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Patch Version

12-29-2025

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Patch Profile

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Hero balance

Version 12-29-2025 The patch you are looking at

Published 2025-12-29 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

Start with the first summary line, then drill into heroes and items. The key headline is: Bebop stamina increased from 2 to 3, stamina-recovery cooldown rose from 4.55s to 6s, health gained per Boon increased from +46 to +52, and Sticky Bomb T2 was adjusted.

What Changes Most In Practice

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Best Reading Order

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Meta Shift

Bebop
Stamina increased from 2 to 3 and health gained per Boon increased from +46 to +52, making Bebop notably tankier. Stamina recovery cooldown rose from 4.55s to 6s, and Sticky Bomb T2 was adjusted.

Bebop
Stamina increased from 2 to 3 and health gained per Boon increased from +46 to +52, making Bebop notably tankier. Stamina recovery cooldown rose from 4.55s to 6s, and Sticky Bomb T2 was adjusted.

Key Highlights

Bebop stamina increased from 2 to 3, stamina-recovery cooldown rose from 4.55s to 6s, health gained per Boon increased from +46 to +52, and Sticky Bomb T2 was adjusted.
Bebop was the biggest winner of the patch.

Priority Reads This Patch

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Bebop Targeted

Stamina increased from 2 to 3 and health gained per Boon increased from +46 to +52, making Bebop notably tankier. Stamina recovery cooldown rose from 4.55s to 6s, and Sticky Bomb T2 was adjusted.

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/12-29-2025-update/
13 hero changes, 2 item changes, and 12 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

Bebop stamina increased from 2 to 3, stamina-recovery cooldown rose from 4.55s to 6s, health gained per Boon increased from +46 to +52, and Sticky Bomb T2 was adjusted.
Bebop was the biggest winner of the patch.

Published

2025-12-29

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Entry Type

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Impacted Heroes

Bebop

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Hero Change Notes

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

Targeted

Bebop

Stamina increased from 2 to 3 and health gained per Boon increased from +46 to +52, making Bebop notably tankier. Stamina recovery cooldown rose from 4.55s to 6s, and Sticky Bomb T2 was adjusted.

Impacted Items

Patch Archive

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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

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#15

12-29-2025

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#16

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