Upcoming Heroes and Leaks Tracker

1. What is publicly confirmable right now

• The publicly stated baseline is that Hero Labs work was paused while a newer hero set was being developed, and some Hero Labs characters may be revisited later.
• That does not confirm any specific hero shipping on any specific date.
• So this page is not a shipped-content announcement board; it is a tracker for which names are worth following.

2. How the site treats these heroes now

• DeadlockDB already tracks Fathom, Raven, Trapper, and Wrecker in the hero library, but they should be read as experimental or watchlist entries rather than guaranteed live staples.
• Those pages are useful for understanding role identity, ability themes, and which build or comp lines they could affect later.
• If an official revisit happens later, the site already has a structure that can be expanded quickly.

3. What the community is discussing

• The high-frequency topic is not 'who is definitely shipping next,' but 'which revisit would actually change the current meta and hero pool the most.'
• Discussion usually clusters around four patterns: siege frontliners, zone-control setups, pick assassins, and spell-control cores.
• That is why this tracker starts with Fathom, Raven, Trapper, and Wrecker.

4. The main caution when reading this topic

• Do not treat community heat as a release schedule.
• Do not read experimental-hero pages as official promises about live Standard-mode strength.
• The safest use is to treat them as pre-reading for which routes could be affected later.

Fathom

Fathom is a mystic control hero who turns contested space into a bad place to stand, forcing enemies to respect layered spell pressure and area denial.

Recent discussion focuses on zone control, deep-sea spell identity, and which Hero Labs character would be most worth revisiting first.

Continue into spell-control reads and items like Echo Shard or Boundless Spirit before deciding whether he projects as a real zone-control spell carry.

Raven

Raven is a recon-and-ambush hybrid whose mark-based information and shadowy approach paths make him especially strong at setting up picks with the team.

The main interest is whether a return would create a new anchor for high-mobility pick compositions.

Continue into the entry windows, pick pressure, and ceiling-risk read before deciding whether he would really reshape the assassin pool.

Trapper

Trapper is a zone-control hero who prepares the battlefield in advance, sealing routes and pushing enemies into uncomfortable positions.

Discussion usually centers on trap-based map control, objective ambushes, and whether pathing would matter even more if he returned.

Continue into the hero page's zone-control and duo-synergy reads, then judge whether he would alter resource routing and ambush tempo.

Wrecker

Wrecker is a destruction specialist focused on buildings and shields, leaning more toward sieging, pushing, and tactical pressure than raw hero burst.

Community discussion groups him around frontline siege pressure, tempo forcing, and whether a return would immediately reshape standard frontline choices.

Continue into the hero page, phase builds, and frontline routes first, then decide whether he reads more like siege pressure or a standard frontliner.

Higher confidence

• Directly referenced by an official Steam post or official forum update.
• The site already has a structured hero entry that matches public-facing references.

Medium confidence

• The same experimental hero keeps resurfacing in community discussion, but there is still no official timetable.
• This is good enough for a watchlist, but not strong enough to be written as 'coming next.'

Lower confidence

• Only scattered screenshots, second-hand retellings, or one-off speculation without official context.
• This belongs in community watch notes, not in the site's core decision layer.

• Steam announcement: Old Gods, New Blood (official note about Hero Labs pause and possible revisit)
• Official forum changelog
• Deadlock Steam store page
• Reddit: r/DeadlockTheGame