Rat King and Shiv

On the same team

Duo Win %

55.4%

Expected from their own win rates

50.8%

Above expected

+4.6 points

Games together

8,155

Rat King on their own: 57.8% · Shiv on their own: 43.7%. Matches in City Never Sleeps on patch 09-29-2026, updated 14 October. Source: deadlock-api.com.

Why it works

• Shred for the shotgun. 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 strips Bullet Resist with every bite, so Shiv's shotgun hits harder on a target the rats are already on, pushing it toward Killing Blow Killing Blow 12m Range145s Cooldown Shiv leaps to an enemy hero and instantly kills them if they are below a health threshold; Damage Instant kill below 18% of the target's health (23% at 2 AP); Mobility The leap itself is a 12m-18m targeted gap-close, separate from Slice and… Defensive none directly, though the 5 AP reset on kill effectively removes the risk of… 1 1 AP: +2 m/s move speed at full Rage and +6m range (12m to 18m) 2 2 AP: +5% execute threshold (18% to 23%) and +16% full-Rage bonus damage 5 5 AP: resets cooldown on a successful elimination, -30s cooldown, and allows a recast… range.
• Nowhere to run. 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 on every detonation and Serrated Knives Serrated Knives 16s Cooldown Shiv throws a knife that damages and bleeds the target. Crowd Control Applies a movement slow with the bleed; Damage 32 impact damage plus 10 bleed DPS per knife stack over a 5s debuff; 1 1 AP: +2s debuff duration 2 2 AP: +2 charges (four knives available for a full stack dump) 5 5 AP: +7 bleed DPS per stack slows bleeding targets, so a low enemy cannot get away before Killing Blow Killing Blow 12m Range145s Cooldown Shiv leaps to an enemy hero and instantly kills them if they are below a health threshold; Damage Instant kill below 18% of the target's health (23% at 2 AP); Mobility The leap itself is a 12m-18m targeted gap-close, separate from Slice and… Defensive none directly, though the 5 AP reset on kill effectively removes the risk of… 1 1 AP: +2 m/s move speed at full Rage and +6m range (12m to 18m) 2 2 AP: +5% execute threshold (18% to 23%) and +16% full-Rage bonus damage 5 5 AP: resets cooldown on a successful elimination, -30s cooldown, and allows a recast… .
• Safer commits. Allies near the planted Rule, Ratannia! Rule, Ratannia! 10s Duration160s Cooldown Rat King raises the banner of Ratannia. Crowd Control Knockup and a 40% slow on the slam, plus Rat Swarm from the rats it… Damage 200 bullet damage on the slam (+1.2 weapon-damage scaling), 20m radius (cut… Mobility +3 m/s movement speed for him and nearby allies for up to 10s while the… 1 +2 m/s movement speed (no cooldown reduction since 5 October) 2 +5s banner duration and +8m radius 5 +150 slam damage and +10% damage reduction banner take less damage, which together with Bloodletting Bloodletting 25s Cooldown A portion of the damage Shiv takes is not applied immediately; Damage No damage dealt. Defers 30% of incoming damage over 6s; activating clears… Defensive His entire defensive layer — effectively an on-demand partial heal for… 1 1 AP: -15s cooldown (25s to roughly 10s) 2 2 AP: +40% of deferred damage cleared on activation 5 5 AP: +15% of incoming damage deferred lets Shiv survive the commits his kit asks for.

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