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Patch Version

05-22-2026

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Patch Profile

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Hero balance

Version 05-22-2026 The patch you are looking at

Published 2026-05-22 Useful for timeline tracking

Hero changes 1 Number of impacted hero entries

Item changes 0 No item entries in this patch

Decision Summary

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Hero balance

What This Patch Is Mostly About

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What To Read First

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What Changes Most In Practice

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Best Reading Order

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Patch Winners & Losers

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Meta Shift

Rem
Rem received major adjustments, with large changes to helper and possession mechanics, making them the patch's biggest rework target.

Burst Builds
High-burst items received cooldown and value tuning.

Key Highlights

All heroes lost 10 base health.
Each Boon now grants 3 less health.
Guardian scaling resistance was reduced from +75% to +50%.

Priority Reads This Patch

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Rem Major

Rem received major adjustments, with large changes to helper and possession mechanics, making them the patch's biggest rework target.

Source info

Source: deadlocklabs.gg, generated at 2026-07-07T04:08:57.344Z
The source report tracks 16 patch versions.
15 versions matched existing entries, and 1 source versions remain unmatched.

Current version source

https://deadlocklabs.gg/patches/05-22-2026-update/
33 hero changes, 76 item changes, and 52 general changes.
This version is matched to an existing site entry.

Unmatched source versions

03-25-2026 03-25-2026 Update - Deadlock Labs exposes this as a separate 03-25-2026 page, but the local wiki keeps 03-31-2026 as the canonical March 31 timeline. Do not auto-merge without matching Chinese source data.

Summary

All heroes lost 10 base health.
Each Boon now grants 3 less health.
Guardian scaling resistance was reduced from +75% to +50%.
Rem was the largest single focus of the patch.

Published

2026-05-22

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Entry Type

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Impacted Heroes

Rem

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Hero Change Notes

1 major, 0 mixed, and 0 targeted hero changes.

Major

Rem

Rem received major adjustments, with large changes to helper and possession mechanics, making them the patch's biggest rework target.

Impacted Items

Patch Archive

07-01-2026

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06-30-2026

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06-11-2026

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06-04-2026

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05-31-2026

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05-28-2026

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05-25-2026

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05-22-2026

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04-30-2026

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#10

04-10-2026

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#11

03-31-2026

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#12

03-21-2026

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#13

03-06-2026

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#14

01-30-2026

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#15

12-29-2025

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#16

12-16-2025

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