is displayed as one's status in the in-game Friends List when playing as Venator in the Hideout.
Venator had the largest winning margin in the Old Gods, New Blood hero contest, winning by an 11% difference over Celeste.[7]
Venator's weapon is a submachine gun similar to a Heckler & Koch MP5, with its under-barrel grenade launcher decorated to resemble a Votive candle, and Rosary beads in place of a sling harness.
The Submachine Gun in Valve's Half-Life is also based on an MP5 with an under-barrel grenade launcher.
↑The Doorman's in-game voice line (Venator trapped in Baroness): "You know, Cain, one day you will actually believe the legend you sell to people, and on that day you will die screaming."
↑Paige's in-game voice line - "If you thought the bodega guy was a good temp voice, wait 'til you hear me."
Rapid Recharge).
Inhibitor and 
Fire Scarabs do not reduce the explosion damage. However, they do reduce the lingering Pure Damage.
Consecrating Grenade but can use other abilities and items.
Drifter, 
Mina, and enemies with 
Vampiric Burst active).
