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Deadlock: Essential tips for farming and staying up-to-date
This video offers five key tips to optimize farming in Deadlock and avoid falling behind in XP and gold. It covers minion wave management, the importance of not dying, efficient pathing, reducing base resets, and securing unsecured souls.
1. 🌊 Prioritize Minion Waves and Take Advantage of the 'Wave Window' in Deadlock
- ✅ In Deadlock, pushing minion waves is the foundation of time management and farming.
- ✅ Pushing a wave gives you a 'wave window', free time to do other things before the next wave arrives.
- ✅ Use this time to collect crates, harass enemies, or rotate to other areas of the map.
- ⚠️ Avoid having too many teammates share the same wave, as it reduces farming efficiency.
00:00 - 01:58
1. 🌊 Prioritize Minion Waves and Take Advantage of the 'Wave Window' in Deadlock
- ✅ In Deadlock, pushing minion waves is the foundation of time management and farming.
- ✅ Pushing a wave gives you a 'wave window', free time to do other things before the next wave arrives.
- ✅ Use this time to collect crates, harass enemies, or rotate to other areas of the map.
- ⚠️ Avoid having too many teammates share the same wave, as it reduces farming efficiency.
01:59 - 03:25
2. 🛡️ Reduce Deaths by Buying Defensive Items and Countering Enemy Compositions
- ✅ Dying means losing time and farming potential.
- ✅ Deadlock allows and encourages building defensive items, even in damage roles, to survive longer.
- ✅ Buy items that counter specific enemy threats (e.g., Spirit Shield against Calico, Reactive Barrier against Bbop).
- ✅ Surviving skirmishes gives you time to farm and gain an economic advantage.
- ⚠️ Dying while pressuring the enemy isn't always bad, as it can limit their farming and give you experience in the long run.
03:26 - 04:44
3. 🗺️ Efficient Pathing: Plan Your Route and Take Advantage of Nearby Resources
- ✅ Optimize your pathing to move around the map efficiently.
- ✅ After clearing a wave, look for the nearest objective (camp, crate, etc.) and do it before returning.
- ✅ Don't attempt distant objectives if you're not sure you'll arrive in time for the next wave.
- ✅ Look at the map constantly to make informed decisions about where to go and what to do.
04:45 - 05:58
4. ❤️ Minimize Base Resets by Utilizing Regeneration and Shops on the Map
- ✅ Returning to base frequently makes you lose valuable time.
- ✅ Take advantage of out-of-combat regeneration, healing minions, and allied abilities to stay on the map.
- ✅ If you need constant healing, buy the health regeneration item.
- ✅ Use the shops on the map (near T1 towers and secret shops in the jungle) to buy items without returning to base.
05:59 - 07:21
5. 💰 Secure Your Unsecured Souls by Buying Items or Farming Waves Safely
- ✅ Jungle souls (camps, crates, slot machines) are 'unsecured' until you spend them or convert them into safe farming.
- ✅ Souls from minion waves are 'secured'.
- ✅ If you die with a lot of unsecured souls, you'll lose them.
- ✅ Secure your souls by buying items (ideally in the secret shops) or farming waves near your structures.
- ✅ If you're going to fight a lot, farm the jungle in smaller intervals so you don't lose large amounts of souls when you die.
- ✅ When farming the jungle, use melee attacks while reloading and extend your magazine with dash slides to be more efficient.