DeadlockDeadlock Kelvin Guide and Overview

Kelvin is a beginner-friendly hero who can adapt to a wide range of playstyles.

Want to be a tanky frontliner? Prefer to be more supportive with heals? Split push and apply pressure across the map? He’s your guy.

Strengths

• Hard to kill due to healing and debuffs.

• Highly mobile with fast-rotation potential.

• One of the best AoE disruptors.

Weaknesses

• Can get poked from afar due to operating at close-mid range.

• Slow rate of fire compared to other primary guns.

• Anti-healing items like Toxic Bullets, Healbane, and Decay.

Underlined = Scales with Spirit

Frost Grenade (1)
Throw a grenade that explodes in a cloud of freezing ice, damaging and slowing enemies.
1 Charges	7s Cooldown Between Charges	22s Cooldown
6.5m Radius	80 Damage	40% Movement Slow
4s Slow Duration

Maxing Frost Grenade lets you spam more grenades due to the increased charge, lets you provide AoE heals to yourself and team, and bumps up its overall damage.

Tips for Frost Grenade

• Items like Mystic Shot and its upgrades extend the radius of your Frost Grenade.

• In team fights, try to find the sweet spot where you can throw the Frost Grenade down at your legs to hit yourself, allies, and enemies.

Ice Path (2)
Kelvin creates a floating trail of ice and snow that gives movement bonuses to him and his allies. Kelvin gains 60% slow resistance for the duration. Enemies can also walk on the floating trail. Press [LEFT SHIFT] / [LEFT CTRL] to travel up or down while in Ice Path.
8s Duration	18s Duration	42s Cooldown
+2m/s Move Speed	+2m/s Sprint Speed

Maxing Ice Path allows you to be insanely mobile due to increased sprint speed, lower CD, and you’ll even get bonus Spirit Power as you create paths. This is your choice if you want to gank often, farm neutrals, and split push.

Tips for Ice Path

• You can make instant high ground on command, so look to create advantageous angles when engaging.

• It’s also a great way to catch a Vindicta or Grey Talon since they have slow movement speed while floating

Arctic Beam (3)
Shoot freezing cold energy out in front of you, damaging targets and building up movement and fire rate slow against them the longer you sustain the beam on them. You have reduced movement speed while using Arctic Beam.
5s Channel Time	25m Beam Length	24s Cooldown
60 DPS	40% Max Slow, 40% Max Fire Rate Slow	2s Slow Linger
2s Max Slow Build Time

Maxing Arctic Beam makes you an absolute menace in team fights you can extend the beam to bounce to 2 additional targets.

This alone can win extended teamfights as you’ll reduce the firing rate of all enemies hit with the beam.

Tips for Arctic Beam

• Track enemy build paths by pressing Tab and hovering their name. Identify the ones that are building toward Weapon (left-click) builds and look to prioritize them over enemies that are focusing on Spirit (ability) builds as they won’t be as hindered by your beam.

Frozen Shelter (4)
Kelvin freezes the air around him, creating an impenetrable dome around himself. While in the dome, allies rapidly regenerate health and enemies are slowed.
10m Radius	5.5s Duration	130s Cooldown
+110 Health Regen	35% Movement Slow

Maxing Frozen Shelter increases its Fire Rate Slow, significantly lowers its CD, and makes you even tankier while within the dome with boosted Health Regen. Essentially, it’s the tanky frontliner build.

Tips for Frozen Shelter

• Frozen Shelter can be clutch in offensive or defensive situations. On offense, look to wombo-combo with Haze or Seven who have incredibly strong AoE ults.

• Similarly on defense, you can put a Frozen Shelter around enemies channeling AoE abilities to prevent them from hitting anyone else but you (you’ll usually survive with your increased tankiness).