Rat King and Rem

On the same team

Duo Win %

56.2%

Expected from their own win rates

52.3%

Above expected

+3.9 points

Games together

27,223

Rat King on their own: 57.8% · Rem on their own: 46.8%. Matches in City Never Sleeps on patch 09-29-2026, updated 14 October. Source: deadlock-api.com.

Why it works

• No dashing off the rats. Every dash shakes a rat off, but Naptime Naptime 24m Range200s Cooldown Rem channels a gaze forward that passes through walls and floors. Crowd Control Layered: first a slow with reduced dash distance and a full lockout on… Damage 120 spirit damage on wake (+50% at 5 AP). Mobility None for Rem, but it is the strongest mobility-denial effect in this group 1 1 AP: -1 stamina on wake and no stamina regeneration while asleep 2 2 AP: +0.75s sleep duration and +3m radius 5 5 AP: -65s cooldown (175s to ~110s) and +50% damage resistance while channelling blocks movement abilities and shortens dashes, so Rat Swarm Rat Swarm 50m Range6s Duration24s Cooldown Rat King calls a swarm of rats to a spot up to 50m away. Damage 8 spirit damage per bite (+0.08 Spirit scaling), one bite per attached rat… 1 +1 charge (8s between charges) 2 a larger swarm and +4s debuff duration 5 +8 damage and an extra -1% bullet resist per bite keeps biting and stripping Bullet Resist until the sleep lands.
• Sustain after the barrier. Rat King Rat King New hero Released 2 October Released 2 October. A gun-scaling brawler and team buffer: a three-blast slowing grenade, rats that strip bullet resist with every bite, a reflecting barrier, and a banner that makes his team slow-immune. has no dash, leap or blink once Royal Pestments Royal Pestments 6s Duration22s Cooldown Rat King puts on scrap armour that gives him a barrier worth a share of his maximum health. Damage Reflected bullets return their full damage to the shooter. Defensive Barrier equal to 15% of his max health for 6s on a 22s cooldown. 1 +4s duration 2 -8s cooldown and +15% bullet return chance 5 +10% max health as barrier, and no single hit deals more than 250 while it holds breaks. Tag Along Tag Along 23m Range5.5s Duration40s Cooldown Rem leaps to a friendly hero and naps alongside them. Damage No damage. Burst heals 15% of missing health, then regenerates over time —… Mobility A 23m leap, but only to a friendly hero — Rem cannot use it to escape into… Defensive Attaching to a durable frontliner is Rem's survival plan; 1 1 AP: -8s cooldown (40s to 32s) 2 2 AP: bonus item range, duration and barrier effectiveness while attached 5 5 AP: bonus spirit power while napping and for a short window after waking heals him by his missing health and keeps regenerating him while Rem rides along.
• Peel for a slow brawler. Pillow Toss Pillow Toss 40m Range25s Cooldown Rem hurls a pillow that deals spirit damage and knocks the enemies it hits well away from their position. Crowd Control Heavy knockback displacement on hit. Damage 75 spirit damage base; Mobility none for Rem, but it moves enemies a long way 1 1 AP: -7s cooldown (25s to 18s) 2 2 AP: applies -40% fire rate and +2m radius 5 5 AP: +100 damage and +2m radius knocks a diver well away from the pair, and Scrap Grenade Scrap Grenade 26s Cooldown Rat King throws a bouncing lump of scrap that goes off three times where it lands. Crowd Control 20% movement slow for 4s (scales slightly with Spirit). Damage 70 bullet damage per detonation (+0.6 weapon-damage scaling), three… Defensive The slow is his peel: thrown at his own feet it stops a diver from following… 1 -8s cooldown (26s to 18s) 2 +70 damage per detonation 5 one extra, bigger final detonation — 300 damage, 14m radius, 40% slow slows anyone trying to walk back in.

Written from both heroes' ability data on patch 09-29-2026; the numbers above are the measured results.