Deadlock Update - Patch 3 Notes (31st May 2026)
Graves gets hit hard, McGinnis loses range, and Apollo picks up buffs across multiple abilities in Deadlock's latest update.
Deadlock's Patch 3 landed on 31st May, and the headline story is a fairly aggressive trim to some of the game's stronger heroes. Graves takes the biggest hit: Jar of Dead damage is down across the board and Ghouls lose 15% of their damage output, though their bounty goes up to compensate. McGinnis's Heavy Barrage gets a range cut from 50m to 36m, which is a substantial pull-back on one of the most oppressive zoning tools in the current meta. Silver also gets reined in, with Slam Fire's current health damage dropping from 3% to 2.5% and Lycan Curse fire rate trimmed from 65% to 60%.
On the other side, Apollo gets a meaningful set of buffs. Itani Lo Sahn damage and spirit scaling both go up, Flawless Advance heals more and cools down faster, and Disengaging Sigil's T2 fire rate bonus jumps from 20% to 30%. I'd expect Apollo to see a lot more play off the back of this. Yamato also gets nudged down slightly, with Power Slash spirit scaling reduced and Flying Slash losing 2m of cast range.
The full patch notes are below. Here's everything that changed.
Full Patch Notes
▲ Buff▼ Nerf✓ Fix◆ Tweak- Apollo: Disengaging Sigil T2 increased from +20% Fire Rate to +30%
- Apollo: Flawless Advance T1 heal from 30+0.75 to 35+1.0
- Apollo: Flawless Advance T2 increased from -10s Cooldown to -12s
- Apollo: Itani Lo Sahn damage increased from 190 to 200
- Apollo: Itani Lo Sahn spirit scaling increased from 2.3 to 2.6
- Graves: Jar of Dead damage reduced from 20 + 0.31/spirit to 17 + 0.27/spirit
- Graves: Ghouls damage reduced by 15%
- Graves: Ghouls bounty increased from 25+1/min to 35+2/min
- McGinnis: Heavy Barrage range reduced from 50m to 36m
- McGinnis: Heavy Barrage T1 Dash Slow reduced from 30% to 18% (regular slow still 30%)
- McGinnis: Heavy Barrage T3 Damage Per Rocket reduced from +18 to +15
- Pocket: Flying Cloak T3 reduced from -14s Cooldown to -13s
- Pocket: Affliction T3 reduced from +18 DPS to +14
- Silver: Slam Fire Current Health as Damage reduced from 3% to 2.5%
- Silver: Slam Fire T3 reduced from 8% Current Health as Damage to 7%
- Silver: Entangling Bola cooldown increased from 20s to 23s
- Silver: Entangling Bola T2 increased from -5s Cooldown to -8s
- Silver: Lycan Curse Fire Rate reduced from 65% to 60%
- Victor: Shocking Reanimation T3 reduced from -130s Cooldown to -120s
- Yamato: Power Slash spirit scaling reduced from 2.1 to 1.85
- Yamato: Flying Slash cast range reduced from 30m to 28m
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