Walking and sprinting

Walking accelerates toward a hero-specific top speed and decelerates gradually on release. Crouch walking is 4.75 m/s. Move speed can be modified by items and abilities. Grey Talon, Sinclair and Vyper have Spirit Power scaling; for example, at 82 Spirit Power Grey Talon gains approximately 0.66 m/s at coefficient 0.0084.

Move-speed abilities

The following source table lists temporary move-speed effects. The source flags this page’s ability information as potentially outdated.

Move-speed items

The original wiki table fails to render. The following rows were recovered from the Deadlock Guru Move Speed snapshot and each listed value checked against the linked item revision on 2026-11-01. Effects may be conditional or active rather than permanent; see each item. This is the recovered snapshot, not a guarantee that no later item exists.

Metal Skin also imposes −1.5 m/s when active, according to Move Speed revision 184447.

Sprinting

Sprinting is passive. A hero instantly accelerates up to +2.5 m/s of sprint speed, then gains 0.6 m/s each second above that threshold; grey speed lines indicate sprinting. Damage from a hero or non-hero disables sprint for three seconds. Firing or alt-fire zoom prevents sprint. The prose describes firing as approximately 70% of base walking speed; Fleetfoot maintains base walking speed while firing, and Ivy’s Kudzu Connection shares that passive with a tethered ally.

The Movement Rune over the bridges between inner and outer lanes gives a temporary base +3 m/s sprint speed for 160 seconds, scaling with time. Wraith’s sprint speed scales as base sprint speed + Spirit Power × 0.05, starting at 1.6 m/s. The source text lists Bebop 4, Kelvin 1.1, Lady Geist 2.4, Lash 2.1, Paige 3.5 and Victor 1.1 m/s as exceptions to 1.6; the later full hero table lists further exceptions, retained below.

Sprint-speed abilities

Some rendered cells are blank; they are shown as such instead of inferred. The current Haze revision 215827 displays 0 m/s base Smoke Bomb sprint bonus and +7 m/s at tier 1. Drifter revision 204099 shows +2 m/s base and +10 m/s at tier 1, whereas the older sprint table below gives a 6 m/s total at tier 2. Kelvin revision 204111 shows +2 m/s base sprint speed and a tier-1 move-speed increase, rather than the sprint increase listed below. These versions conflict; neither table has been silently corrected.

Sprint-speed items

Hero speeds

Total sprint speed is move speed plus sprint speed. The source table’s shooting multiplier and shooting-speed columns are reproduced as displayed; the numbers do not always match the prose description above.

Sources and editorial notes

Adapted from Deadlock Wiki contributors: Walking (revision 95057); Walking/Sprinting (revision 89961). Checked 2026-11-01. Source text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0. The walking page flags ability data as outdated; its move-speed item table rendered a Lua error. The separate Move Speed revision 184447 has the same error; the Guru snapshot and individually linked item revisions supply the recovered rows. Sprint prose and the hero table differ on exceptions and shooting speed; both are identified above.