Deadlock Minor Update: Urn Changes, Hero Reworks & Balance Adjustments

Guildfy·June 12, 2026

Valve just shipped a minor update for Deadlock on June 11, 2026, introducing a wave of balance adjustments across core mechanics and a wide array of heroes. The patch focuses on reining in certain dominant strategies and empowering underperforming abilities.

Core Gameplay Adjustments

Several fundamental aspects of gameplay have been tweaked to influence match pacing and objective play:

Urn give up time reduced from 75s to 60s.
Urn bounty reduced by 10% (unreduced for trailing team).
Breakables health permanent bonus reduced from 15/25/35 to 15/20/30 for level 1/2/3.
Kill comeback bounty values increased by 8%.
Street Brawl: All ability and item range/radius values are reduced by 10%.
Opening Rounds: Conditional Weapon Damage bonus reduced from 30% to 25%.
Opening Rounds: Spirit Power increased from +4 to +7.
Arcane Surge: Fixed various cases with the bonuses not working.

Hero-Specific Changes

Many heroes received significant adjustments, ranging from ability reworks to stat tweaks:

Apollo

Apollo sees a substantial rework to his Disengaging Sigil, aiming to make it more versatile and impactful:

Disengaging Sigil velocity increased by 50%.
Disengaging Sigil velocity's vertical:horizontal ratio changed from 1.5:1 to 1:1.
Disengaging Sigil now allows input to alter the direction Apollo launches himself (A/D biases to the left/right and W/S affect how much backwards motion is applied).
Disengaging Sigil T1 changed from "+30 Damage" to "Gain +25% Fire Rate and Bullet Speed for 8s".
Disengaging Sigil T2 changed from "Gain +30% Fire Rate and +50% Bullet Speed for 10s" to "On Player Hit: +1 Stamina restored and resets Air Jump/Dash limit".
Disengaging Sigil T3 changed from "On Player Hit: +2 stamina restored and reset Air Jump/Dash limit" to "Recast within 4s".
Flawless Advance now allows Apollo to parry during it.

Bebop

Exploding Uppercut T3 increased from +17% Missing Health to +18%.
Fixed Sticky Bomb T3 duration ending once the bomb went off rather than the 5s duration.
Sticky Bomb T3 changed from "On Cast: +5m Move Speed and +20% Fire Rate for 5s" to "On Cast: +5m Move Speed and +25% Debuff Resistance for 6s" (applies retroactively).

Calico

Calico receives buffs to her debuffs and damage output:

Gloom Bombs melee resist debuff now stacks additively.
Gloom Bombs T2 increased from -5% Melee Resist for 5s to -6% for 6s.
Gloom Bombs melee resist now applies on impact rather than explosion.
Return to Shadows damage increased from 140 to 150.
Return to Shadows T2 damage increased from +65 to +75.
Return to Shadows T3 heal increased from 350 to 450.

Doorman

Call Bell explosion damage spirit scaling reduced from 1.3 to 1.2.
Call Bell T3 spirit scaling reduced from 0.4 to 0.35.

Graves

Graves' resource generation and damage are toned down:

Jar of Dead collection rate reduced by 20% (takes longer to gain a charge).
Jar of Dead damage reduced from 17+0.27 to 16+0.25.
Jar of Dead bounty increased from 5+0.25/boon to 7+0.5/boon.
Grasping Hands T3 Immobilize duration reduced from +1s to +0.75s.

Grey Talon

Grey Talon sees a general reduction in DPS and ability effectiveness:

Gun cycle time increased from 0.5775 to 0.6 (~4% DPS nerf).
Bullet damage growth reduced from +1.0 to +0.85.
Rain of Arrows cooldown increased from 22s to 23s.
Rain of Arrows T2 reduced from -13s Cooldown to -12s.

Holliday

Holliday's Powder Keg receives a significant rework, offering more charges but with a longer cooldown, alongside other adjustments:

Powder Keg now has an alt cast behavior to place the barrel at her feet.
Powder Keg various improvements to the launch angles, velocities and feel of casting.
Powder Keg now starts with 2 charges.
Powder Keg Charge Time increased from 3.5s to 7s.
Powder Keg spirit scaling reduced from 1.6 to 1.4.
Powder Keg T2 changed from "+58 Damage" to "+1 Charge".
Powder Keg T3 changed from "+2 Charges and +0.4s Displacement" to "+100 Damage, +0.5 Spirit Scaling and -5s Charge Time".
Fixed various issues with placing bounce pad on elevated areas.
Bounce Pad landing radius reduced from 12m to 9m.
Bounce Pad T3 changed from "+68 Stomp Damage and Improved Spirit Scaling" to "+0.7s Stomp Stun" (only triggers from Holliday).

Infernus

Fixed Afterburn Max duration refreshing not properly accounting for both Debuff Resist and +Ability Duration.
Fixed Concussive Combustion cooldown not updating when getting the T2 or other CD reducing items when the ability is on cooldown.

Ivy

Fixed a bug where Stone Form could sometimes do significantly more damage than intended.

McGinnis

McGinnis' turret and barrage damage are adjusted:

Mini Turret DPS rescaled from 30+0.39 to 24+0.42 (break even at 200 spirit power).
Mini Turrets T3 Fire Rate reduced from +30% to +25%.
Fixed some rare cases where Heavy Barrage would stop working.
Heavy Barrage DPS reduced from 22.5 to 21.

Paige

Paige's support capabilities are rebalanced:

Rallying Charge distance for max amp reduced from 350m to 250m.
Rallying Charge T2 increased from -30s Cooldown to -50s.
Plot Armor barrier spirit scaling increased from 1.3 to 1.5.
Plot Armor T3 barrier spirit scaling increased from +0.3 to +0.5.

Pocket

Bullet damage growth reduced from +0.2 to +0.16.
Flying Cloak T3 reduced from -13s Cooldown to -12s.
Affliction now does half damage on objectives.

Seven

Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.337 to 0.24.
Power Surge T3 reduced from +12s Duration to +10s.
Storm Cloud now hits breakables.

Shiv

Killing Blow now has +30% more cooldown whenever it does not execute a player.

Silver

Silver's ultimate sees a significant nerf:

Lycan Curse cooldown increased from 40s to 70s.
Lycan Curse T3 no longer heals.

Viscous

Viscous receives buffs to survivability and lifesteal:

Puddle Punch T2 increased from +40% Lifesteal to +60%.
Goo Ball T2 now also increases Bullet and Spirit Resist by +10%.

Victor

Victor's aura is slightly reined in, but his ultimate gets a damage buff:

Aura of Suffering radius reduced from 9m to 8m.
Aura of Suffering T3 now also increases radius by +1m.
Fixed some client performance issues when using Aura of Suffering.
Shocking Reanimation cooldown increased from 230s to 240s.
Shocking Reanimation T3 reduced from -120s Cooldown to -110s.
Shocking Reanimation T3 increased from +150 Damage to +175.

Vindicta

Assassinate Max Bonus Damage spirit scaling increased from 1.7 to 2.0.

Warden

Warden sees a mix of nerfs to damage and buffs to utility/survivability:

Bullet falloff reduced from 20m->58m to 18m->47m.
Alchemical Flask spirit scaling reduced from 0.73 to 0.63.
Alchemical Flask T2 reduced from +40 Damage to +35.
Alchemical Flask T2 increased from -20% Weapon Damage to -25%.
Willpower spirit scaling increased from +0.5 to +0.8.
Binding Word T3 reduced from -18s Cooldown to -14s.
Last Stand lifesteal increased from 65% to 75%.
Last Stand T2 increased from -30s Cooldown to -35s.
Last Stand T3 increased from +3s Duration to +4s.

This update aims to shake up the current meta, encouraging new strategies and hero compositions across all game modes.