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DeadlockDeadlock Venator Guide and Overview

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

Celeste's hero tags are: Devout, Arms Expert, and Tactical

Overview

Venator is a weapons specialist that excels in a multitude of ranges.What he lacks in speed and mobility, Venator more than makes up for it by simply scaling in raw weapon damage. And as such, his items and build paths should focus extremely hard in the Nnon-Conditional Weapon Damage stat such as Glass Cannon.

From offical Steam page:

"Venator doesn't walk the righteous path, he blazes the trail so that others may do so safely. His biggest challenge is knowing which weapon to use first. Firing a Consecrating Grenade into the fray softens up his enemies and keeps them from restoring health, and his Hex-Lined Snap Trap scatters across the ground to lock them in place. A Gutshot from his shotgun will knock back enemies who get too close, and when the time is right, Ira Domini will rid the world of evil once and for all. - "Today, nine commandments will have to do."

Strengths And Weaknesses Summary

Unique scaling potential, Venator is the first hero to have skills to scale with Weapon Damage exclusively and therefore has unique ways to scale his damage.
Tools for every situation in the game, Ira Dominifor long ranges, Gutshot for close ranges and Consecrating Grenade for heal-cut as well.
The Blessed modifier also allows Venator to deal the very rare form of “Pure” Damage, which also executes as well.(Pure Damage meaning it cannot be modified by any means, so no armor or amps)

Very slow and lacks mobility tools, Venator players need to space and position correctly in order to survive in fights.
Super item dependent, his unique form of spell scaling is dependent on Weapon Damage and not Spirit, compared to most characters. This means Venator takes much longer to scale throughout the game as Weapon Damage is much more costly.
Since most of Venator’s damage is gun damage, items such as Bullet Resilience and Metal Skin mitigate Venator’s damage incredibly well. This affects the impact damage of Consecrating Grenade, Gutshot and Ira Domini as well!

Deadlock Venator Abilities

Underlined = Scales with Spirit

Consecrating Grenade (1)
Fire a grenade that bounces before exploding, dealing weapon damage and setting enemies on fire. Burning targets deal pure damage to enemies in the area and suffer from reduced healing.
25s Cooldown	4.5m Range	35 Damage
-30% Healing Reduction	On Hit: 10 Damage Per Second	3.5s Debuff Duration and 4.5m Burn Radius

Consecrating Grenade (1)

Consecrating Grenade

Fire a grenade that bounces before exploding, dealing weapon damage and setting enemies on fire.

Burning targets deal pure damage to enemies in the area and suffer from reduced healing.

25s Cooldown

4.5m Range

35 Damage

-30% Healing Reduction

On Hit: 10 Damage Per Second

3.5s Debuff Duration and 4.5m Burn Radius

Consecrating Grenade Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
-5s Cooldown	+1.5m Explosion & Burn Radius	-20% Healing Reduction and allow Charges

Tips for Consecrating Grenade

Smart usage of Consecrating Grenade can allow Venators to bounce the grenade behind cover or check to veils.

Gutshot (2)
Fire a blast with your shotgun, dealing weapon damage and pushing enemies back. Enemies near a wall receive stun and take bonus weapon damage.
23s Cooldown	10m Radius
60 Damage
On Wall Hit: 30 Bonus Damage	On Wall Hit: 0.65 Stun Duration

Gutshot Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
25 Damage	-10s Cooldown and +0.4s stun Duration	On Wall Stun: Your next heavy melee is blessed

Tips for Gutshot

Gutshot can be used similar to the Shiv's alt fire movement technique as a clutch movement tool. Simply fire against a wall and wall bounce to get an explosive jump to escape dangerous situations.
Gutshot can also launch players farther by simply aiming upwards towards their heads and can send players towards a smart and pre-placed Hex-Lined Snap Trap.

Hex-Lined Snap Trap (3)
Kick a trap that arms after a brief delay. The trap springs on the first enemy it touches, dealing spirit damage, applying immobilize, and revealing enemies for a duration afterwards.
2m Range	25s Cooldown	80 Damage
6s Debuff Duration	1.5s Immobilize Duration	30s Lifetime

Hex-Lined Snap Trap (3)

Hex-Lined Snap Trap

Kick a trap that arms after a brief delay.

The trap springs on the first enemy it touches, dealing spirit damage, applying immobilize, and revealing enemies for a duration afterwards.

2m Range

25s Cooldown

80 Damage

6s Debuff Duration

1.5s Immobilize Duration

30s Lifetime

Hex-Lined Snap Trap Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
-8s Cooldown	0.75s Immobilize Duration	You deal +25% against targets

Tips for Hex-Lined Snap Trap

Make sure to use Hex-Lined Snap Trap in smart positions such as airvents, behind Veils and right on top of where you plan on playing. Kiting around the Bear Trap is key to surviving and killing players that wish to engage on the Venator.

Ira Domini (4)
Load your crossbow with 3 stakes, dealing massively increased weapon damage. The final stake is blessed, dealing bonus Pure Damage and executing low-health enemies.
15s Duration	140s Cooldown	120 Damage
While Blessed: 100 Bonus Damage	While Blessed: 8% Execute Threshold

Ira Domini (4)

Ira Domin

Load your crossbow with 3 stakes, dealing massively increased weapon damage.

The final stake is blessed, dealing bonus Pure Damage and executing low-health enemies.

15s Duration

140s Cooldown

120 Damage

While Blessed: 100 Bonus Damage

While Blessed: 8% Execute Threshold

Ira Domini Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
While Active: Gain 1.2 m/s Move Speed	-15s Ability Cooldown and +65 Bonus Damage	All Stakes are Blessed

Tips for Ira Domini

Ira Domini is Venators strongest and slowest attack, it is best used when players are retreating, or trapped in Hex-Lined Snap Trap. Gutshot can be simultaneously used while Ira Domini is active for a guaranteed shot as well.

Venator Build Guide

Check out best starter build for Venator

Deadlock Venator Weapon Stats

DPS	63.5
Bullet Damage	8
Ammo	33
Bullets per Second	7.94
Light Melee	50
Heavy Melee	125

Deadlock Venator Vitality Stats

Max Health	750
Health Regen	2
Bullet Resist	0%
Spirit Resist	0%
Move Speed	6.4 m/s
Sprint Speed	1.5 m/s
Stamina	3

How to Counter Venator

Venator requires a lot of souls and time in order to truly become the damage powerhouse, and as such has a very modest laning phase. Poking out the Venator with short and quick trades is ideal as he cannot retaliate very well outside of Gutshot.
Cannot deal with getting engaged upon, Venator is also both slow and lacks mobility so he suffers immensely when getting engaged upon with items such as Majestic Leap or Warp Stone.
Deals almost zero Spirit damage, which leads to him being very easy to mitigate with items with Bullet Resistance or Disarming Hex. Metal Skin also mitigates all of his weapon damage and his ability damage as well. (Outside of Blessed attacks)
Disarming Hex also makes Venator unable to shoot Ira Domini as well.
Characters with great zoning tools such as Graves Tombstone or Wall as well as strong displacement tools like Bebop’s Hook or Lash’s Death Slam work exceedingly well against Venator.
Hex-Lined Snap Trap can be shot and destroyed.