Best Team Builds For Deadlock

Key Takeaways

• Items in Deadlock can transform heroes to be more effective in a team, purchased with souls from combat.
• Combining items strategically can determine the outcome of a match, enhancing abilities and qualities of heroes.
• Selecting the right items for heroes like Infernus, Bebop, Abrams, Dynamo, Viscous, Ivy, Kelvin, and McGinnis can optimize their roles and contribution to the team.

There’s a variety of items that can be purchased in Deadlock, each with a different useful effect. These items can change how a hero is played dramatically, or boost their qualities significantly to make them effective in a team. Items can be purchased in your base or from stores that can be found across the map, utilizing the souls gained from combat as a currency.

Items are what allow your hero to grow more powerful over time, and the right combination can be the difference between winning and losing a match for your team. If you are overwhelmed by the number of items, consider trying some of the combinations below to make a great team build.

8 Infernus

• Ammo Scavenger
• Duration Extender
• Toxic Bullets

With his ability to burn enemies over time, Infernus can support his team by applying persistent damage to the enemy team. The right combination of items can make this damage over time even more deadly, leaving foes to be defeated by your allies. Ammo Scavenger will ensure that you don’t run out of ammo by returning it when securing or denying souls, allowing you to keep your damage over time consistent. This will also build up spirit power.

Purchasing Duration Extender will increase the amount of time your abilities last, ensuring that you make the most of the damage you’ll be dealing over time. Toxic Bullets will apply a bleed effect on foes in addition to your fire damage, draining their maximum health over time. With these items, enemies will be more easily dispatched by the rest of your team.

7 Bebop

• Mystic Reach
• Heroic Aura
• Melee Lifesteal

Bebop is a flexible hero who can deal with many situations. Bebop’s Hook ability can allow him to rapidly save teammates from danger, or to force enemies into disadvantageous positions. Mystic Reach extends the range of his abilities, meaning that your hook can be used at greater distances for creative maneuvers.

Once purchased, the active ability of Heroic Aura will increase the firing rate and movement speed of yourself and nearby allies, including that of friendly turrets. Bebop’s Exploding Uppercut is one of his most useful abilities for dealing damage and repositioning enemies. Melee Lifesteal will allow you to receive a percentage of all melee damage dealt back as health, allowing you to last longer in a fight to assist your team.

6 Abrams

• Melee Lifesteal
• Frenzy
• Bullet Armor

The natural role for Abrams is at the front lines of a fight, dealing large amounts of melee damage to foes and acting as a tank for his team. Abrams excels at soaking up damage, and buying the right items in the store can make this task even easier to accomplish. The Melee Lifesteal item will provide a bonus to all melee attacks in the form of increased damage and the ability to heal a percentage of all damage dealt, making an already useful ability even more sustainable.

With the Frenzy item, whenever Abrams has 50 percent max health or lower he will gain an increase to his movement speed, firing rate and bullet resistance. The Bullet Armor item and its improved form, Improved Bullet Armor, supplies Abrams with an even further level of bullet resistance that he can use to withstand even more damage. With these items, Abrams can be transformed into an unstoppable force that enemy players will be forced to content with, drawing attention away from the rest of his team.

5 Dynamo

• Healing Nova
• Unstoppable
• Divine Barrier

Dynamo is the quintessential support hero, able to sustain his team without sacrificing the ability to hold his own in a fight. Purchasing Healing Nova will allow Dynamo to make use of the active ability of the item, restoring the health of himself and any allies who are nearby. The more of your teammates affected by this, the greater the effect will be. Additionally, this will increase Dynamo’s damage, health and spirit power.

Unstoppable is another item with an active ability, making him immune to the Stun, Silence, Sleep, Root, and Disarm status effects. Purchasing this item will also increase his health, bullet resistance and spirit armor. Another useful active ability is Divine Barrier, giving Dynamo a bullet shield and spirit shield while increasing his movement speed. Together, these active abilities will allow Dynamo to extend further into combat areas and support his team by restoring their health.

4 Viscous

• Hunter’s Aura
• Restorative Locket
• Rescue Beam

With his abilities to slow enemies and protect his team, Viscous can be one of the most difficult heroes to deal with. Hunter’s Aura will decrease the bullet resistance and firing rate of nearby enemies, reducing the threat they pose to you and your team.

Restorative Locket will build up charges when nearby enemies use their abilities. These can be used to heal allies and restore their stamina. Using the Rescue Beam item can pull an ally towards your location while also healing them, allowing Viscous to rescue teammates from danger. Combined with his ability to encase allies in a cube of goo to protect them and restore their health, Viscous can easily disrupt any enemy offense.

3 Ivy

• Healing Rite
• Surge of Power
• Restorative Shot

Ivy can support her team in a variety of ways, from slowing down enemies and healing allies to picking them up and carrying them across the battlefield. Ivy’s Watcher’s Covenant ability can allow her to spread healing and other buffs from items like Healing Rite across multiple teammates, sharing the benefits from that and other items she unlocks.

When applied to an ability, Surge of Power will increase her movement speed and firing rate for the duration of the ability, allowing you to better position yourself to the locations where you’ll be most useful to your team. Finally, Restorative Shot will cause you to gain health from your next attack. The ability to share the healing effects of these items with the rest of your team means that Ivy will be most useful when paired closely with other heroes.

2 Kelvin

• Healing Booster
• Sprint Boots
• Rapid Recharge

Kelvin’s ability to keep his team at full health is unparalleled by any other hero in the game, and the right items will allow him to make the most of this ability. Healing Booster increases how much health Kelvin will be able to heal his teammates, and will also increase the reduction to healing resistances.

Sprint Boots and the improved Enduring Speed will allow Kelvin to get around the map more quickly to heal his allies, a task which can be easily accomplished with his Ice Path ability. Additionally, this item will bestow him with health regeneration and increased weapon damage. Rapid Recharge enables Kelvin to make the most of his abilities to heal his team, reducing the cooldowns on his abilities and increasing their charges, along with a bonus to weapon damage.

1 McGinnis

• Heroic Aura
• Slowing Bullets
• Lucky Shot

With the right build, McGinnis can be the backbone of an impenetrable defense. She can slow enemy defenses to a crawl all on her own with her turret guns and temporary walls, denying the enemy team access to certain zones at will. Heroic Aura will boost her health and movement speed, along with granting a lifesteal ability to her bullets. The passive ability of this item will boost the firing rate of nearby minions considerably, and the active ability increases the movement speed and firing rate of yourself and any nearby teammates.

The Slowing Bullets item will have a movement slowing effect on any enemy you deal damage to, keeping them trapped in areas where your turret can make continue to damage them. Lucky Shot has a similar effect, providing a chance that your attacks will deal extra damage and slow foes. These items allow McGinnis to strategically trap foes in scenarios where they can be quickly dealt with by her turrets and allies.