Deadlock Adds Hero Bans During Major January Patch

While everyone is focused on the new heroes getting added to Deadlock, the developers made a different addition. Hero Bans are coming to Deadlock and there is little doubt what will be getting banned first. This is what we know about this latest update.

Deadlock Hero Bans

Many different games use Bans for their Hero pool, but getting them for Deadlock was not entirely expected. At least, not yet.

In a surprise update just a day after Graves won the latest hero vote, famed developer Yoshi went to the forums to update players. The first line of the update looks like this:

“- Added hero banning to Standard Mode and Street Brawl. You can now select one hero in your roster screen (using middle click) to tell the matchmaker that you prefer to avoid that hero. When the game starts, it will tell you which heroes were banned. We are doing just 2 total bans for now. This does not affect new heroes in the initial release window.”

You can see the other parts of the update here.

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What Does This Mean?

It is pretty clear that things are continuing to ramp up as Deadlock gets itself ready for either Open Beta, Beta or potentially even a full on launch.

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Adding hero bans can be divisive, though. Some players love it, especially when a certain hero is especially strong. Others will abuse it to ban things out against their teammates. It will be interesting to see how the community reacts to Hero Bans and how it may change the meta.

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