- T3 upgrade does not give any extra usages, but makes Consecrating Grenade be affected by Charge-related items (e.g.
Rapid Recharge).
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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.
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“I'll wear them down!
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.
Venator was released on February 5, 2026 as the fourth winner of the Old Gods, New Blood update contest.
Weapon
51:20
Rapid Fire
Medium Range
63 Damage Per Second
Falloff Range
18m ➞ 47m
Abilities
Consecrating Grenade
Consecrating Grenade
4.5m
25s
Fire a grenade that bounces before exploding, dealing weapon damage and setting enemies on fire.
Burning targets deal
pure damage to enemies in the area and suffer from reduced healing.
weapon damage and setting enemies on fire. Burning targets deal
pure damage to enemies in the area and suffer from reduced healing.
x1
35
Damage
-30%
Healing Reduction
On Hit:
x1.6
10
Damage Per Second
3.5s
Burn Duration
4.5m
Burn Radius
1-5s Cooldown
2+1.5m Radius & +1s Burn Duration
5-20% Healing Reduction and allow Charges
Debuff duration reduced by Debuff Resist
Effect can be dispelledGutshot
Gutshot
10m
23s
Fire a blast with your shotgun, dealing weapon damage and pushing enemies back. Enemies near a wall receive 
stun and take bonus weapon damage.
weapon damage and pushing enemies back. Enemies near a wall receive stun and take bonus weapon damage.
x0.7
60
Damage
On Wall Hit:
x0.8
30
Bonus Damage
On Wall Hit:
Stun0.6s
Stun Duration
7m
Wall Stun Range
125 Damage
2-10s Ability Cooldown and +0.4s Stun Duration
5On Wall Stun: Your next heavy melee is blessed
Debuff duration reduced by Debuff Resist
Triggers Reactive Barrier
Disable prevented by Indomitable
CC effect suppressed by Unstoppable- If airborne while casting, Gutshot will push Venator away from the direction the player is facing, both horizontally and vertically.
- 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.
- Missing the melee does not consume the buff.
- The buff lasts for 5s and is affected by Ability Duration (e.g.
Superior Duration). - It deals +5 bonus damage to vampires (
Drifter, 
Mina, and enemies with 
Vampiric Burst active).
- It works like a blessed stake bonus, dealing bonus 115 pure damage and executing enemies below 8% health.
Hex-Lined Snap Trap
Hex-Lined Snap Trap
2m
2
8s
28s
Kick a trap that arms after a brief delay.
The trap springs on the first enemy it touches, dealing
spirit damage, applying 
immobilize, and revealing enemies for a duration afterwards.
The trap springs on the first enemy it touches, dealing
spirit damage, applying immobilize, and revealing enemies for a duration afterwards.
x2.2
80
Damage
Immobilize1.25s
Immobilize Duration
6s
Reveal Duration
30s
Lifetime
1-11s Cooldown
21s Immobilize Duration
5+1 Charge
Deal +30% damage against revealed targets
Deal +30% damage against revealed targets
Debuff duration reduced by Debuff Resist Triggers Reactive Barrier Effect can be dispelled Disable prevented by Indomitable CC effect suppressed by Unstoppable- 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
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.
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
1While Active: Gain 1.2 m/s Move Speed
2-15s Ability Cooldown and +65 Bonus Damage
5All Stakes are Blessed
On-shot effect prevented by Plated Armor- 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.
- Ira Domini is affected by disarm.
- The bolts are hitscan and can pierce through enemies.
- It deals 30% critical headshot damage.
- It deals +5 bonus damage to vampires ( Drifter, Mina, and enemies with Vampiric Burst active).
Street Brawl
Ability Changes
Apart from global changes, Venator does not have any special modifications for his abilities in Street Brawl.
Item Draft
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.
Tier 1
High chance
Average chance
Tier 2
High chance
Average chance
Tier 3
High chance
Average chance
Tier 4
High chance
Average chance
Legendary
Average chance
Backstory
See Venator/Lore for more story content.
“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.
Update history
View the full update history: Venator/Update history
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Gallery
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Venator's portrait. -
Venator's icon. -
Venator in-game render. -
Venator's select background. -
Venator Reference Sheet. -
Venator's weapon, 51:20. -
Venator's typography. -
Venator's Brazilian Portuguese typography -
Venator's Polish typography -
Venator's typography for Russian and Ukrainian -
Venator's Simplified Chinese typography -
Venator's Turkish typography -
"Vote for Venator" poster/spray from the 1/23/26 major update. -
Damaged "Vote Venator" poster. -
Venator splash art from the vote screen. -
Venator voter sticker. -
Venator's censer hint at the hideout. -
Venator's shadow in the hideout. -
Leaked Venator portrait. -
Leaked work-in-progress Venator model. -
Gloat portrait for Venator. -
Critical health portrait for Venator. -
Thanks for voting Venator! -
For all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Trivia
- "Venator" means "hunter" in Latin.
- 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.
References
- ↑ 2025-05-01 - atahutahatena on Reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumors - Streamer accidentally leaks hero roster of a more "secret" private Deadlock pre-alpha playtest build
- ↑ Mina's in-game voice line (Killed Venator): "You're just a man, Rourke, and you're gonna die screaming like one."
- ↑
Victor's in-game voice line (Killed Venator): "Took down Rourke."
- ↑ The Doorman's in-game voice line - "You've never faced someone like me before, Cain."
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ Update:February 12, 2026
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