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How to Unlock Flex Slots in Deadlock
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How to Unlock Flex Slots in Deadlock

Beginner
Mechanics
By MobalyticsUpdated on Sep 13, 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 Walker

  2. Destroy all enemy Guardians

  3. Destroy all enemy Walkers

  4. Destroy 1 enemy Shrine

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