Crowd control - Deadlock Guru

Crowd control (CC) restricts or changes an opponent’s actions, movement or timing. Hero abilities and items can apply it. Some effects also become shorter when applied in quick succession.

Types

Movement slow reduces speed by a percentage, with a 2 m/s floor. A 30% slow reduces 10 m/s to 7 m/s.
Stun prevents movement, shooting, abilities and items, and interrupts casts and channels. Examples include Concussive Combustion, Stone Form and Singularity.
Sleep prevents shooting and abilities but permits movement at 2 m/s. It does not interrupt channels, and any damage wakes the target. Sleep Dagger and Naptime apply it.
Immobilize sets speed to zero, blocks voluntary movement and movement abilities, and removes upward acceleration, causing an airborne target to fall. External displacement still works. Binding Word, Captivating Read and Arctic Blast are examples.
Silence prevents activating abilities but permits active items. It does not interrupt an ability already in progress, such as Storm Cloud. Silence Wave, Silencer and Focus Lens can apply it.
Item silence prevents active items while allowing abilities. Cursed Relic disables all items; Slowing Hex disables movement items.
Disarm prevents firing the main weapon but permits melee and abilities that deal weapon damage, such as Bullet Dance. Sand Blast and Disarming Hex are examples.
Interrupt immediately cancels ability casts and channels but does not itself prevent subsequent casts. Stun also interrupts; other examples include Cursed Relic, Knockdown and Spirit Snare.
Displacement changes a target’s acceleration or velocity. Ground Strike, Exploding Uppercut, Grapple Arm, Stake, Rescue Beam and Knockdown are examples.
Time stop freezes or slows movement, animations, casts and channels. Effects can continue: a time-stopped Singularity still pulls and stuns and its duration is technically extended. Itani Lo Sahn, Kinetic Carbine and Hotel Guest are examples.
Hex changes the target into a small creature with a smaller model and hitbox, faster movement and increased damage taken. It blocks weapon, melee, ability and item use, but does not interrupt abilities or a heavy melee already underway. Feed the Birds and Rabbit Hex are the listed sources.

Reductions and immunity

Diminishing returns apply to stun, sleep, immobilize, chain/tether and silence—the same set that triggers Reactive Barrier. Applying one after one of these effects within the last 9 seconds reduces its duration by 15% to 35%, depending on the number of recent effects. Multiple CC effects from one action, such as Shoulder Charge’s grab and stun or Death Slam’s grab and stun, count as one.

Slow resistance reduces slow strength: modified speed = base speed × (1 − slow × (1 − slow resistance)). For example, Flame Dash’s 12 m/s base speed with a 30% slow and 50% innate slow resistance becomes 10.2 m/s, a 15% reduction.

Invincibility prevents targeting and hits; projectiles and areas pass through. Examples include Ethereal Shift, Return to Shadows and the transformation phase of Shadow Transformation. The first two permit limited movement; Yamato cannot move during transformation.

A purge removes debuffs. Removing a delayed effect such as Djinn’s Mark before it detonates prevents its detonation. Examples include tier 3 The Cube, Shadow Transformation and Dispel Magic. Unstoppable grants immunity to all crowd control; sources include the Unstoppable item, tier 3 Seismic Impact and Shadow Transformation. The Status Effects reference catalogs individual sources and additional effect interactions.

Sources and editorial notes

Adapted from Deadlock Wiki contributors; checked 2026-11-01. Source-derived text and factual tables are adapted under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Game content may be subject to separate rights.

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