- Splatter can hit once per bounce. Subsequent hits after the first deal 50% damage for the second, 38% damage for the third, and 26% damage for the fourth.
- Splatter has a hidden 1.1 modifier applied to all ability duration bonuses. For example,
Superior Duration gives 28% * 1.1 = 30.8% bonus to puddle duration.
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Viscous is a Hero in Deadlock. He's green.[4] The Deep will be silent no longer once Viscous throws Splatter, covering the area in green goo which slows down his victims and leaves them vulnerable to Puddle Punches, which will knock his enemies away from their friends and his friends away from their enemies. Even if they manage to catch Viscous it doesn't matter, as The Cube can make people completely invulnerable long enough for them to recover. Soon Goo Ball comes, and walls painted green will be joined by echoes of screams.
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“Cubes are for healing. Balls are for murder.
Viscous is a kind, if not childish psychic sea anemone whose home in the Bermuda Triangle has been invaded by a mysterious, dangerous predator only known as the Adversary. He reached the surface in a body built from ectoplasmic goo; his mission to summon the Patrons to protect his home in the Deep.
Viscous was released on August 1, 2024.
Weapon
Deep Sea Interpreter
Medium Range
Projectile
49 Damage Per Second
Falloff Range
20m ➞ 58m
Deep Sea Interpreter has an alternate fire mode, which releases a larger projectile that explodes in a small area of effect upon collision, or after flying for long enough. This alt-fire takes 5 ammo rounds per shot and deals 42
+1.6 damage on a direct hit.The alt-fire mode can be used even with fewer than 5 rounds of ammo, and still deals its full damage.
Abilities
Splatter
Splatter
5m
26s
Throw a ball of goo that deals damage and leaves puddles of goo behind that apply movement slow to enemies in the radius.
x0.7
55
Damage
2
Bounces
Goo puddles linger on the ground and apply a movement slow to enemies walking on them.
You and your allies slide faster on goo puddles.
You and your allies slide faster on goo puddles.
-35%
Move Speed
10s
Puddle Duration
1+36 Damage and +2m Radius
2-14s Cooldown
5Bounces 1 times and improves Spirit Scaling
Effect can be dispelled
CC effect suppressed by UnstoppableThe Cube
The Cube
26m
3s
42s
Encase the target in a cube of restorative goo that protects from damage, and increases health regen. Target is unable to take any new actions while cubed. Can be used on self. Press Jump / mantle to escape early.
x0.3
40
Health Regen
3s
Duration
1Increases Move Speed and Stamina Recovery
2+25 Health Regen and +1s Duration
5Removes all non-ult Debuffs and -20s Cooldown
Healing amplified by Healing Booster and affected by healing reduction
Healing triggers Healing Tempo's unique effect- The Cube does not interrupt actions and channeled abilities.
- If a player starts parrying before being cubed, the parry can still block enemy Melee Attacks and stun them.
- You can still be sent to Baroness Hotel by
The Doorman's
Hotel Guest when you are encased by 
The Cube. - If you are still encased by The Cube when the Baroness Hotel channel ends, you will remain encased when returned to your original position, and The Cube's effect will still apply.
- Players can still be targeted by abilities and items inside The Cube, but take no damage.
- The Cube has reduced friction and can be pushed by melee attacks and Displacement abilities.
- When casting The Cube on an ally, there is a short initial window in which they cannot leave The Cube.
Puddle Punch
Puddle Punch
40m
4m
1
1.7s
21s
Materialize a fist in the world that punches everyone in the area, applying 
knockup.
Punching an enemy deals
melee damage and applies 
slow.
You and your allies have increased Air Control.
knockup. Punching an enemy deals
melee damage and applies slow.You and your allies have increased Air Control.
x0.6
57.8
Damage
-30%
Move Speed
Displacement0.6s
Duration
3s Slow Duration
1+1 Charge and +20 Damage
2+1.5m Radius and +60% Lifesteal
5-14s Cooldown and now deals Heavy Melee Damage
Benefits from melee items (e.g. Melee Lifesteal)
Debuff duration reduced by Debuff Resist Healing amplified by Healing Booster and affected by healing reduction Effect can be dispelled CC effect suppressed by Unstoppable- Base damage (non-melee scaling) is 20.
- Puddle Punch only hits players, NPCs and Breakables. It does not break Bridge Powerups, Sinner's Sacrifices or the Rejuvenator.
- Puddle Punch can be parried, preventing the player from being pushed and taking damage. Viscous does not get stunned if Puddle Punch is parried.
- Parrying Puddle Punch procs
Rebuttal.
- Parrying Puddle Punch procs
- T3 upgrade results in ~60% damage increase for the ability.
- T3 enables item interactions that are specific to Heavy Melee, i.e.
Melee Charge or 
Spirit Snatch. - T3 allows Puddle Punch to break
Graves' 
Borrowed Decree.
- T3 enables item interactions that are specific to Heavy Melee, i.e.
Goo Ball
Goo Ball
11s
150s
Morph into a large goo ball that deals damage and stuns enemies on impact. The ball grants large amounts of Bullet and Spirit resist, bounces off walls and can double jump.
x1
110
Damage
0.5s
Stun Duration
1.4m
Ball Radius
35% Spirit Resist
35% Bullet Resist
1-25s Cooldown
2+70 Damage and +20% Resists
5+7s Duration and +0.3s Stun Duration
Debuff duration reduced by Debuff Resist
Triggers Reactive Barrier
Disable prevented by Indomitable CC effect suppressed by Unstoppable- Activating Goo Ball makes Viscous drop the
Soul Urn. - Using The Cube on self during Goo Ball keeps Viscous moving in their current direction. If Viscous cancels The Cube, he immediately starts moving in the opposite direction. This does not happen if The Cube runs out of duration instead.
Street Brawl
Ability Changes
Apart from global changes, Viscous 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 Viscous: 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 Viscous/Lore for more story content.
“The Bermuda Triangle was never a myth, it was a shadowline nexus deep underneath the Atlantic Ocean. For the most part, the things that escaped this astral gate were benign (like Nessie), but now something dark and predatory known only as The Adversary hunts the seas... and ocean denizens are scared to death.
One of those inhabitants, a psychic sea anemone, wants to do something about it. Summoning an ectoplasmic goo body to traverse the surface, Viscous is desperately trying to summon the Patrons in order to keep The Deep safe from the horror that lurks below.
Update history
View the full update history: Viscous/Update history
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Gallery
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Viscous portrait -
Gloat portrait for Viscous. -
Critical health portrait for Viscous. -
Viscous icon -
Viscous in-game render -
Viscous select background -
Viscous reference sheet -
Viscous name typography -
Viscous' French typography -
Viscous' Italian typography -
Viscous' Polish typography -
Viscous' Russian typography -
Viscous' Simplified Chinese typography -
Viscous' typography for Brazilian, Spanish, and Spanish-Latin America -
Viscous' Turkish typography -
Viscous' Ukrainian typography -
Viscous weapon - Deep Sea Interpreter -
Viscous 2024 Winter skin -
Previous Viscous portrait -
Previous Viscous icon -
Original Viscous portrait -
Temporary Viscous icon -
Work-in-progress Viscous "Tourist" model art -
Leaked work-in-progress Viscous model -
Viscous v2 -
Neon Prime Viscous
Trivia
- He's green.[4]
- Viscous was the first new hero to be added in Deadlock after the start of the playtest.
- Viscous' current model is a modified version of Kelvin's old model from Neon Prime.
- Viscous' head was changed from black to green in the 2024-09-26 Update, because his old icon was easily confused with
Dynamo. - A work-in-progress alternate model can be found in the files, labeled Viscous v2, in which he is a large man with a coral arm and an octopus-like creature in his head.
- A new model labeled Viscous_tourist, in which he wears shorts, sunglasses, an orange cap and a portable camera, has also been referenced in the files and leaked in images in June 2025. The current icon for Goo Ball shows the camera, glove and boot from this new model.
- Viscous' head was changed from black to green in the 2024-09-26 Update, because his old icon was easily confused with
- In Neon Prime, Viscous was a pufferfish in a suit, instead of a sea anemone.
- "Wishing the Hideout was The Cube" is displayed as one's status in the in-game Friends List when playing as Viscous in the Hideout.
See also
References
- ↑ Viscous' playstyle description - "Viscous vexes his opponents through clever evasion and strategic uses of healing, enabling him to withstand the most brutal of enemy attacks."
- ↑
Viscous' in-game voice line (Unselect): "When you need to be trapped in a protoplasmic cube, you're going to be thinking, 'man, I wish I had Viscous' help. He seems like a nice person who would trap me in a protoplasmic cube'."
- ↑ 2024-08-29 - Kaori; Deadlock Discord - "Yuri [Lowenthal] isn't pocket, but he is Viscous"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Update:August 1, 2024
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