Lane
5k≈ 6–9 minBuy
19%Opening Rounds1,600
8%Extra Health800
8%ActiveGrit800
8%Extra Spirit800
8%ActiveRusted Barrel800Abilities
Builds
optimised by the simulator · generated 2026-10-23≥ 25% of offensive souls in each; vitality is free.
19%Opening Rounds1,6008%Extra Health8008%ActiveGrit8008%Extra Spirit8008%ActiveRusted Barrel800Early mid
12k≈ 13–16 minBuy next
9%Mystic Shot1,600
15%Spirit Shredder1,600
17%Enchanter's Emblem1,600
50%ActiveEcho Shard6,400Sold:
Abilities
Mid game
20k≈ 20–24 minBuy next
45%ActiveInfuser6,4005%Extra Spirit800
12%Mystic Vulnerability1,600Sold:
Abilities
Late game
32k≈ 30–35 minBuy next
5%Opening Rounds1,600
4%Titanic Magazine1,600
8%Battle Vest1,600
Upgrade9%Improved Spirit1,600
26%ActiveFocus Lens6,400Upgraded:
Abilities
Very late
45k≈ 40 min +Buy next
3%Kinetic Dash1,600
13%ActiveAlchemical Fire3,200
Upgrade21%Boundless Spirit6,400
Upgrade25%Escalating Exposure6,400Upgraded: Sold:
Sold: Abilities
Each phase lists what to buy since the previous one; the % on a card is how much of the build's score you lose without it. Lit pips under an ability are its upgrade tiers (green: new in this phase). Hover anything for details.
How builds are chosen
For each net worth, the optimiser searches items and ability upgrades that maximise the score: damage per second against the reference enemy × effective health^weight, averaged over short, standard and long fights, each both fresh and mid-match (long cooldowns still recovering from the previous fight). Each checkpoint starts from the previous one's items, so the builds read as a path.
Gun, spirit and hybrid differ only in where the offensive souls go. The fight assumptions (accuracy, distance, the target…) are on the Data page and adjustable in the simulator.
Abilities
Ability 1
Strix Salvo
25s
Launch a salvo of spirit missiles that lodge into the ground along a line. The missiles explode after a delay or upon detecting an enemy, dealing
spirit damage and marking the target.
Shooting a marked enemy with a charged shot consumes a mark to deal
bonus spirit damage and apply a fading slow.
Hold and drag to select the angle.
27
Damage
+0.74 × spirit power
45
Marked Damage
+1.1 × spirit power
40%
Fading Slow
- Mark Duration
- 10sscales with ability duration
- Slow Duration
- 1.5sscales with ability duration
- Explode Delay
- 6sscales with ability duration
- 1Tier 1-12s Cooldown
- 2Tier 2+30 Damage
+45 Marked Damage - 5Tier 3+2 Missiles, Longer Range, and Improved Spirit Scaling
Partly simulated
• The missiles lodge along a line: the target trips the zone uptime share of them (assumption zone-uptime); each one that hits marks it.
• Marks are consumed one per shot that lands, as if every follow-up shot were a charged shot (the duel does not simulate charging).
• The fading slow is not scored.
Values are base values with their scaling; the simulator shows them at a chosen net worth and build.
Growth without items
HealthGun DPS ×10Spirit power ×10
Value by net worth
Boons come with net worth; gun DPS is every bullet hitting at close range, no headshots. Items and investment bonuses come on top (see builds).
Patch history
Changed in the game files
- ▲ Deadman Danny: Chimera Mk1: Cooldown (multi scaling): -0.25 → -0.45 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: Chimera Mk1 T2: Heal On Hit (scaling): 1 → 2 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: Close The Deal T1: Damage: 50 → 90 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: Strix Salvo T3: Marked Damage (scaling): 0.2 → 0.35 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: Strix Salvo T3: Damage (scaling): 0.225 → 0.35 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: Strix Salvo T2: Damage: 20 → 30 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: Close The Deal: Bonus Damage: 50 → 75 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: weapon bullet damage: 12 → 15 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: Strix Salvo T2: Marked Damage: 35 → 45 (6782 → 6815)
- ▼ Deadman Danny: Chimera Mk1 T3: OverheatLockoutDurationReductionOnPlayerHitPercent: 40 → 50 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: Strix Salvo: Marked Damage (spirit scaling): 0.9 → 1.1 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: Chimera Mk1: Explosion Damage (weapon scaling): 1.15 → 1.4 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: base health regen: 2.5 → 3.25 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: Strix Salvo: Cooldown: 30 → 25 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: Chimera Mk1: Self Damage: 12 → 10 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲ Deadman Danny: max health: 680 → 730 (6782 → 6815)
- ▲Health regen increased from 2.5 to 3.25 2026-10-15
- ▲Base health increased from 680 to 730 2026-10-15
- ▲Gun - Base bullet damage for uncharged shots from 12 to 15 and charged shots from 44 to 48 2026-10-15
- ▲Chimera Mk1 - Cooldown boon scaling increased from -0.25 to -0.45 2026-10-15
- ▲Chimera Mk1 - Heal on hit spirit scaling increased from 1 to 2 2026-10-15
- ▲Chimera Mk1 weapon scaling increased from 1.15 to 1.4 2026-10-15
- ▲Strix Salvo - Cooldown from 30s to 25s 2026-10-15
- ▲Strix Salvo - Damage spirit scaling from 0.9 to 1.1 2026-10-15
- ▲Strix Salvo - T2 increased from "+20 damage / +35 mark damage" to "+30 damage / +45 mark damage" 2026-10-15
- ▲Strix Salvo - T3 increased from +0.2 spirit scaling to +0.35 2026-10-15
- ▲Close the Deal - 1AP increased from +50 to +90 2026-10-15
- ▼Chimera Mk1 - Slow effectiveness in air reduced by 15% 2026-10-15
- ▲Rocket Jumping - Self damage from 6.5% max HP to 5% and is now spirit damage 2026-10-15
- ▲Close The Deal - Bonus damage to under half health targets increased from +50% to +75% 2026-10-15
Weapon
Chimera Peace Bringer- Bullet damage
- 15
- Fire rate
- 4 /s
- Magazine
- 14
- Reload
- 3.2 s
- Falloff
- 18–47 m
- Headshot
- ×1.65
- DPS
- 60 / 31.3
Base stats
- Health
- 730
- Health regen
- 3.25
- Move speed
- 6.4
- Sprint speed
- 1.6
- Stamina
- 3
- Light melee
- 50
- Heavy melee
- 116
- Headshot damage taken
- 1
Per boon
- Bullet damage
- +0.42
- Alt-fire bullet damage
- +1.6
- Health
- +39
- Melee damage
- +1.58
- Spirit power
- +1.1
35 boons in all, the last at 49.2k souls.
Investment bonuses
| Souls | Weapon dmg | Base health | Spirit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 800 | +9% | +9% | +7 |
| 1.6k | +12% | +12% | +11 |
| 2.4k | +15% | +15% | +15 |
| 3.2k | +18% | +20% | +19 |
| 4.8k | +46% | +38% | +38 |
| 6.4k | +54% | +42% | +45 |
| 8k | +62% | +46% | +52 |
| 11.2k | +74% | +50% | +59 |
| 16k | +86% | +54% | +66 |
| 22.4k | +100% | +60% | +75 |
| 28.8k | +115% | +66% | +100 |
Souls spent in a category (each owned item's full price) unlock the highest tier reached. The biggest step is at 4.8k; after it each tier adds less per soul (weapon: +17.5% per 1k souls up to it, +5% per 1k to the next), so piling souls into one category has diminishing returns. Builds and tier lists include it.
Model notes
- Neither firing mode can headshot (deadlock.wiki).
- The duel fires uncharged shots only: charged shots (two ammo, splash weapon damage) are not simulated.