Deadlock patch notes for 2026-10-05: 4 buffs, 18 nerfs, 2 fixes,
classified change by change. Heroes changed: Rat King, Sinclair.
Measured impact 7 days after the patch
Win rate of each changed hero before and after the update, on every match played. The noise threshold, the largest swing among the 37 heroes this patch did not touch, is 3.93 points.
Rat King (nerf): 63.46% → 56.96% win rate, -6.5 points, beyond the noise
Fixed bugs that were causing troopers to walk too slowly in lane (bugfix)
Subtitles: filter voice lines by speaker (self and allies, enemies, announcers and NPCs, pings, conversations…) and show an icon, a name or both for who is speaking (not in the patch notes) (change)
Settings: new option to collapse the static reticle gap, and a warning when commands required for gameplay have no key bound (not in the patch notes) (change)
Rat King — Scrap Grenade - Fixed some bugs with bouncing targeting (bugfix)
Rat King — Scrap Grenade - Damage increased from 65 to 70 (buff)
Rat King — Scrap Grenade - T2 Damage increased from 65 to 70 (buff)
Rat King — Rat Swarm - Base Cooldown reduced from 28s to 24s (buff)
Rat King — Rule, Ratannia! - Cooldown increased from 130 to 160 (nerf)
Rat King — Rule, Ratannia! - Damage Reduction reduced from 20% to 15% (nerf)
Rat King — Rule, Ratannia! - Radius reduced from 24m to 20m (nerf)
Rat King — Rule, Ratannia! - Charge Duration reduced from 12s to 10s (nerf)
Rat King — Rule, Ratannia! - Bonus Move speed no longer scales with Spirit (nerf)
Rat King — Rule, Ratannia! - Now falls faster while charging (change)
Rat King — Rule, Ratannia! - T1 +1m/s Move Speed to +2m/s Move Speed (buff)
Rat King — Rule, Ratannia! - T1 No longer gives -20s cooldown (Total cooldown from 110s to 160s) (nerf)
Rat King — Rule, Ratannia! - T2 No longer grants +8s Charge Duration (Total charge duration from 20s to 10s) (nerf)
Rat King — Rule, Ratannia! - T2 Flag Duration reduced from +8s to +5s (nerf)
Rat King — Rule, Ratannia! - T3 Damage Reduction reduced from 15% to 10% (Total Damage Reduction from 35% to 25%) (nerf)
Rat King — Scrap Grenade: bounces now look for targets within 1,200 units instead of 2,000 and favor heroes less (weight 5 to 1.5) (not in the patch notes) (change)
Sinclair — Base HP Regen reduced from 2 to 1 (nerf)
Sinclair — Gun - Falloff range reduced from 25-61 to 20-60 (nerf)
Sinclair — Gun - Reduced bullet base damage from 17.76 to 16.5 (nerf)
Sinclair — Vexing Bolt - Now does half damage to objectives (nerf)
Sinclair — Spectral Assistant - Gun falloff range reduced from 25-61 to 20-60 (nerf)
Sinclair — Rabbit Hex - Radius reduced from 6.5m to 6m (nerf)
Sinclair — Rabbit Hex - T3 reduced from +3m Radius to +2m (nerf)
Sinclair — Audience Participation - Copy duration reduced from 12s to 9s (nerf)
Sinclair — Audience Participation - Copied cooldown increased from 40% to 60% (nerf)
Sinclair — Audience Participation: copying Rat King’s ultimate now also copies Rat Swarm (not in the patch notes) (change)
Troopers: acceleration back from 1,000 to 200, undoing the October 4 change; they keep the ability to strafe (not in the patch notes) (change)