Deadlock New Players Guide !

this guide for new deadlock players

Lanes and Their Assignment

In the game, lanes are identified by their colors on the map and transit lines. Players are assigned to lanes based on a hidden MMR (Matchmaking Rating) system, though the exact assignment is largely random. There are no predetermined roles for each hero; instead, every player must engage in farming and contribute actively to the team. The role you assume with your hero is shaped by the items you buy and the order in which you level up your abilities, even though some heroes may naturally be inclined towards specific roles.

Selecting Your Hero

To boost your chances of playing the hero you prefer, right-click to mark them as a favorite during the hero selection phase before queuing for a match. While favoriting a hero doesn’t guarantee you’ll get them, it greatly improves your odds. If you favorite 2 out of the 3 required heroes for queuing, you're almost certain to play one of those two heroes in every match.

Managing Souls and Staying Ahead

If you're falling behind on souls, it’s probably because you're prioritizing harassing the enemy over securing last hits and denies on troopers during the laning phase. After the laning phase, focus on killing jungle camps between major map objectives and “catch” trooper waves near your guardians or walkers for last hits. Staying on top of souls also requires high kill participation and assisting your teammates. Additionally, breaking crates and vases around the map after the 3-minute mark can provide souls, while golden idol statues offer small permanent buffs that accumulate over time.

Conserving Ammunition

Running out of ammunition frequently happens when you’re over-shooting enemies or attacking high-health troopers without need. Focus on shooting troopers only when their health is low enough to trigger their death animation, and then shoot the soul orb that appears. To manage your ammunition better, consider using the Ammo Scavenger item, which replenishes ammunition each time you successfully last hit a soul orb.

Understanding Soul Orbs

When you last hit an enemy trooper, hero, or structure, they drop green soul orbs, which disappear after a short period but provide their full soul value. Enemies can shoot these orbs to deny you the souls, so make sure to shoot contested orbs. However, if there’s no enemy threat, you can skip shooting green orbs. After 10 minutes, only the soul orb grants souls, making it less important to focus on last-hitting troopers.

Handling Difficult Lanes

If you’re having trouble in your lane, adopt a more conservative approach. Invest in regeneration items such as Extra Regen, Restorative Shot, and Healing Rite to maintain your health. Stay behind cover, prioritize denying enemy soul orbs, and consider asking your teammates for a gank to help turn the tide.

Jungling

Jungling is a valuable strategy, and all heroes can jungle to some degree. There's no dedicated jungling role since camps respawn slowly and trooper waves generally offer better rewards. Clear jungle camps whenever you're not focused on major objectives. These camps are marked on the map with green triangles, and different symbols indicate their difficulty level. Additionally, “safe” camps include Sinner’s Sacrifice machines that offer extra souls at the cost of your health.

Unsecured Souls and Securing Them

Unsecured souls are collected from neutral jungle camps and are dropped upon death for others to pick up. These souls gradually become secured over time, but the most reliable way to secure them is by spending them on items. The number of unsecured souls is indicated by a red icon next to your soul counter.

Purchasing Items

Items can be bought at shops located near every lane, in the middle of the map, and at your base. Lane shops close when the local guardian is defeated, but the base and mid secret shops remain open throughout the match.

Navigating the Item Shop

If the item shop feels overwhelming, you can check player build recommendations by clicking on the “Heroes” option in the main menu and selecting your hero. During the laning phase, focus on purchasing several Tier 1 items to boost your lane performance. If you’re doing well, follow up with core Tier 2 items. Each item category offers specific bonuses, such as increased weapon damage from weapon items or extra health from vitality items. For more detailed guidance, refer to the guides channel on the Discord (link below).

Flex Slots and Unlocking Them

Items in your inventory are categorized by type, with the far-right block reserved for flex slots. These flex slots can hold items from any category and are unlocked by defeating enemy objectives in this order: one lane’s walker, all four enemy walkers, one lane’s base guardians, and one of the shrines inside the enemy base.

Learning Your Hero’s Role

To learn how to play your hero effectively, use the “Watch” tab in the main menu to spectate matches, especially those featuring higher-level players. The guides channel in the Discord also offers hero-specific recommendations. For video guides, check out @Schizug detailed walkthroughs on YouTube.

Understanding Spirit Power

Spirit Power is a damage type represented by the color purple, similar to bullet (or weapon) damage, which is orange. Certain abilities and hero stats scale with Spirit Power, indicated by a purple star with an up arrow. The exact scaling can be viewed by holding the ALT key in-game.

Melee Combat and Parrying

Melee attacks deal damage based on your level and weapon items. Parrying, done by pressing F, stuns an enemy hero who melee attacks you, making them vulnerable to increased melee damage from your attacks. Parrying is especially useful against heroes who rely heavily on melee, like Abrams. Melee can also secure trooper kills without the risk of enemy denies.

The Soul Urn

The Soul Urn is an objective that spawns 10 minutes into the match inside the chalk outlines on the yellow or purple lanes. You can carry it to the opposite spawn to collect souls for your team, with a 25% bonus for the carrier and +1 Ability Point. The souls generated by the urn can be denied, so make sure to shoot or melee them before leaving after delivery. The urn restricts your ability to cast spells, use items, or fire, but if you have a movement ability, you can activate it right as you pick up the urn for extra mobility.

The Mid-Boss

The mid-boss spawns 10 minutes into the match and drops an item called the Rejuvenator after being defeated. This item grants your team faster respawns, buffs your troopers with extra HP, and increases your fire rate, helping you push lanes. The mid-boss can only be damaged after passing a DPS check and must be actively attacking someone to be vulnerable. The Rejuvenator can be collected by hitting it with a heavy melee, but be aware that it can be stolen by the enemy team.

Transit Line Mechanics

When attached to a transit line, getting shot by an enemy stuns you, causes damage, and often results in death. Avoid using transit lines during combat or near enemies. After safely attaching to a line for 3 seconds (or immediately when attaching from inside your base), you gain a buff that makes you immune to being shot off, indicated by a blue glow around your hand.

Move Speed and Sprint Speed

Every hero has a base move speed, visible on the bottom left of your screen. Sprint speed is added to your move speed as long as you haven’t taken damage recently, indicated by a change in your running animation and white lines trailing behind you. Sprint speed is a stat on certain items and is innate to some heroes like Bebop and Lady Geist.

Cosmic Veils

Cosmic Veils are grey barriers that either block sight or allow one-way vision, appearing as either barred off or rainbow-shimmering walls. These veils don’t obstruct movement, but they do affect what you can see based on your position relative to them.

Post-Guardian Objectives

After taking down the enemy guardian in your lane, assist your teammates with ganks, group up for map objectives like the urn, mid-boss, or enemy walkers, and continue farming camps and trooper waves to keep your lanes pushed and income steady.

Soul Distribution

Souls are split evenly among nearby teammates, except for hero kills, where the majority goes to the killer. Before 10 minutes, both laning partners receive full soul value when near each other from troopers. After 10 minutes, souls are only granted by confirming the soul orb, making denies more significant.

Handling Disconnections and Substitutions

If a player leaves your game, you can request a substitute from the Discord by providing the match ID and report the leaver if it was intentional. You can pause the match using the P key if the player might return soon. If a player abandons, the match becomes safe to leave for everyone else. To sub into a match, spectate it and look for the substitute button in the ESC menu.

Viewing Match History and Replays

You can view your match history and replays by clicking the view profile button in the top right of the main menu. Select a match to replay the demo. If you encounter a chunk error, try viewing a different match before returning to the one you want to watch.

Sensitivity Conversion

To convert your CS or other Source game sensitivity to this game, multiply your existing sensitivity by 0.5.

Test Duration and Inviting Friends

The test phase is expected to last until the first major patch, with your friends getting in before the end of the test as they continue to send out waves of invites to those who signed up for the playtest.

How to get invited

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Credits & Sources

Youtube How To Learn New Heros In Deadlock
Wikipedia Deadlock[en.wikipedia.org]
The Game DeadLock
Deadlock Hub Discord Server[discord.gg]
my Discord : _imamaniac

More Guides :

how to play Deadlock anytime !
Deadlock heroes and their abilities ?
Deadlock heroes, Ranked: Tier list

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