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Deadlock Rat King Guide After the Nerf: Armor, Rats and Banner Timing

Play Rat King after the October 5 changes. Understand his grenade, armor limits and banner phases, then choose fights your team can actually follow.

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Guides

Deadlock Baba Guide: Which Tea to Brew and How Her Damage Works

Learn Baba’s Spirit steal, three teas, bench movement and pigeon ultimate. Practical ability sequences and build priorities for your first matches.

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Troubleshooting

Deadlock FPS Drops and Stuttering: What to Check After an Update

Deadlock running worse after a patch? Check frame time, graphics, upscaling and old configs with repeatable comparisons instead of random launch commands.

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Guides

Deadlock HUD Settings: Hide Player Names and Clean Up Health Bars

Make Deadlock’s HUD easier to read: hide player names, adjust health and damage numbers, change colors, reduce camera shake and check per-hero settings.

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Guides

Deadlock New Heroes: Release Schedule, Voting and Priority Tokens

When do Rat King, Baba and the other new Deadlock heroes arrive? October release slots, pregame voting and how Hero Priority Tokens differ from votes.

Oct 20261,145

Guides

Deadlock Ranked Guide: Unlock Requirements, Calibration and Points

How Ranked works in Deadlock: 60 Standard wins, three eligible heroes, calibration, duo restrictions and Rank Points. Find out why your queue is still locked.

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Guides

How to Get Deadlock Access in 2026 and Invite a Friend

Get into Deadlock through a Steam playtest invite, understand the waiting time, and check missing invitations, Limited Accounts and party-invite confusion.

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