Valve shipped Minor Update 10-14-2026 on the evening of October 14, Pacific time. It is a small patch aimed at two of the new City Never Sleeps heroes: Deadman Danny gets a broad buff and Baba gets toned down. Both are on our Deadlock characters page.
Deadman Danny
Danny launched on October 13 and lost more often than he won in his first days. The patch helps him almost everywhere:
| Change | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Base health | 680 | 730 |
| Health regen | 2.5 | 3.25 |
| Uncharged shot damage | 12 | 15 |
| Charged shot damage | 44 | 48 |
| Strix Salvo cooldown | 30s | 25s |
| Strix Salvo spirit scaling | 0.9 | 1.1 |
| Close The Deal bonus vs targets under half health | +50% | +75% |
Also changed:
- Chimera Mk1: cooldown boon scaling −0.25 → −0.45, heal on hit spirit scaling 1 → 2, weapon scaling 1.15 → 1.4. Its slow is 15% less effective in the air.
- Strix Salvo: T2 now gives +30 damage and +45 mark damage instead of +20 and +35; T3 gives +0.35 spirit scaling instead of +0.2.
- Close The Deal: the 1 AP upgrade goes from +50 to +90.
- Rocket jumping: self damage down from 6.5% to 5% of max health, and it is now spirit damage.
Baba
Baba loses some durability and some control:
- spirit resistance scaling 0.12 → 0.1, plus −7% base bullet resistance;
- Threadsap: cooldown 26s → 28s, and the spirit reduction on enemies now ends when Baba dies. In Street Brawl it lasts 35% less;
- Granny Long Legs: cooldown 30s → 32s. Repeated light melees in the air give less and less forward momentum, looking up no longer lifts her as high, and the heavy melee ground pound no longer picks up speed on slopes;
- Baba's Brew: barrier 100 → 90, barrier scaling 1.2 → 0.7, cooldown 25s → 27s.
Items
- Radiant Regeneration: spirit scaling 0.04 → 0.035.
What the numbers say
We compared normal-mode matches across all ranks before and after the patch (data from deadlock-api.com, times in UTC):
| Hero | Before | Win rate | After | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deadman Danny | 134,605 games | 38.6% | 590,179 games | 48.5% |
| Baba | 469,562 games | 53.6% | 173,445 games | 52.9% |
"Before" covers 03:11 on October 7 to 03:11 on October 15. For Danny that is really his first 30 hours, when everyone was still learning him. "After" runs from 03:11 on October 15 to 18:20 on October 22. So the jump of almost 10 points mixes the buff with players getting used to the hero. Baba lost less than a point of win rate but is picked far less: her pick share fell from 4.9% to 1.6%, partly because Violet and Nurse Harrow pulled players away.
For every hero after this patch, read Deadlock hero win rates after the October 14 patch. Fresh numbers land daily on our Deadlock tier list.