Recommended Starting Points
These routes cover common player tasks: checking builds, reading items, picking heroes, and confirming counter paths.
Compare hero builds, core items, phase routes, and counter-pick choices in one hub.
Use enemy threats to narrow counter items, then continue into Build Planner for the full route.
Open stats, best heroes, buy timing, and builds that can use the item.
Jump from the homepage into the item guide, then continue into hero fits and related builds.
Start with Shiv builds, abilities, items, and counter routes.
Use the homepage route to connect hero detail, build routes, and counter tools.
Open Mina's ranged pressure, reposition reset, and core build route from one entry.
Start with this low-cost weapon tempo item, then continue into best heroes, buy timing, and swaps.
Filter the build library for flank, night-pressure, and reposition routes before opening the matching hero page.
Start Here
Treat the homepage as an entry panel and start with these three reading paths instead of browsing everything at once.
Choose by question type
If you are here to make a faster decision instead of just reading reference pages, choose the entry point by the real question you have right now.
I have not decided the hero yet
Start with starter picks, hero compare, and draft order to narrow the pool down to one or two realistic choices.
Start with picksI know the hero, but not the build
Start with Build Planner, then use Item Helper and Build Counter Advisor to compress the route around the real match need.
Start with buildsI am more worried about comp, lane, or patch context
Start with team comp, lane assistant, and patch impact tools to solve the environment question before returning to hero or build pages.
Start with contextVersion read snapshot
If you want to decide which hero to open first in the current version, this layer surfaces the site's hero, tempo, and build clues up front.
Recent tool paths
If you already made decisions in the utility layer, your most recent tool routes show up here so you can resume quickly next time.
If you only read one page first, start with the patch summary and decide from there whether heroes, items, or builds deserve the next click.
If you want to learn the game through characters, enter the hero directory first and sort by role, difficulty, and current priority.
If you want concrete progression routes right away, go to the build library and read patch, hero, and item context together.
Current Priorities
Use the site's current data to jump straight into the heroes, items, and patch context worth reading first.
Track the current release note anchor for the site.
Read Mo & Krill first through its frontline engage identity, then use the rest of the page to refine the execution details.
Read Warden first through its frontline engage identity, then use the rest of the page to refine the execution details.
Read Abrams first through its frontline engage identity, then use the rest of the page to refine the execution details.
6 hero recommendations · 800
6 hero recommendations · 800
6 hero recommendations · 800
This Week's Priority Reads
If you only plan to read a few pages first, start with these.
Start from the latest patch summary, then decide which hero or item lane to drill into.
Read Mo & Krill first through its frontline engage identity, then use the rest of the page to refine the execution details.
Read Warden first through its frontline engage identity, then use the rest of the page to refine the execution details.
6 hero recommendations make this a strong current build entry point.
6 hero recommendations make this a strong current build entry point.
Community Signal Routes
These pages do not replace live balance data. They explain what players are discussing, why it matters, and which content deserves deeper follow-through.
Understand ranked access, hero-pool preparation, and the boundary between rules and planning tools.
Open Ivy team utility, ability order, core items, and counters.
Read Celeste ranged pressure, safe spacing, and core build routes.
Read public-sample player makeup, retention pressure, and editorial priorities before choosing a site tool.
Read ranked, matchmaking, ban, and behaviour-system friction together instead of treating one thread as the whole story.
See why some heroes stay central to memes, voice threads, and character debate even when their meta strength moves.
Scan recent creative mood and connect character heat back to the site's formal guide routes.
Abrams
A hard-engage frontline bruiser who absorbs pressure, crashes into formations, and keeps fighting through sustained self-healing.
Dynamo
A utility-focused mystic who protects teammates, controls fight timing, and amplifies coordinated engagements.
Haze
A stealth assassin who is most dangerous when she controls the timing, angle, and target of every commit.
Seven
A high-pressure mystic who turns neutral space into a dangerous network of lightning and zone control.
Wraith
A pick-focused assassin who converts one vulnerable target into a cleaner fight for her team.
Viscous
A disruption specialist who survives awkwardly, scrambles enemy plans, and turns clean fights messy.
Why this MVP exists
This is one of the core promises of the site and helps you decide which directory to open next.
This is one of the core promises of the site and helps you decide which directory to open next.
This is one of the core promises of the site and helps you decide which directory to open next.
Continue Reading
Once you finish the first homepage pass, continue from these site hubs.
Scan the core economy by category and tier before full item detail pages are added.
Compare hero stat profiles and item recommendation heat without needing external trackers.
Learn the map, roles, and what to prioritize in your first matches.
Search heroes, items, legacy aliases, patches, and beginner guides from one place.
Choose a hero and a match need to get a more targeted Deadlock build route fast.
If you already know the question you are asking, jump straight into the best-fit decision tool from the tools hub.
Featured Tools
If you are here to make a faster decision rather than just read reference pages, start from these tools first.
Open the full utility layer in one place and decide whether your current problem is draft, comp, lane, or build related.
Find the missing team layer first, then decide who should fill the next pick slot.
Use your hero and the enemy threat to narrow down the counter-build direction fast.
Use stage, priority, and missing role to decide what this pick should secure first.
First-visit FAQ
Use these questions to understand how the site works, what it is best for, and where its boundaries are.
If you only open one page first, start with the latest patch 07-01-2026 and then continue into the hero directory or build library.
It is best used for quickly reading the relationship between heroes, items, builds, and patches before a match starts.
Use the contact page in the footer and include a page link, hero name, item name, or patch version so the issue can be checked faster.
No. DeadlockDB Wiki is an unofficial fan-made reference site and works best when read alongside the game client, patch notes, and live experience.