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DeadlockDeadlock Rem Guide and Overview

In this Deadlock Rem guide, you’ll learn the fundamentals of their abilities, unique play styles, and fundamental tips.

Rem's hero tags are: Helpful, Tiny, and ZZZ

Deadlock Rem Overview

Rem is a unique hero that is very weak in combat and relies heavily on good macro decisions both in map pressure and in fights.

The majority of Rem's power comes from Lil Helpers and can be used to tactically steal Sinner's Sacrifices and shove lanes without appearing

From the official Deadlock Steam page:

"An accidental stowaway from the world of dreams, Rem has found himself stranded in the city that never sleeps. Pillow fights are Rem's preferred form of conflict, tossing his favorite pillow at enemies to knock them back when they're getting too close.

His friends, however, he likes to keep nearby - leaping to their aid when things get dicey and taking a quick nap on their shoulder. His Lil Helpers are curious creatures, taking interest in everything the streets of New York have to offer, and cheering on his allies as they go.

Ultimately when Naptime hits, no one will be able to keep their eyes open. - The best part of being asleep, is being asleep."

Strengths And Weaknesses Summary

Strong saboteur
Map presence from tunnels and Lil Helpers
High skill floor, easy to survive

Low character agency, dependent on draft
Weak in direct combat
Lacks mobility outside of Tag Along

Deadlock Rem Abilities

In tunnels, Rem gets a large boost to speed, so use them often for fast ganks and map pressure (goes from 10 M/S to 16 M/S). Tunnels can't be accessed if you have taken damage from a player source, similar to Majestic Leap.

Underlined = Scales with Spirit

Pillow Toss (1)
Throw your trusty pillow inflicting spirit damage and heavy knockback. Landing hits reduces the cooldown of your abilities.
75 Damage	-45% Fading Move Speed	Displacement: 0.4s
3s Debuff Duration		-4s Cooldown on Pillow Hit
5m Range	25s Cooldown	1 Charges

Pillow Toss Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
-7s Cooldown	Applies -40% Fire Rate	+90 Damage and +2m Radius

Tips for Pillow Toss

Pillow Toss is best used for counter-engages, the knockback can stop abilities like Shiv's Slice and Dice or simply to get some distance from frontline heroes such as Abrams or Mo And Krill.

Tag Along (2)
Jump to an ally and nap alongside them. Both you and the ally recieve a burst heal based on missing health followed by lingering regeneartion. Hop between allies with 2 to refresh the duration, once per ally. You are knocked off if stunned by an Ultimate ability. You can use items and all self-casts target your ally instead.
15% Missing Health Burst	28/s Health Restored
23m Range	40s Cooldown

Tag Along (2)

Tag Along

Jump to an ally and nap alongside them. Both you and the ally recieve a burst heal based on missing health followed by lingering regeneartion.

Hop between allies with 2 to refresh the duration, once per ally.

You are knocked off if stunned by an Ultimate ability. You can use items and all self-casts target your ally instead.

15% Missing Health Burst

28/s Health Restored

23m Range

40s Cooldown

Tag Along Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
-8s Cooldown	Bonus Item Range, Duration and Barrier, Effectiveness while napping	Bonus spirit power while napping and for a short duraiton after waking.

Tips for Tag Along

Tag Along's duration resets upon recast to another ally, so look to extend accordingly.

Lil Helpers (3)
Send one of your Helpers to do a chore. They can collect boxes, do Sinner's Sacrifices, and be sent to follow allies. Follow a hero: Provides a short burst of spirit resist and fading move speed. Follow a trooper: Provides healing, damage, resists, and allows tagging along. When no hero is around, Helpers pickup souls and split them amongst the team. Can be cast during Tag Along. Helpers will take a nap for 15.1s after following someone.
Following Hero:	15% Spirit Resist +3m Move Speed 8s Duration	45m Range
Following Trooper:	+35 Damage / Resists 14/s Heal 50s Duration

Lil Helpers (3)

LiL Helpers

Send one of your Helpers to do a chore. They can collect boxes, do Sinner's Sacrifices, and be sent to follow allies.

Follow a hero: Provides a short burst of spirit resist and fading move speed.

Follow a trooper: Provides healing, damage, resists, and allows tagging along. When no hero is around, Helpers pickup souls and split them amongst the team.

Can be cast during Tag Along. Helpers will take a nap for 15.1s after following someone.

Following Hero:

15% Spirit Resist

+3m Move Speed

8s Duration

45m Range

Following Trooper:

+35 Damage / Resists

14/s Heal

50s Duration

Lil Helpers Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
+1 Helper	+8% Spirit Resist, +1m/s Move Speed	+2 Helpers, +15% Trooper Damage and Resist

Tips for Lil Helpers

Use it to steal Sinner's from tunnels.
You can also use on the Flagship Creep to empower it and disallow the Medkit to spawn during hte laning phase.

Naptime (4)
Rem's eyes cast your gaze forward, piercing walls and floors. Enemies in the gaze are slowed, reduced dah distance, and cannot use movement abilites. When the channel ends they fall asleep before waking up to a splitting headache that deals heavy spirit damage.
175s Cooldown	24m Radius	1.9s Charges
120 Wake Damage	100 Sleep Damage Threshold	25% Move/Dash Slow
20m Radius , 0.5s Min Sleep Time, 4.25s Sleep Duration

Naptime Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
-1 Stamina On Wake and no Stamina Regen while sleeping	Unstoppable and reduced damage while channeling	-40s Cooldown

Tips for Naptime

Since it looks through walls, you can look downward at Mid-Boss for a fantastic engage.

Rem Build Guide

Check out best starter build for Rem

Deadlock Rem Weapon Stats

DPS	61.5
Bullet Damage	16
Ammo	13
Bullets per Second	3.85
Light Melee	50
Heavy Melee	116

Deadlock Rem Vitality Stats

Max Health	650
Health Regen	2
Bullet Resist	0%
Spirit Resist	0%
Move Speed	7.2 m/s
Sprint Speed	4 m/s
Stamina	3

How to Counter Rem

Rem suffers 5% bonus Melee Damage, so punch items are more effective.
Ultimate Abilities that Stun can knock Rem off from Tag Along. Spells such as Dynamo's Singularity or Holliday's Lasso.
Pillow Toss is a long cooldown spell, so it is easy to engage Rem if they miss it.
Make sure to be on time for the Buff spawns (5m) and the Sinner's spawns (8m), so that Rem can't steal them against you!