Baba vs Lash

Do

• Plan for Knockdown 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 — know which tier it sits in so you are not improvising at the shop.
• Know what Grapple 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. looks like. It is the cooldown this lane revolves around.

Avoid

• Walking to lane on the same path every wave against a hero with Lash's engage range.

Do

• The 09-16-2026 falloff nerf (to roughly 16m-48m) makes his gun genuinely bad at safe-lane range, so a mid-range laner can just out-shoot him.
• His slot-1 and slot-3 both require him to be in a cone at close range; a laner who holds distance and uses cover gives him nothing.
• Threadsap Threadsap 35m Range26s Cooldown Baba throws a spool of thread that follows her crosshair as it flies, then bursts along the whole line it drew. Crowd Control none at base. Tier 3 makes each hit pull the enemy 7m along the thread. Damage 50 spirit damage on the burst. Defensive Taking Spirit away from a caster lowers the damage of their next abilities… 1 +8 spirit damage per bullet while she holds stolen Spirit 2 -12s cooldown and +8s on the steal 5 +1 charge, and every hit pulls the enemy 7m reaches 35m and steals Spirit from both laners at once if they stand in line, so she wins spirit trades early

Avoid

• Flog 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. lets him take losing trades and heal back off the trooper wave, so he rarely has to leave lane on low HP even after the 40% heal nerf.
• Grapple 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. gives him a lane exit and re-entry no other close-range laner matches; he can dive an orb, take it, and grapple out.

Do

• Their first real spike is Grapple 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. T2 / first Mystic Burst Mystic Burst 800 souls Tier 1TechPassive +14s Cooldown +40 Damage +14s Charge-Up Time (roughly 3k souls) — respect it from that point, not before.
• Your spike is ult unlock: Feed The Birds Feed The Birds 18m Range150s Cooldown Baba channels for up to 6.5 seconds, covering enemies in front of her with bread. Crowd Control A stacking slow up to 32% during the channel (64% at Tier 1), then a pigeon… Damage Up to 450 spirit damage per target at full stacks (+1.6 per Spirit), reached… Mobility She can keep moving while she channels. 1 +4m cast range and +32% max slow 2 -55s cooldown 5 +125 max damage, +1.5 Spirit scaling and +0.5s on the hex lets her slow and hex a whole team that walks into her cone

Avoid

• Taking an even fight against Lash on their spike timing when you could take the same fight ten minutes later on yours.

Do

• Watch for Death Slam 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. . Spread out. Death Slam 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. only pays for itself when it grabs two or more — walking as a spread line through mid makes it a single-target 105-damage ult.
• Buy anti-heal ( Healbane Healbane 1,600 souls Tier 2ArmorPassive +8s Duration +7 Spirit Power -35% Incoming Healing -35% Incoming Healing +275 Heal On Hero Kill / Toxic Bullets Toxic Bullets 3,200 souls Tier 3WeaponPassive -35% Incoming Healing -35% Incoming Healing ) before his first big spirit item; Flog 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. 's 40% conversion is the load-bearing part of every dive he makes.

Avoid

• Spending your own escape before Grapple 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. is on cooldown.

• Death Slam 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. Ultimate

  Once this lands the fight is usually already decided — lift plus a Stun on landing, with a slow applied after.

  • Spread out. Death Slam only pays for itself when it grabs two or more — walking as a spread line through mid makes it a single-target 105-damage ult.
  • Stun, Silence, or displace Lash during the channel and the ultimate is wasted entirely; hold one interrupt specifically for this.
  • Unstoppable Unstoppable 6,400 souls Tier 4ArmorInstantCast +60s Cooldown +5.5s Duration +125 Bonus Health +25% Debuff Resist Builds from Debuff Reducer -style or Stun-immunity timings used as the whips attach ignore the pickup.
• Ground Strike 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. Ability 1

  Nothing to respect until the upgrade lands, and then T2 adds a Knockup plus a 40% movement slow for 3s, which is what turns it from damage into a pickup tool.

  • Watch the skyline. A Lash gaining altitude is charging this ability; step under a ceiling or into a doorway so he cannot get a clean vertical line.
  • The dive is a fixed downward path with no steering — sidestep or dash laterally the moment he commits and the slam lands on empty floor.
  • Standing on a walkway with hard cover above you caps his fall distance and guts the per-meter damage.
• Flog 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. Ability 3

  The control here is bought rather than baseline — T1 adds a 28% movement slow for 3s; T2 adds a 30% fire rate reduction.

  • Do not stand in the cone in front of him — Flog is frontal, so strafing behind or past him denies both the damage and the heal.
  • Buy anti-heal early. With the 09-16-2026 nerf to 40% conversion, a single Healbane Healbane 1,600 souls Tier 2ArmorPassive +8s Duration +7 Spirit Power -35% Incoming Healing -35% Incoming Healing +275 Heal On Hero Kill makes his dive math stop working.
  • Fight him away from trooper waves; he cannot top up off creeps mid-duel.
• Grapple 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. Ability 2

  The engine of the whole hero. It is his engage, his chase, his escape, and his altitude generator for Ground Strike 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. , all on one button.

  • Grapple is the cooldown to track, not Death Slam 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. . Once it is spent (and before T3 gives him a second charge) he is a 780-ish HP bruiser with no exit.
  • Fight him in tight interiors and tunnels where there is no grapple anchor above the fight.
  • Curse, Silence or a Knockdown 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 -style effect applied mid-air strands him with no reset and drops him into your team.

1. 1 Grapple 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 first. It is the reset that makes every other ability safe; bait it with a fake overextend, then commit once he is on the ground with it down.

2. 2 Ground Strike 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 second — once the airborne dive is spent he has no way to reopen distance downward and must walk at you into your gun.

3. 3 Flog 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 third. Force him to use it as damage on a trooper wave or a tank rather than as heal on a kill; his sustain clock is long.

• Nearly all of his threat is in cooldowns; with Grapple 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. and Death Slam 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. down he is an average-statline bruiser. Strong evidence
• Extremely interruptible — Death Slam 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. 's channel and his mid-air grapple state are both punishable windows. Strong evidence
• Post-09-16-2026 his gun falls off hard past ~16m, so he loses any fight he cannot physically reach. Strong evidence
• You fight at mid range and Lash has to reach close range, but they have the movement to do it — which means the matchup is not a range advantage, it is a cooldown one. Their gap-closer is the only thing bridging the band, so track it rather than tracking their health. With it up you are in their range and should behave accordingly; with it down you are in a range they cannot reach and every second of that window is free. Strategic

• He arrives from above with no ground approach to react to: Grapple 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. onto a roof, then Ground Strike 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. down for 60 + 5.5 per meter of fall, which routinely deletes a support before their team can turn. Strong evidence
• Ground Strike 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. at T2 knocks you up and slows you 40% for 3s, meaning the opening hit takes your dash away and locks you in place for the rest of his combo. Strong evidence
• Death Slam 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. grabs your whole grouped team, lifts, stuns and slams them up to 14m into a position his team already has covered. Strong evidence
• Flog 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. heals him for 40% of the damage dealt across a frontal cone, so a 2v1 in his favour often still leaves him near full. Strong evidence
• Grapple 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. 's jump and dash reset means disengaging on foot does not work — he re-closes faster than you can leave. Strong evidence

• Buy anti-heal ( Healbane Healbane 1,600 souls Tier 2ArmorPassive +8s Duration +7 Spirit Power -35% Incoming Healing -35% Incoming Healing +275 Heal On Hero Kill / Toxic Bullets Toxic Bullets 3,200 souls Tier 3WeaponPassive -35% Incoming Healing -35% Incoming Healing ) before his first big spirit item; Flog 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. 's 40% conversion is the load-bearing part of every dive he makes. Strong evidence
• Hold one interrupt — Bebop hook, a Stun, Mo & Krill Sand Blast Sand Blast 25m Range2.5s Duration40s Cooldown A spray of sand in a cone ahead that deals damage and disarms everyone it catches, preventing them from using their weapon. Crowd Control Disarm, roughly 2.5s per deadlock.io. Damage Base damage not sourced; Defensive Disarming the biggest gun in the fight is a defensive cooldown in practice. 1 +50 damage, +5m range. 2 24% slow and 26% dash distance reduction. 5 +1.5s duration, -25s cooldown. Disarm, any knockdown — exclusively for the Death Slam 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. channel. Interrupting it costs him a 100-second-class ultimate for nothing. Strong evidence
• Take fights indoors, in tunnels, and under walkways. Ground Strike 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. damage is fall distance; a ceiling caps it, and Grapple 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. with no overhead anchor is just a short dash. Strong evidence
• Spread to 8-10m apart when pushing. Death Slam 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. grabbing one target instead of three turns his best button into a mediocre single-target ult. Strong evidence
• Punish his falloff: post-09-16-2026 his rifle drops off from roughly 16m, so a mid-range hero who holds 20m+ and uses cover simply wins the damage trade. Strong evidence
• Curse, Silence or Root him mid-air. He has no answer to being denied Grapple 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. while airborne and lands inside your team. Strong evidence
• Against Lash the item that changes the matchup is Slowing Hex Slowing Hex 1,600 souls Tier 2TechPress +29s Cooldown +3.5s Duration +0.1s Cast Delay +16% Move Speed -26% Dash Distance , and not for the slow. It silences movement abilities and movement items — that is their dash, their blink, their Warp Stone Warp Stone 3,200 souls Tier 3ArmorInstantCast +16s Cooldown +30% Bullet Resist +6s Buff Duration and their Phantom Strike Phantom Strike 6,400 souls Tier 4ArmorPress +35s Cooldown +0.35s Cast Delay +8 Spirit Power +15% Weapon Damage +40% Move Speed +3s Slow Duration all turned off at once — and raises their gravity to 120% on top. At Tier II Spirit for 1,600 it is the cheapest way to convert a mobility advantage into a stationary target, and you deal the Spirit Damage needed to apply the follow-up. Strong evidence
• You want the five-person fight and Lash only takes it on their terms, which makes Vortex Web Vortex Web 6,400 souls Tier 4TechPress +42s Cooldown +4s Duration +0.2s Cast Delay +0.5s Tether Duration +28% Move Speed -36% Dash Distance +8% Ability Range +8% Radius Builds from Slowing Hex the item that closes the argument. It is a 12m vacuum plus a full Slowing Hex Slowing Hex 1,600 souls Tier 2TechPress +29s Cooldown +3.5s Duration +0.1s Cast Delay +16% Move Speed -26% Dash Distance effect, so it both drags them into your fight and silences the movement abilities they would use to leave it. That is a team-fight tool, not a duel tool — buy it if your win condition is the grouped fight, and skip it if your win condition is picking them off alone. Strong evidence

• The Death Slam 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. channel between whip attachment and the slam: he is stationary, visible, and any Hard CC cancels it outright. Strong evidence
• Immediately after Ground Strike 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. lands — he is grounded, in your face, and his dive is on cooldown. Strong evidence
• Mid- Grapple 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. flight: he is on a fixed arc with no steering and is a free target for hitscan and skillshots alike. Strong evidence
• The first several seconds after Grapple 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. 's cooldown starts, before T3 gives him a second charge — that is his only true no-escape window. Strong evidence
• Any moment he is more than ~16m from you post-patch; his gun no longer threatens at that range and he must reveal the dive to do anything. Strong evidence
• Parry is your best tool against Lash's arrival and it is now a commitment rather than a hedge. Since 09-16-2026, parrying during a dash cancels the dash and its momentum, so you cannot both reposition and hold F. The cooldown maths makes the decision for you: a successful parry costs 0.5 seconds and stuns them for 3 with no Debuff Resist reduction possible, while a whiff costs 4.5 seconds — against a hero who arrives on a cooldown, that whiff is the entire window they needed. Documented
• Your weapon has travel time and Lash is fast enough to make that matter. Lead into where their movement is constrained rather than where they are — the closer the fight, the less your projectile speed costs you. Strategic

• Confirming and denying a soul orb is a hit-check, not a damage-check — one bullet or one pellet takes it regardless of how much damage it does. That is good news for you in the abstract and bad news against Lash specifically, because your projectile has travel time and their hitscan does not. On the contested floating orb you have to pre-fire: start the shot before the trooper dies and lead the orb's spawn point, because if you both react at the same instant they win every time. Strong evidence
• Your escape route is vertical and the 09-16-2026 patch aimed at exactly that: slows now affect air drag at 35% of their value, where previously they mostly did not bite in the air. Going airborne to break Lash's slow no longer restores your full movement — you carry a fraction of it into the air with you, at the moment you are also a stationary silhouette. The slow cut of ~20% partly offsets it, but the net is that air-escaping a slow is worse this patch than last. Documented

• Lash will be their Urn runner and you are the one who can stop it. The Urn cannot be voluntarily dropped — it comes loose only on melee, a Stun, or death — so chip damage and slows do not deny a delivery, your Hard CC does. Hold it for the carry rather than spending it on the approach fight, and note the favoured team gets +50% Bullet and Spirit Resist in a 60m bubble while carrying and depositing, which is why trying to burst the runner down usually fails. Documented
• Your kit is built around lockdown and that is worth less on the Mid Boss than on Lash — it carries 35% Debuff Resist as of 03-06-2026, so your disables run roughly two-thirds as long on it. Plan the take around damage and positioning rather than a CC chain, and spend the chain on Lash if they contest. The payoff is worth the trip: 3,000 souls + 50 per minute, two permanent buffs each, and a Rejuvenator crystal giving up to three single-use revives that return a player at full health after 3 seconds, for 3 minutes. Documented

• Death Slam 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. is a channel, which means the fight is decided by whether you can break it. Hold one interrupt — a Stun, a Silence, or a displacement — specifically for that cast rather than spending it on the opening trade. If you have no interrupt, the answer is line of sight: leave the area entirely rather than trying to out-heal it. Strong evidence
• Your Silence may be worth more in a chain than a teammate's Stun. The 03-06-2026 diminishing-returns system reduces subsequent CC by 10% then 30% inside an 8-second window, and community reporting holds it applies to stuns only — not to silences, slows, hexes or disarms. If that is right, sequencing your Silence after an ally's Stun costs you nothing, while a second Stun in the chain is already 10% shorter. Treat it as community-reported rather than confirmed, but order your chain accordingly against Lash. Uncertain
• You have peel and Lash is the dive threat, so your job in the fight is not damage — it is being in range of whoever they are jumping on. Position between their entry point and your squishiest teammate and hold your peel tool for the moment they commit, not for the moment they appear. Strategic
• Fights against Lash recur on the objective clock — the Rift every 7 minutes from about 11:00, the Urn every 5 from 10:00 — which means the question is not whether your ultimate is strong but whether it is up for the next one. Ultimate Cooldown Reduction is a new stat introduced on 09-16-2026, first appearing on Diviner's Kevlar Diviner's Kevlar 6,400 souls Tier 4ArmorPassive +40s Cooldown +40 Spirit Power +1000 Barrier +20s Buff Duration +15% Ability Duration +10% Ultimate Cooldown Reduction at +10%. Against a team-fight hero, buying into a recurring ultimate is a different and often better purchase than buying into a bigger one. Documented

• Your habit of taking the fight vertical to reset spacing against Lash is weaker on 09-16-2026 than it was. Slows now apply to air drag at 35% of their value, so the air is no longer a slow-free zone, and 2026 has been a steady closing of exactly these loopholes — wall jumping costs 25% stamina regeneration for 5 seconds, and knockups came under debuff reduction in May. Going up is still correct against their ground CC; it is no longer a way to ignore their slows. Documented
• Lash decides where you stand, not you. The practical rule is to never hold a position whose failure case is being moved — stand so that being yanked or knocked puts you somewhere survivable rather than inside their whole team. Cover at your back is worth more than cover in front. Strong evidence
• Fight Lash under cover — indoors, under walkways, inside stairwells. Taking away the vertical axis removes most of their kit's value before you spend a single item slot on it. Strategic
• Being knocked up against Lash is worse than being slowed because it removes your inputs and, since 09-16-2026, slows now bite in the air at 35% value so even the landing is compromised. Your mobility is your defence, so position with the airborne failure case in mind: stand where being launched leaves you above your own team rather than above theirs, and keep a dash in reserve for the landing rather than spending both on the approach. Strategic

• You deal Spirit Damage, so Healbane Healbane 1,600 souls Tier 2ArmorPassive +8s Duration +7 Spirit Power -35% Incoming Healing -35% Incoming Healing +275 Heal On Hero Kill is the cheaper and more reliable anti-heal against Lash — it lands off your abilities at T2 rather than asking you to sustain gunfire you are not built for. Strong evidence
• Lash fights from the air, which is exactly what Knockdown 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 exists for: it applies +100% gravity to an airborne target (raised from +50% in March 2026) and its Stun scales with altitude, up to about +1.5s at 30m. The higher they commit, the harder the punish — and Debuff Resist will not shorten that Stun for them. Documented
• Knockdown 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 (spirit T3) — The consensus answer to flying and airborne heroes and to channelled aerial ultimates — buy it whenever an enemy fights from the sky. What you are answering here: Lash's Ground Strike 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. . Documented
• Slowing Hex Slowing Hex 1,600 souls Tier 2TechPress +29s Cooldown +3.5s Duration +0.1s Cast Delay +16% Move Speed -26% Dash Distance (spirit T2) — Lash's Grapple 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. is what you are buying against here. The community-standard answer to escape artists: buy it when an enemy repeatedly dashes, blinks or flies out of your kill window. Documented
• Vortex Web Vortex Web 6,400 souls Tier 4TechPress +42s Cooldown +4s Duration +0.2s Cast Delay +0.5s Tether Duration +28% Move Speed -36% Dash Distance +8% Ability Range +8% Radius Builds from Slowing Hex (spirit T4) — Lash's Grapple 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. is what you are buying against here. Buy to set up team wipes against scattered, mobile enemies — it groups them and takes away their escapes at once. Documented

• If you learned to play this matchup before 09-16-2026 you probably dash away from Lash and parry on the way out. That no longer works: parrying during a regular dash now cancels the dash and its momentum, so you parry standing still exactly where they wanted you. Parry first and dash second, or accept that the parry is a commitment to hold ground. Note also that a whiffed parry is a 4.5-second cooldown against a hero who only needs one window. Documented