DeadlockDeadlock Lash Guide and Overview

Lash is a high-octane hero who thrives on getting up close and personal fast and comboing his opponents to death.

Definitely not easy to be effective with, but very satisfying to master the art of swinging to opponents and wrestling slamming entire teams.

Strengths

• Some of the best gap-closing and mobility in the game.

• Strong CC for both small and large fights.

• Great burst damage if executed correctly.

Weaknesses

• Mechanically demanding and falls flat if you miss your combo.

• Vulnerable to stuns and cc with less tankiness and HP than most melee chars.

• Easily poked by champions with range and good spacing.

Underlined = Scales with Spirit

Ground Strike (1)
Stomp the ground beneath you, damaging enemies in front of you. If you perform Ground Strike while airborne, you quickly dive towards the ground. Damage grows slower after 25m.
11m Radius	19s Cooldown
90 Stomp Damage	6 Damage Per Meter

Maxing the Ground Strike aerial dive allows you to cast it more often, adds a knock-up and slow making it harder for characters to run, and finally improves damage and scaling significantly.

Tips for Ground Strike

• If you need to use this when not airborne remember to double jump to get more damage out of your spell since it scales based on distance to ground. For example, when farming creeps.

• Master using ziplines to get verticality on your opponents and hitting a powerful ground strike which can often win the skirmish for you.

Grapple (2)
Pull yourself through the air toward a target. Using Grapple also restores one stamina charge and all air jumps and dashes.
1 Charges	2s Cooldown Between Charges	42s Cooldown
30m Range	20m/s Jump Velocity

Maxing Grapple, one of the best mobility skills in the game, allows you to cast it more often, increases the range at which you can cast, and gives you a damage buff culminating with a massive damage buff at max rank.

Tips for Grapple

• Use this on friendly units, champs and even buildings like towers. It’s an incredible escape tool as well as offensive initiation.

• Grapple will help you get vertical position and distance after ziplining. Combine with double jump and you have a lot of skill expression to work with.

• Heck, you can even grapple after grappling for even more shenanigans, but it leaves you without an escape.

Flog (3)
Strike enemies with your whip, stealing life from them.
25m Range	70% Heal vs heroes	26s Cooldown
65 Damage	25% Heal vs non-heroes	30° Attack Angle

Flog can be ranked up to slow enemies, reduce the cooldown, and finally do more damage and hinder enemy offensive capabilities.

Tips for Flog

• You can heal vs creeps in a pinch, but if you poke a hero with this you will heal for a lot more. Remember that when using the longer cooldown version early on.

Death Slam (4)
Focus on enemies to connect whips to them. After channeling, connected enemies are lifted and stunned then slammed into the ground. Your victims and any enemies in the landing zone will be damaged and slowed. Press [LMC] to throw connected enemies early. Enemies that are not in line of sight or go out of range during the latch time will not be grabbed.
2s Channeling Time	18m Radius	138s Cooldown
115 Damage	12m Max Throw Distance
50% Movement Slow	4s Slow Duration	.3s Charge Time

Maxing your Death Slam makes you able to catch enemies from further away, do more damage, and then eventually cast it more frequently. It’s incredibly powerful when used correctly and you can catch whole teams.

Tips for Death Slam

• You can throw people anywhere you want with this move, so try and alley oop your teammates, especially if its a stalemate and you catch someone out.

• Remember this character relies on verticality, so use grapple to get some good vantage on people.