How to play Viscous in Deadlock?

Viscous is classified as a Rolls around deflecting bullets in Deadlock. Viscous vexes his opponents through clever evasion and strategic uses of healing, enabling him to withstand the most brutal of enemy attacks. Learn their optimal ability order, core item builds, and matchup strategies on Lockbuilds.

What are the best builds for Viscous in Deadlock?

Top item builds for Viscous prioritize core weapon and spirit items tailored to their abilities and lane matchups. Explore high-win-rate community and pro builds on Lockbuilds.

What are Viscous's abilities in Deadlock?

Viscous features unique signature abilities scaling with spirit power and weapon damage. Check this overview page for full ability breakdowns and cooldowns.

Where can I find current Viscous Deadlock stats and win rates?

Lockbuilds provides real-time win rates, pick rates, tier placement, and matchup analytics for Viscous across all competitive rank tiers in the current Deadlock patch.

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Viscous - Deadlock Hero Stats & Guide

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Hero Summary

Viscous leans most into support utility and damage output, while close-range brawling is the weakest part of the profile. Viscous performs best into Mirage and Silver. Viscous struggles most into Victor and Graves. Viscous pairs best with Ivy and Graves. Viscous has the weakest synergy with Silver and Sinclair. Magic Carpet is Viscous's best win-rate item at 56.9%. Mystic Expansion is bought most often at 72.6%. Mystic Burst is usually picked up early at around 3.0 min.

Play Style

Win Rate

48.5%

Pick Rate

24.9%

Dominates

The Doorman26k Matches

52.67%Viscous - Win

Current Patch

Loses to

Current Patch

Best Synergy

Current Patch

Worst Synergy

The Doorman10k Matches

55.61%Viscous - Loss

Current Patch

Best Items

ItemWR ChangePR Change

Spirit Burn

Tier 4•6,400

56.37%-2.49%127,417-2.08%

Scourge

Tier 4•6,400

56.33%-11.2%10,120-1.4%

Diviner's Kevlar

Tier 4•6,400

56.28%+3.59%22,729-0.55%

Escalating Exposure

Tier 4•6,400

55.72%-5.33%43,930+1.7%

Mystic Reverb

Tier 4•6,400

55.68%-4.72%153,269+5.3%

Spellslinger

Tier 4•6,400

55.39%-4.12%13,702-3.81%

Phantom Strike

Tier 4•6,400

55.13%-3.06%24,673-3.07%

Witchmail

Tier 4•6,400

55.05%-16.53%32,116-2.91%

Colossus

Tier 4•6,400

54.17%-13.36%13,057-1.08%

Infuser

Tier 4•6,400

53.91%-24.66%6,718+0.28%

Current Patch

Counter Items

ItemWR ChangePR Change

Disarming Hex

Tier 3•3,200

63.69%-1.65%22,393-3.29%

Metal Skin

Tier 3•3,200

63.45%-3.22%20,127+0.05%

Weapon Shielding

Tier 2•1,600

61.02%+3.88%3,738-1.42%

Bullet Resilience

Tier 3•3,200

58.30%+1.27%26,348-1.29%

Return Fire

Tier 2•1,600

57.70%-13.13%10,708-0.39%

Knockdown

Tier 3•3,200

57.67%-0.41%46,792-4.37%

Slowing Hex

Tier 2•1,600

56.44%+2.17%19,251-6.66%

Suppressor

Tier 2•1,600

56.13%+3.63%8,877-0.33%

Decay

Tier 3•3,200

55.89%+2.37%7,205-3.84%

Battle Vest

Tier 2•1,600

55.84%+6.35%63,691-2.52%

Current Patch

Hero Base Stats

Weapon

Falloff range:20 -> 58

Damage per second:49

Bullet damage:10.34

Bullets per second:4.76

Shoot move speed:-25%

Clip size:20

Reload_duration:2.50s

Bullets speed:254m/s

Light melee:63

Heavy melee damage:116

Vitality

Max health:780

Base health regen:2

Bullet resistance:0%

Spirit resistance:0%

Reducing critical damage:0%

Max move speed:7.2m/s

Sprint speed:1.6m/s

Stamina:3

Stamina regen:5s

Spirit

Ability cooldown:0%

Ability duration:0%

Ability range:0%

Spirit lifesteal:0%

Max charges increase:0

Charge cooldown:0%

Spirit power:0

Damage 55

Charges 0

Damage 20

Damage 110

Bonuses Per Boon

REACHING EACH THRESHOLD GIVES:

Unlock skills or skill points

Skills are unlocked on the 0th, 1st, 4th and 6th gifts.

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

The rewards reach their maximum on the 32nd gift.

+0.36 to base Bullet Damage

+45 to base Health

+1.58 to base Melee Damage

+1.3 to Spirit Power

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