Valve just shipped a minor update for Deadlock on May 31, 2026, introducing a series of balance adjustments across several heroes. Apollo receives substantial buffs, while Graves and McGinnis see significant nerfs.
Hero Balance Changes
Apollo has been significantly buffed, enhancing his offensive capabilities and survivability:
- Disengaging Sigil T2: Fire Rate increased from +20% to +30%.
- Flawless Advance T1: Heal increased from 30+0.75 to 35+1.0.
- Flawless Advance T2: Cooldown reduction increased from -10s to -12s.
- Itani Lo Sahn: Damage increased from 190 to 200.
- Itani Lo Sahn: Spirit scaling increased from 2.3 to 2.6.
Graves has received notable nerfs to his damage output and an increase in bounty for his Ghouls:
- Jar of Dead: Damage reduced from 20 + 0.31/spirit to 17 + 0.27/spirit.
- Ghouls: Damage reduced by 15%.
- Ghouls: Bounty increased from 25+1/min to 35+2/min.
McGinnis sees reductions in the effectiveness of his Heavy Barrage ability:
- Heavy Barrage: Range reduced from 50m to 36m.
- Heavy Barrage T1: Dash Slow reduced from 30% to 18% (regular slow remains 30%).
- Heavy Barrage T3: Damage Per Rocket reduced from +18 to +15.
Other heroes also received adjustments:
- Pocket: Flying Cloak T3 cooldown reduced from -14s to -13s. Affliction T3 DPS reduced from +18 to +14.
- Silver: Slam Fire Current Health as Damage reduced from 3% to 2.5%. Slam Fire T3 reduced from 8% Current Health as Damage to 7%. Entangling Bola cooldown increased from 20s to 23s, but T2 cooldown reduction increased from -5s to -8s. Lycan Curse Fire Rate reduced from 65% to 60%.
- Victor: Shocking Reanimation T3 cooldown reduced from -130s to -120s.
- Yamato: Power Slash spirit scaling reduced from 2.1 to 1.85. Flying Slash cast range reduced from 30m to 28m.
These changes aim to rebalance the meta, with Apollo gaining significant power while Graves and McGinnis become less dominant.
