Gameplay Update - 03-06-2026
- - Cheat Death: No longer reduces movement speed by -2m during the death immunity phase
Deadlock / Balance intelligence
Deadlock Cheat Death
Item performance and patch changes. Expensive does not automatically mean overpowered.
Observed win rate
55.46%
Wins ÷ purchase observations
Purchase observations
478,859
API matches field
Players in sample
195,558
API players field
Average buy time
36.8m
Minutes into a match
Sample: 2026-09-17 through 2026-10-16 UTC · Normal mode, ranked + unranked, all ranks. Retrieved . Deadlock API. Observed matches only; not the entire player population. Refreshes hourly; upstream item statistics may be cached for six hours.
Item statistics are observational. Winning players buy different items, and later purchases select for longer matches. Do not interpret purchase win rate as the causal effect of buying this item.
The paper trail
Cheat Death patch history
Every explicitly attributed change found in the 26 available archive entries. This is the available archive, not a claim of complete lifetime coverage. Linked-only announcements may omit change text.
11-21-2025 Update
- - Cheat Death: Removes all non-stun debuffs on proc