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Valve has put out another Deadlock balance pass, and Celeste takes the biggest hit. Rat King, Nurse Harrow and Mo & Krill come out of it stronger.
Deadlock‘s Minor Update – 11-04-2026 went up on Steam at 4:02pm AEDT on Thursday 5 November, by our conversion. It is a list of hero numbers and one item change, with no new hero and no new mode. If you main Celeste, Baba or Deadman Danny, read it before your next match.
Start with the item. Healbane stacks now diminish 20% more aggressively, so at 2 stacks the value goes from 57.8% to 54.7%, and at 4 stacks from 82.2% to 72%. If you have been stacking it on one target, you will get less out of each extra stack.
Celeste gets the most cuts in the patch. Dazzling Trick’s T3 silence drops from +1.25s to +0.75s. Radiant Daggers loses range, from 30m to 25m, and the Spirit Amp per stack falls from +7% to +6%. The notes move the first to T2 and the second to T3. Shining Wonder now slows less, at -28% instead of -32%, and its cooldown rises from 160s to 170s.
Baba is down across the board. Her Spirit Resistance scaling goes from 0.7 to 0.5, melee damage per boon is 10% lower, and Baba’s Brew is slower and weaker, with a 28s cooldown and burn scaling down from 0.15 to 0.13. Granny Long Legs now gives 25% Melee and Debuff Resist, not 30%. The pigeon lady only arrived in October.
Deadman Danny’s Close The Deal now does +55% bonus damage to targets under half health, down from +75%. Strix Salvo’s spirit scaling is 8% lower, and Chimera Mk1’s T2 heal on hit goes from 150 to 125.
Now the buffs. Rat King’s bullet damage goes from 5.7 to 5.8 and his ammo from 24 to 26, and Rule, Ratannia! gives +4m move speed, with its T1 now also cutting the cooldown by 25s. He was trimmed back in October, so this goes the other way. Nurse Harrow gets 8% more bullet damage, and Lurking Terrors builds fear faster, in 1.75s instead of 2s.
Mo & Krill get more healing from Scorn, a wider Burrow and 50 health per kill on Combo, up from 40. Apollo’s Riposte Pommel Hit now disarms the enemy too, and ends any parry they already had up.
The notes do not mention any downtime. Deadlock was sixth on Steam’s most-played chart when it was read this morning, and the Halloween update that came before this one was reported here on 31 October.
Source: Deadlock – Minor Update – 11-04-2026 (Steam), Steam – Deadlock