Mastering Deadlock: Essential Item Strategies and Counter Builds

Hey, champ. Looking good today. Here's the short version. Read every item. Pick a hero. Pick build. Read every item.

Play 30 games on hero and build until you understand item. Lose because you can admire a blooming flower, but you

can't ask it to understand you. Got it? Okay, bye-bye. Once again, this is going to be a video

for my friends. If somebody else happens to see this, meet Mike.

>> [music] >> Green items are going to be your Dead Luck vegetables. They may not be very

fun, but they will keep you healthy and strong and big like the green giant. This is going to be the place to go if

you feel like you never have any health and has items focused around giving you more health, making you move faster,

making you teleport, making you big, and generally providing options for you to survive. When you want to do more

damage, think of the annoying orange because the

orange items are going to be your source of physical damage. Things like make your gun shoot faster, have unlimited

[music] magazine, do whatever this is, and generally allow you to play Dead Luck more like Overwatch [music] instead

of Dota. Although I've never played Dota. Purple items are for emotional damage, also known as ability damage.

This is the place to go if you want to hit like two buttons on your keyboard and blow somebody up. You can find

things like reduced cool down, longer ability duration, bigger ability size, and there are also a couple options in

here that allow you to just completely shut somebody down if they're really pissing you off.

My thesis for this video is going to be a quote that I plagiarized from Fat Tonk. Did I say that right?

>> Items are equally a personal resource, a communal resource, and a set of tools for dealing with specific problems.

Let's break this down. Hey, wake up. This right here is probably why most of you idiots are

losing games. When there is another player on the other team that is just smoking the entire lobby for free, this

is a problem. And a set of tools for dealing with specific problems. Ignoring the problem is not going to make it go

away. If you know there is somebody who is running you down, instead of trying to scale faster than them, buy something

that specifically counters a part of their build. Are they jumping in and just absolutely blasting you with 1

billion gun damage? Bullet resistance gives you resistance to bullets. And metal skin is an active, so if you

remember to use it, you'll [music] be completely invulnerable for like 5 seconds. Or just make them not even able

to shoot their gun at all. Disarming hex leaves them completely helpless and [music] rusted barrel makes their gun

shoot 30% slower. Do you keep on almost killing somebody and then they run away and you chase them and then [music] you

die because you're a [ __ ] Slowing hex slows people down. I mean seriously people, come on, read the item. Is there

a stupid annoying fly that keeps killing you because you don't know how to look up?

Are you tired of people pushing a button on their keyboard and taking out your entire health bar? Spellbreaker

significantly reduces reduces reduces incoming ability damage. Are you tired of the goat man because he keeps

smacking you and you you suck at parries. I'm so sorry, but you do. Rebuttal makes it so you can parry more

and if you do hit a parry, it does all the damage they were going to do back to them. What about if you can never move,

shoot, or use your abilities? Dispel magic gets rid of all of that. Do you want to play Sekiro but in Dead Block?

Counter spell lets you parry almost any ability in the game if you can hit the timing. Are you fighting the hot grandma

or discount Elvis and you just you don't understand where that it their health bar never ends? It's just get some

healing reduction items. Items like heal bane, crippling headshot, inhibitor, and spirit burn all reduce the amount of

incoming healing they receive so they're no longer as unkillable. Finally, the big bad of counter items, curse, is an

active that turns any enemy player into a spectator for 5 seconds. Counter items are important. Please buy them because

whenever you buy a counter item, the player that you're countering has to make a decision. A, they have to

completely avoid you because you can shut them down. Or two, they have to spend money and a slot to buy an item

that counters your counter. And every time you force them to buy an item for you, they lose a slot for them, which

makes them that much weaker. Obviously, this is a double-edged sword, but sometimes the trade is worth it if you

can nullify the strongest player in their team with one or two items. How you doing over there? You You

hanging in there? Stay with me. Remember Mike? Look, HERE HE IS. QUAIL!

I think now would be a good time to talk about the value of items, and I don't mean how much they cost. What I mean by

value is that sometimes, depending on the game, certain items are really good or just kind of good. For example,

reactive barrier is a pretty good item. Basically, it gives you extra health whenever you can't move the way you want

to. On its own, it's a pretty good pick to counter the stupid robot in lane. But if the other team also happens to have

more heroes that proc this ability, like Warden, Page, Graves, Billy, it gets way more valuable because not only are you

countering the Beebop, you're also countering a part of the entire team's kit. Basically, the more people you can

counter with one item, the better the item becomes. Does that make sense? Okay. Okay.

This is going to be the category where you make your hero feel how you want them to play, while also working in

tandem with their abilities. For example, you like playing Vindicta, and you really like her kit.

But she's got two big problems. She doesn't have a lot of health, and she only starts with two stamina, which

means if you're not managing space in lane, you're going to be dying a lot. And what do we need when we're dying a

lot? Can you find the green item, please? My go-to first recommendation for newer

players in ED is called extra regen. See, it's got it's even got like a little baby bandit. And all it does is

make you heal for more so you can stand [music] lane longer. Another good option would be healing rate. But, and this is

why you read the items, all of the healing you get from healing rate will be canceled if you take damage from

another player, which means you generally don't want to be in lane and you kind of just want to go run around

and hit boxes or something. I don't know. Okay, great. So, now I have something that helps me live a little

longer, but man, I'm just that that B bot, you know, he's [music] still just hooking me because I only have two

stamina on him. If only there was some kind of item that just that just gave me an extra stamina bar. That So, we've now

solved problem number one. We can actually survive in lane and take some damage. But, we don't want to just take

[music] damage. We want to give damage, right? So, I want something that helps me shoot my gun more because I'm not

sliding down surfaces for infinite ammo like I told you in the So, I'm going to pick up active reload because it helps

me reload faster, shoot faster, move faster, heal faster. Oh, and and check this out.

Mhm. So, at this point, maybe we're doing good, maybe we're doing bad, who cares? The big news now is I've finally

unlocked my ultimate and I really want [music] to want to beef it up. I want to make them so mad they go crying the

Discord. Purple light. Basically, most Please read the items. Purple items give you

spirit power, which makes all of your abilities better. I'm going to pick up improved spirit, which gives me 18

spirit power and rapid recharge. So, now I can miss four times in a row instead of two. But, that's just how I like to

play Vindictus. Maybe it'll be a little bit different for you. Now, listen.

Don't don't tell anybody. I'm about to tell you guys this this big one simple doctors hate them trick. You know how

when you go to the store to like buy stuff or whatever, they try and get you to sign up for the cult and it's like oh

we have a really good rewards program. Well, guess what? Deadlock has that and you don't have to sign up for. It's

called investments. See that bar graph and that you don't know what a bar graph. See those three lines next to

your items down there? You hover over it with your mouth that your mouth you can see your rewards points from all of the

souls that you've spent at the curiosity shop. [music] Since we've spent the most on purple items, on top of having the

items we also have an additional 38 spirit power. This bonus also goes for green items and orange items if you

spend enough money. But what what is the what does this mean? If you hit the spike before the enemy team does, until

they hit that spike, you will be much stronger than them, which makes it easier to fight and easier to get kills,

which means if you hit the spike, please don't go jungle for 10 minutes. It's a waste of an advantage. Sun Tzu, when one

has advantage one put This category is also known as the how do I stop my teammate from dying a

hundred million times category. Heal them, give them a shield, tractor beam them to safety to save them from

discount Elvis and Flubber. Play plague play page. And honestly, that's kind of about it because you guys are all

selfish bastards, which means you're just going to try and get stronger while leaving the weak to die. This is

definitely more of a support oriented category, but you don't have to play support to be able to get some value out

of these items. There's more to talk about, but I'm kind of tired of editing and I think you guys will figure out the

rest, so I'll leave you with this thought. Hi, I'm Brendan. WE'RE HERE IN THE FISH

LEGS LAB. SORRY FOR THE SCREAMING, IT'S VERY LOUD IN HERE. >> [music]

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