Minor Update - 07-28-2026
- - Ethereal Shift: Cooldown increased from 35s to 37s
Deadlock / Balance intelligence
Deadlock Ethereal Shift
Item performance and patch changes. Expensive does not automatically mean overpowered.
Observed win rate
57.00%
Wins ÷ purchase observations
Purchase observations
526,678
API matches field
Players in sample
209,154
API players field
Average buy time
36.0m
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
Ethereal Shift 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.
Gameplay Update - 03-06-2026
- - Ethereal Shift: Cooldown reduced from 45s to 35s
Shop Rework Update
- - Fixed it not playing the correct cast sound.
12-06-2024 Update
- - Ethereal Shift: Allows you to float around slowly (2 m/s).
- - Silence Glyph: Now pierces through all enemies in the path.
- - Silence Glyph: Projectile and collision size increased by 40%.