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Deadlock Guide

How to Unlock Flex Slots in Deadlock

Beginner
Mechanics
Updated on Nov 22, 2024
Nov 22, 2024

What are Flex Item Slots?

In Deadlock, you start the game with 12 item slots:

  • 4 for Weapon Items (related to you upgrading your gun)

  • 4 for Vitality Items (related to upgrading your health, resistances, and overall survivability)

  • 4 for Spirit Items (related to you upgrading your abilities)

4 flex slot examples

However, by accomplishing certain objectives throughout a match, you can unlock 4 Flex Slots.

Flex Slots can be filled with any mix of Weapon, Vitality, and Spirit Items

How to Unlock Flex Item Slots

By highlighting the Flex Slot from a Shop, you can see the different objectives required.

how to unlock a flex slot in deadlock

The four objectives that unlock Flex Slots are (in order of difficulty):

  1. Destroy 2 enemy Walkers

  2. Destroy all enemy Guardians

  3. Destroy all enemy Walkers

  4. 1 Shrine and 2 Base Guardians

References:

A Guardian is the first "turret" in a lane.

guardian example

A Walker is the seconds "turret" in a lane.

walker example

And lastly, a Shrine is one of the two structures that keeps a Patron alive. It's very similar to the "Inhibitor" from League of Legends.

shrine example