Item & Build Guides

Flex Slots Open section How to Buy Items in Deadlock: A Shop Guide To buy an item, reach a Curiosity Shop, open the shop interface, compare the item’s effect and displayed cost with your available souls, then purchase it. Start with a suggested build for your hero if the catalog feels overwhelming, but read each item’s description: a recommendation is a plan you can change when a match […] What to Buy Against Healing in Deadlock Buy anti-heal when an enemy repeatedly restores enough health during a fight to undo your team’s damage, and choose an item you can reliably apply to that enemy before the healing matters. Healbane suits a hero who can deal spirit damage to the recipient; Toxic Bullets suits sustained weapon hits; Decay gives a targeted active […] What to Buy Against Heavy Damage and Crowd Control in Deadlock Choose a defensive item for the specific thing stopping you from contributing: repeated bullet damage, a concentrated spirit-damage burst, or a disabling effect that prevents you from acting. Then check when the item works. A passive barrier may help after a trigger, a purge removes certain effects already applied, and an immunity active must be […] Weapon Items in Deadlock: How to Choose Your Damage Items Choose a Weapon item for how you actually attack: the distance you can hold, how long you can stay on target, and the job you need to do in the next fight. A close-range damage bonus is useful only when you can fight close; more ammo helps only if reloads are limiting your useful firing […] Vitality Items in Deadlock: How to Improve Your Survivability Choose a Vitality item for the pressure that stops you contributing: a health pool that runs out too quickly, repeated damage of one type, a lack of recovery between trades, or an escape route you cannot reach. Extra health, resistance, healing, barriers and mobility solve different problems, so the most useful purchase depends on what […] Spirit Items in Deadlock: How to Strengthen Your Abilities Choose a Spirit item by identifying the ability you want to improve and the reason it is falling short. More Spirit Power can strengthen properties that scale with it; cooldown, range, duration, charges and utility solve different problems. Check the ability and item tooltips before spending souls: a Spirit-damage label alone does not mean the […]

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Item & Build Guides

Learn how to choose purchases for a purpose. This collection covers the shop, flex slots, responses to healing or heavy damage, and Weapon, Vitality and Spirit items.

Start with the shop and available slots

The shop guide explains comparing an item's effect and displayed cost with your available souls. The flex slot section covers another part of the build structure. Read the current item description before buying: a suggested order is a plan you can change, not a rule that fits every match.

Match the purchase to the problem

The anti-heal guide asks whether an opponent is restoring enough health to change the fight and whether you can apply the chosen effect in time. The defense and control guide distinguishes between the kind of damage or disabling effect that is stopping you from contributing. The category guides help you consider purchases by their intended job.

For the timing and adaptation of an entire sequence, continue to build guides; for individual heroes, see hero guides.

Item & Build Guides