DeadlockDeadlock Warden Guide and Overview

Warden is a bruiser who is a potent duelist, can chase down enemies with blinding speed, and can really hold down a frontline.

He can make a big impact in teamfights by reducing enemy Stamina and by locking down key threats.

Strengths

• Tanky frontliner, especially into Spirit-based builds.

• Excels at chasing down fleeing enemies.

• Great at clearing jungle and roaming.

Weaknesses

• Can get poked down from afar, lacks a long-range ability.

• Needs space to get ultimate off since it has a windup.

• Snare isn’t the best engage as its pretty easy to escape with Stamina.

Underlined = Scales with Spirit

Alchemical Flask (1)
Throw a flask that damages, slows, and reduces the weapon damage and stamina of enemies it hits.
7m Radius	14s CD
55 damage	20% Move Speed Slow	-30% Weapon Damage
6s Debuff Duration

Maxing Alchemical Flask improves its burst damage, increases its Stamina Reduction, decreases its CD, and adds a Fire Rate slow. Taking this path helps you debuff enemies more often and gives you more AoE punch.

Tips for Alchemical Flask

• This ability has a very low cooldown so spam it often - use it to farm waves and neutral camps faster, to harass your enemies, and to set up a target for a Snare since it reduces their Stamina.
  

Willpower (2)
Gain a spirit shield and bonus movement speed.
7s duration	42s CD
150 Spirit Shield Health	15% Move speed bonus

Maxing Willpower improves your speed steroid, halves its cooldown, and gives you an even stronger Spirit Shield.

Tips for Willpower

• If you’re new, Spirit refers to the damage and scaling of abilities. So Warden’s Willpower Spirit Shield makes him tankier against enemy abilities but doesn’t provide protection against Weapon damage. Keep that in mind when taking fights.

• Use this with items like Fleetfoot to make you turbo fast.

Binding Word (3)
Curse an enemy hero. If they don't move away from their initial position within the escape time, they will be damaged and immobilized.
20m range	37s CD
120 damage	1.75s Immobilize Duration
2.5s Escape Time	16m Escape Range

Maxing Binding Word optimizes Warden’s lockdown potential, with a longer Immobilize duration, decreased cooldown, and additional Bullet Damage against snared targets.

Tips for Binding Word

• As we mentioned earlier in Weaknesses, Binding Word’s snare can be tough to use against smart opponents who save their Stamina. Instead, look to snare them after landing a flask, or as a follow-up to another crowd control effect from your team.

Last Stand (4)
After charging for 2.2s, releases pulses that damage enemies and heal you based on the damage done. While channeling Last Stand you have greatly increased bullet resist.
12m radius	6s duration	138s CD
100 DPS	0.5s Pulse Interval	100% Hero Lifesteal
50% Non-hero Lifesteal

Maxing Last Stand increases its AoE pulse radius, improves its damage, and lets you cast it more often.

Tips for Last Stand

• Be aware of which enemy heroes can interrupt your casting time for Last Stand as it has a decent windup time. If there are a lot of interrupters, try to find cover to cast it before rejoining the fight.