Gameplay Update - 05-22-2026
- - Torment Pulse: Melee Resist increased from 15% to 18%
Deadlock / Balance intelligence
Deadlock Torment Pulse
Item performance and patch changes. Expensive does not automatically mean overpowered.
Observed win rate
52.50%
Wins ÷ purchase observations
Purchase observations
3,096,927
API matches field
Players in sample
741,987
API players field
Average buy time
18.1m
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
Torment Pulse 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
- - Torment Pulse: Damage spirit scaling reduced from 0.28 to 0.25
- - Torment Pulse: No longer hits sleeping enemies to avoid waking them up
- - Torment Pulse: Pulse Damage reduced from 27+0.25 to 25+0.23
- - Doorman: Hotel Guest T3 late checkout cooldown increased from 10s to 13s
Map Rework Update
- - Added new proc sound.