Lash combos

Patch 09-16-2026. Also on this hero: Lash's kit and matchups.

Sequences for Lash, and a builder for making your own. Every figure below — cooldowns, ranges, melee damage, item costs and cast delays — is read from the game's own extracted data on patch 09-16-2026. Ability damage is shown as its base value, because Deadlock scales ability damage with Spirit Power and those coefficients are not in the data; a total that treated base as final would be wrong by more the better you were doing.

Beginner

  • Height Stomp

    Lane pressure Derived

    The one thing every Lash has to learn: Ground Strike pays by fall height, so gaining height before you press it is the whole ability. Grapple is the cheapest way up.

    1. Grapple 30m Range35s Cooldown Lash hurls his whip at a point or target and yanks himself through the air toward it. Damage No direct damage. T2 grants +7 weapon damage for 6s. Mobility Long-range aerial pull that also resets air jumps and dashes, letting him… Defensive Indirectly — grappling away over a rooftop is often his only exit. 1 +20m cast range and +7 weapon damage for 6s. 2 +1 charge, and on cast grants +1 stamina and 60% air control. Grapple — Grapple something above you. The point is the height, not the travel.
    2. Ground Strike 18s Cooldown Lash slams the ground in front of him for damage. Crowd Control None at base. T2 adds a knockup plus a 40% movement slow for 3s, which is… Damage 60 base stomp damage plus 5.5 damage per meter of fall height, with the… Mobility Airborne cast is a fast downward dive; 1 knockup plus 40% slow for 3s on hit. 2 +120% damage per meter with improved spirit scaling. Ground Strike — Strike on the way down. Damage rises 5.5 per metre fallen.
    3. 4 shots — Finish on the ground while they are still slowed.

    Composed from this site's own extracted ability data — Ground Strike's per-metre scaling and Grapple's 30m range. Not demonstrated in a guide.

  • Flog Trade

    Trading Derived

    The lane trade that pays for itself. Flog heals a share of the damage it deals, so opening with it and following with weapon fire wins an even trade on health even when it is even on damage.

    1. Flog 20m Range26s Cooldown A whip lash across the arc in front of Lash that returns a share of the damage dealt to him as health. Crowd Control None at base. T1 adds a 28% movement slow for 3s; T2 adds a 30% fire rate… Damage 65 base (deadlock.one). Defensive The heal is his only self-sustain; 1 28% movement slow for 3s. 2 30% fire rate reduction on hit, -16s cooldown. 5 +80 damage, wider angle (+25), +15% heal. Flog — Open with it — the heal is a share of damage dealt, so it wants a full-health target.
    2. 6 shots — Follow up while the T1 slow is still on them.

    Composed from Flog's authored damage and heal conversion, and the extracted weapon rate of fire.

Intermediate

  • Grapple Heavy

    Melee burst Derived

    Grapple closes 30m and leaves you on top of the target with no damage spent. Heavy melee is the largest single number Lash has outside his ultimate.

    1. Grapple 30m Range35s Cooldown Lash hurls his whip at a point or target and yanks himself through the air toward it. Damage No direct damage. T2 grants +7 weapon damage for 6s. Mobility Long-range aerial pull that also resets air jumps and dashes, letting him… Defensive Indirectly — grappling away over a rooftop is often his only exit. 1 +20m cast range and +7 weapon damage for 6s. 2 +1 charge, and on cast grants +1 stamina and 60% air control. Grapple — Grapple the target directly. Closes up to 30m.
    2. Heavy melee — Start the heavy as you arrive — it is 116, more than Flog.
    3. Flog 20m Range26s Cooldown A whip lash across the arc in front of Lash that returns a share of the damage dealt to him as health. Crowd Control None at base. T1 adds a 28% movement slow for 3s; T2 adds a 30% fire rate… Damage 65 base (deadlock.one). Defensive The heal is his only self-sustain; 1 28% movement slow for 3s. 2 30% fire rate reduction on hit, -16s cooldown. 5 +80 damage, wider angle (+25), +15% heal. Flog — Flog to slow them so they cannot simply walk out.

    Grapple range and Lash's 116 heavy melee are both extracted figures. The sequence is mechanically sound but is not documented in a guide.

  • Knockdown Setup

    Confirming an ultimate Derived

    Death Slam has to grab someone. Knockdown is a 3,200-soul active with a 0.1s cast delay that takes the target off their feet first, which removes the guesswork from a 170-second cooldown.

    1. Knockdown 3,200 souls Tier 3TechPress +35s Cooldown +0.1s Cast Delay +2s Stun Delay +0.5s Stun Duration +75 Bonus Health +5% Ability Range +5% Radius Knockdown — 0.1s cast delay, then a 0.5s stun.
    2. Death Slam 20m Range170s Cooldown Lash locks whips onto enemies he is looking at, channels briefly, then hoists everyone connected into the air and drives them into the ground, stunning them and dealing impact damage. Crowd Control Lift plus a stun on landing, with a slow applied after. Damage 105 impact damage, thrown up to 14m (deadlock.one). Mobility Can relocate the grabbed enemies up to 14m — that displacement is often the… 1 +6m cast range and a 1.2s stun on enemies inside the radius. Death Slam — Grab while they are down.

    Requires: The stun is what makes the grab reliable.

    What makes it fail
    • Knockdown's stun is 0.5s — this is a tighter window than it looks.
    • Both are on long cooldowns; a failed setup costs 35s and 170s together.

    Knockdown's 0.1s cast delay, 0.5s stun duration, 35s cooldown and 3,200 cost are all extracted item data.

Advanced

  • Nothing But Slam

    Teamfight initiation Documented

    A named, demonstrated Lash combo built entirely around Death Slam, shown landing roughly 2,500 damage. The video demonstrates it; the exact input order is not transcribed here because it has not been verified frame by frame.

    The input order is not transcribed here. It has not been verified frame by frame, and writing down a guess would be worse than linking the demonstration.

    Deadlock - Lash "Nothing But Slam" Combo (2.5k Damage)

  • Slam into Stomp

    Teamfight disruption Derived

    Death Slam at T3 stuns everything in the landing radius for 1.2 seconds. Ground Strike lands on a stationary pile. The stun is the window, and 1.2s is not long.

    1. Death Slam 20m Range170s Cooldown Lash locks whips onto enemies he is looking at, channels briefly, then hoists everyone connected into the air and drives them into the ground, stunning them and dealing impact damage. Crowd Control Lift plus a stun on landing, with a slow applied after. Damage 105 impact damage, thrown up to 14m (deadlock.one). Mobility Can relocate the grabbed enemies up to 14m — that displacement is often the… 1 +6m cast range and a 1.2s stun on enemies inside the radius. Death Slam — Throw into your own team. T3 stuns the landing radius for 1.2s.
    2. Ground Strike 18s Cooldown Lash slams the ground in front of him for damage. Crowd Control None at base. T2 adds a knockup plus a 40% movement slow for 3s, which is… Damage 60 base stomp damage plus 5.5 damage per meter of fall height, with the… Mobility Airborne cast is a fast downward dive; 1 knockup plus 40% slow for 3s on hit. 2 +120% damage per meter with improved spirit scaling. Ground Strike — Strike into the pile before the stun ends.

    Requires: The landing stun is a T3 effect. Without it there is no window.

    What makes it fail
    • The 1.2s stun is the entire window — a slow Ground Strike arrives after it.
    • Death Slam is on a 170s cooldown, so a miss costs the fight, not the trade.
    • Enemies with a cleanse remove the stun and the follow-up lands on nothing.

    Both the 1.2s T3 stun and the 170s cooldown are in this site's ability data. The pairing is mechanically sound; it is not transcribed from a demonstration.

Build your own

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Tech that works on every hero

These are not Lash's — they are the game's, and they apply to all 38 heroes. They are also the most out-of-date material on this page, because the people who documented them did so in 2024 and Deadlock has been patched continuously since. Each one says which patch its source was written against.

  • Heavy Melee Cancel (HMC)

    Source patch 11-13-2024

    A heavy melee gives you a burst of speed that is taken back when the punch animation finishes. Cancelling the animation with an active item keeps the speed.

    How: Hold melee to begin the heavy, then release and activate a cancelable active item before the swing completes.

    Needs: A cancelable active item. The sources name Fleetfoot, Melee Charge, Vampiric Burst, Colossus and Unstoppable.

    That same 11-13-2024 update removed built-in HMC from Abrams, Infernus, McGinnis, Mirage, Mo & Krill and Paradox, who previously had it in their base kits. Anything written before that date describes a different game.

    The Dignitas write-up prices Fleetfoot at 1,250 souls. This site's extracted item data, synced 2026-09-22, has it at 1,600 — so the article is demonstrably out of date on at least one checkable number, which is a fair warning about the rest of it.

    Heavy Melee Cancel (HMC) in Deadlock, Explained[Consistent] Heavy melee cancelling with fleetfootFleet Foot Melee Animation Cancel

  • Instant Air Dash (IAD)

    Source patch unknown

    A way to get a dash out the instant you leave the ground, rather than after the normal delay.

    How: Not transcribed here — the source thread describes it as behaviour that is probably unintended.

    Needs: Nothing bought.

    The thread that documents it argues it is a bug. Anything Valve considers a bug is a candidate for removal in any patch, so treat this as the least durable entry here.

    Instant Air Dash (IAD): what it is, how it works, and why it's probably a bug

  • Dash jumping and slide jumping

    Source patch unknown

    The base movement techniques that carry momentum between a dash, a jump and a slide, and the foundation every melee and ability approach is built on.

    How: Covered in full by the linked guide rather than summarised here, because the inputs are timing-based and a paraphrase would lose the part that matters.

    Needs: Stamina only.

    Movement has been tuned repeatedly since launch. The 09-16-2026 patch alone changed dash-slow values and parry interaction with dashes — see the patch notes.

    Deadlock Advanced Movement Guide: How to Dash Jump, Slide Jump, and MoreAnimation cancelling

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