Master Deadlock Itemization: Building Smart for Every Game Scenario

Let me guess how you are building right on deadlock. You're probably opening some top player builds from the build

manager, building left to right, no thought every single game. And for most games, it'll work. You'll build left to

right. You'll carry win all your matches. But for some games, you'll have all the right items, but you're [music]

still getting destroyed. Well, here's the problem. Top players and people that have thousands of hours in this game

aren't building the same every single game. They're building for a specific tempo, for a specific lane, for a

specific enemy team comp. So, when you're using someone's build, you're not copying a build. You're copying a solved

answer for a problem that you don't have. In this video, I'm going to teach you how to think about items in

Deadlock. I'm not going to teach you what to buy. I'm going to teach you why to buy. And with this, hopefully through

time, you will learn to build without even looking at a build in Deadlock. Before we talk about anything too crazy,

I got to cover some ground. So, let's start by talking about the first and most important thing you need to know

about builds. Prerequisite information, investment spikes. Essentially, how this works is all items in Deadlock are

either weapon items, vitality items, or spear items. And through those items, there's this thing called investments,

which you can see here. When you have 800 souls invested into your weapon, you get 7% weapon damage as a natural buff

to your character. Same thing goes for health. 75 flat health and spirit 7. And this obviously scales with more and more

money that you invest. The more money you invest in the weapon, the more weapon damage you get all the way up to

135%. As you're looking at the investments here, you might notice at 4,800 souls, there's this like weird

star and it's like highlighted for each of the investments. And what this is is essentially when Valve released this

investment system, this never existed. All investments were, you know, scaling at different rates. some investments you

gained more from at specific tiers, whatever. But Valve decided that universally when you have 4,800 souls

invested into a tier, you get the most gain or jump from any of the other tiers. So if you see here, from 22,000

souls, about to 28,000 souls, you're only getting about a 20% jump, right? But from 3.2 to 4.8, you're getting a

29% jump. So, if we're looking for like efficiency, like what is the most efficient money to have invested into

any investment, it is 4,800 souls. When we get more and more into investments and builds in Deadlock, you'll see that

a lot of players will try to build in accordance with these investment spikes. They'll build 4.8,000 souls or 4.8k

souls, their weapon, 4.8k souls to hit their health, 4.8k souls to get their spirit. But, as we'll discuss further in

this video, this is sometimes a flaw in builds. Sometimes getting too tunnel visioned on these investment spikes

hurts more than it does good. My final prologue before we get into some real advice for building a deadlock and the

specifics of how I think are these three rules in Deadlock that I personally follow myself. Now, I don't care what

any streamer has to say about, you know, oh, just build left or right, you'll be okay. I don't care about that. These, in

my opinion, are necessary to become a fundamentally strong Deadlock player. If you're not doing these things, you will

never, in my opinion, become a great Deadlock player. My first rule, always try to understand, and key word try to.

You don't have to understand, but try to understand why you're purchasing an item. If you're following a build left

to right, which is fine if you're starting off, right, and you you see here, okay, these four items, why am I

building these items on this character? Just try to understand it. you will not have the correct idea starting off, but

through time, this critical thinking skill of just trying to understand why you're building these items will help

you so much in the long run at Deadlock. My next rule in Deadlock is always consider other options in builds. As

long as you're thinking of other options, that will do you wonders in the long run of playing Deadlock. The reason

for that is I can give you a perfect example right now. A lot of people in Deadlock right now are mindlessly buying

metal skin. And sure, the item is very strong. It is correct to build in a lot of situations, but the issue is a lot of

players are building curse, which completely removes metal skin if you have it active. So, a line of thinking

that we could create is potentially maybe there'll be a meta in the future where it is more optimal to build bullet

resilience, the 3k bullet resist item, over metal skin because of the amount of curses. And this might not even be a

meta thing. It might just be a game dependent thing. You know, if the enemy team has four or five curses, you're

never going to be able to use metal skin without it getting removed. So, right there is an example in the current time,

the timeline in the present that I'm existing in where this line of thinking even at the highest level, which is what

I play at, can just do wonders for you. And if you build up this habit and are not scared to do this, it will just do

wonders for you in the future. And my last rule that kind of summarizes the first two rules is to never buy an item

without thought. So what I mean by thought is I'm not expecting you to sit at the secret shop or your shop and

ponder for a minute in the game be like hm what is the most optimal buy here? I'm not asking that. If the thought is a

second, thought is 10 seconds, the thought is 5 seconds, 2 seconds, half a second, it doesn't matter. As long as

you are thinking actively like how you try to understand what you're buying and considering other options, that skill,

I'm just telling you, will be very, very, very valuable. You guys wouldn't believe how many people I coach that

have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours in the game, and because they don't think about builds critically and

imaginative, and they just fall off the right, how many problems they have and how much that limits their growth. So,

we're going to split this up into two sections. We're going to do an early game itemization section and we're going

to do a midame itemization section. And obviously, first we're going to start with the early game itemization section.

So, the first and most important thing in my opinion to any builder, any kind of thought behind building is what you

are playing and what your lane is. So, how do you plan to play your hero? What are some core items for your hero? What

does your hero even do? Does your hero have good scaling? Does your hero like to shoot the gun? Does your hero have

movement speed scaling off their spirit? Like, what even is your hero? What is it? Now, this is a little confusing

because at times heroes can be played in many different ways. So, a great example of that is someone like Pocket. I mean,

it's not a great example, but you have this kind of meme Glock build going around where you can build max gun and

then you have Spirit Pocket. Same thing with Haze. You can build full damage carry haze like parzilian with the

siphon bullets uh fire rate or you can build more of a pick haze, you know, inviseration, curse, slowing hex, sleep

dagger. So regardless of if you're doing as optimal or inoptimal, you realistically shouldn't build spirit

carry mow and krill, but you still can do spirit carry mo and krill. Just don't be surprised if it goes really poorly.

Basically, you need to have a plan for what you're doing. Sometimes though, sometimes your plan will have to adapt.

Let's say you have a full entire spirit team and you're like a conventional spirit hero. Maybe you want to

communicate with your team or consider pivoting your build midame to something more gun damage so the enemy team just

doesn't build full spear resist to counter you. So your build needs to be planned out preferably before the game

starts. And you need to monitor your build as the game goes on because maybe you'll have some realizations about your

team comp, the enemy team comp, what they're building that will influence your item choices and decisions. So, how

does this relate to early game itemization? We're going to talk about the lane after this, but for your hero,

what you build in the early game is the foundation of your build. Your early game itemization oftent times involves a

lot of items that are very core to your hero. You know, for example, Pocket Mystic Burst. Pocket's a burst hero with

his spirit abilities. It's a very core and fundamental item for him because he's going to build tank buster. Haze as

well. Rapid rounds a very core item to her kit. So is bull life steal. You know, rapid rounds turns into swift

striker. Burst fire. Maybe even get a tussle bullet alien. Capacitor is fantastic on haze. So your early game

itemization is the first strokes of your paintbrush for your painting. It's the beginning. It's how you're going to

build your hero from the start. Early game itemization is influenced, in my opinion the most by your lane matchup

and the lane you're playing yourself. And I want you to know that there isn't only these two lanes in Deadlock.

They're not all poke lanes and they're not only dive lanes. There's many, many, many different lane archetypes in

Deadlock. And I'm sure there's like infinitely many. But how you should think about lanes, at least starting

off, and in my opinion, these are the lanes that will influence your itemization the most. It's like dive

lanes and poke lanes. We'll be covering both of those and how they will impact your itemization in Deadlock. A dive

lane is usually a lane that deals high burst damage, quick DPS, CD dependent, tanky, have the ability to tower dive. I

mean, there's many heroes and many lane matchups that could qualify as a dive lane, but essentially it's a lane that

deals a lot of burst damage, quick, CD dependent. And items that can directly counter a dive lane are items like rest

of locket, spirit shielding, extra health. And what all these items do is they give you more health to play with

in lane. And why is health important to counter a dive lane? Because dive lanes are very bury. The damage is quick. CD

dependent, right? And these items counter that. You know, if you can survive the onslaught of getting dived

by a shiv for him to have all of his stuff on CD through rest of locket, through spirit shielding, through extra

health, then you will have basically anti-stratted their lane. You will have played anti-dive by building tanky

enough to live the dive. And there's some heroes as well when you think of like draft and stuff like that, but that

are really good anti-dive. You know, for example, Ivy, viscous, keep viscous ball. I mean, there's lots and lots of

different heroes that would be great anti-dive, but in the context of itemization, this is kind of the items

that you want to be thinking about and building when you're versing a dive lane. If you're looking to build

defensively into the lane, you can build offensively into a dive lane, no problem. But if you're scared of the

lane and you don't think you win it, these are some items here that will help you out with that. A quick little rule I

want to set to prevent anyone from making any catastrophic mistakes with counter itemization, like how we're

talking about here, is to never counter itemize too much. If you spend all your money in the laning phase itemizing

against this dive lane that you're playing, how are you ever supposed to achieve the thing that we talked about

initially, building for your hero? The first thing, if we're on haze and the only thing we're building is a rest

locket, spirit shielding, and extra health, how are we ever going to play the game? We're not going to have our

build. We're not going to have our items. We're going to lose our vision. We're just going to be a tanky little

chungus running around the map. So, don't get too lost throughout this video when we talk about counter itemizing in

that thought. Like, don't be like, "Oh, I dived in. I need to build all this tank." Don't do that, okay? Just build a

little bit. Obviously, you can build a little bit more if you feel necessary. A lot of this stuff is kind of vibes

based, unfortunately. That's why I said, you know, when you're falling builds left to right, it's bad because building

and deadlock and itemization requires so much thought. So now on the opposite end of the spectrum from dive, we have poke,

harass, sustain damage, ivy, haze, infernace. You know, I don't know why I put Minnie here. She really isn't slow

and sustained DPS. She's very bursty. So I mean, she's an abomination. She should just get removed from deadlock. Anyways,

what counters these slow sustained DPS lanes are extra regen, healing, right, battle vest with the out of combat

regen, full life seal, and the common theme between all these items are they all provide sustain, the slow damage DPS

lane. The way you counter that is through regen healing throughout the laning phase, right? And once again,

important note disclaimer, don't turn off the video. Do not over counter itemize against these poke lanes. Don't

build an extra regen, a healing, right? And a battle vest, and a bull life steal. Please, God, do not do that in

your builds. Please, I'm begging you on my hands and knees. Build just an extra regen. Build just a heal, right? Build

just a little bit. You don't need that much usually. Maybe sometimes you do, but for most cases, 99.99%, you only

need a little bit to get through. Let's talk about one of the most important items for early game itemization in

Deadlock, Chilling, Ray. This item I have grown fond of over the weeks and months of playing this game, and I think

it is probably one of the best laning items in the game. It has so much implications in center sacrifices,

trading patterns, and boxes, like times of downtime. Deadlock is a game where you're rewarded for having good uptime.

Always doing something is important, and it's what a lot of high level players do. And don't get me wrong, there's

moments in Deadlock where you want to kind of just sit and analyze what's going on and not really concern yourself

too much with uptime, right? Maybe you just want to like sit and look at the lane match up and think for like 10

seconds AFK. That's fine. But healing, right? And why it's so important for downtime is after you take a bad trade

in lane, what you can do is you can heal right and run boxes, you know, instead of buying extra regen and have uptime

when centers are spawning as well. You could have the healite from those trading patterns and use the heal right

to get center sacrifices. So if you're ever in a weird spot in a lane or you're in a bad lane, always consider heal in

my opinion as one of your first options. It's really good. It'll get you through a lot of bad situations. When you're

watching this video, this item may be weaker than what it is now, but I have the stats here just in case you want to

take a look and compare it to what it is right now. I mean, this spirit scaling might get changed in the future, but at

least right now in the present time, this is what height is. So, at the beginning of the video, one of the first

things that we talked about were investment spikes and how sometimes it's bad to focus too hard on these

investment spikes. One common thing that I want you to look at when you're looking at builds, this is the present

time. Once again, I don't know if you know if you're watching this in a month or two from now, builds will be

different, but right now currently in deadlock, if you look at all the builds, all of them, Sonia, snipers, aidens,

dues, togethers, John, Osis, Ido, Metro, Sia, all of these players, and it's not bad what they're doing, but because they

know how to think critically, right? But all these players, what they'll do is they will pursue a spike. Sonia sniper

max spirit. Osis max spirit. Ido max spirit. Metro green. John John spirit. Aiden gun do spirit together spirit.

Holiday sia spirit. And this is all for the spikes by the way. They're not like maxing their spirits and just getting as

much spirit as they can. They're doing this to pursue their spikes. But what you need to understand is when you do

this, right, if we kind of draw like this triangle here, we say that this is spirit, this is HP, this is gun. you

sacrifice all of your other stats and just go straight into spirit. And this is obvious when you're rushing your

spirit spike. Of course, you're rushing your spirit spike. You're not going to have any health. You're not going to

have any gun. But sometimes in the lane, you might need HP. What if you're versing a dive lane, you're versing a

shiv page, they hit their alt spike and you have extra charge, mystic burst, QSR, extra spirit. You are dead. If they

know how to play the game, you are dying under your tower, right? So, don't get too tunnel visioned on these investment

spikes and think critically, right? Going back to lane matchup, think about the lane matchup. Are you going to die

if you max your spirit investment, do you need a heal, right? Do you need an extra regen? Do you need an extra

health? What do you need? So, let's shift to midame itemization. There is no late game itemization. We're just going

to do mid game. Maybe there is, but midame itemization. We go back to this theme. Go all the way back to the top.

The first thing I said for early game is think about your hero. How do you plan the player hero? When you're in the mid

game, you should be fleshing out your investment spikes, fleshing out the build, completing the vision. I have a

perfect example here. Current time gun warden. In my opinion, the most signature final items are the glass

cannon, the vampiric burst, and the lucky shot. When you have those three final items as warden, maybe not the

lucky shot, but the glass cannon and vampiric burst, you are like final core built. You you have completed the

pyramid. Now, to kind of get an idea of what these final core builds might look like, you might want to go to, you know,

Stat Locker and look at what people are building. Look at how the pros are building. What What top items are they

usually building? Now, of course, going back to the beginning, don't build these things mindlessly. Think about it. Why

is Warden building glass cannon? Why is Warden building vampiric burst? Why is Warden building Lucky Shot? I'll tell

you, for Glass Cannon, Warden's bullets does so much damage. So much damage. [music] And because he's scaling it with

this high percentage from glass cannon, his bullets are going to deal tremendous amount of damage. In addition, he has so

much HP that glass cannon is not really going to hurt him, right? He's a tanky boy. He has a lot of healing through his

alts, through his vampiric burst when he gets it, through his two shielding. Very mobile. He's not really too concerned

with himself. Vampiric burst thing that Warden lacks a lot is fire rate. And warden, you know, you can build a hybrid

warden, but for gun warden, you're building exclusively gun. There is no better life steal option than vampiric

burst for a gun warden. So, these are some like just deep thoughts about this one example that I have and how you

should be thinking about it and how you should be fleshing out your final midame itemization for your hero. This midame

itemization discussion that we had is very similar in my opinion to like a late game itemization discussion you'll

have on fleshing out the vision for your character. So, treat the midame and the late game in this video as very similar

if not the [music] same. So, let's move on to counter itemization. And you guys are probably a little worried right now

about how big and how many things there are. But what we're going to do and my personal approach on how I'm going to

teach you guys counter itemization is give you all the examples in a build on how you could counter itemize. And the

thing that I really want you guys to take home is countermization. This is my normal wraith build, right? Look, it

exists from the beginning of the build to the end of the build to the middle of the build to the early mid part of the

build to the mid late part of the build. It exists everywhere in your build. So, so sure, okay, you can counter itemize

specifically for like an infernace or something like that, right? But just know that when you are building, you are

counter itemizing in every game to some extent, right? When you really think deeply about it. So, I'm going to

showcase all the examples in my build where counter itemization exists and how those items like what what makes those

items counter itemization, like what makes a BRS counter itemization, right? And when you would build a BRS. So, get

cozy, get your popcorn. It's going to be a long long talk. Starting off with BRS. The the reason it's in this build, guys,

is BRS is a really important item for Wraith because you build Tesla bullets later on. So, you're constantly going to

be playing BRS. So, BRS when you would build this item is usually against a team that has a lot of resist. So, Billy

is a hero that naturally builds a lot of resist. Yamato gets resist. Sorry. Abrams has inate regen and healing in

his build. So, you know, it makes a lot of sense cuz he's a very tanky hero with his boons and everything. Moan Crona's

burrow gets a lot of resists, right? Suppressor, same thing on why you'd build this on Wraith because you have

Tesla bolts, you can proc it very easily. But suppressor, it reduces fire rate, right? And you would want to build

suppressor when you're versing fire rate dependent heroes. So heroes like Wraith that need to shoot their gun to build up

cards. Viper that literally their gimmick is to shoot their gun, unless you're playing against a spirit viper

that just throws a bullet and one shots your team. Drifter, his three scales his weapon damage. His bullets deal weapon

damage, right? Okay. Once again, if you're versing like a spirit drifter that just one-shots through his rend and

his two, yeah, maybe not build suppressor against him, but still, he does depend to an extent on his fire

rate. And haze, like this Haze hero, her fixation builds up through fire rate. How many bullets you shoot at the

heroes, how quickly you build up your fixation. So, if you're versing like maybe three of these heroes, maybe it

might be worth the build suppressor over BRS in this case. Slowing axe. This item is really good against heroes that

require very heavily or depend very heavily on their movement abilities. So if we look heroes like Wraith, Wraith

teleport, signature ability for Wraith, you know, without her teleport, she's really vulnerable. Mina, you all have

versed Mina. Mina bats is one of the most annoying things to deal with in the game. Build a sling hex to deal with

her. Mirage tornado signature ability. Sinclair clone, him walking up on a wave, punching it to death, and him

teleporting away is very annoying. So build a sling hex to counter him. Enduring speed. This item provides you

slow resist. So heroes that have some kind of movement speed slow, you know, Kelvin for example, the Arctic beam. Um,

I don't really put any heroes here, but Kelvin's one of the great examples for that. Mina as well with Maxwell bite

slows you and reduces your stamina. So enduring speed would help out with that, right? Debuff reduction is probably one

of the most bought counter itemization stats in the game. And it can apply to so many things. I mean, this arrow I

draw, you you'll see paradox as a hero builds a lot of debuff. bolt resist shredder, right? We talked about that

item. That was one of the first items that I'm building is Wraith Heal. There there's so many debuffs that exist in

Deadlock. And this item will be a real go-to item for counter randomization. Right here, we got Spirit Resilience.

This item is really good if you're versing a lot of spirit heroes. You know, a seven Amina Pocket. You know, if

you're versing like a full spirit team, you know, someone on your team says, "Yo, they're all spirit." Build a spirit

resist. It will go wonders. Or maybe if Tamina has like a million souls, right? build a spear resilience to counter her.

So on one end you have spear resist and on the other you have bull resist. That's exactly what metal skin and

escaling resilience provide. You're going to want to build these items when enemy team has a lot of gun damage. You

know, haze, gun viscus, gun viper, gun warden, gun, gun ivy, gun drifter, right? If the enemy team has a lot of

heroes that like M1 and that are building M1, right? Make sure to check if they're actually building weapon

damage, build these items. They will go wonders. Or even if there's like a massive threat like a really fed viper

that has a lot of gun damage, you know, get a metal skin, just counter him with it. Crippling headshot. This item when

you headshot an enemy reduces their spirit resist, reduces their bullet resist, and gives them anti-heal every

time you headshot. So you can proc this pretty frequently on a hero. And Victor is a big hero, a a massive hero that

hates versus crippling headshots. Crippling is one of the best items to use against Victor. So is Yamato as

well. You know, when she als shadow transformation, gains a lot of spear resist, gains a lot of bull resist, and

crippling headshot reduces her resist by so much. Unstoppable. This item is a classic, you know, in Dota. It's BKB,

but it's a little different in Dota. Like reduces the magic damage that you take. This item just prevents you from

taking any kind of stun, any kind of debuff, ultimate or not, right? So, this item is great for carries, you know,

late game if the enemies have curse or stuns and all this jazz. just get on stop and pop in and just kill everyone,

right? Or, you know, if you're playing someone like Dynamo that needs to get their ultimate off in a team fight

without it getting interrupted, pop ontop before you alt. And if there's like a hard carry CC threat on the enemy

team, like a mo and krill or lasso, you know, mo combo is so like such a classic ability that is used on carries, you

know, pop unstop when you see Mo, so he can't combo you and you can come before he combos you, right? Reactive barrier

is one of those anti-dive items that I was talking about at the beginning. You know, if you're versing like an Abrams

and it's a dive lane, you know, when he shoulder charges you under your guardian, your reactive is going to

proc. And this item can be built in the laning phase and even out of the laning phase. It's really good against heroes

that have a lot of stun. You need some kind of survivability, you know, in lane CC. Page Bop. Bbop is gets really

crippled against reactive barrier. Abrams mo combo. All these items will help you survive longer against CCs if

they're too much of a threat in your game. Plated armor very similar to metal skin and escaling resilience but it's

very different. It blocks the bullets that are coming at you. So against heroes like Infernace that requires so

heavily on him proing his afterburn from shooting you. Mina needs to proc the love bites from shooting you. Drifter

needs to shoot you. Haze needs to proc fix Fixation from shooting you. It it's really important if you're versing like

a lot of these heroes, like four or five of these heroes in a game to build this item because they won't be able to do

anything to you. The most important thing to understand about this item and what's different once again is it blocks

the bullets from coming at you. It doesn't reduce the bullet damage, it blocks the bullets from hitting you.

Ethereal shift, we don't really see this item being built as much as it was in the past, but if you ever would build

e-shift, it's really good for self peel. You know, like let's say you just get dived by a bunch of heroes, pop E shift,

live for a little bit. So specific team compositions, right? And eh shift is an I frame so it's an involve really good

for stuff like lash alt dodging that chain gang dodging that pocket affliction dodging that now why not just

buy counter spell over e shift I don't know why not buy counter spell right it is probably just better than e-shift but

um yeah same item counter spell e- shift very similar items armor piercing rounds so we talked about plated armor and

plated armor prevents the bullets from even hitting you by a percent you know it blocks the on hit effects like how we

talked about by a percent chance armor piercing rounds literally is an item that is meant to counterplated armor

because it's like well your bullets at a certain percent are unavoidable no matter what they have plated armor or

not. So this item is supposed to be a counter to plated armor. It can also be a counter to heavy bolt resist comps

because it will pierce through the bullet resist. You know, it will ignore the bolt resist the item. The last item

we have here, frenzy. So this item gives you some spear resist, gives you some move speed, and then when you're below

certain threshold of HP, you gain even more spear resist and fire rate. So, it's like the damage version of spirit

resilience in a weird way. It gives you less spirit resist while giving you more damage in a weird way. It's totally

unique. So, once again, it's really good for heroes that do a lot of spirit damage. It's I say here, spirit

resilience but damage. You know, if you're versing like a multi-spirit team or maybe there's like a spirit threat

that you just need to deal with. You can build frenzy instead of spear resilience if you feel that it's good. You know,

vibes based. We talked a lot about countermization. Well, how are you supposed to know when you need to

counter itemize? Something that we talked about is the frequency of these heroes that you see. So, if you see like

five M1 heroes, you know, metal skin, player armor, es Rian, these items are looking pretty nice, pretty fresh. But

like, let's say that it's not as clear as that. Well, how do you know when to counter itemize or not? The issue is

once again has a lot of things and why I had those three rules at the beginning. It's very vibes based and instinct

based. But for me personally, the best advice that I can give you is the hero you're versing and souls. how much souls

they have. So, an example here, I took a screenshot of two heroes. You know, you have Yamada with 1.2k souls and you have

an infernace with 50k souls. Who are you going to want to counter itemize for? Probably the infernace with the 50k

souls and not the Amada with 1.2k souls. So, what this looks like is building debuff remover, debuff reduction, maybe

some fire rate low cuz he's M1 hero, right? That's one way you can kind of scale the threats in your head is

through souls. Another way to think about it too is the threat of the hero itself. So, pocket is probably one of

the best examples for it. His affliction is gamechanging. If he hits a big affliction, you're done for. You're

dunzo. Doesn't matter how many souls he has. I mean, I guess it does to an extent. But a big pocket affliction is a

big pocket affliction. So something like that, you're always seeing teams, no matter like what team it is, they're

picking Viscus, they're picking Paige cuz she can build DB. They're building DBs in the game for the pocket

affliction, you know, building counter spells. So that is an example of a hero where that hero is just like a

continental threat. If he hits a big affliction, you're dunzo. my experience playing Deadlock for so long and so many

games. Some other just points of advice that I have to recommend to you that I didn't really know where to play in this

video. I just going to put them all on the end is this idea of scale versus tempo. So often times, you know, you're

playing a game and what you need to think about is the pace of the game at which is being played at. In turn six

lobbies, 20 minutes, if you watch my previous videos and coaching sessions and whatever, you know that 20 minutes

is mid boss time. At that time, it's very risky to scale by like save up for a glass cannon because a fight could

break out any moment that leads in the mid boss. So maybe you're tempo buying more at that time. Maybe mid boss just

got taken and all the reju are gone and it was like a nothing burger. That's a very safe time to scale because you know

mid boss is going to be up for 5 minutes. Maybe your team just hit earn right on spawn and it's 4 minutes away

from the next spawn of earn. That'll be a very safe time to scale by because there's nothing really going on for the

next four to five minutes in the game. Stakes is another important big thing. It's kind of what I talked about with

the scale and tempo, like the impending threat of what's going on. So, what I have written down here is the likelihood

of something bad happening soon. You know, if you feel vibes-wise that a fight's going to break out, just tempo

buy. Doesn't really matter what you buy, it's important to have those souls spent for that pivotal game fight. If you are

sitting on 3k souls and that fight that you just took let in the mid boss, maybe that 3k souls of power that you didn't

spend would have been the make it or break it for the fight. The last and one of the most important things, this

doesn't really have anything to do with itemization, but it's getting more value out of your itemization. You know,

communicating the things that you're buying and if you're tempoing or you're scaling. I'm close to my spike. Please

don't fight. I have my spike. Let's fight. Your itemization is pointless if you don't communicate the pivotal points

in your build or itemization, which you're strong or you're weak or you're saving up from something huge, you know?

So everyone, I hope this video was very helpful and I hope you guys have a great rest of your day and feel free to share

this video with any friends that are trying to learn how to build in Deadlock. Appreciate you all. Drop a

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like to watch. I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye-bye.