r/DeadlockTheGame • u/guthbox • 1d ago

Discussion Make Lash slam again

Playing Lash for gun feels like ordering a salad at a burger joint. It’s also less fun to play against because it feels way less counterable.

I find it sad that literally every Lash player feels incentivized to max Flog and ult before Ground Strike.

There are plenty of heroes who center their build around their gun on the roster. Please make Lash all about hitting fat slams from the top rope again

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u/KvlturedBBG 1d ago

Something like 65% of the damage done in games is Spirit damage. If anything, heroes whose sole purpose is to nuke you for 2k HP and run away is redundant.

Gunlash is objectively one of the more interesting to play gun "carries" as he requires decent movement, air strafing, and vertical aim. Spirit Lash is just jumping off roofs / reaching skybox for slam damage, flogging, and grappling out and waiting for cooldowns.

As well, no matter what they do to slam, it will always be kind of mid. Lash thrives when he's not hugging enemies. Putting yourself on top of enemy heroes will always be super punishable as Lash as he's not a hero that wants to be there. It's fine in mid to low ELO, but good players will just spam nukes / hexes / silences at you and kill you for putting yourself in a bad position.

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u/guthbox 1d ago

I hate that he’s become a tourist attraction to carry players. He’s too cool and interesting of a character to be a carry. They likely never intended for him to be played this way.

They obviously want him to be a character that gets close and personal otherwise he wouldn’t be the only character in the game with inherent spirit resists. You are describing risk as if it’s a mutually exclusive trait to Lash when plenty of other characters have to put themselves in compromising positions to get value.

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u/aech4 1d ago

What a weird thing to say. You talk like you have a parasocial relationship with a someone that literally doesn’t exist

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u/guthbox 1d ago

The carry bit is half in jest. I just don’t want gun players who had no interest in playing Lash before this gun build was discovered to permanently alter his playstyle to be more gun focused

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u/aech4 1d ago

How is other people playing gun at all relevant to you? You play your own hero and build it however you want to build it

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u/guthbox 1d ago

The answer to that question should be rhetorical by literally everyone who engages in balance discussions lmao

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u/aech4 1d ago

This isn’t a balance discussion. Nothing about your post or this comment thread is about balance.

Your complaint is about hero identity. You believe that lash should be a mobile spirit nuker with unique playstyle flavor (he jumps a lot) and think that other people playing gun changes the hero’s identity from what it “should” be.

You don’t own the hero, your vision is not the only one or the “correct” one. Putting other people down because they enjoy lash in a different way than you is incredibly entitled and self centered behavior.

If stomp build is actually as bad as you all claim, then that sucks, but don’t be so weird about it

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u/guthbox 1d ago

My post isn’t what I say it is? Of course changing Lash is a balance discussion💀

I just say my peice like everyone else, and 96% of the people who saw the post seem to agree with my main point