Deadlock slows items
Takes away an enemy’s ability to walk out of your range.
15 items on patch 09-16-2026. Pick a tier, then an item, for what it does and when to buy it.
Weapon
3 items1,600 souls each
Slowing Bullets Slowing Bullets +24% Move Speed -20% Dash Distance +3.5s Slow Duration Documented Bullets build up a movement slow and cut dash distance, making runners much easier to catch and kill.
Buy when: Buy when enemy escape artists keep walking out of your damage window.
-30% Move Slow and -22% Dash Distance for 3.5s at full build-up; build-up per bullet varies by hero
3,200 souls each
Weighted Shots Weighted Shots +30% Weapon Damage +22% Debuff Resist -14% Stamina Recovery +24% Move Speed -20% Dash Distance +3.5s Slow Duration Strong evidence Builds from Slowing Bullets Slowing Bullets +24% Move Speed -20% Dash Distance +3.5s Slow Duration : your bullets slow enemies harder and add damage scaling from the target's health.
Buy when: Buy when you need to hold down mobile, high-health enemies with bullets alone.
6,400 souls each
Lucky Shot Lucky Shot +25% Proc Chance +100% Bonus Weapon Damage +30% Max Ammo Strong evidence Bullets have a chance to deal greatly increased damage and apply a slow.
Buy when: Buy on high-fire-rate heroes where the proc chance triggers often.
Vitality
3 items3,200 souls each
Lifestrike Lifestrike +4s Cooldown +48% Move Speed +2.5s Slow Duration +16% Melee Damage +125 Bonus Health Strategic Heavy melee attacks heal you substantially and slow the target.
Buy when: Buy on melee bruisers for in-fight sustain.
6,400 souls each
Colossus Colossus +37s Cooldown +7s Duration +25% Base Health +15% Weapon Damage +35% Bullet Resist +35% Spirit Resist +24% Move Speed -22% Dash Distance +20% Model Scale +30% Melee Damage Documented You grow larger and gain heavy bullet and Spirit Resist while slowing every enemy around you — a frontline engage and survive button.
Buy when: Buy on frontliners who need to absorb a full team's damage while holding enemies in place.
+25% Base Health, +15% Weapon Damage; active: +35% Bullet Resist, +35% Spirit Resist, +30% Melee Damage, -30% enemy Move Speed in a 14m radius for 7s, 37s cooldown
Watch out: The bonus base health applies only to starting base health and boon health, not health from abilities or other items
Phantom Strike Phantom Strike +35s Cooldown +0.35s Cast Delay +8 Spirit Power +15% Weapon Damage +40% Move Speed +3s Slow Duration Documented Teleports you onto an enemy, slams them to the ground and disarms them. It is the premier catch tool against airborne and fleeing targets.
Buy when: Buy to catch flying or long-range heroes who otherwise never enter your range, and to Disarm a gun carry mid-burst.
25m cast range, 35s cooldown, 75 spirit damage (0.93 scaling), -40% Move Slow and Disarm for 3s; +15% Weapon Damage, +8 Spirit Power
Watch out: Silenced by Slowing Hex, which blocks movement-based items
Spirit
9 items800 souls each
Rusted Barrel Rusted Barrel +16s Cooldown +5s Duration +0.1s Cast Delay +32% Fire Rate +60 Bonus Health -8% Bullet Resist Documented Your Spirit Damage reduces the target's fire rate, taking the edge off gun heroes cheaply. It is the component for 
Disarming Hex Disarming Hex +16s Cooldown +4.25s Duration +0.1s Cast Delay +75 Bonus Health -13% Bullet Resist Builds from Rusted Barrel .
Buy when: The cheapest possible answer to an enemy gun carry in lane.
1,600 souls each
Cold Front Cold Front +25s Cooldown +4s Duration +0.6s Spread Duration: +48% Move Speed +6% Spirit Resist Documented An expanding ice blast that damages and heavily slows everything it touches — the cheapest area anti-mobility tool.
Buy when: Buy when you need an area slow to catch runners or peel a dive; it upgrades into 
Arctic Blast Arctic Blast +24s Cooldown +0.6s Spread Duration: +48% Move Speed +4s Slow Duration +10% Spirit Resist +1s Freeze Duration Builds from Cold Front .
95 spirit damage (+0.47 scaling), -48% Move Slow for 4s, 10m max radius, 25s cooldown; +6% Spirit Resist
Mystic Slow Mystic Slow +2s Duration +24% Move Speed -10% Dash Distance +50 Bonus Health Documented Your Spirit Damage automatically slows the target's movement and cuts their dash distance — a free, always-on anti-mobility effect.
Buy when: Buy on casters when enemies keep dashing out of your ability range.
-24% Move Speed and -10% Dash Distance for 2s on spirit damage; +50 Bonus Health, +0.75m Sprint Speed
Slowing Hex Slowing Hex +29s Cooldown +3.5s Duration +0.1s Cast Delay +16% Move Speed -26% Dash Distance Documented A point-and-click debuff that slows the target, increases their gravity and — critically — silences their movement abilities and movement items, so they cannot dash, blink or fly away.
Buy when: The community-standard answer to escape artists: buy it when an enemy repeatedly dashes, blinks or flies out of your kill window.
-20% Move Speed, -30% Dash Distance, 120% gravity for 3.5s; 25m cast range, 27s cooldown; +0.5m Sprint Speed
Watch out: Silences movement-based abilities AND movement items — it disables Warp Stone, Phantom Strike, Vindicta's Flight, Infernus's Flame Dash and similar
Suppressor Suppressor +4.5s Duration +6 Spirit Power +28% Fire Rate +8% Bullet Resist Documented Your Spirit Damage slows the enemy's fire rate, directly cutting a gun carry's damage output. It also gives you Bullet Resist.
Buy when: The cheap mid-game answer to a gun carry if you have any Spirit Damage to apply.
-28% enemy Fire Rate for 4.5s on spirit damage; +6 Spirit Power, +8% Bullet Resist
Watch out: Duration was raised 4s -> 5s on 6 Mar 2026, then cut 5s -> 4.5s on 28 Jul 2026 — current value is 4.5s
6,400 souls each
Arctic Blast Arctic Blast +24s Cooldown +0.6s Spread Duration: +48% Move Speed +4s Slow Duration +10% Spirit Resist +1s Freeze Duration Documented A large expanding ice blast that damages, briefly freezes and then heavily slows everything in a wide radius, and freezes their stamina regeneration.
Buy when: Buy to lock down a mobile enemy team or to peel a dive off your backline — the stamina freeze stops them dashing out.
175 spirit damage (0.7 scaling), 1s Freeze, -48% Move Slow for 4s, 16m radius, 24s cooldown; +10% Spirit Resist
Watch out: The freeze and the slow are applied simultaneously, not sequentially
Lightning Scroll Lightning Scroll +2s Duration +150 Damage +64% Move Speed +50 Bonus Health +0.75s Stun Duration +3s Delay Before Effect +24% Move Speed -10% Dash Distance Strategic Builds from Mystic Slow Mystic Slow +2s Duration +24% Move Speed -10% Dash Distance +50 Bonus Health : your Spirit Damage chains lightning to nearby enemies while keeping the slow effect.
Buy when: Buy on area casters who want extra chain damage plus sticking power.
Mystic Reverb Mystic Reverb +6.25s Cooldown +8% Spirit Lifesteal +22% Imbued Lifesteal +32% Move Speed +10% Max Health Damage Strategic Your abilities echo, dealing extra Area Damage and applying a slow around the target.
Buy when: Buy on area casters to add damage and stickiness to every cast.
Vortex Web Vortex Web +42s Cooldown +4s Duration +0.2s Cast Delay +0.5s Tether Duration +28% Move Speed -36% Dash Distance +8% Ability Range +8% Radius Documented A vacuum grenade that drags every enemy in a wide radius into one spot and applies Slowing Hex Slowing Hex +29s Cooldown +3.5s Duration +0.1s Cast Delay +16% Move Speed -26% Dash Distance to all of them, silencing their movement abilities.
Buy when: Buy to set up team wipes against scattered, mobile enemies — it groups them and takes away their escapes at once.
12m capture radius, -28% Move Speed, -36% Dash Distance for 4s plus Slowing Hex, 42s cooldown; +8% Ability Range, +0.75m Sprint Speed
Watch out: Applies the full Slowing Hex effect, so it silences enemy movement items such as Warp Stone and Phantom Strike
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