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DeadlockDeadlock Vyper Guide and Overview

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

Vyper's hero tags are: Gunner, Slippery, Rat-a-Rat

Voice Actor: Stephanie Kerbis

Overview

Vyper is a hard carry with a singular focus on damage and mobility. She is one of the best chasers in the game and outputs some of the highest gun damage in the game.

Lore

When it comes to breaking the law, not getting caught is a pretty important part of the job. Vyper never got that memo. Luckily for her, if there's one thing she's better at than being arrested, it's escaping out of jail.

Having done time in every major prison in the tri-state area, Vyper has built an impressive network of street level lowlifes that owe her one. She's also built an impressive network of street level lowlifes that want her dead, but she tries to focus on the positive.

Strengths and Weaknesses Summary

High gun damage
Great Engage
High-stamina count

Prone to CC and lockdown
Low range
Relies on stamina and sliding for reloads

Deadlock Vyper Strength and Weaknesses

Strengths

Super high gun damage. Vyper has one of the highest DPS guns in the game, on top of her great synergy with sliding to give her infinite ammo. She can easily dominate teamfights alone by brute force.
Great rushdown abilities. Good engagement to target unaware enemies and chasing people down lanes. She specializes in running down solo/duo players in lane as it's perfect for her Slither ability.
Good evasion due to her extremely high stamina count. Vyper gains +2 stamina from Slither.

Weaknesses

Really weak to CC’s and knock-ups in particular. Getting knocked-up by spells like Holliday's Barrel or Lash's Death Slam will spell a quick death.
Really low range and low verticality, Vyper is a glass cannon that can only chase down slow targets like tanks or mages.
Vyper relies on sliding for reloads.

Deadlock Vyper Abilities

Underlined = Scales with Spirit.

Screwjab Dagger (1)
Throw a dagger, dealing Spirit Damage and applying a Fading Slow. Every subsequent dagger against the same target stacks in spirit damage and slow.
10s Cooldown	3 Charges
On Hit: 50 Damage	-35% Move Speed, -8% Bullet Resist
On Stack: 25 Damage per Stack	-15% Move Speed per Stack, -5% Bullet Resist per Stack
10s Stack Duration	3 Max Stacks

Screwjab Dagger Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
+1 Charge	On Hit: -8% Bullet Resist and -6% Bullet Resist per Stack	On Hit: Refund 55% Charge Cooldown, Increase max stacks by 2.

Tips for Screwjab Dagger

Try to hit the same enemy twice with Screwjab Dagger to keep up stacks and pressure.
Screwjab Dagger is best used when directly nearby enemies or during Vyper's reload in order to stick onto players better!

Lethal Venom (2)
Inject a target with lethal venom. After a delay the venom triggers, dealing Spirit Damage. The damage is increased by the target's missing health. Reapplying Venom refreshes the duration. Venom breaks Petrify before detonating.
10m Range	28s Cooldown
20 Minimum Venom Damage, 140 Max Venom Damage
25% Health for Max Damage, 3s Venom Buildup Duration

Lethal Venom Upgrades

1 AP

2 AP

5 AP

+35 Max Venom Damage

-40% Healing Reduction

Reduce Cooldown by 12 seconds

Bullets also build up Lethal Venom

Tips for Lethal Venom

Lethal Venom can damage enemies that are Petrified with Petrifying Bola.
Lethal Venom has a 3s timer so it is best used when players are under 50% HP!

Slither (3)
You have increased Slide Distance, can Slide up hills, and can turn faster while Sliding.
+15% Slide Distance

Slither (3)

Slither

You have increased Slide Distance, can Slide up hills, and can turn faster while Sliding.

+15% Slide Distance

Slither Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
+10% Slide Distance	+2 Stamina	180 health barrier when initiating a slide

Tips for Slither

Slither is amazing ability to circle enemies. It can be difficult to maintain a steady aim, so build Split Shot to improve your accuracy and benefit from Vyper's high fire rate.
Slither makes it so Vyper has an extremely high uptime to slide, so make sure to constantly be sliding especially up hills and stairs, in order to benefit the most from the infinite ammo from sliding.

Petrifying Bola (4)
Throw an explosive bola. On exploding, the bola Slows and Damages all enemies in the area. Direct hits deal additional Damage and Petrify instead. Petrified units block all damage, but cannot take actions. Petrified units break free after blocking enough damage.
12m Splash Radius, 115s Cooldown	Petrify, 2.2s Petrify Duration
50 Damage, 180 Petrify Damage
50% Movement Slow, 1.5s Slow Duration

Petrifying Bola Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
+55 Petrify Damage	-25s Cooldown	+1s Petrify Duration. Petrifies all enemies in the area.

Tips for Petrifying Bola

Petrified enemies cannot take damage except for Lethal Venom.
Petrifying Bola is a skill shot before it is upgraded to Tier 3, so you need to line it up and throwing it directly at enemies. At Tier 3, it becomes an Area of Effect ability.
Petrifying Bola is best used to cancel enemy disengages such as Infuser 's Flame Dash or Ivy 's Air Drop. Use Lethal Venom during their petrification in order for a rapid burst of damage!

Vyper Weapon Stats

DPS	90
Bullet Damage	6.3
Ammo	24
Bullets per Second	14.3
Light Melee	50
Heavy Melee	116

Vyper Vitality Stats

Max Health	700
Health Regen	2
Bullet Resist	0%
Spirit Resist	0%
Move Speed	7.01 m/s
Sprint Speed	2 m/s
Stamina	4

How to Counter Vyper

Vyper relies on her high fire rate to deal high damage. Disarming Hex,Juggernaut, Hunter's Aura and Suppressor can reduce her damage.
Vyper requires a lot of time and souls in order to scale her gun and her mobility, so kill and focus her during the early and mid game.
Vyper is super susceptible to Knock-ups or anything that slows her. If Vyper can't move, she cannot benefit from and the infinite ammo that comes with it.
Very low teamfight potential, so forcing large teamfights will really make it hard for Vyperto engage.